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    In the 12 angry men I recognized several different social- psychological principles. This movie is filled with different concepts, views, and ways of thinking. Each principle has some way of fitting into the movie. I have watched this movie before this assignment but watching it for the assignment made me look at the different principles involved. There are numerous different concepts that could be used however, I just chose a few. I am going to list some that I noticed while watching the film.

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    JIMMY'S PERSONALITY The novel Look Back in Anger was written by John Osborne, who was one of the playwrights in the Angry Young Men movement. John Osborne, born in 1929 in a middle class family, lived in a place he dubbed “a cultural wasteland”, had an execrable relationship with women and was one of those “scholarship boys” in “white-tile” universities. The Angry Young Men was a literary movement of the 1950’s whose fundamental purpose was to express their emotions –mainly anger- and protest against

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    It was in the middle of the 1950s when John Osborne brought the movement of the called Angry Young Men to the stage personified by Jimmy Porter, the main character of Look Back in Anger. This Kitchen Sink Drama shows a picture of working people’s life as well as the provocative, rebellious, dissatisfied and angry attitude of the main character. Osborne portraits Jimmy as a working class young man full of anger and human emotion who bears neither slothfulness nor social inequality. Anger is the dominant

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    Compelling anger between 12 men is heard through the familiar poems “Oppression” by Jimmy Santiago Baca and “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost. Equal endings to “12 Angry Men” by Reginald Rose, the stories have connections to anger, freedom, equality, and depression and all have similar connections in the way they were written. In the story's beginning, 12 angry men resemble the feeling of “oppression” being in the jury room fighting and arguing about who's wrong and right. That can take a toll

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    Freakonomics is to analyze data and statistics and relate it to what is occurring in the United States as well as the rest of the world. The fictional movie 12 Angry Men follows 12 men as the decide whether or not there is enough evidence to sentence an 18 year old boy to death for allegedly killing his father. It shows the struggles of the 12 men as they try to reach a verdict on the case. This movie was released in 1957. Freakonomics has five main ideas that are explored over the course of 6 main

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    Anger is portrayed in "12 Angry Men" and "A Poison Tree" in many ways, like how the jury is so quick to decide on the man's death just so they can be done, and how when he held his anger in his wrath grew, but how is the anger similar? In the story "12 Angry Men" the jury has to vote on whether a man is guilty or not. They decide if they want to “discuss first and then vote” or “can vote right now to see how we stand.” They decide to vote right away to see if they can all go home. Once they vote

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    Both Reginal Rose and Larry Watson shows the importance of achieving justice in their stories. However, what they achieved is different; justice was attained in 12 angry men, while it doesn't in Montana 1948. The prohibiting factors that makes the justice harder to achieved are the prejudice, bias and misuse of power. They also shows the relationship between power and justice, just in contrasting way. In Montana 1948, it's obvious that Hayden Family are the most powerful in their area; "They couldn't

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    Through Twelve Angry Men Flim, the author, Reginald Rose, paints a picture of a small portion of American society in the mid-1950s. At this time, the United States was envolving into an internal struggle, the Civil Rights Movement, which was concerned with ending racism discrimination and promoting freedom, respect and equality. Rose’s movie presents domestic conflicts which exist in a stereotypical American society and politic in 1950s in America. 12 Angry Men is the story of 12 jurors who must

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    Time to Kill

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    Writing Report Similarity one 12 Angry Men and a Time to Kill     The play, 12 Angry Men, and the film, A Time to Kill, have a similar theme. In 12 Angry Men, a Latino is accused of stabbing his father to death, where a guilty verdict would mean a death sentence. In A Time to Kill, a black man took the law into his own hands, killing two alleged rapists and the sentence for this man, if found guilty meant death in a gas chamber. The play and film both involve prejudice against two commonly

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    the plays. When comparing Juror #3 from 12 Angry Men by Reginald Rose and Creon from Antigone by Sophocles, it becomes evident that these characters share similarities and differences in character traits, arguments, and fates. While both characters exhibit solid convictions and unwavering beliefs, their fates diverge, reflecting the different outcomes and themes of the plays. Both of these characters are incredibly stubborn and authoritative. In 12 Angry Men, Juror #3's refusal to consider reasonable

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