Verdict

Opening: Being scared is part of everyone's life. From a monster under your bed to a large work meeting. But if you can change this after observing this situation you will be much more informed. This can be seen in Reginald Rose's short play which involves twelve men deciding the fate of a teenage boy. Thesis: Reginald Rose uses the words of juror five to to teach his readers that staying silent can let you consider all sides of a situation, and that if you can be brave and change it…

A weapon is a hazardoustoolthat is used in an act of self-defense; its powers can be misused and put people in jeopardy. Racism is like a weapon’s dark and dangerous sidebecause it is used to hurt others and put them in harm’s way. This obstacle occurs throughout history in various court cases, stories, and everyday life. InA Lesson before Dying, Ernest Gaines shows that racism is an oppressive force that not only hurts people mentally, but it also hurts people physically. He shows how racism is…

12 Angry Men is a play involving twelve men who are serving jury duty for a court case involving a young man facing the death penalty. This young man is facing this charge for killing his father with a switchblade. The old man who lives under the defendant said he heard the young man yell “I’m going to kill you” followed by the sound of someone falling, and then saw the man on the staircase. There is also a lady, who lived in the building next to them who says she saw through a passing elevated…

In a democratic society, when a person is accused of a crime, they are judged by a group of their peers. Most juries hear testimony, and render a verdict of guilt or innocence, based on evidence and how that evidence violates the established law. Jurors, also possesses the ability nullify a case, if they deem the respective violated law to be unfair. When considering the magnitude of power the ability to nullify places in the hands of twelve randomly selected people, one must consider; whether…

team because they were able to get different points of view. An example is juror 5 explaining the dynamics of using a switch blade. There are a number of biases among the jurors. Juror 3 just hates slum dwellers and juror 7 wants to pass a guilty verdict quickly so that he can catch the baseball game. Juror ten also segregates society in terms of racial and social class. These instances of bias led to the initial decision by the jury that the…

A jury of twelve men are locked in a deliberation room where they decide the verdict of the young man, a guilty verdict would result in the death penalty. All evidence is against the young man and eleven jurors believe that the young man is guilty, however one juror votes not guilty. Juror Eight wants to discuss the trail and analyze the evidence further, he undermines the eleven-juror’s confidence of a guilty verdict when they analyze the evidence further, realizing that the murder weapon is…

Twelve Angry Men is a film about a jury of twelve men who are assessing a murder trial. The trial’s outcome would determine if an 18 year would be sentenced to death. The men went into the jury room with an assumption that the defendant was guilty. They did an open vote where everyone raised their hands to determine who felt he was guilty or not guilty. Every juror, but one, raised their hands for guilty, some of the jurors slowly raised their hands after seeing the rest of the room raise their…

Whisked away from their routine life to partake in a communal decision, the dutiful juror rationalizes the inconvenience caused by assuring their verdict's importance and sympathizing, "'Before God, that could be me on trial. If that were so, God forbid, I would want those in the jury to be as responsible as I pledge to be and as terrified of error as I am'" (Mamet ix). The juror, possessing the ability to connect their life to the person on trial, intends to seek accuracy in determining the…

majority of the male jurors voted guilty; however, as the jurors continue their deliberation the verdict begins to shift. This is because of juror number Eight, who is not satisfied with the guilty verdict because he does not know whether or not the boy is guilty. In Trifles, the male detectives seek out a criminal to punish and the women seek for insight as to what truly took place. While an ideal just verdict is wrought by truth, fairness, and reason, the men of this jury had settled for a…

for an eighteen-year-old boy in the film 12 Angry Men who has been tried for a first-degree murder. The eighteen-year-old boy has been accused of stabbing his own father and the case has been left in the hands of a twelve-man jury in which a guilty verdict mean the automatic death of the boy. Throughout the film, we are able to recognize various communication skills that the twelve individuals display. Leadership There are two types of leaders shown in this film. Since the beginning of the film…