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“The Women” is a comedy—drama film that is about a wealthy woman who is unaware of the affair that her husband is having with a shop-girl. The film revolves around several other dramas of women, highlighting the background of 1930s Hollywood films as represented by the images of women. Historically, the film was produced during…

The book Just Mercy, written by a lawyer named Bryan Stevenson, is a story about how Stevenson’s clients, who are on death row, are wrongly convicted of their crimes. Stevenson studied at Harvard and worked for a non-profit agency that provided lawyers to death row inmates for free. He then later developed his own non-profit…

Bryan Stevenson, lawyer and writer of the book Just Mercy, states “Many judges, prosecutors, and defense lawyers do a poor job of recognizing the special needs of the mentally disabled, which leads to wrongful convictions, lengthier prison terms, and high rates of recidivism,” (Stevenson 189). Throughout “Just Mercy” the reader is provided with an insight…

Summary of Book Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson is a compelling story expressing the injustice of legal practices predominantly in southern states. Throughout the novel Stevenson exposes his audience to a handful of death row cases he worked on first hand. One of the most controversial cases Stevenson worked on was that of Walter McMillian,…

Mothers often expect daughters to be the best, despite if the mother themselves made many mistakes when growing up. In Joy Luck Club written by Amy Tan both the beauties and atrocities of mother-daughter relationships are displayed. This story is about revelations daughters have when uncovering their mothers past. Realizing the experiences of the mothers…

Film Critique For this film critique, I watched the movie Dead Poet’s Society starring Robin Williams. I felt this film greatly reflected the topics that we have covered in class this semester. This movie is all about motivating your students, and when the time comes, using your own advice to motivate yourself during certain situations….

In the opening to Walden, Thoreau states his intention to “live deliberately… [to] see if I could not learn what [life] had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived” (Thoreau 376). A key point of life is to live to the fullest, but that can be hard…

“Each one of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done,” Bryan Stevenson claims in his book Just Mercy. He makes this claim while talking about the prisoners who are on death row or spending life in prison for committing one bad crime. This quote holds true as Stevenson works with many people…

The book I’m reading is called The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan. The genre of this book is fiction. The setting throughout this book is Chinese Culture. The place of the story is in the main character’s family home (June). The time of the story is in both the past and present, the past…

In today’s justice system their a difficult decision. One of the most controversial topic being whether to try juveniles as an adult or not. I recently read a book called Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson. Bryan was a young attorney when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, which is a practice that is dedicated to…