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    Oral Defense

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    ORAL DEFENSE September 27‚ 2012‚ 5:00 in the afternoon‚ the proponents Pictures in Motion will face the panelists. Before the time has come‚ the proponents come to the university early for preparation. They went to the tarpaulin printing shop for their 3” by 3” tarpaulin. The proponents have six hours left so they check for their power point presentation. The feeling that can’t explain whether it is nervousness‚ hungriness or just nothing‚ is in the proponents. Staying inside the simulation room

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    Defense of Socrates

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    Plato’s "Defense of Socrates" follows the trial of Socrates for charges of corruption of the youth. His accuser‚ Meletus‚ claims he is doing so by teaching the youth of Athens of a separate spirituality from that which was widely accepted. Socrates’ argument was unique in that he tried to convince the jury he was just an average man and not to be feared‚ but in actuality demonstrated how clever and tenacious he was. He begins with an anecdote of his visit to the Oracle of Delphi‚ which told him

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    A Defense of Internment

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    “Whereas the successful prosecution of the war requires every possible protection against espionage and against sabotage to national-defense material‚ national-defense premises‚ and national-defense utilities.” -Franklin Delano Roosevelt Executive Order 9066 February 18th‚ 1942 On February 19‚ 1942 due to wartime measures‚ president Franklin Delano Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066. Executive Order 9066 allowed military commanders to exclude any or all people from designated military

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    The adjective insanity is defined as a person in a state of mind that prevents normal perception‚ behavior‚ or social interaction; seriously mentally ill. One of William Shakespeare’s most famous tragedy is Macbeth‚ a cursed play also known by the name of the Scottish Play. The play follows Lord Macbeth through his struggle to gain and remain in control. Side by side with his wife‚ Lady Macbeth‚ the duo plans unnerving murders during the night as they fight to rise in station falling prey to the

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    The purpose of Rosenhan’s study was to determine if sanity could be distinguished from insanity. Rosenhan wanted to determine if the diagnoses of some sort of mental illness came from the patients themselves or did the environment produce the diagnoses. The prevailing thought at the time was that sanity and insanity are easily distinguishable. The psychological symptoms of patients could be simply categorized which supported the idea of such a belief. The goal of the study was to test the idea whether

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    of ORIGINALITY. Originality is a new idea? No! In 2004‚ after reading the script of a Bryony Lavery’s Frozen‚ psychiatrist Dorothy Lewis was shock because every details in this play were similar to what she used to write in “Guilty by Reason of Insanity” in 1998. A chart of fifteen pages long was made up with the totaling of six hundred and seventy-five words are verbatim similarities. She thought that her life‚ her work was plagiarized by Lavery. Then she wanted to sue Frozen’s author. However

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    Free Will Defense

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    evil. In this paper‚ I will present counterarguments to two popular theodicies‚ the “Free Will Defense” and the “Soul-Making”‚ in an effort to

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    Defense Mechanisms

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    Bryan Elwell Psychological Defense Mechanisms are unconscious ways the human psyche protects me from unwanted negative attacks on my own self-image. Two ways that my unconscious reacts when in defense mode is to use Avoidance and Counterattack in an attempt to portray my self- image in a positive way. As a Volunteer Firefighter and Emergency Medical Technician‚ I often find myself using these types of mechanisms on the job. For example‚ Rationalization‚ Repression and Displacement are

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    Essay On Criminal Defense

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    required to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. The most common criminal defenses fall under two categories‚ excuse and justification. An excuse is when a person admits to committing a criminal act but believes that he or she can’t be held responsible because there was no criminal content. Some excuses used in court today are; mental disorder‚ infancy (age)‚ mistake of fact‚ mistake of law and automatism. In justification defenses‚ the accused admits to wrongdoing but argues that he or she should be

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    Defense on Socrates

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    Defense on Socrates There are times in every mans life where our actions and beliefs collide—these collisions are known as contradictions. There are endless instances in which we are so determined to make a point that we resort to using absurd overstatements‚ demeaning language‚ and false accusations in our arguments. This tendency to contradict ourselves often questions our character and morals. Similarly‚ in The Trial of Socrates (Plato’s Apology)‚ Meletus’ fallacies in reason and his eventual

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