Summary judgment

Throughout my life I have always been judged for my looks, hobbies and social groups. It is in our nature as humans to judge others. The word judge has a negative connotation, but the actual meaning of the word is to create and have an opinion. When people meet each other or learn that someone exists for the first time they form an opinion about them based on their looks, hobbies or their social group. They can later adjust that opinion the more they learn about the person and their personality.…

Plaintiff’s closing will be presented through a summary of each of the witnesses, in the order of testimony. In addition, Plaintiff Gendron will point to the various portions of the exhibit list. Roxann Gendron is the executor of the Marion Hinkmeyer Estate. Ms. Gendron testified that she was planning on moving into the property following her mother’s death and made preparations to do the same. She testified that by moving that she would have saved a mortgage payment of $1,251. Given the poor…

Human nature to cast judgment onto other humans with no intent other than to raise your own self-esteem. As human nature tells us to do, we judge people based on their appearance, their job or social status, or what we have heard about them from other people. The Scarlet Letter,written in the era of the Dark Romantics, by Nathaniel Hawthorne tells the story of two lovers, both going through different acts of punishment for their sin of adultery. This demonstrates how most judgment is only…

the timing of brain maturation. In key ways, the brain doesn’t look like that of an adult until the early 20s.” (National Institute of Mental Health p.2). The brain lacks the prefrontal cortex, the lobe of the brain that helps with reasoning and judgment, a fully developed cerebellum, the area of the brain that helps control impulse and when the brain is fully developed people start to make more educated decisions and think about consequences and other factors before committing an offense. Also…

Crime is one of the major influencing factors that contribute to methods of measurement to gain an understanding of the amount of crime that victimizes members of the society. Numerous crime measuring techniques are used to uncover the magnitude of delinquency such as the uniform crime report, the general social survey, and various more. Also, there are different types of victimizations that suggest the discoveries of the forms of crime like mala in se and mala prohibita. In this paper, I will…

The twentieth century seemingly came to an abrupt end much as it had opened – with large fragmentations of violence and treacherous behaviour towards each other, specifically hate crimes. Racial, gender, ethnics and religious violence persists as mechanisms of oppression, which sadly is not too dissimilar from the past century with the likes of Hitler and his Nazi doctrines which drew heavily on extremist Christian beliefs of Arianism or more contemporary acts of hate crimes like the killing of…

Question 8 Under the heading of offences involving criminal negligence, and section 220 stating that, “every person who by criminal negligence causes death to another person is guilty of an indictable offence and liable”, the case of F.J. (2008) set how the section should be applied. In the case, the accused failed to act and prove the necessaires of life to this foster son by not protecting him from the abuse the son suffered from the spouse; nevertheless, the accused was acquitted of charges.…

In 2014 the LNP Government introduced the Youth Justice and Other Legislations Amendment Act which made changes to the legislation surrounding juveniles aged between 10 and 16 years of age. These new amendments have been changed to improve juvenile justice and created a fairer option for minors. The Youth Justice and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2014 states that the Children’s Court is an open court when reoffenders are admitted. (Department of Justice and Attorney General, 2014) This act…

It has been argued that Catholicism and Islam are very similar monotheistic religions as they believe in a significant event that occurs once an individual dies. In summary, the Catholic Church teaches that the soul enters heaven, purgatory or hell depending on the supremacy of a person’s life. The Islamic perspective on life after death teaches that after death, an individual must wait until the Day of Judgement, which…

The article, Washing hands 'affects moral judgment', published in the Telegraph UK summarizes the conclusions found in a British experiment about washing hands and moral judgement. The 2008 article states the findings of the British researchers was that participants who washed their hands had better moral judgement than those that did not wash their hands. The article summarizes how the researchers came to this conclusion as it recalls the participants were split into two groups. One group…