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    interrogation with a false confession comes from the documentary titled Murder on a Sunday Morning. Alongside, the analysis of the confession given in this documentary will be the critical analysis of three separate academic articles with findings that could have better served the defendant of this case. Murder on a Sunday Morning is a documentary done on the murder of Mary Ann Stephens and the wrongful convictions of Brenton

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    False confessions are a major problem in the Criminal Justice system, since 1989, a total of two thousand people have been convicted for serious crimes that they did not commit. There are many causes of false confessions, some including a low IQ and mental illness. Today, people are often targeted by detectives when being interrogated for committing a crime. As the causes of false confessions include mental illness and low intelligence quote, therefore leading to false convictions, there has to be

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    An unreliable narrator is like a tour guide without a map- they take you on a journey with good intentions, but they made many mistakes. Basically, what this means is that everyone has flaws; and the rest is dependent on what their intention is. Imperfect characters are routinely used in short stories, mainly because every protagonist and antagonist has an intention of some sort. The flaws often add to their character. If there were no flaws, then several elements of the story would be missing;

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    fabricated and there is no guarantee that a particular memory is correct in spite the person being confident. Such a psychological incident where a person recollects memories that did not occur is called false memory. The topic chosen to illustrate False Memory is ‘CSI (Crime Scene Induction): Creating False Memories of Committing Crime’. The article summarizes that people can be coerced to remember or confess to perpetrating

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    INTRODUCTION: Film scriptwriting, also known as screenwriting, is a unique process or technique of presenting each detail including the visuals of the scenes or any other related elements by compiling them into a written form. To write a particular film script, the scriptwriters have to take account of the elements in screenwriting to produce a good fulfilled script. Even though writing a film script depends on the genre chosen, the elements in it will not change. Each element in the structures plays

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    Turn Sleep Paralysis and False Awakenings into Lucid a Dream Do you get sleep paralysis and false awakenings frequently? If yes then by reading this post you will learn some working methods that can turn both of these troublesome experiences into a lucid dream. Usually, people are afraid of sleep paralysis but for me it is false awakening loop that makes life difficult because I have had them for months and sometimes consistently for more than a week. Sleep paralysis on the other hand is something

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    torture (Bloche 117). After teaching how to resist such tortures for so long, Mitchell studied the opposite and learned how break the resistance of torture. He took an interest in the methods of the Chinese, they believed in the art of extracting false confessions. The Chinese used these methods of ensuing helplessness upon the victim in order to get the results they wanted. What the Chinese did was asserted dominance and made it so the interrogator was their victims only human interaction. Doing

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    almost seemed that as the story went on he didn’t become a better leader, but a worse one. He would always lose his train of thought while speaking to the group, and couldn’t make them feel safe. They were all afraid of the beast. What makes him the hero of the story, is that he never gives up on being rescued. He also doesn’t become a savage like the other children do. His mind is always on the fact that they need to get off the island, even when the others

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    Ryan Ferguson Case

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    did not commit? How could he implicate his friend in this fabricated story? How could another man give false testimony identifying a person he did not see? It sounds incomprehensible but this is not as farfetched as one would think. Logic says that no person would lie unintentionally and fabricate a story that would send them to prison, if it never happened. Many factors play vital roles in false confessions or testimony. Such as, investigator bias, fabrication and suggestions, memory retrieval, personality

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    In the flashback, Walter recalls how Phyllis persuaded him to claim $ 100,000 through false accident claims (Houston, 1941). The cruelty emerges when then Walter decides to shot Phyllis due to the nature of their untrustworthy relation. The film highlights how the two lovers aimed at benefiting from the death of Phyllis husband but murder

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