Apparent magnitude

In a criminal justice system defined by the maxim “innocent until proven guilty,” it’s both humiliating and laughably ironic that over 97% of cases that make it to court are still prematurely abridged (Walsh). In these, defendants are never aided by an attorney, tried in front of a jury, or even sentenced by a judge. Rather, these cases end with a plea bargain: an agreement struck between a defendant and a prosecutor that trades an admission of guilt in exchange for a lighter sentence. In stark…

The hypothesis was that the average heart rate would decrease by about 3-8 beats per minute after listening to the Ella Fitzgerald song (with a bpm of 52) for two minutes. The hypothesis also was that after listening to Bach for two minutes (with a bpm of 80,) that the average heart rate of the participants would increase by 5-7 beats per minute, and after listening to Green Day for two minutes (with a bpm of 139,) that the average heart rate of participants would increate by about 7-12 beats…

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts’ (Holmes, 2009). Criminal Investigation is a very critical aspect of the Justice System and the wider society in general. For a number of years now, the international media have been criticizing severely the handling of criminal investigations. Some of the issues that have been highlighted are flawed police investigations, which has led to miscarriages…

Americans have long valued their constitutional rights, which ensure them a certain degree of independence and protection from mistreatment by the government. The fourth amendment ensures that citizens are not searched without reason or in an unlawful way--this guarantees that one’s person or property is not searched without a warrant or probable cause. When it comes to technology, however, the line begins to blur. The exponential growth of technology within the 21st century alongside the…

Sophocles’ Antigone is known as one of the greatest pieces of fiction of all time. Before that accolade is brushed off as a relic of an ancient age, one must truly think of what that means. To be one the greatest anything of all time, something must achieve unheralded greatness with its existence. The drama accomplishes this requirement easily through its key themes and the execution of those themes. Divinity opposing authority, the contrasting classical values of the polis and the oikos,…

For anybody, there is at least one person that they can identify with the most. While personalities can be vastly different from each other, one may look to up to a friend because of the way they express themselves, or because of their problem solving skills. The relationships between Rowdy and Arnold, and between Su-Jen and Charlotte both share the same level of closeness and contain individuals having friends with personalities vastly different from themselves, yet both relationships are very…

Romeo and Juliet is a famous play, written by acclaimed 16th century poet, playwright and actor, William Shakespeare. There are many recurring motifs in this piece of literature; however, two of the most prominently portrayed ones are those of love and hate. These themes are inextricably entwined as the love of the two main protagonists in this play, Romeo and Juliet is constantly overshadowed by a pallor of hate, leading to an unresolvable confrontation between these two emotions, with each…

Planets of Front Solar System Mercury - Surface of Mercury is most similar to the lunar surface, and covered by many craters and basins, suggesting that the planet in the geological dormant for millions of years. The main relief shapes on Mercury are plateaus "moon-like", wrinkled ridges called the dorsum, mountain ranges, basins, canyons. The ground of Mercury has crumbled due to the impact of meteorites and soil erosion due to rapid daily variations in temperature. Overall…

issue that must be stopped. This is the very point that Lee Hirsch, director of The Bully Project, also known as Bully, is trying to make. Through the film, he hints at a number of different ideas that surround bullying and its existence, like the magnitude of the impact that it has, and that people consistently ignore the issue. However, more than anything else, he highlights one key idea - these victims are all normal kids, no different than their neighbors or classmates. Yet, for an…

When talking to their peers, Croome and Fairhall (1976) state children discuss ideas, scaffold their understandings, and share their feelings through a set of shared experiences. This communication demonstrates to children the differences that are apparent in their wider community and also enables the ability for individual exploration of self-expression and…