False memory syndrome

LOGLINE When an accountant is convicted of a white collar crime, he gets a first-hand look at life on the inside and discovers a whole new and absurd world of orange collar crime. SYNOPSIS When accountant, David Barnes is convicted of tax evasion, his pseudo lawyer, Louis Fishbein, isn’t able to get him off. David is sentenced to prison at Fort Dicks and has to leave his girl friend, Judy, behind. Barnes is sent to Fort Dicks, a felony “camp” for white-collar crimes. There he meets a cast of…

BAD BLOOD tells the horrific real life story of the Tuskegee syphilis experiments. The story does a good job of eliciting feelings of great indignation that was done to the innocent victims. The script explores and poses the moral question about how far the medical community goes for the sake of research. It also examines how callous the medical community can be towards patients, seeing them as a statistic rather than a real human being. The era, culture, and setting are authentic. The dialect…

As a result, they ‘control the future’, as they controlled the past; the future will always live and learn under colonialist beliefs. Depiction of a False Hero This depiction of a false hero, Christopher Columbus, has made an enormous impact on the Native people. The misled depiction not only erases the injustices done to the Native population but also glorifies the western concepts of ‘conquest’ and ‘discovery’. It…

“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…