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    dramatic human experiences in his play 12 Angry Men. He has achieved this through the slow rise in tension in the setting. The playwright has also showed drama, though the characters themselves with how he has created the characters to be arranged on a scale between justice and personal wants. This positioning puts the jurors against each other combined with the humid jury room created language that became more coarse until it reached a climax. 12 Angry Men reflects real life on a stage with the

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    Twelve Angry Men is a movie that was made in 1957. The movie is a classic showing how one person can change the minds of an entire crowd. In this group of a dozen jurors you have very different personalities and also you have some men that want to be leaders and some that do not. Also the movie demonstrates that actions and behaviors of the twelve jurors. This is an example of small group communications. The juror that was the Architect in the suit was probably the strongest leader in the

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    Analyzing 12 Angry Men Introduction A young man’s life hangs in the balance, and his fate lies in the hands of twelve jurors. Tasked with the decision of whether or not the boy is guilty of killing his father, somehow, these twelve strangers must come together, communicate effectively, build a team, and reach a verdict. This paper will give a synopsis of the communication barriers involved between the members and how they were able to develop as a team and overcome them. How They Overcame Communication

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    12 Angry Men and Dead Poets Society Deconstruction In the movies 12 Angry Men and Dead Poets Society, there were many leadership traits that became evident as each movie progressed. . Both movies provide similar, yet different, examples of contingency, transformational, and authentic leadership; as well as Aristotle’s Rhetoric related to persuasion. As a leader you will need to know what kind of leadership trait to employ when dealing with a diverse group of people because if you cannot, you will

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    prevalent such an issue is in the society. In the case of this paper, I wish to use the story of 12 angry men, Good Country People and The Shooting an Elephant. In these three short stories, various themes that are common come up. These themes include the theme of death, theme of identity and the subject of love. Theme of death To begin with, the subject of death occurs regularly. In the case of the 12 angry men, the issue of death comes out in the whole story where the eighteen-year-old kid is to

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    excerpt from “12 Angry Men”. They both express in these passages that democracy can be unfair, very inefficient at times and also inequality. Yet, both authors don’t see eye to eye, for the things they want equality for. While Holbrook shows more feelings about equality of resources in her poem, Rose talks about equality in terms of judgement and accusations toward the accused defendant. This makes their perspectives similar yet different in some ways. In the excerpt from “12 Angry Men”, Reginald Rose

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    While watching the movie, 12 Angry Men, I saw many of the different things we have been discussing in class. The jurors all took different roles throughout the movie. These different roles contributed to the communication the group had, the stages of development, and how they came up with a consensus. The first juror was the foreman. He was the task leader of the group, taking initiative to sit the people down, numbering them, and telling the jurors when they could go on breaks. This juror goes

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    In the filmed “12 Angry Men” all the jurors had to make a decision on whether or not the young boy will be guilty or not guilty. In the textbook Group Dynamics by Donelson R. Forsyth, chapter 11 is about decision making. The author states that “a functional theory of group decision making suggest that groups engage in a sequence of activities and operations as they move from uncertainty to decisional conviction and that each step in the series serves some purpose (p.359).” The jurors all went around

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    A story will lower a prospect’s resistance, make complicated things easier to understand, and perk up their emotions. Juror 11: • a foreign-born watchmaker focuses the jury on the beauty and responsibility of the American judicial process Juror 12: • often strays off course with advertising stories and slogans Analogies/Metaphors: When you can relate your scenario to something that the prospect already accepts as true. Juror 8: • presents a knife identical to the murder weapon--a weapon

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    The classic 1957 movie 12 Angry Men delves in to a panel of twelve jurors who are deciding the life or death fate of an eighteen year old italian boy accused of stabbing his father to death. The twelve men selected as jurors are a diverse group, each coming to the table with their own socioeconomic backgrounds, personal experiences, prejudice’s, and all of this plays a role in the jurors attitudes and/or misconceptions of the accused young man. How each of the jurors, all but Juror Eight played by

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