Elite and Popular Perspectives of Witchcraft The elite perspective is the perspective of those in power. It may be the perspective of the monarchy but it may also be administrative/judicial or that of the church. Popular conceptions are those held by the common people. These two perspectives were not very distinctive because the elite and common people did not live completely separate lives from one another there was some mixing of culture‚ and thus there were many similarities in the conceptions
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Act four takes place in a jail cell in salem. Herrick enters and wakes up Sarah Good‚ Tituba then wakes up. Herricks tell them to get out of there and then asks them where they are going‚ Tituba responds that they are going to Barbadoes. Then Tituba hears a cow bellowing and thinks that it is her Majesty calling out to take her home. The deputy governor‚ Hathorne and Danforth arrive followed by Cheever‚ they asks when did Hale arrive and what was he doing. Herrick responds that he was sitting and
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In the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller‚ John Proctor is seen as a tragic hero because he is able to overcome his tragic flaw of hubris‚ but still the circumstances led to his death. A tragic hero is a person who has sacrificed their lives for a principle. It is shown in the play that ordinary people can be tragic heroes. They believed so passionately in an idea that they were willing to make the ultimate sacrifice‚ their lives‚ for it. There are four main aspects that represent a tragic hero
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Looking at the death penalty system in action‚ it is fundamentally flawed in use and there is a serious risk of executing innocent people. Many unjust convictions have shown that serious flaws such as: Lack of eyewitness identification‚ False confessions‚ and the access to have DNA testing have caused our countries criminal justice system to convict many innocent individuals‚ who were sentenced to death. The most disturbing fact individuals are faced with today‚ is that innocent people have
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and written confession that presented to the jury. The oral‚ and written confession were handed over at the trial to the jury. Miranda was guilty of kidnapping as well as rape; he was punished twenty to thirty years in prison for each. The Miranda v. Arizona appealed but‚ the Supreme Court of Arizona maintain that Miranda’s Constitutional Rights existed in achieving the confession. The U.S. Supreme Court overturned Miranda’s conviction but was retried and convicted‚ without the confession‚ by the State
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belief that their actions would benefit the greater good of society. Edwin Delatorre in his quest to understand why police officers perceived their actions to be right‚ he observed that the law enforcers used force to push suspects to give their confessions. The act is therefore justified to be teleological in nature irrespective of what means is used to achieve the end result. Literature on the professional police indicates that noble cause corruption may interfere with the justice system where a
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criminals and murders and when he interrogates them he always gets a confession. Just because Trent gets a confession doesn’t always means it’s the truth. Trent pressures the people accused of abhorrent and appalling murders into saying they did a terrible crime even though it was not them. Evidence of him doing such a thing is when the police find the real murderer of a young girl in Monument‚ Massachusetts when Trent grasps a confession right out of an accused boy that had nothing to do with the murder
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|Arizona |Confessions are admissible in evidence in any |Arizona v Londo |Title 13. Admissibility of minor’s | | |criminal prosecution if given voluntarily. |Miranda v Arizona |statement | | |Prior to the confession being admissible‚ the | | | | |judge will look closer at the confession to |
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not in his right mind. Nevertheless‚ the big question here is if this person has the reasonable understanding to appreciate what waiving the Miranda rights mean. In support of the state‚ the brief had the purpose of saying that the respondent’s confessions were not involuntary even though he was suffering from a mental disease and arguing that they were the result of hallucinations. The Amicus brief was submitted for the simple reason that they believe the defendant was indeed competent to waive Miranda
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In the Crucible‚ by Arthur Miller‚ men and women each hold powerful and important parts. Men hold mainly all of the power because they decide those who are sentenced to death. They are the ones who are in control of the village and lastly they all try to dominate over each other. Women accuse many of witchcraft and that is a big part. The men though decide out of those accusations who is sentenced to death by a hang. Overall‚ the men choose what to believe and what to do after that such as the
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