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    decision to vote without questioning the facts. 2. What power play could you see i.e. how did people exercise power and influence others? Give at least four examples. (please use Falbo’s Power Strategies as a guide for your response) Example 1 – Assertion This power strategy was used by one juror who very forcefully attempted to use intimidation tactics to get the other jurors to agree to his way of thinking. He was instigating fights‚ belittling them when their opinions differed from his own and used

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    12 Angry Men

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    In 12 Angry Men the movie it can be observed the different methods of influence that a person uses to impact the behaviors of others. This is a case in which a decision was apparent to be reached easily‚ all the jurors would presume the defendant guilty of murdering his father‚ but only one takes an exception and votes as not guilty. It is necessary that all jurors vote unanimously for a verdict to be reached‚ and when juror #8 votes non-guilty‚ he forces all jurors to discuss the case. All jurors

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    12 Angry Men Sam Block 7 Juror Eight An Argument where it is one versus eleven doesn’t seem to be fair does it. In Twelve Angry Men‚ a young boy from the slums is accused of stabbing his father. It is up to twelve men to decide his fate. Juror Eight was able to sway the vote because he connected with the other jurors on a personal level; he was very patient with everyone‚ listening to what they had to say‚ and used tangible evidence to recreate the crime scene itself in front of the twelve

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    Angry Behind the Wheel

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    Angry Behind the Wheel Have you ever gotten mad while you were out driving? If you saw somebody else driving while using their cell phone‚ failing to yield while merging or driving recklessly around you‚ would you not become a little upset by their actions? Chances are‚ you have had road rage at some point. Unfortunately‚ road rage affects some people more strongly than others‚ and those people who get angrier or more impulsive are then the ones who are becoming a danger to themselves and to those

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    Hamlet's Angry Focus

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    HAMLETS ANGRY FOCUS Hamlets character changes his focus of anger throughout the 2 silioguies‚ “O what a rogue” (1.2.549) and “O this too sullied flesh” (1.2.129). He finds out Claudius killed his father (Hamlet Sir). In the first “O this too too sullied” silidoquey‚ Hamlet is angry with his mother. Hamlet is so depressed he wishes it wasn’t a sin to commit suicide; he is falling apart. Hamlet is angry and upset at Gertrude because of her fast marriage to Claudius (his uncle)‚ right after

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    12 Angry Men

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    Organisational Behavior BU4605 BA (Hons) Business Administration LECTURER SETTING ASSESSMENT: - Mervin Sookun 1. INTRODUCTION This paper is designed to study the behavior of “12 ANGRY MEN” and how they react to their responsibilities as individuals and as a group. The 12 men depicted in this movie are members constituted from different classes of a society‚ from an architect to a broker to a man brought up in the slums. Their one and only goal is to decide unanimously whether or not the

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    12 Angry Men

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    12 Angry Men A persons surroundings can influence him. In "12 Angry Men" by Reginald Rose a young mans life is held by twelve men with contrasing views. Eight a caring man‚ who wishes to talk about why the other jurors think that the boy is guilty‚ clashes with Three‚ a sadistic man who would pull the swith himselfto end the boys life. Accroding to Rose‚ several elements can infulence a jury’s verdict‚ such as the emotional make-up of individual jurors. Many elements can change a jurors decision

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    Idiom: Finger and Hand

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    Arm/Hand/Finger all hands on deck- everyone must work together because they have a lot of work to do The captain called for all hands on deck as the storm became stronger and stronger. all thumbs- to be awkward and clumsy‚ a difficulty in fixing things or working with one’s hands The man is all thumbs and he can never fix something without making it worse. arm in arm- linked together by the arms The couple walked along the beach arm in arm. armpit of (somewhere)- a place that is the ugliest

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    12 Angry Men

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    Twelve Angry Men highlights the importance of seeing things from more than one perspective. Discuss.  Reginald Rose’s play Twelve Angry Men emphasises the importance of seeing things from more than one perspective. Set in a New York jury room in 1957‚ Rose highlights how important it is that the jury discuss all of the evidence from the case in detail and from multiple angles. Representative of this notion is the 8th Juror who is willing to acknowledge alternative views or interpretations. From

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    wanted a bond with her father. It was in that longing she began to realize how much a like they truly are. In her writing the reader can see how the proper usage of similes and metaphors can enhance ones writing. “…our home for the Civil War Battleground it was.” (154) is a prime example of one of the ways Vowell uses similes to enhance the readers understanding of her surrounding at that time. She is talking about her house is divided like it was during the Civil War. With her usage of “little

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