supposed to. Before the case began, the whites sat in the middle of the courthouse square while the blacks sat in the corner with Mr. Dolphus Raymond. Heck Tate, Mr. Ewell, Mayella Ewell, and Tom Robinson testify while Mr. Gilmer is the circuit Solicitor and Atticus defends Tom Robinson. In the end, Tom is guilty and when Atticus passes, the colored balcony of people stand. The town has mixed feelings of the jury’s decision. In this journal, I will be predicting the verdict of the case and…
Canadians started to realize just how much they had mistreated minority groups, and attitudes started to reverse. Before the racial restrictions were gone, there was a lot of bad things happening to the minorities of Canada.ix Hugh Guthrie, the solicitor general in 1920, agreed with enfranchisement, which is when native persons lost their Indians statuses to the Indian Act. He thought that being a citizen did not carry the right to vote with it. He thought it was the governments choice on who…
What happened to the classics? Over the years the world has come to see many different changes of the living dead. In literature one of the major changes that has been seen are the changes in vampires. The classic vampire novel Dracula by Bram Stoker has differences between the vampires when compared to Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice. Now comparing to classics like those to a modern day book series Vampire Kisses by Ellen Schreiber the way vampires are now seen has shifted in a…
No matter which Justice on the Supreme Court one would pick, each have some sort of both bias and method when deciding their rulings. The overarching term for this is “judicial philosophy,” which ranges from conservatism to liberalism with moderates in-between. There are ramifications to wherever one sits on this scale, for instance, Justice Elena Kagan is liberal Justice, so it is likely that she will vote for something that matches up with her mindset, while a conservative Justice like Antonin…
“Every 12 minutes someone dies in a motor vehicle crash, every 10 seconds an injury occurs and every 5 seconds a crash occurs” As time goes on researchers have found that mobile communications is tied to a great increase in distracted driving. The definition of distraction is when drivers divert their attention from driving and their mind is elsewhere. The world has become a nation of distracted drivers. Driving is becoming a bigger issue among the population and should have a more serious…
1) Dorothy and Brian I: Had the contract between Dorothy and Brian come into existence? In particular, was Dorothy obligated to sell her house to Brian? R: Offer and counter-offer “An invitation to treat is essentially an indication that a person is prepared to negotiate” “Acceptance cannot be interfered from the silence or inaction of the offeree” . A: Brian offered to buy Dorothy’s house and Dorothy replied Brian that she would sell the house for $2.000.000. Brian countered Dorothy’s offer…
Story 1 Title: Medical technology company Alere is to triple the size of its operations in Galway, which will result in the creation of 40 new jobs Overview: The company is located in Ballybrit in co. Galway and oversees the processing and delivery of medical diagnostic tests. The company already employs over 100 people. Once the expansion of the company has taken place, it will manage more than 150 million tests in Ballybrit. Alere’s centre in Galway already oversees the processing and…
In Australia in the year 1920 the state of Western Australia passed legislation allowing women to stand for parliament. Edith Cowan was elected for the Legislative seat of West Perth. She was a strong advocate of women rights in parliament. Cowan pushed through legislation which allowed women into the legal profession, placed mothers in an equal status with fathers when their children died, and promoted sex education in schools. Women like Edith Cowan in politics in the 1920s were not equal to…
professionals, and even a few patients petitioned together in order to sue Myriad Genetics for attempting to patent the specific genes known as BRCA1 and BRCA2. Christopher A. Hansen represented the plaintiffs of this case while Donald B. Verrilli, Jr., Solicitor General, from the Department of Justice in Washington D.C., argued on behalf of the respondent of the case (SCOTUSblog). BRCA1 and BRCA2 are genes that can be used as indicators of breast cancer in women (Oyez). Myriad Genetics had…
Much of my time at the Charleston County Public Defender’s Office has been spent with the Family Court lawyers, who work with juveniles. Family Court, unlike General Sessions court for adults, is supposed to be rehabilitative rather than punitive. It attempts to match juveniles and their families with services provided by the state of South Carolina like substance abuse counseling, positive peer groups and Department of Mental Health counselling. The goal is getting these young students back in…