Rights of the accused

University Graduate of 2015, would definitely mirror these sentiments if you asked him. According to Max Kutner’s article, “The Other Side of the College Sexual Assault Crisis,” Emma Sulkowicz accused fellow-student Nungesser of sexually assaulting him; after this accusation, two more female and one male student also accused Nungesser, but the school found Nungesser not guilty for every charge. In protest of the court findings, Sulkowicz pledged to carry around her mattress everywhere she went…

These women that were accused did not fit into the norm of society due to their independence from patriarchal norms, specifically elderly women that lived outside the parameters of the patriarchal family. The suspect issue that surrounded these women were that they often never gave birth or married, leading them to create a sub-set of English social hierarchy that was unable to mesh into the traditional, male-dominated, immediate family unit that was so prominent in English society. Another…

1995, at the age of 16, a child, whose name has not been open to the public, was accused of the murder of a New Orleans boy. The girlfriend of the murdered victim was present at the time of the crime, said that she “would never forget that face” as she identified the child as her boyfriend’s murderer. Two other people claimed to have seen the accused child at the scene of the crime. Right before the murder, the accused child was recorded on camera playing basketball with his friends, also in the…

though Donald Trump and his voters aren’t close to perfect its unfair to say every single one of them are these things. In the Crucible almost every single women we met was accused as a witch and most of the men who tried to defend their wives were also killed such as Giles Corey. The issue with Trump and his voters being accused for racism…

father was a king who was also semi-barbaric and didn’t like him so he did what he did with other people who were accused of committing a crime, he put them in an arena in which the accused person would have to choose between two doors: one that contained a lady that they would be married to on the spot and the other door contained a ferocious tiger. Even though the author doesn’t come right out and tell you what was in the door, the youth most likely opened the door with the tiger because the…

The witch trials in England were coming to an end just as the Salem trials began. The Salem Witch Trials set a change for the way trials would be done in the future. A fair way to let the accused speak of what happened through their eyes, rather than the afflicted not giving the accused a chance to prove their innocence. One of the four girls who were accusing people; Ann Putnam, finally admitted to what she had done wrong, and wrote an apologetic letter in regards to that. The Puritans…

that is still a mystery. However, there are many possible causes to the hysteria which translated into numerous innocent people being accused of witchcraft. Conflict was very prevalent in Salem, Massachusetts during the time of the accusations. This conflict stemmed from many things such as religion and even the economy. Tensions began to rise and the list of accused people got longer and longer. The conflict within Salem was most likely the cause of the accusations of over 100 people. As…

Steroid use in Sports have made every athlete skeptical when they perform exceptionally well because of the competitiveness, misconceptions, and athletes accused for steroids. Anabolic steroids have tarnished sports a lot recently throughout the years. It hurts the game especially, when a famous or top player takes anabolic steroids. Eventually, they get caught and is basically put to shame and everyone looks down at them after that. Steroids has been a problem since sports ever since athletes…

spectral evidence. The Puritans believed that Satan could not take the form of an unwilling person, and if anyone saw a spector, or spirit in the form of a person, that person was undoubtedly a witch. Last, the judges considered a confession from the accused. As the trials went on, it was obvious that sometimes this was the only way out (“Witchcraft in Salem”). The judges wanted to keep convicted witches in prison for as long as possible, in hopes that they would list other unknown witches…

McCarthy Era began during the Cold War, which led to suspicion of the Communist country, causing a fear of Communism in the United States. Senator Joseph McCarthy set up witch hunts in search of people who practiced Communism. The people who were accused were given the option of refusing to testify and end up being blacklisted, causing their careers to suffer (something something) or tell McCarthy and the House and accuse others of being Communists. Similarly, in The Crucible, a group of girls…