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Leopold And Loeb Acts Of Violence
1,229 wordsSocial reaction to school massacres and inexplicable acts of violence among the teenage population in the late twentieth century flooded television news programs and media broadcasting almost on a monthly basis. Many Americans questioned why such seemingly healthy and established children would want to harm themselves and others around them. Several psychological and moral issues arise from this question. Despite legal efforts to differentiate between adult and adolescent crimes, many argue that...
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Leopold And Loeb Sentenced To Death
1,210 words... any plea could not be used. Darrow needed to prove that Leopold and Loeb were mentally impaired at the time of murder and indeed unaware of their actions throughout the scheme of events. Darrow had to convince the judge that Leopold and Loeb committed the murder because of their mental conditions and immaturity. Never before had evidence of a defendants mental condition been offered to lessen a sentence. Such evidence had heretofore been used exclusively to show that a defendant was insane, ...
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William Jennings Bryan Man Has Evolved
1,759 wordsThe Scopes Monkey Trial is considered to be one of the biggest trials in the history of the United States. The trial took place in the 1920 s, in a small town of Tennessee called Dayton. The trial was of a twenty four year old science teacher and a football coach named John T. Scopes. He was accused of opposing the Butler Act, which forbade the teaching of evolution in public schools and universities (Encarta). The trial was famous worldwide as it divided the United States in the opinion of Darw...
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Scopes Monkey Trial Of 1925
1,977 wordsThe 1920 s has been characterized by a period of new thinking and a dispute between traditional beliefs and modernization (Bosnia). The era became known as a time of contradiction in peoples thoughts and ideas. After World War 1, fundamentalism soared in popularity, particularly in the South and Midwest. Fundamentalists believed in a literal interpretation of the Bible, and saw the Darwin theory of evolution as a threat to Christianity (The Scope Monkey Trial-July 10, 1925). So opposed to evolut...
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000 Years Ago Theory Of Evolution
1,288 wordsCreationism is the theory that man, the earth, and the rest of the universe was originally created rather than randomly exploding from nothingness into chance existence. We reside on the surface of a small superbly crafted, autonomous self regulating space vehicle. Together with survival, conquest and death we bear witness to beauty, fragrances, love and music. Think about this. Mathematics, philosophy, springtime, depravity, farming, courtship, quasars, and bubble gum; all came from nothingness...
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Grand Jury Supreme Court
1,232 wordsEncouraged by George Rappelyea, (a mining engineer who managed six local coal and iron mines owned by the Cumberland Coal Company), a group of leading citizens in the small town of Dayton - the 'drug store conspirators' - decided to accept the ACLU's offer, in the hope that the publicity surrounding the trial would help to reverse the town's declining fortunes. On May 4 th the group recruited John Scopes, football coach and occasional stand-in teacher at Rhea County High School as the subject fo...
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The Scopes Trial Case For Teaching Part 2
1,585 words... religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. This trial cultivated more journalistic excitement than a civil celebration or riot. An author observed, The press has made this story. Its spotlight has been turned upon Dayton [Tennessee] as if by a common agreement among all editors everywhere that it was naturally the thing to...
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Theory Of Evolution Fear Of Communism
762 wordsThe 1920 s were times of cultural revolution. The times were changing in many different ways. Whenever the times change, there is a clash between the " old" and the " new" generations. The 1920 s were no exception. In Dayton, Tennessee, 1925, a high school biology teacher was arrested. He was arrested because he taught the theory of evolution. The teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of having violated the Butler Act. This was a Tennessee law that forbade the teaching of the ...
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Edgar Lee Masters William Jennings Bryan
2,090 wordsEdgar Lee Masters Edgar Lee Masters was an American poet, known principally for his poems about life in the Midwest. It has been 49 years since he has died and today he is virtually forgotten. His book of poems entitled Spoon River Anthology may spark a small amount of recognition. This book is a work of free verse poems about the secret lives of the inhabitants of Spoon River, a small Midwest town based on Lewistown and Petersburg, Illinois. This book remains a landmark in the literature world ...
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W W Norton W Norton And Company
2,124 wordsWhat Urban Legends Urban Legends What is an Urban Legend? They are usually stories that have a wide audience, have circulated spontaneously, and have been told in several different forms. Many have chosen to believe these stories despite the lack of actual evidence to substantiate the story (Urban). What makes an Urban Legend is how it is told. This depends on whether the story is being told in first, second, or third person. Most of the time the real event happened to someone entirely unknown t...
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Inherit The Wind Teaching Evolution
383 wordsInherit the wind is a story about the Tennessee law that states that a teacher is not allowed to teach students about the evolution of man or in other words religion. The following will discuss the differences between the book version and inherit the wind movie version. There are many differences between the book version and the movie version of inherit the wind for example in the movie inherit the wind the actual names of either the participants or places it portrays are fictional sure the name...
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Civil Liberties Union American Civil Liberties
601 wordsIn March 1925, Tennessee passed a law that made teaching evolution a crime. The state legislature passed the law forbidding public schools to teach the theory taught by Darwin, that humans evolved from lower forms of life through evolution, rather than from a single omnipotent creator as suggested in the biblical book of Genesis. The American Civil Liberties Union was outraged this restriction and promised to defend any teacher who challenged the new law. John T. Scopes a football coach and subs...
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Leopold And Loeb Life In Prison
2,474 wordsSocial reaction to school massacres and inexplicable acts of violence among the teenage population in the late twentieth century flooded television news programs and media broadcasting almost on a monthly basis. Many Americans questioned why such seemingly healthy and established children would want to harm themselves and others around them. Several psychological and moral issues arise from this question. Despite legal efforts to differentiate between adult and adolescent crimes, many argue that...
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