False light

“You’re innocent until proven guilty” (dramafever.com); in the case of the Korean drama “I Hear Your Voice” you are “guilty until proven innocent” (dramafever.com). The drama “I Hear Your Voice” is a 2013 Korean drama directed by Jo So Won. It is a romantic comedy, where the plot revolves around the judiciary system and the main character whose name is Park Soo Ha. This character is able to see what people are thinking with just glancing at their eyes. The drama is based on the fictional story…

Scenario 19: Topic: Truth in Advertising You are a marketing manager and work for a fast food chain. Recently you were involved in launching a new product—“organic” hamburgers. Millions of dollars were spent on the marketing campaign to inform customers of the organic nature of the hamburgers. Your company has been selling the organic hamburgers for the past six months. The hamburgers are selling well and the product line is quite profitable. When our company first decided to sell organic…

Wrongful Convictions: Why Do They Occur Introduction Never has a criminal justice system of the United States been fair and flawless. Ever since the American Revolution, the U.S. Constitution granted protection of freedom for innocent, and restricted the freedom for criminals. But not all criminals have been punished, and not all innocent remained free. This problem still exists in the modern days, and in some ways, it is even worse than it used to be. Wrongful convictions are causing…

Confessions Kim Possible – Rhetorical Analysis Saul Elbien, the rhetor to “507: Confessions – Kim Possible” podcast published from Chicago Public Media on October eleventh, 2013, address a unique situation sometimes present in criminal investigations, false confessions. Elbien starts off his podcast by describing a crime scene: a man found dead by the Anacostia River, bound and beaten to death, with only his credit cards missing. (“507: Confessions”) Elbien then introduces the audience to Jim…

False confessions can be broken down into two categories, internalized and compliant confessions (Blair, 2005). The main difference between the two comes down to the suspect’s own belief in their guilt. If the suspect begins to believe they could have, or had to have committed the crime, the false confession is internalized. If the suspect still believes in their innocence, yet confesses for short term benefits, it is complaint. (Blair, 2005) Internalized Confessions Internalized confessions…

Hello, Welcome back to our Creative Writing Elements series here on the PrintedFeet blog. We’re talking about characters today, and since this is such a complex subject, we’re going to split it into two posts. The next post will be on developing characters and is going to be posted later on this week. To begin, let’s go over the main types of characters and what makes them so necessary to story building. Basic Character Types The Protagonist: The protagonist is the person at the center of…

Eyewitness testimony is being able to choose the suspect out of a lineup or an array of photos. Sometimes the witnesses' testimony is not always accurate. When a witness falsely testifies they can send an innocent person to prison. An example of a case where the eyewitness testimony was incorrect was in the murder of 78-year-old Jack Sasson. The man who was convicted of the murder of Mr. Sasson was 18-year-old Kash Register. On April 6, 1979 in the middle of the afternoon, a 78-year-old…

False Confessions Lead to Years in Prison On December 8, 1991, 14-year-old Cateresa Matthews was found dead along a path in Dixmoor, Illinois. When investigators rushed to the scene, they had seen that she had been shot in the mouth at close range and there were clear signs of sexual assault. Jonathan Barr and 4 others were falsely accused for the death of Matthews. When each suspect was interrogated, there was little truth of the confessions. Because they contradicted each other's confession.…

The movie “Inside Out” is a children’s movie that is based on emotions and how we feel. There are a couple of scenes in particular that show dreams as if you are experiencing a movie. The first dream is when the main character Riley is dreaming of being at her new school in her underwear because she is afraid of her new school. Riley was having a dream based on what she was actually afraid of. What goes through our minds before we fall asleep, like Riley being scared of school, can affect what…

A young boy stands at the peak of a cliff. He looks over the edge with no discernible ground below. The boy smiles, lifts his arms, and falls into oblivion. Soon the boy feels the pressure on his back as he is flung back up even higher than the cliff he was previously on. He slows to a stop and stays there, floating among the clouds. Many dreamers wish for this boy’s freedom, the freedom of lucid dreaming. The idea of being aware while dreaming and being able to consciously influence dream…