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O.J. Simpson Double Murder Case and the US Constitution's 4th Amendment

to exercise over things or people before they could be considered seized. From 1886 on, the Court assumed that the Fourth Amendmen...

Blood Relations by Sharon Pollock and the Case of Lizzie Borden

In seven pages this paper compares Sharon Pollock's play with Lizzie Borden's nineteenth century trial for the murders of her fath...

The Importance of Covering War Crimes Trials

killed after an attempted assassination against himii. But it is not clear whether or not he did receive a fair trial and media di...

Lanford Wilson/Rimers of Eldritch

A 3 page research paper/essay that discusses Lanford Wilson's play Rimers of Eldritch, which, on the surface, concerns a murder ...

The Persuasiveness of Socrates in Plato's Apology

so that his assets could be pro-created and he could be put to death. Will Socrates did refuse the request, he simply went home ra...

Phil Spector's Murder Trial: Evidence

materiality and competence in order to be admissible in a court of law. Moreover, the evidence in question must not be disqualifi...

The Role of Tommy Lynn Sells in the Julie Rae Harper Murder Trial

II. The Julie Rae Harper Trials The Julie Rae Harper case made headlines. A mother had seemingly concocted a story about an int...

Two Views of Murder

because her mother ended up marrying Donnas former lover. In an ironic twist of fate, therefore, Donnas lover ended up becoming he...

Media and the Criminal Justice System

that jurors, witnesses and attorneys are not prohibited from writing books after a case ends, and this could substantially impact ...

Paul Thaler's Take on the O.J. Simpson Trial, The Spectacle

in some respects hypocritical. He speaks about the evils of the industry but does not specifically point out what evils were media...

Emily Mann's The Execution of Justice and Social Injustice

an interesting portrayal of the injustices which exist in American culture and, in particular, our justice system. The play is cl...

Tate LaBianca Murder Trial Chronology and Charles Manson

robberies, burglaries of approximately 20 gas stations and the sodomization of a boy in 1952. At that time he was placed into the ...

Ramifications of Social Judgment Theory

level of "ego-involvement" impacts the size of latitudes, in other words, how flexible people are in listening to persuasion (Boot...

Trial of O.J. Simpson

the jury members were selected, they were not under any direction not to watch the local newscasts and so would have been exposed ...

Guilt or Innocence in Robert Blake's Murder Case

is important for the student to realize how the inherent fallibility of first-hand testimony has been the focus of myriad debates,...

Bless Me, Ultima & The Odyssey

reacts to the presence of the men by eating two of them, Odysseus attacks and manages to blind Polyphemus by stabbing him in his e...

Ennis Cosby's Life and Premature Death

In five pages this essay examines a Time magazine article on the short life and murder of Bill Cosby's only son Ennis....

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

In four pages this paper examines how Truman Capote effectively combined the novel form with the real life murder of the Clutter f...

Dreams in Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

give clues as to what is going on in the mind and the past of the person having it. She convincingly creates a context for dream s...

Workplace Civil Disputes

In eight pages workplace mini trials are discussed. Six sources are cited in the bibliography....

Abortion

viable human being but that in itself should indicate that a human being has no right to take the life of a fetus because it is no...

Short Stories

friend have many things they are experiencing, one of the most important being the changes they are facing in junior high school w...

Heroic Greek Definition in 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey' of Homer

In seven pages the classical Greek definition of hero as revealed in the epic poems of Homer is discussed....

Defining a Hero

understanding how this works we present an examination of various individuals, illustrating what makes them a hero. Many argue t...

'The Iliad' and the Homeric Hero

prince, a warrior and one who will fight to the death to defend what he believes in. However, in order to support the above thesis...

The Heroism of Beowulf

The writer argues that Beowulf can be seen as an archetype of the ideal hero, and that his deeds have come to be considered as a m...

Comparative Analysis of Gilgamesh and Heracles

cultures. In addition, the kind of difficulties and trials faced by different ancient communities will also tend to be similar. On...

The Nature of Radical Innocence in Literary Depiction

This research paper examines Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises and how the characterization of this novel's main character denies thi...

Gawain and Lancelot Heroic Comparison

of Lancelot and Gawain. The hero The publisher of Malorys work, William Caxton (1485), wrote in the preface: I...enprynte....

'Epic Hero' Characteristics of Odysseus

In five pages this essay discusses how Odysseus qualifies as an 'epic hero' because of the suffering and hardship he endured throu...