Eyewitness testimony

You heard [of] the gas, but I’m telling not rumors, but only what…I saw. For this I was an eyewitness” (Spiegelman II.2.59). Photos are an added example of this story breaking away from animals as a metaphorical theme. Here, Spiegelman is recreating each photograph with animals serving as each figure: “But, below my closet I find these snapshots…

Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is the legally authorized killing of someone as punishment for a crime. There are vast differences in the way many Americans view the death penalty. Some believe strongly in capital punishment and some Americans oppose capital punishment. As of today, 31 states in the United States have and enforce the death penalty, as well as the United States Military. Nineteen states do not have or enforce the death penalty. Is the death penalty fair? Is…

12 Angry Men Essay The movie, “Twelve Angry Men” can enlighten us on the topic of small group communication, giving an understanding both good and bad, about the structure and makeup of a group. As the story unfolds, it becomes evident that the jury must reach a decision of guilty or not guilty judgement in a capital murder case. The man on trial is a Latino teenager, accused of murdering his abusive father. If the young man is found guilty, he will be sentenced to death. While examining the…

Paul Broca (1824 ~ 1880) Paul Broca was a French pathologist, neurosurgeon, anthropologist and the founder of modern brain surgery. He is well-known for his research on “Broca’s area” where he studied Aphasia throughout the 1850s and was the first person to show how speech defect was linked to a specific spot on the human brain by demonstrating autopsy. Broca’s area then revolutionized the perception of language processing, comprehension as well as speech production Stanley Milgram (1933…

Cognitive psychology is the study of your brain and your mental process. One of the mental processes that are staged in cognitive psychology is your memory. The theoretical basis of my study was schema. Schema in psychology describes a pattern of thought or behavior that organizes categories of information and the relationships among them. Schema however is also part of the cognitive part of psychology. A Schema ‘theory’ basically states that everything you know is organized into units. Schema…

About the Authors Craig Evans is the John Bisagno Distinguished Professor of Christian Origins and Dean of the School of Christian Thought at Houston Baptist University in Texas. He is a graduate of Claremont McKenna College, received his M.Div. from Western Baptist Seminary in Portland, Oregon, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Biblical Studies from Claremont Graduate University in southern California. He has also been awarded the D.Habil. by the Karoli Gaspar Reformed University in Budapest. A…

The decision to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not a military necessity because civilians were harmed, it went against the league of nations proclamations against the air bombings , it caused radiation poisoning and personal testimonies weren’t looked upon. The civilians that were harmed were uncountable. As shown in document R, “Protection of Civilian Populations Against…

McMillian’s family whom claims they were with him at the time of the murder. Darnell Houston is a clerk at an auto shop in Alabama. He contacts Stevenson and confirms that the eyewitness in McMillian’s case lied under oath. Stevenson meets with the district attorney to file for a retrial. The court denied the request despite the new testimony. 5 Stevenson works on a new case involving a fourteen year old boy who shot his mother's boyfriend. The mother is frequently beaten by the drunk boyfriend.…

Marie-Joseph Angélique was a slave in the 1700s in the settlement of Montréal in New France. She was born in Madeira, Portugal and sold to work as a slave in New France at age 20. At age 29, in 1734 she was accused of starting a fire that burned down a hospital and 45 houses in Montréal. The question is, was Angélique really guilty of starting the fire, or was she innocent? When the information available is weighed, Angélique was innocent in the standards of today’s justice, since her…

1) Repressed memories are memories that are so traumatic that a person is unable to remember that they even occurred. Some experts believe that they can use hypnosis or psychotherapy to recall these events called recovered memories. Research shows that some of these memories are accurate and while others are just plain false. Unfortunately, the assessment tools don't exist to decipher between the two. (pg. 221) 2) The Atkinson-Shiffrin model of memory is a three stage model that represent the…