Jury
Essays

Because written literature is capable of being transmitted from the person who wrote it across generations, it acquires the status of communal wisdom simply by being recorded. Yet there are limitations to the…

Women during the time of Alexandra Bergsen, who was a character in Willa Cather's novel O Pioneer!, enjoyed different roles than they would have had outside of the western context. They could still not vote, and did not…

Police abuse remains one of the most serious and divisive human rights violations in the United States. The excessive use of force by police officers, including unjustified shootings, severe beatings, fatal chokings,…

The "dissoi logoi" fragment attributed to Protagoras is used to explain the form and function of Gorgias' "Encomium of Helen". Gorgias' work is contextualized within the rhetorical world of 5th century BCE Athenian legal practice--his defense of Helen of Troy is described in terms of a modern Christian offering a "devil's advocate" defense of the actions of Eve, or the snake, in the Book of Genesis. Gorgias' role within the practice of the Sophists in classical Athens is explored, and the ramifications of offering a praise and defense of Helen is shown to be an illustration of Sophistic practice by insisting that there are "dissoi logoi" or two sides to every story.

This paper consists of a series of separate essays. The first essay is a short discussion of the definition of what constitutes a hate crime and how hate crimes are legally distinct from other crimes in the U.S. The second essay discusses general challenges presented when measuring crime. The final article is a review of a peer-reviewed journal article on the subject of measuring severity of crimes perpetrated by juveniles.

THE DEATH PENALTY AND JUVENILES WITH MENTAL ILLNESS:

While compromise over the system of slavery was possible in 1850 it was not effective in 1860's." The paper is an analysis of the compromise of 1850, which was the continuation of the system of slavery, and the…

This article in The Baltimore Sun serves as an outlet for many of the jurors involved in the "State vs. Stennett" case to speak out regarding what they feel are inaccurate accusations regarding their acquittal of…

Adopted in 1868 to the U.S. Constitution during the Reconstruction era the Fourteenth amendment is known as one of the three Reconstruction Amendments. Of these three, the Fourteenth is the most complex and resulted in…

Patrick Henry the Man Who Started the American Revolution