Matt Cameron

What started as a short story written for a Harvard writing class, life mirrored art ever so slightly for Matt Damon when he wrote Good Will Hunting—earning an A for his work on the assignment and an Oscar for his work on the screenplay for the film. The two childhood friends from the south side of Boston, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, wrote a script together that some might say is the greatest piece of writing ever done for a film. The two of them sold the script and turned it into a movie that…

innocent man who was convicted of killing his three daughters or was it accidental? Cameron Todd became a man who execution spark national conversation about politics and forensic science. In today society, death penalty remains debatable about whether it actually enforces the law or kills innocent individuals who are put on death row merely to have a scapegoat to solve a crime. At the time of the crime Cameron Todd was portray as a man who was a sociopath with tendencies to abuse his wife…

The theme that I have chosen to analyze in The Call of the Wild is the power of instinct. Buck and the other dogs are living in the frozen terrain of northern Canada and they experience starvation, exhaustion, and freezing temperatures. Buck is put into a place where he must learn skills in order to survive the harsh conditions. Throughout the story we learn that Buck isn't just learning new skills, but is merely recovering primitive instincts. As you read the book, the author writes in way…

One of the main points of the Knowledge Argument is that one can have all of the physical information without having all of the information there is to have. Frank Jackson believes that this applies to any of the senses, such as sight, “taste, hearing, the bodily sensations and generally speaking for the various mental states which are said to have (as it is variously put) raw feels, phenomenal features or qualia” (130). To support this argument he gave examples of a man named Fred who could see…

A man named Cameron Todd Willingham who resided in Texas, was convicted of murder in 1992, it was believed that he had set his home on fire with his three children still alive. With this evidence he was put to death in 2002. Later after further evidence was discovered it was sadly too late for Willingham, it was found that none of the evidence used against him was in fact valid. They said they simply misinterpreted the evidence, that the fire was just an accident. They sentenced an innocent,…

Eyes of the innocent What if you found out that someone who seemed totally innocent was actually evil? In the novel by Brad Parks, Eyes of the Innocent, A fast moving fire at about nine o’clock the night before had swept through a house on Littleton Avenue in Newark, killing two little boys, Alonzo and Antoine Harris, ages four and six. An Investigative journalist Carter Ross is obligated to write a story about an apartment fire that took the lives of two young little boys. Carter realize…

One day in January, 2004, Dr. Gerald Hurst, an acclaimed scientist and fire investigator, received a file describing all the evidence of arson gathered in Willingham’s case. Gilbert had come across Hurst’s name and, along with one of Willingham’s relatives, had contacted him, seeking his help. After their pleas, Hurst had agreed to look at the case pro bono, and Reaves, Willingham’s lawyer, had sent him the relevant documents, in the hope that there were grounds for clemency. Hurst opened the…

1. Introduction Let us say that a phenomenal quality or concept, as I will use the terms interchangeably, is “a feature of a conscious state that is notable introspectively, ostensively, as that aspect of the state, the way it feels, appears, etc.” (Loar, 81). The knowledge argument objects to physicalism through establishing conscious experiences as having non-physical properties. In “Epiphenomenal Qualia”, Frank Jackson proposes a thought experiment in which a brilliant neuroscientist named…

In the year 1992, Cameron Todd Willingham was convicted to the death penalty by a fire that killed his three kids in which the court believe he had purposely started it. Twelve years later the Texas Forensic Science Commission found that the evidence provided was wrongfully interpreted, and the evidence used against Willingham became invalid. The worst part about this heartbreaking story was that it was later known that the fire was actually accidental, and the mistakes of people costed an…

This book report is based on the 189 page, fictional biography, named “George Washington and the Birth of Our Nation”. The book is written by Milton Meltzer and published by Franklin Watts in 1986. This book is primarily about the evolving life of George Washington and how the atmosphere surrounding George had an effect upon him. In my opinion, the way Milton portrays George’s life gives the reader a breathtaking view into the life of one of America’s most legendary historical figures with…