I chose to read the book “The Associate” by Phillip Margolin because it has a modern day theme of David v. Goliath. I enjoyed the schemes and twists in the book. I would highly recommend that others read it as well. Daniel Ames, a naive attorney, was the main character in this thriller. He was born into poverty and lived on the streets by the age of fifteen; however, he was able put himself through college and become an associate with the Reed, Briggs firm in Portland, Oregon. He was a hard-worker and earned more money than he ever imagined possible. Daniel firm was representing Geller Pharmaceuticals, a company being blamed for birth defects in children whose mothers took a drug called Insufort. Aaron Flynn, a charming civil litigator, sues Geller Pharmaceuticals, who is Reed, Briggs biggest client -- for manufacturing the drug that he alleges causes the birth defects. Daniel is certain the claim is worthless until a memo written by a Geller scientist, Dr. Sergey Kaidanov is found detailing the shocking results of a study that incriminates the company. Daniel troubles started when he was accused of omitting the memo during discovery. He was fired. …show more content…
Daniel was blamed for the murder and arrested. After he was bailed out of jail, Daniel had to prove his innocence in the murder and find out if Geller was really to blame for the birth defects. Immediately Daniel becomes the target of a sadistic killer who obviously do not want the truth revealed. Amanda Jaffe, his lawyer, pushes to clear his name and save his reputation. While Kate Ross, his former firm's investigator helped him uncover the mystery and discovers connections to a ten year old kidnap and murder in
Both Alex and Clinton struggle with problems of their family and others. Alex feels as if he is treated different when hes is, but thats not what he wants everyone to treat him as,by his family, Jennifer, and other people. Clinton is treated as an outcast, his friends don’t want to hang out with him no more and his little sister treats him as a monster. He begins to realized what he ha...
Leon F. Litwack is the author of Trouble in Mind. Litwack is an American historian and professor of history at the University of California at Berkeley. He was born in 1929 in Santa Barbara, California. In 1951, Litwack received is Bachelor Degree and then continued to further his education. In 1958, he received his Ph. D. from the University of California at Berkeley. Samuel Eliot Morison and Henry Steele Commager wrote the book that sparked Litwack's curiosity in history. The book was The Growth of the American Republic. Litwack was in the eleventh grade when he first discovered his interest in history. In 1964, Litwack began teaching at the University of California, where he taught an excess of 30,000 students. Litwack has written other books besides Trouble in Mind. One of the books he wrote was Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery in 1979. In 1980, Litwack was the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for history of this book and in 1981 he was the winner of the National Book Award. He also wrote North of Slavery: The Negro in the Free State, 1790-1860, Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America, and The Harvard Guide to African-American History. Litwack has also won many including, the Francis Parkman Prize, the American Book Award, and he was elected to the presidency of the Organization of American Historians. In addition to this, Litwack has been an outstanding teacher and received two notable teaching awards. Litwack's first teaching position was at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, where he taught from 1958 to 1964. He also taught at the University of South Carolina, Louisiana State University, and the University of Mississippi. As one can see, not only has Litwack been an exceptionally outstanding author, he has also been a very popular and influential teacher.
“The Alliance” by Gerald N. Lund is about a man named Eric who vows to take down The Alliance, also known as the AFC, The Alliance of Four Cities, after him and the rest of his village get kidnapped with implants included. He wants to take it down because of a cruel man named Major Denison. The citizens of the four cities have a microchip implanted into the base of their skulls. This chip prevents them from being angry, feeling prejudice, or committing crimes. This implant makes the AFC a brainwashed and mind controlled society under the Major’s rule.
...r as if they were in the courtroom of a murder trial. In some ways, the use of advanced diction could cause problems for the reader to comprehend it, however the author has worked in small descriptions of what some of the more advanced judiciary terms are. Finally, the author uses a very advanced characterization of virtually all the characters mentioned within the story, from the mature and well-respected Theodore Boone to the every-so opinionated office secretary Elsa. Without a doubt, Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer entices the reader into the mystery that is will Mr. Duffy be proved innocent or guilty? John Grisham does a great job into hooking the reader into wanting more of this eye-opening crime and drama novel.
Eden Robinson’s short story “Terminal Avenue” presents readers with the dystopian near-future of Canada where Indigenous people are subjugated and placed under heavy surveillance. The story’s narrator, Wil, is a young Aboriginal man who struggles with his own inner-turmoil after the suicide of his father and his brother’s subsequent decision to join the ranks of the Peace Officers responsible for “adjusting” the First Nations people. Though “Terminal Avenue” takes place in Vancouver there are clear parallels drawn between the Peace Officers of Robinson’s imagination and the Canadian military sent to enforce the peace during the stand-off at Oka, Quebec in 1990. In writing “Terminal Avenue” Robinson addresses the armed conflict and proposes
Daniel Crawford attends a college prep summer school, which just so happens to had used to be an insane asylum. With the help of his new friends, Abby and Jordan, Dan discovers the abandoned asylum in the schools’ basement. The find horrible pictures of former patients and how terribly they were treated. Dan receives many disturbing and freaky notes and discovers that he has the same name as the insane former warden of the asylum. Dan does more research on the asylum and discovers an old patient nicknamed “The Sculptor”, who was a serial killer known for “sculpting” or posing his victims as if they were
Each character has a distinct personality, but understanding them, the reader develops an opinion as to if said character is capable of committing the crime. Both women put up a strong and somewhat cold front, however, they are easily swayed by their emotions and haunting past. "It was no good trying not to think of Hugo. He was close to her. She had to think of him - to remember…"(Christie 79) Vera Claythorne constantly thought about her initial crime, her guilt built up so much that her mental state deteriorated. This factor makes it difficult to perceive Claythorne as the mastermind; although she 's a very smart woman, her inability to think straight and shake off the guilt from her former felony, makes her an unlikely suspect for murder of the nine before her. Mary Debenham reflects that emotional instability as well, however, she is capable of
... find his mother. Although Rufus is well taken care of, he consistently is accused of robbery; however, the Sheppard gives him an alibi for each crime. At the end, after consecutive accusations and the personal realization that he is “evil” and will go to Hell, Rufus is arrested with no firm alibi provided from the Sheppard. When he returns home, the Sheppard discovers that his son has committed suicide in order to become closer to his mother, the absent, yet involved parent within Norton’s life.
The character this film is primarily centered around is Will Hunting. Will lives in a tattered house in a bad neighborhood in the city of Boston. He grew up in foster care where he sustained continual physical abuse as a child. Will has a few close friends he is always with but never opens up about anything below surface level. Will is incredibly gifted with intelligence however he works as a custodian at the highly prestigious school, MIT. Professor Lambeau teaches advanced mathematics at MIT and is the one who discovers Will’s incredible talent for solving advanced mathematical theory. Professor Lambeau has high hopes for Will and pushes him into getting jobs with prestigious employers so that his gift is not wasted working as a custodian. Chuckie Sullivan is one of the closest of Will’s friends. They’ve known each other for years and Chuckie drives Will to work every day. Chuckie cares for Will and realizes the gift that he has and tries to convince Will he should be doing something of greater importance with his life. Skylar is a college stu...
“Without Conscience" by Robert D. Hare is one aimed towards making the general public aware of the many psychopaths that inhabit the world we live in. Throughout the book Hare exposes the reader to a number of short stories; all with an emphasis on a characteristic of psychopaths. Hare makes the claim that close monitoring of psychopathy are vital if we ever hope to gain a hold over Psychopathy- A disorder that affects not only the individual but also society itself. He also indicates one of the reasons for this book is order to correctly treat these individuals we have to be able to correctly identify who meets the criteria. His ultimate goal with the text is to alleviate some of the confusion in the increase in criminal activity by determining how my of this is a result of Psychopathy.
The film chronicles the histories of three fathers, and manages to relates and link their events and situations. First is Mitchell Stephens and his relationship with his drug-addict daughter. Second is Sam, and the secret affair he is having with his young daughter Nicole. He is somewhat of a narcissistic character because of his preoccupation with himself and pleasing himself, and his lack of empathy throughout the film for the others in the town. Third is Billy, who loves his two children so much that he follows behind the school bus every day waving at them. Billy is also having an affair with a married woman who owns the town’s only motel. On the exterior the town is an average place with good people just living their lives. But, beneath all the small town simplicity is a web of lies and secrets, some which must be dealt with in the face of this tragedy.
Could you ever imagine a murder happen in your school, well in Big Little Lies that is what happened. Celeste, Jane and Madeline are three of the moms that are close friends. Jane has a son named Ziggy who is accused of bulling another kid at school. Celeste is in an abusive marriage and has to decide to stay with him or leave and take her twin boys with her. Madeline has a daughter named Abigail and she recently went to live with her dad, who has not been there for most of her life. In this paper I will be predicting on what happens, and questioning why something happened and evaluating.
An Eye for an Eye was written by Stephen Nathanson. Mr. Nathanson, like many, is against the death penalty. Mr. Nathanson believes that the death penalty sends the wrong messages. He says that by enforcing the death penalty we “reinforce the conviction that only defensive violence is justifiable.” He also states that we must, “express our respect for the dignity of all human beings, even those guilty of murder.”
According to C. Wright Mills’ “The Promise”, he feels that an individual’s life and how they act is based on the society and what is happening around them at that time. Mills states in his essay that the sociological imagination helps us understand each individual’s background, lifestyles, and habits and/or traditions. It also allows us to understand the influence society may have on a person and how “historical” events led to it. Based on what he wrote, to understand this “imagination” we must be able to connect a person’s public or personal issues with the events happening within society during that time. According to this a person may act differently depending on their religious beliefs, whether or not they live within the city or the suburbs, etc. For example Mills argues that if a person’s “values” are not threatened then they would be in a state of “well-being” but, if their values were threatened then they would go into some sort of “crisis”. If Mills means “values” as in a person’s “standards of behavior” then this is happening today in our society with the LGBT equal rights movement. Many people feel that being homosexual is not a “standard behavior” and that it is perhaps a sickness. They feel that men should be with women therefor many have gone into a “crisis” and have begun belittling the gay community or bullying them due to the fact that they feel that this is not how an individual should be. Another example is homelessness; a person can be homeless due to a fire destroying their home, being kicked out, being unable to care for themselves due to being mentally ill, developing a heavy drug habit and losing their home due to trying to support the habit, or perhaps some sort of depression. Looking at it without un...
The movie starts with Michael, a police informant, caught in a trap made by a killer the movie’s killer Jigsaw. A video tells him that a helmet full of spikes has been locked around his neck and will close on his head unless he finds the key in time. Michael realizes that the key to the trap is behind his right eye. He finds a scalpel close by, but is too scared to cut his eye out. The timer then runs out, and the trap slams shut and kills Michael. The next scene takes place with the movie’s main character, Detective Eric Matthews arguing with his son Daniel. Matthews is called to a scene of a crime made by Jigsaw. Matthews then notices that a lock on a trap device around the victim's neck has a Wilson Steel logo, which then makes him gather a SWAT team to go to the company's abandoned factory. The factory turns out to be Jigsaw's layer. In the layer, a group T.V monitors show several people trapped in a mysterious house, with Daniel being one of those people. A timer is also there, with two hours left. Jigsaw tells detective Mathews that he will see his son in a "safe, secure state" if he can sit in the room and have a conversation with him long enough. In the house, the people who were kidnapped are trying to figure out how they got there. One person is passed out on the floor and later turns out to be Amanda Young, a character from the first Saw film who escaped a jigsaw trap once before. There are six people in addition to Daniel and Amanda, and none of them knows who the others are. Amanda finds a cassette player and a note falls to the floor. She plays the cassette and they all learn that the door to the house will open in three ho...