Eyewitness testimony

The goal of civil law is to resolve disputes between parties (individuals or entities).2 For example, in the preceding illustration, you had a dispute with a fellow student. The civil law system allows you, the injured party, to resolve your dispute in a civilized, orderly fashion. Without this option, you might be tempted to ‘‘take matters into your own hands.’’ The defendant in a civil case does not have to worry about the possibility of incarceration. On the other hand, incarceration…

The implementation of DNA evidence can not only establish the facts of an offense and identify the offender; it may even lead to a conviction. In the law enforcement, DNA has been introduce as a revolutionary and efficient accurate tool to solve and crack modern and cold cases. When properly documented, collected, and stored, biological evidence can be analyzed to produce a reliable DNA profile years, even decades, after it is collected. Furthermore, DNA has brought justice to those who have…

DNA Fingerprinting Introduction Background: DNA fingerprinting is one of the great discoveries of the late 20th century,that has revolutionized forensic investigations. (Roewer 2013) The complete DNA of each individual is unique, with the exception of identical twins. It is this difference that can be used by forensic scientists to match specimens of blood , tissue, or hair follicles to an individual with a high level of certainty. A DNA fingerprint, therefore, is a DNA pattern that has a…

Smith’s Victorian London Street Life is an in-depth examination of the conditions of life of poverty in London from 1877 to 1878. It is considered to be a primary source into the lives of the poor through close observations portraying a kind of testimony regarding the harsh living conditions and circumstances of the poverty stricken people of London. Studying these historical documents has its challenges due to the compulsion for people to find the right answers to everything. Although the…

Armenian Genocide "Who, after all, speaks of the annihilation of the Armenians?" Hitler once said this when addressing the Nazi army about the upcoming genocide of millions of Jews. A genocide is the systematic killing of a group of people based on religion, race, or culture. Genocides are crucial to our past, as well as crucial to our future. However, not many people are aware of the Armenian Genocide. The Armenian Genocide was the mass killing of 1.5 million Christian Armenians. People…

What is the standard for law enforcement to search your cell phone? Well the Supreme Court states that the police must get search warrants for most cell phone searches, not all (Supreme Court Searches”, 2014). Two cases linked to the Supreme Court decision would be the Riley v. California and U.S. v. Wurie. In the Riley v. California case, Riley was pulled over for a traffic violation. Riley was driving a different car than what was registered to him and he was driving around on suspended…

In reviewing the article 10 Psychological Studies that Will Change What You Think You Know About Yourself (written by Gregoire), I found interesting the 1989 study from Harvard and Kent State University on “change blindness” (as cited by Gregoire). In this experiment the subjects started out talking to one actor. Their view is blocked from the person to whom they are speaking, and another actor steps in to finish the conversation to see if the change is observed by the participant. One half of…

retelling his story, so the title appears as, “The Things They Carried a work of fiction by Tim O’Brien.” Although O’Brien admits that he might have fabricated some of the events in the book, many journalists, and authors don’t do the same. Eyewitness testimonies and self-accounts are easily compromised, but no one ever admits that memories can be anything less than reliable. After accepting this hard truth, judging whether or not a source is reliable will become easier in everyday…

Over 9 million people were killed within a span of four years in the 1940’s. One and a half million of these were children and over five thousand Jewish communities were destroyed by the Nazi party. This group was lead by Adolf Hitler, a german politician who became a military leader and dictator of Nazi Germany. Since a young age Hitler had a deep hatred for Jews, and referred to them as a people and compared the activities they took part in “like a maggot in a rotten body.” (Rice, p.19)…

HE IS RISEN 1 Cor. 15: 3-24 By Abraham Philip, Ph.D. In 1960, the famous Protestant theologian Paul Tillich visited Japan to meet with some Buddhist scholars. During a conversation with them in Kyoto, he asked: “If some historian should make it probable that a man of the name Gautama never lived, what would be the consequence for Buddhism?” The Buddhist scholars replied by saying that it did not matter if Gautama Buddha lived or not. They added, “According to the doctrine of Buddhism, the…