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    It has been almost two weeks since we have seen Courthouse rock. A day spatter we passed Courthouse, we saw Chimney rock. This was a very unusual rocket hat we saw, but it was bad. We thought it looked funny. It looked like a huge trunk of a tree but without the limbs. Five days later we went to Fort Laramie….actually I think it was six. Everyone is mad because, a couple days ago, I accidentally wandered too far from the wagons. The train had to spend an entire day looking for me. I feel…

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    Learning Log #5 American Renaissance Murals The image of a 1903 mural created for a US courthouse, is typical of an American Renaissance mural because it has a sense of a unified national identity. Also, the mural has various examples of Renaissance ideals of art. Some specifics being the columns on either side of the woman on a throne. The mural also shows the architecture (throne, columns, steps) as white. This is similar to many American Renaissance murals, to imitate the White City in…

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    does and that the world is actually unfair and cruel. Mr.Raymond basically tells Scout and Dill to go loss some innocence, “‘ You haven’t seen enough of the world yet. You haven’t even seen this town but all you gotta do is step back inside the courthouse” (Lee 269). Due to this the kids start losing their innocence, they start to see how unfair their town is for treating people wrong because they have different skin color. Next, Link Deas is outraged that Tom is even on…

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    Directions: Your legal representative has likely been through this process several times, which should provide you with considerable peace of mind. However, they can only perform at their best if you do exactly what they say. Be On Time: America's courthouses are very busy, so if you're not there when your case…

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    In realizing the weaknesses of the control theory during my internship at the VWU, I would have to say that the power and authority that looms over many people’s heads in the court house is strikingly identifiable. The way in which the courthouse runs is what I would call “not user-friendly” to the average person. The parking is obviously set up for the elites (lawyers, judges, advocates, etc.), the “normal” people have to use the parking deck a few blocks away, if we were lucky to get a spot,…

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    using sledgehammers. Eventually, the mob got into the jail, grabbed one of the man, Thomas Shipp, and started beating him. In the end, he was dead before the mob had even gotten him out of the jail. Regardless, they took him to the front of the courthouse and hung him on a rope. Then they went…

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    morals. This novel is created in a way to prove and question certain belief systems. The death penalty is created to enforce justice, to society not the courthouse. Killing one for killing another, this goes against religious beliefs and Truman Capote explicitly shows how the morals are abandoned for their selfish emotions. Even at the Courthouse when Dick and Perry are arriving at the jail and people flock to the square and almost celebrate. Capote describes this scene as if it were a festival,…

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    The heat during the and prior to the scene where he shoots the arab are his main defense to why he committed the crime and during the courthouse scene he is too distracted by his surrounding to properly defend himself. These things show how in The Stranger the outcome of conflicts are affected by the setting. Looking forward knowing how the setting affects the conflict negatively perhaps…

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    The issue was that two identical series of Ten Commandments displays erected by county officials in two Kentucky Courthouses. The first exhibit or display had a large gold frame copy of the Ten Commandments that was hung in 1999 in a busy hallway in each courthouse. The respondents, the American Civil Liberties Union brought a lawsuit against the county petitioners that said the displays were a violation of the Constitution prohibiting…

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    built on the grounds of the Loudoun County Courthouse, which was built in Leesburg, VA in 1758. It has been a part of Loudoun history since then; serving as a jail, courthouse, legislature, and executive office. The statue, erected in 1908, depicts a confederate soldier aiming a rifle. Its purpose was to “serve as a memorial to the many Rebel soldiers who died fighting for the cause in which they believed” (as stated by Loudoun.gov). In fact, the courthouse, even served as the site of a small…

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