Police procedural

Taking is by means which the federal or state governments can enforce eminent domain or condemnation of your land or your land rights through just compensation, and fair market value, for public purposes. Meaning, that the government can physically acquire said property for public use or purpose and regulate the use or the manner in which the property is currently controlled. In the below case, Kelo v. City of New London, the term public use is loosely related to public purpose, as the focus was

In Richard Wright's Black Boy, there are a lot of memories explained considering the novel is an autobiography. According to psychological studies, memories are close to never accurate. Therefore, Wright's descriptions of some of his traumas could not possibly valid. Although Richard Wright wrote Black Boy as an autobiography, he made the book fictitious when expressing his memories. The first example is on the first page when Wright talks about the time he set his grandmother's house on fire at

Do you clearly remember something from your childhood but, your parents claim that it never happened? Well, if you answered yes, it’s actually more common than you might be thinking. About 50% of the United States population have claimed that they remember a memory that never actually happened, which can also be perceived as false memory. (HealthDay News, 2016). According to Time magazine, a false memory is when you have an apparent recollection of an event that actually never occurred. It might

On March 1, 2005, I went to the 3rd District Matheson Court House in the down town area and sat in on a few small claims court cases. I wanted to do this because I had never been to an actual court proceeding and I have been interested in seeing one live instead of on television. I am going to write about the three different cases that I sat in on, what the conflict was, what the outcome was and what I learned from each one. CASE #1      The Plaintiff’s name in this first

The article, Creating False memories, by Elizabeth Loftus is a well written piece that basically explores how false memories are created, instilled in human brains, and how they inflate imaginations of those humans to actually think they experienced them. It introduces the reader to various scenarios whereby four women were talked into developing memories of childhood abuse; and after they all denied the authenticity of the memories they sued the psychiatrists and were compensated handsomely. These

False memory refers to cases in which people remember events differently from the way they happened or, in the most dramatic case, remember events that never happened at all. False memories can be very vivid and held with high confidence, and it can be difficult to convince someone that the memory in question is wrong. From my point of view, one of the lessons that I have learnt from the various examples of false memory cases is that implanting false memories may lead to a tragic legacy that such

Critique against Unger’s Argument for Skepticism Do you ever wonder if you know anything? In his argument for skepticism, Peter Unger, states that “nobody ever knows anything to be so” (Unger, Pg. 42). If this were to be true, can one be certain that one knows things about oneself, the world one lives in, and about others? In fact, through the use of different methods, one can indeed know things about oneself, the world one lives in, and about others, which is why Peter Unger’s argument for skepticism

Memories are a difficult thing to explain of why and how they happen. The human brain is a very intricate organ that plays the biggest role in an everyday life. As studies have been done they have collected information of three main stages of human memory and one very significant stage that starts it all off lasting less than a second. Including the different types that are a key role in each stage. The process of memory starts of with sensory memory which only takes a blink of an eye. Then it goes

WestWorld’s portrayal of artificial intelligence draws both similarities and differences to true human cognition. Within the world of the show, Hosts are controlled via a tablet and are programed to attend to Newcomer’s fantasies. While the Newcomers can do whatever they like to the Host, the Hosts literally cannot hurt the Newcomers. The Hosts operate without knowledge of what they are, aka not human. However, in many aspects they function similarly to human cognition. The components of cognition

These findings were replicated in an extension of the complementary learning systems framework, which simulated how separate portions of the MTL (additionally characterized by connections to separate cortical regions) may support both episodic memory processes (explicit) and rapid extraction of statistical regularities (in contrast to the slow process of learning distributional information in the neocortex as instantiated by previous models (Schapiro et al, in press). Several theoretical frameworks