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    The Law And Law Code

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    I know that people deserve the right to defend themselves in court, however a person cannot adequately defend themselves unless they are very familiar with the law. This is precisely the reason why lawyers exist. The law is very complex, so rather than forcing someone to go to law school for ten years, we have them hire lawyers to help them with the law. Basically, the average person does not know law enough to successfully defend himself or herself in court. I know that the law code is extensive

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    Interview: For the interview portion of the career paper, I contacted three different attorneys that I know. As I am not quite familiar with any of the three, I sent them formal email requests to interview over the phone or by email. The first of my three prospective interviewees is Garret Murai, the husband of my Girl Scout Troop leader and an experienced construction attorney at Wendel Rosen Black & Dean LLP. The second attorney I chose to contact was my friend’s older sister, Hannah Yang, an

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    let to his death. This shows the lawyer was caring, sympathetic, regretful, and devastated at the death of Bartleby. First, the caring personality of the lawyer is portrayed when Bartleby did not accept the help that he was offered by the lawyer . Bartleby when he tried to make Bartleby open up and tell him his problems. In the phrase “Ah Bartleby! Ah Humanity!” the narrator uses Bartleby to present humanity. The phrase is a soliloquy from the narrator enquiring why Bartleby refused help. Bartleby

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    story takes place at a law office on Wall Street in New York. The law office is ran by the lawyer, who is an elderly man. The workers there are known as scriveners, but he is bypassing them to tell the story about Bartleby. I am writing this essay because I think it is important that everyone knows what ambiguous means and how you can get ambiguous themes out of the story. There are three more scriveners that I will later explain, but as you will learn in the story, Bartleby is a different kind of scrivener

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    When I was sixteen and again at seventeen, I received two traffic tickets. Since I was under eighteen, I had to go to the Mercer County Court House for both of them. Being in that building felt right to me. I wanted to work there. Even though I was there under unfavorable circumstances, I couldn’t wait to come back to the courthouse. Also, when I went in to see the judge for my traffic offenses, she did not scold me or yell at me. She talked to me. The judge did not go into a lengthy discussion on

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    The Year Of High School

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    In the previous paper that I handed in I stated that children have the biggest aspirations because they want to become fashion designers, pop stars, and astronauts. I was one of those children, always changing my future profession to the next big thing. I wanted to be a fashion designer, a chef, a doctor, a teacher, an artist, etc. Then for a while I decided I 'd be some world renowned author. I was determined and persistent and I wouldn’t let anyone tell me otherwise. I wrote and rewrote stories

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    Final copy I thought that all lawyers do is carry a briefcase and simply go to court argue and yell and not do anything worth meaning or merit that all they did was go into court and simply argue yell and do a bunch of nothing. Then you watch movies and the way they portray the lawyers is there sleazy and sly and people that you really don’t want to trust which doing a lot of the research I have lawyers are more like advisors that believe that everyone has the right to have they lawful due process

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    The lawyer that I would want to be is a Defendant Lawyer. The reason why is because I do think that the young boy is not guilty. The reason why I think that the young boy is not guilty is because somebody else could have done what ya´ll are thinking what the young boy. And who ever thinks that he is guilty is crazy. And they will need a lot of help if they think that this young boy is very guilty. And you prosecution lawyers don´t need to think that this young boy is guilty. And now if you think

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    When I graduate from High school, I want to become a lawyer. I want to become a lawyer because I want to give justice to those who have been wronged. As a child, my dad has always talked about doing the right thing and punishing those who have done wrong. This is the reason my dad decided to become a Corrections Officer and work at Erie County Prison. Since my dad always taught me about doing the righteous thing, I have always valued doing right by everyone I meet. However, I also know people

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    the biggest pet peeves that I have at the moment is a liar. What is a liar? A liar, to me, is disloyal, dishonest, untrustworthy, and conniving. When I think about a liar certain types of people come to mind. These type of people include criminals, lawyers, and cheaters. A good percentage of criminals are known for lying when they get caught for their crimes. An example, of a scenario that I think of is when wrongdoers lie to the police about their true intentions on why they may have committed a crime

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