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    persuade the eleven other jurors and achieves a unanimous verdict‚ showing his trustworthiness. Therefore‚ the 8th Juror is considered as a ‘hero’ due to his boldness presented by the independent actions he takes in the play. Initially‚ the 8th Juror is independent from the other jurors for having a different verdict with them. In the preliminary vote‚ the 8th Juror votes for a “not guilty” verdict facing eleven votes for a “guilty” verdict because he has compassion towards the defendant’s young

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    individual and/or group verdicts” (p. 311). The next two questions regarded the effects of sex on trial outcomes; however‚ these resulted in inconclusive findings. Therefore‚ the primary focus will be on the first question. In order to answer their question‚ the researchers gathered 412 students to participate in their study (Badzinski & Pettus‚ 1994). These students were then assigned to one of eight experimental conditions in which they were asked to watch a trail tape and reach a verdict on the defendant

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    The jury‚ totaling twelve men‚ dispute their decision of innocence or guilt throughout the movie. Many concepts of social psychology including conformity‚ anger displacement‚ and stereotypes are used in the struggle between these men to reach a verdict. Conformity is the tendency for people to go along with a group’s opinion despite what they really feel‚ just to fit in or be liked. In many cases‚ conformity is increased when a member of a group feels inferior to fellow peers in the group. In

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    Juror Threes background of a personal connection with his own “Tough Kid” affects his decision making by creating bias against the defendant. He shouldn’t of been allowed to even serve on the case if a proper background check had been done. Anyone who has even been in a remotely similar situation to the case in the place of either side is forbidden to be a juror. Juror Three revealed in a deliberation about the case about his past saying‚ “You’re right. It’s the kids. The way they are—you know?

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    and were willing to pay for the correct verdict. A verdict for not guilty. The story starts with the very laborious job of jury selection. The tobacco industry has on their payroll a man by the name of Rankin Fitch. Fitch foresees the selection of the lawyers and consultants. Fitch and the consultants foresee the selection of the jurors. Each perspective juror is investigated and watched. The defense as well as the plaintiffs want to secure a verdict so they only want jurors sympathetic to

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    New world Wright’s new world home challenges the accepted idea that their is an economically feasible home for middle-class Americans. I will be deliberating whether the new world home was legitimately meant to be an affordable middle-class home‚ or was instead intended to be more for the upper-middle class demographic. I argue that in rebellion to favoured opinion‚ the new world home was not an outstandingly affordable home for the middle class americans. The new world Home was part

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    respective fields of concern‚ then why are we so exhausted on all these matters? If the EU Foreign Policy Chief‚ Catherine Ashton can visit the ousted President Morsi‚ then where are the diplomats of our Muslim world? Why is the US administration deliberating to use military force in Syria? The credibility of the international actors in the Muslim world is already at stake for their unethical preemptive wars and renditions. Hypocrisy and double standards of western policy makers have always deceived

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    to all the education that all need." Science literacy is also frequently touted as a key to good citizenship. Good citizenship is sometimes viewed as requiring both intellectual skills (such ascritical thinking) and participatory skills (such as deliberating civilly‚ monitoring the government‚ building coalitions‚ managing conflict peacefully and fairly‚ and petitioning‚ speaking or testifying before public bodies). Henry David Thoreau wrote that men who serve the state making "no free exercise whatever

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    Have you ever thought about people in different social classes being in a relationship? “Sarah Cole: A Type of Love Story”‚ Sarah is in the lower class and Ron is in the middle to upper class. There are many people that think peoople in different social classes should not be together. Sarah Cole is a hard working woman working at Rumford Press packing TV Guides. One can tell that she doesn’t have it easy. She is a single mother of three kids who lives in a rundown apartment complex. Ron describes

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    The Dichotomy of Divine and Human Law The Trial and Death of Socrates Many have puzzled over Socrates’ contradictory statements between Plato’s Apology and its sequel‚ the Crito. The stance on justice that Socrates articulates in the Apology seems to be immediately contradicted by the moral opinions he expresses in the Crito. While in a broad sense Socrates appears to offer opposing opinions in each work‚ when one looks more closely at the meaning behind Socrates’ words‚ he will find that his

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