Witness

than the argument itself. This fallacy is used to remove the creditability of someone due to things not in relation to the case. For example if a witness in a court case was a pasted convicted felon , then their credibility could be lost by the jury even though it was irrelevant information to the case at hand. Even if the statements made by the witness are true the jury may not believe him/her. Emotions tend to be strong point of Ad Hominem fallacy. Emotion can cloud just judgement and cause…

Neolithic revolution. The Neolithic revolution was a massive pivotal moment in human development and consequently everything changed. The move from hunting to farming forced the people of the time to acquire new means of survival and from this we witness the formation of communities. We can be certain that they lived within communities and evidence allows us to assume that these communities had advanced into hierarchical societies. As farmers they begin to not only understand nature but to…

side with the ignorant when they discover Plato’s allegory of the cave. In the allegory, there were prisoners inside a cave, only witnessing the shadows of the world that the puppeteers had created, just like us in this modern period of time. We witness this world through the eyes of the…

the process will then repeat. Medical personnel will assess the inmate each round but must first wait five minutes due to the scorching body temperature. The death penalty has been one of the most controversial topics in the entire criminal justice system. From the costs, religion, victim impact, inmate and staff psychological effects, botched executions, deterrence, all the way to those who have no opinion at all, the arguments have fallen into several different categories. With evidence to…

The most interesting thing I’ve learned in this course was about change blindness. Change blindness is a situation where you do not notice a change between two scenarios. For example, you may not notice a change in hair length between two scenes during a movie. This makes me wonder exactly how many things from my past that I remember wrongfully. I believe I will remember this in five years, because of all the bad things that could happen due to change blindness. Not only was I fascinated that…

In this article the author, Kenneth Arrow, starts by discussing the “attitudes” he found in several races and social relations within intermarriage, residential location, and legal barriers. He also states that there is no way to truly isolate the study of racial discrimination from moral sentiments. Arrow then goes to further explain the origin of economic discrimination, he gives an example of this when he mentions the well-known knowledge from his life time that within the labor market most…

Police utilize lineups on a regular basis and it is an accepted investigatory procedure in identify a possible suspect from a witness. A defendant does have the right to counsel in a lineup. The major concern is the intentional or even the unintentionally problem of the police influencing a possible witness ("What Are Your Rights During A Police Lineup?"). This could happen when the police conduct the lineup they could have the suspect stand out from the rest of the other people that they are…

Mark Antony committed treason against Rome with regard to the illegal redistribution of governors’ territories, and fighting against his own state on the side of a foreign ruler. Huzar, an expert witness and specialist on the Roman Republic and Egypt, in Mark Antony, a biography shares that Mark Antony illegally called the Senate to a meeting where he proceeded to redistribute the governor’s territories apart from the way that had been agreed upon…

counsel has sought to test the credibility of the evidence given by this witness, about how the accused reacted to the behaviour of the complainant. The main communication weakness in segment one is gratuitous concurrence. The first contribution leading to gratuitous concurrence can be drawn from the context of the cross-examination. The defence counsel a non-indigenous man is a person in authority, a barrister. The witness in this case being cross-examined is an indigenous women. This…

Consent was extremely difficult to prove, and witness testimonials were often reliant on reputation rather than facts. Furthermore, if a victim of rape did not resist, or was bribed to consent to the heinous acts, it became even harder to convict an offender, due to the narrow definition of what did…