Norms: · Respect elders (e.g., the laborer is the self-appointed enforcer of good manners) · The jurors had come to value a case based on facts, not prejudice or stereotypes. Those who upheld this value (Juror 8 and the Juror 4) were respected and became leaders that were looked to for guidance. The jurors that maintained arguments based on stereotypes alienated themselves from the others. · The decision has to be unanimous (hung jury was something nobody liked) · No racial prejudices were tolerated (everybody turned their backs to juror 10 when he started saying that “he knew people of these kind very well”) Processes: The group initially started with a process of arriving at a decision by voting and there was a groupthink causing everyone (apart from juror 8) to vote guilty. Then a secret ballot was carried out and it was decided that the jury would debate for at least an hour before deciding on the fate of the boy. The first turning point in the jury's decision-making process occurs when Juror 8 dramatically produces a switchblade exactly like the murder weapon, thus disproving the prosecution's argument that the murder weapon was unique in design, Juror 8 had walked through the defendant's neighborhood earlier that week and had bought the knife from a local pawnshop, even though he knew it was against the law to purchase a switchblade. Juror 8 thus causes a few jurors to question the strength of the prosecution's case; his illegal purchase of the switchblade enables him to break the force of the majority's resistance to his viewpoint. Juror 8 convinces the other jurors, one by one, to analyze the evidence, and their grudging review of the facts slowly convinces them that there is a reasonable doubt as to the defendant's guilt. The jurors never find the truth? the identity of the true murderer is never discovered? but justice occurs within the institution of the court with the jury's verdict of not guilty. This just result is brought about because one juror, motivated by his respect for the law and its processes, is able to defy the peer pressure of the jury room in his quest for the truth. The jurors are transformed by the process of deliberating. Eleven men voted guilty because of their prejudices, fears, laziness and insecurities, but ... ... middle of paper ... ...(Robert Webber) · Juror 7 kept referring to he baseball game and was distracted throughout· Juror 12 kept telling everyone irrelevant stories about his work and had no real inputs for the group Aggressor attacks the group Juror 3 (Lee J. Cobb) Attacked the group towards the end saying that everybody had been conned by juror 8 self- confessor uses the group as a forum for inappropriate talk about self Juror 12 (Robert Webber) help seeker looks for sympathy from others -- victim Clown shows non-involvement in group and engages in distracting communication Juror 7 (Jack Warden) Dominator attempts to manipulate the group and dominate others Juror 3 (Lee J. Cobb)
Juror three is angry, bitter man who has spent his entire life forcing his opinions unto others, and has most likely succeeded in this endeavor. As head of his own company, he isn’t he used to the resistence he is getting from the group. To help his arguments, he uses the phrase “know what I mean” at the end of almost everything he says, putting any juror with an opposing argument in an awkward position. As the play wears on and his reliable witnesses were called into question, and more speculation was put upon the table, he begins to become more forceful in his arguments, raising his voice much more often than usual. He firmly believes in the guilt of the accused, no matter what the other jurors say or do. There are ...
12 Angry Men is about 12 men who are the jury for an 18 year old accused of murder. The judge states in the opening scene that it is a premeditated murder in the 1st degree, if found guilty will automatically receive the death penalty. The 18 year old male is accused of killing his father with a “one of a kind” switch blade, in their home. The prosecutors have several eye witness testimonies, and all of the evidence that they could need to convict the 18 year old male. In the movie it takes place on the hottest day of the year in New York City. There are 12 jurors whom are to decide if the evidence is enough to convict the teen of murder in the first degree. In the first initial vote it is 11-1. The only way that the jurors could turn in their votes was if there was unanimous vote either guilty or not guilty among the 12 jurors. As the movie progressed the jurors ended up changing their minds as new evidence was brought to their attention by simple facts that were overlooked by the police and prosecutors in the initial investigation. Tempers were raised, and words flew, there was prejudice and laziness of a few of the jurors that affected the amount of time it took to go over all of the eye witness testimonies and evidence. The eye witness testimonies ended up being proven wrong and some of the evidence was thrown out because it was put there under false pretense.
...ted by peer pressure. At the end of the play, after all the other jurors joined up with Juror 8, Juror 3 was the only one who still voted ‘guilty’. This time, Juror 3’s perseverance collapsed and he finally voted on ‘not guilty’. Juror 3 is obviously not as brave as Juror 8 as to stand up for his singular thought on the crime. A reason for this might be because he doesn’t have the intelligence to use good arguments to prove his stance.
Juror #3: In many ways, he is the opponent to the basically composed Juror #8. Juror #3 talks about the simplicity of the case and the obvious guilt of the defendant as soon as he enters the jury room. He loses his temper easily and flies off the handle when Juror #8 and other jurors disagree with his opinions. He believes that the defendant is absolutely guilty until the conclusion of the movie. His poor relationship with his own son may have been a factor in his resistance to the reasonable doubt issues that were brought up. During his last outburst of the movie, he throws his notebook on the table and a picture of he and his son falls out. Extremely distressed, he begins to cry and tears the photo to pieces. Only when he comes to terms with this burden can he finally admit to reasonable doubt and vote not guilty.
The movie, 12 Angry Men, is a movie about a twelve-man jury and their way of deciding whether or not a boy who was accused of killing his father was guilty or not guilty. The juror I focused on in the movie was the eighth man on the jury and also was an architect. The architect was the only man to vote “not guilty” on the boy in beginning of the movie.
A 12-man jury leaves the court room, and enters the deliberation room, which is extremely hot and small quarters to determine the young man’s fate. The men, names never given during deliberation, are only referred to by their jury number, actually sit around the table in the order of their number. The jurors immediately take a vote, and eleven vote guilty, while Juror 8 votes not guilty. The other jurors are upset by his actions, they don’t understand how he could think he was not guilty. Juror #8 stands with his convictions, and insist that while the young man is probably guilty, he wants to be sure that they really examine all the evidence to ensure that he is guilty without a reasonably doubt. Juror #8, wanting to discuss the case is similar to McLemore’s “G...
Twelve Angry Men was mainly a movie focused on a twelve-man jury’s discussion in a capital murder case. The case was about an eighteen year old boy who was blamed for murdering his own father. It was a first-degree murder trial, which meant a guilty decision would be an automatic death punishment. Prior to the deposition, the jurors casted votes and because the suspect had a criminal record and many incidental proofs accumulated against him, eleven of the jurors voted “guilty.” Only one person of the twelve-man jury, juror eight who was the protagonist, voted “not guilty.” As the discussion begun, the jurors learned about personalities and background of other participants of the jury. And gently, juror eight directed them toward a conclusion of “Not Guilty” with an exception of juror three, the antagonist, who was the last person to change his decision. In the movie, juror eight and juror three played a big role in informal leadership because they both provided different points of view and helped lead to effective and ethical group decision-making.
In the play, 12 Angry Men, a man’s life is put on the balance of being convicted for the murder of his father. The twelve jurors have heard and seen all the evidence presented to them in court for the past six day. Now, it is up to their decision. Juror eight was the only one out of the other jurors to not immediately conclude that the man is guilty. After a second deliberation between the jurors, excluding Juror eight, one of them joined with Juror eight. The question is who? Who reexamined the information given to him with the rebuttals from Eight. After going through the information given, Juror nine is a candidate for that position, but it is more possible that Juror five had a doubt. Juror five has a similar upbringing to the defendant.
Juror Eight was to first to overlook bias and really look at the entire case with perspective. While all the other jurors voted guilty purely because the boy was raised in a slum and was Puerto Rican, Juror Eight voted not guilty for a chance to discuss the case like a proper jury should. Willing to go against eleven other flustered and aggressive men, Juror Eight was a surprisingly audacious and open-minded man. “It’s not so easy for me to raise my
The Great Barrier Reef is known as one of the Seven Wonders of the World. It is believed to be one of the most incredible places on this earth. This reef is the largest living organism on this planet and the only living thing on earth visible from space (2011). The warm waters of the southwest Pacific Ocean are the perfect environments to create the world's largest system of coral reefs. The Great Barrier Reef is in such pristine condition that it was listed by the World Heritage Trust as a protected site and is therefore, managed by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority to ensure that its beauty is maintained for many travelers and sightseers (Edgar 2010). Due to the complexity of this natural phenomenon, human practices have led to ecological problems for the reef, but preservation efforts can provide future generations the ability to learn from and experience one of the largest oceanic coral ecosystems in the world.
Plot: “Twelve Angry Men” is an interesting and exciting jury-room confrontation in which an "open and shut case" becomes strenuous as twelve strangers scuffle for answers. The trial involves a nineteen-year-old boy, who is suspect of killing his father in a late-night altercation with an extraordinary knife. His fate now lies in the hands of 12 jurors, each with his own determination to solve the case and reveal the truth. As the session takes its course, evidence becomes scrutinised, tempers rise, and the jury room erupts in a shouting brawl because one such juror finds reasonable doubts in the two testimonies that were deemed credible enough to convict. In his fight for an acquittal, the singled out juror found that the testimonial evidence was not only unreliable, but the timely fashion in which both the man and the woman alleged to have seen and heard the defendant were by far insufficient. Upon reaction to his vote, the dubious jurors immediately began questioning the man, not understanding how he could possibly think that way. Nevertheless, the adamant juror held his ground and the votes were: 11 guilty, and 1 not guilty, but the decision had to be unanimous.
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Juror two, based strictly off of facts, opinions, and the current discussions occurring. The third juror believed he was guilty because of his past experiences with his son, and his emotions were revealed because he hates himself for hurting his son. Many of the jurors who initially joined juror eight, was because they were starting to doubt if he was truly guilty and they feared killing an innocent boy. The seventh juror based everything off of how fast he could get out of the room to get to the baseball game. The racist juror number ten believed all people of the boy’s race g...
The Great Barrier Reef is located in North East Australia off the coast of Queensland. It is world renowned for its stunning scenery and its flora and fauna diversity, it has also been acknowledged as one of the seven natural wonders of the world. The Great Barrier Reef stretches across 344400km2 and includes thousands of individual reefs and hundreds of islands which are occupied by around 600 types of hard and soft coral, around 1625 varieties of fish, 3000 types of molluscs, more than 30 species of whales and dolphins, just to mention a few components that make up The Great Barrier Reefs vast diversity. In order to preserve and protect the unique array of ecological communities, habitats and species of The Great Barrier Reef for future generations
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