Comparing The Innocent Man By Ron Williamson And Dennis Fritz

My favorite character was juror 8 because he was different, He went with what he wanted and didn't care if he was different. He didn't just want it to be simple because a young boys life was on the line for the murder of his own father. So he argued and stated the facts and re created some of them trying to figure the case out unlike the others that just wanted it to be done. Juror 8 was all alone than started to changed people's votes about the young boy over the time he explained and talked upon the scene and witnesses. Over that time he explained and argued with most of the jurors and never backed down once. He stuck to his vote and was determined to change others, He knew the boy didn't have much but he still didn't want to play with

One of my favorite characters was Calvin because he is an athlete like me and because he doesn't really care about himself so he's not so self centered he also lives with a big family. I also think that it's that he was cool that's he want to help Meg

As a political personality, Robert Reich writes a book that closely relates the deteriorating status of the U.S. economy with the greed of other politicians and the government as a whole. To some extent, Robert Reich pulls out the sense in economy deterioration with the help of pinning the major government policies. Robert Reich 's argument comes out clearly, directly, and at some point presented willfully. From the heading of the topic of the book, what went wrong with our economy and our democracy, and how to fix it, a reader can clearly picture the content of the book that is politics and the financial mess that the United States of America is in today. The book provides a clear, simple, and easy to understand information on how the author, Robert Reich relates the cause a bad financial status for the country and how the government and other wealthy people living in America contribute to causing the financial crisis.

Therefore, assuming the guilt of an unproven "criminal" is nothing new, as the short story "The Curse of the Poisoned Pretzel" by Paul Haven clearly displays; the author develops a case against his subject without ever stating that it is actually true. Haven writes about the suspicious death of a man by

The American criminal justice system has a principle that everyone has the right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty in the court of law. Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow is a novel about a prosecutor, Rozat “Rusty” Sabich, who is charged with murder of his co-worker Carolyn Polhemus. The novel’s suspense keeps the readers on edge with the many twists and unpredictable turns of the plot. An analysis of the suspense of the novel shows that it follows the five elements of plot that can be applied to make a story more dramatic. The novel was a thrill to read with a good depiction on how everyone is presumed innocent.

Growing up in one of the most poverty ridden regions in the United States, you don’t realize how bad your situation is until you get older. I first realized my situation when I was 9 years old, it was Christmas morning. I eagerly rushed to my parent's room door, ready to pounce onto my father's chest as I did most mornings. Only this time it felt different, instead of my parents matching my innocent and playful energy I was met with a locked door and the sound of my mother's sorrow.

People of color have faced discrimination for a very long time. Statistics show that African-Americans and Hispanics face more discrimination from police more than any other ethnicity. This is the sad truth that many innocent people have to face throughout their lives, building unnecessary fear. Law enforcement often have harsh opinions about people based on their race and class, thus making certain ethnicities more prone to getting racially profiled. Racial profiling is unjust because people are unfairly and frequently stopped or searched by authority figures solely based on their skin color; therefore, law enforcement needs to evaluate themselves by changing their prejudiced behavior or even to excogitate the problem in a fairer manner.

For my discussion post, I choose the poem “My Son the Man”, composed by author Sharon Olds. In the poem the mother is reflecting on her son’s life. I believe that author Olds is having a difficult time coping with the fact, that her son is no longer “mommy’s little boy” anymore. Through this difficult time, she is reflecting on the physically changes and “mommy moments” that her and her son went through together. I can personally compare myself with this poem, with my mother and I. The statement “we have no control over time”, comes into play when dealing with moments in our life that fly by. Throughout my life, my mother and I have always shared a very close relationship with one another. About two years ago, we have become closer than ever.

The novel is based around how 3 policemen; Bill Gillespie, Sam Wood and Virgil TIbbs tries to solve who murdered the wealthy orchestra conductor, Maestro Enrico Mantoli. Although adjusting to the presence

My favorite character was obviously Bernie Madoff due to the fact that Richard Dreyfuss made his character extremely likable. Here is a man that ultimately ruined hundreds of peoples lives and as I said before I found myself rooting for the guy. The character I liked least was Bernie Madoffs son Mark he seemed like throughout

As confirmed in Genocide in Rwanda the war that began April 6, 1994, mainly in Rwanda, Africa, lasted one hundred days and took close to one million lives of innocent people. Genocide is defined as the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group. With Rwanda being the most densely populated nation in Africa, housing about ten million people, by the time the outside countries began assisting to stop the genocide hundreds of thousands were already dead. (Spalding 4-7) Lives of the innocent get taken on a daily basis, no matter where in the world you live or the color of your skin.

The book I decided to read was Law & Disorder: Inside the Dark Heart of Murder by John Douglas and Mark Olshaker (2013) . This book talks about many different types of crimes committed by horrific people or peoples. John Douglas is a retired FBI Agent who decided to write about his past experiences and hopefully give readers background information on how the criminal justice system works. Most of the crimes committed in the book are well known and have various parts to them. The reader will learn that a person who is guilty may not seem to think that they are. Detectives and police must collect evidence and try to get a suspect that is guilty of committing that specific crime.

My favorite character was juror eight because he believed that the boy was innocent so therefore he didn’t vote guilty because he just wanted to get out of there like the others. My least favorite character was juror three because he was just mad at his son so he was taking it out on the eighteen year old boy and everybody else. Juror eight was the only one who thought the boy was innocent but then he was giving out good points and he later on little by little he changed people’s minds. Everyone was just trying to leave because the room was hot and some had “better things to do”. But Juror eight believed that you can’t just send a innocent boy to jail for life if he was the one who committed his father’s death. He wasn’t completely sure that

Novelist, former attorney, and Mississippi legislator, John Grisham, wrote the book entitled Innocent Man. As a small town lawyer in the South, he experienced many events that provided him with a clear view of families and communities.  For this particular book, however, he gathered research that would provide insight to the justice system of Oklahoma and he found injustice that took the best years of a man 's life.

Crime fiction is a genre of literature that has been well distinguished and unparalleled for generations due to the intrigue readers’ experience throughout the culminating plot. Suspense accumulates as the protagonist and reader alike must process the crimes and interpret all the evidence presented so an apt denouement can resolve who has committed the murder and what their motives are. As the investigation progresses, conflicts inevitably arise and pose adversity for the protagonist as they must determine if their inclinations are correct or their focus has been leading them astray in the process. Uncertainty plagues the mind of those who are emotionally and professionally invested with the case. This aspect has always been engaging because the internal conflicts the protagonist faces increases the drama of these investigations as no one seems to have any answers, yet they are all suspects. The point of stagnation for the investigator often forces them to reinterpret and validate all the evidence, while ruling out any implausible instances. After this state of confusion and reevaluation, a break in the case offers enough of a reprieve for the investigation to deviate from the path of circumlocution. Personally, the most profound component that peaks my interest in an investigative novel is the internal strife within the protagonist that incites further confusion and conflicting ideas. The significance of any imperfections within the lead character is that the