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    The Indictment is movie that follows the prosecution of the Buckey and MacMartin family. The average family was being accused and tried for child abuse, child molestation, and even satanic rituals. The Buckey’s and MacMartin own a preschool in California where these allegations are said to be derived from. The first time these allegations came to light was when a mother of a child from the preschool, Judy Johnson, said her son was touched by Ray Buckey and also his father. From there, investigations started and the story began. From there, all the children enrolled in the preschool were sent to a therapist in order to see what other information the kids could provide. After these sessions over 100 accounts of child abuse and molestation were…

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    brother Gerald Amirault. The children told the investigators they were tied to a tree naked attacked by a clown, raped with objects and forced to watch the Amiraults kill birds. Police closed the schools and called concerned parents to a meeting. They suggested that parents question their kids, specifically about a magic room, a secret room and a clown. But the parents of one child say it was all too real - and that they recognized the signs of abuse. At nineteen, their daughter said she…

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    Memory Erasure In Film

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    appearance. As the victim was questioned by the police, her continuous recollection of the incident blurred the details of her attacker’s true face, thus consolidating Titus’ face with her attacker’s simply because they looked similar (Loftus). Loftus goes on to explain that false memories are an extremely common occurrence, and can easily be manipulated by both our own continued remembrance of an event and by other people. False memory has not only been tested and proven by Loftus and other…

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    psychology and opened a unique and controversial aspect of psychology and memory. She began her research with investigations of how the mind classifies and remembers information. In the 1970’s she began to reevaluate the direction of her research. Loftus said wants to make a difference in people’s life with her research. She began to start to research traumatically repressed memories. Loftus realized found herself in the midst of sexual abuse stories and defending accused offenders. In 1974…

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    Warren in The Crucible. “I’m not going to get out of here unless I tell them what they want to hear.”Evidence arose when one of the original prosecutors left the case that Johnson’s son did not even recognize and could not identify Ray Buckney from a series of photographs. Several people involved in the school were accused totaling in 321 counts of child abuse involving 48 children. The prosecution gave up on this case, realizing that they could not go far without a conviction. Even though all…

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    Feminity In Persepolis

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    Innocence and Feminity in Salman Rushdie’s, East, West and Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis In Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi shows the struggles from childhood while growing up in Iran to the subsequent encounters in Europe. Salman Rushdie’s “East, West” on the other hand uses fiction and reality and blends the two in its most controversial perspective. Despite the difference in style and writing language, the two books are documented in certain themes with complementing ideologies. The main objective…

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    Prosecutors. 1. The text discusses the prosecutor’s office at work. From the tape, cite some examples of work issues related in the text. The prosecution office at work was a method used by the prosecution team to highlight certain photos and children’s accounts about alleged sexual abuse at the McMartin preschool to gather more evidence to convince the jury that defendant Ray Buckey was a sexual deviant, and that his family was guilty of similar actions. There are several examples or…

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    in the religious tradition cultural toolbox. The naive theory of religion states that practices and behaviors come directly from our beliefs, but beliefs are usually adduced secondarily. There are three most often used tools in the toolbox that reflect the elements of societies. First, social boundaries, are boundaries that indicate an individual as an insider or an outsider of a certain group, also oppose him/her to another group. For instance, an analogy to the Christian tradition, the story…

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    Open these past two weeks, I decided to write this paper on him because he a very well-known athlete due to a particular set of rituals that he performs before and during his matches. Rafael Nadal’s rituals and traditions make him very unique in the tennis world. These rituals primarily consist of nineteen actions that take place during his matches. Rafael is known for his tediousness on a tennis court. He is often looked upon as an obsessive…

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    an elemental component of the corporate culture of that particular Walmart (González, 2013). Furthermore, it is important to note that this activity is essentially free, the staff bring their own meals, but the benefits of this activity make a positive fiscal impact on the performance of this store: high employee retention, a positive perception in the community, and higher employee output (González, 2013). Ritualistic activities, such as this, are affordable and attainable for businesses of…

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