Antigone Mock Trial Antigone: Charged with treason against The State and contempt What if Antigone had been given a fair trial with a jury of her peers? Would they have condemned her still? You get to be the prosecution & defense in determining a fair fate for Antigone. You must ask yourselves‚ did Antigone act with treasonous intent against The State or were her actions otherwise motivated? Even further‚ was this an act of the gods and beyond her control? During this trial‚ you must
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Yeats The movie “Twelve Angry Men” opens up with a sequence which justifies the above stated quote. The storyline follows the story of two random people chosen as jurors who have been asked to give a verdict on a murder case. The case involves the murder of a father by his teenage son. The verdict can be held legal and valid only if it is unanimous. At the start of the movie‚ everyone except a gentleman votes as ‘guilty’ for the boy. The gentleman expresses his desire to go over all the facts after
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In Aristotle’s Politics‚ he focuses much on the regimes of an oligarchy and of a democracy. Democracies exists when the free and poor‚ being a majority‚ have authority to rule‚ and have an equal share in the city. Oligarchies exists when the few wealthy and better born have authority and grant benefits in proportion to a person’s wealth (1280a:10-30;1290a:5-10). Within each regime‚ there are the farmer‚ the working element and craftsmen‚ the marketing element and traders‚ the laboring element
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it is the responsibility of the jury to listen and retain facts and evidence presented by the prosecution and the defense. It is their duty to determine guilt or innocence based solely on the facts and evidence presented during trial. If a guilty verdict is unanimously concluded amongst the 12 or more jurors‚ this must be concluded beyond a reasonable doubt. It only takes one juror to dissent
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riot that occurred shortly after the verdict of innocent was announced for the killing of Rodney King. This allowed four police officers who were involved to walk free in Los Angeles of 1992 causing an uproar in communities and neighborhoods across the city. I will analyze the 77th division police officers who responded in large numbers to a call in South Central neighborhood where they heard that another officer got shot. This was one hour after the King verdict when tensions were high and people
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conviction and sentencing. This essentially negated the role of the judge in the courts of medieval England. This is noted by historian John H. Langbein when he discusses the role of the jury in medieval English law. He wrote‚ “At trial‚ the judges took verdicts about which
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Upon choosing this topic I pondered‚ what next? I sat in front of my PC deliberating what direction I wanted this piece to go in‚ and what impression I wanted to give my future alma mater’s admissions of myself and then it struck me. The point of this essay is not to paint an illusion of myself to you‚ but‚ to show you what I have to offer as a unique individual. Marrianne Williamson in her book‚ “Return to Love” and I quote‚ wrote‚ “Our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate‚ but that we
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Betray in the city novel over view FRANCIS IMBUGA was born 1947 in Wenyange village in western Kenya. He is a renowned Kenyan playwright‚ actor and producer. Betrayal in the City is a political play. The writer examines the problems of independence and freedom in post-colonial states in Africa. The play talks about military regimes that were common on the African continent after independence. Many of such regimes were later overthrown by coup de tats. Francis Imbuga’s major concern is betrayal
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Should we allow sports teams to use a Native American name? Can you imagine that sports teams are being given Native American names? People are deliberating whether sports teams should have Native American names. Sports teams should not use Native Americans names. Because‚ it dehumanizes and is offensive to Native American names. First of all‚ it is offensive that sports teams use Native American names. A recent study by Washington post states that 6 out of 10 native Americans find it offensive
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Death as a pervading theme is obvious in both Shakespeare’s Hamlet and John Irving’s The World According to Garp. The theme is particularly apparent in Hamlet as all the major characters in the play die‚ mainly because by dying they have redeemed themselves. However‚ the underlying intentions and reasons for death differ in the two works Hamlet‚ the Prince of Denmark‚ is the hero of Shakespeare’s play. The play begins focused on death‚ namely the death of Hamlet’s father. Seeking vengeance‚ Hamlet
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