A Summary of Clarence Darrow’s “Address to the Prisoners in the Cook County Jail” Clarence Darrow‚ an American lawyer‚ was already one of the most famous labour attorneys when he was invited in 1902 to give a speech to the Chicago’s Cook County Jail prisoners. In his address to the inmates (a stenographic copy of his speech was published in Crime & Criminals: Address To The Prisoners In The Cook County Jail & Other Writings On Crime & Punishment) Darrow states his believes that majority of the offenders
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Clarence Earl Gideon was a man that was wrongfully convicted of a crime. Clarence had a bad background prior to the trial. His record prior was that he had felonies‚ and he was in jail for four times already‚ and he ran away from home‚ and was found with some stolen clothes on. His background didn’t make it easy for him to be found guilty. Gideon was accused of stealing wine‚ beer‚ money‚ and Coca Cola from the pool room. The charges that were brought to him was Petty theft. The evidence the state
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Clarence Thomas was born on June 23‚ 1948 in Pin Point‚ Georgia. He spent most of his childhood living with his grandfather and step-grandmother in Savannah‚ Georgia. When he was young‚ his grandfather wanted him to follow a religious career path and he transferred high schools in order to become a priest. He was also very involved in the civil rights movement as a young man. After Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated‚ he left the south and attended Holy Cross College in Massachusetts where he
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random murder of fourteen year-old Bobby Franks in August of 1924. Intellectual and wealthy‚ the criminals stand to gain nothing from the senseless slaughter‚ yet commit the act nonetheless. Neither boy denies the killing‚ as their defense attorney Clarence Darrow pleads guilty on their behalf. Yet despite guilt‚ the trial continues‚ as Darrow fights the proposal of capital punishment for the two boys. Throughout his entire career‚ not one of Darrow’s clients ever receives the death penalty (Safire
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people seeing Little Flower’s picture in the paper as an example of how judgmental our society really is. Little Flower actually isn’t sad at all; she is happy to just be alive. She realizes how valuable life is and how quickly you can die or‚ in her case‚ be eaten. She is grateful to be bearing a child‚ and to have food and a home in the trees. It makes you think and realize how
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wealth. Clarence realized that he was once vainglorious during the war‚ not satisfied with the role of “Duke of Clarence”‚ he even tried to overthrow his brother Edward IV.
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Darrow and his associates had to come up with a crook‚ that would allow them to put them in a better situation in this case‚ since they could not deny that Scopes never taught evolution. Hence‚ Darrow suggested that Scopes had taught evolution‚ however‚ he had not taught it in the contradiction with a Bible. This argument let them pursue that “the introduction of both scientific
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In his essay "The Myth of Immortality‚" Clarence Darrow explains his belief that life after death is a hoax and backs up his logic with logical reasoning. Darrow finds it hard to believe that life exists after death simply because there are no facts to prove that it exists. He states that "if people really believed in a beautiful‚ happy‚ glorious land waiting after death why don’t they hasten themselves to it." Darrow also shows his discern in his views for the soul questioning that if we do have
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1.1 INDUSTRIALIZATION Clarence Zuvekas‚ Jr. (1979) defined industrialization as process of transforming raw materials with the aid of Human resources and capital goods into consumer goods‚ new capital goods which permit more consumer goods (including food) and social overhead capital‚ which together with human resources provide new services to both individuals and business. Joseph E. Imhanlahimhin defines industrialization “as a process of a country’s heavy dependence on large amount of goods manufactured
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being- effective Jim Crow Law‚ he used to be as an angry man‚ a product of racism; but he is also an example of a hero who overcame many obstacles in this harsh life to achieve the American Dream. He is Associate Justice of the U.S Supreme Court- Clarence Thomas. Via 289 pages of the book My Grandfather’s Son: A Memoir‚ which was written by himself‚ he tells stories about his life‚ detailing from his childhood until becoming a justice on the U.S Supreme Court bench‚ with the hope that “ young people
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