...A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF CHARACTER EVIDENCE IN NIGERIA BY MADUBUIKE CHIKEZIE OBINNA 05/61313 BEING A COMPULSORY RESEARCH PROJECT SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF LAW, ABIA STATE UNIVERSITY, UTURU IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF BACHELOR OF LAW (LL.B) DEGREE OCTOBER, 2010. CERTIFICATION I, MADUBUIKE CHIKEZIE OBINNA of the Faculty of Law Abia State University hereby certify that this project work was carried out under the supervision of Barr. A.S AMARAMIRO. Supervisor’s Signature. | Date. | Student’s Signature. | Date. | DEDICATION This work is dedicated to The Almighty God who helped me study under Grace. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Good works are often the product of cross fertilization of ideas and sincere support of resource persons. Accordingly, I give my unalloyed thanks to my creator, God the Almighty, the spring of all knowledge, my Ebenezar. I am profoundly grateful to my efficient, diligent and understanding supervisor Barrister A.S Amaramiro whose love, guidance, critical remarks and suggestions were very insightful. I will forever remain sincerely grateful. Specially, I remain highly indebted to my parents Elder and Mrs. O.C Madubuike for their love, moral, spiritual and financial encouragement since I was born. They are my engine room. My gratitude also goes to my siblings: Oluchi, Emeka, chinonso, kelechukwu and ugochukwu. They cannot be thanked enough for their love and support...
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...The Claims of Elaine E. Whitaker Whitaker makes several interesting claims about the characters in Why I Live at the P.O. The three claims I found most insightful were that “Throughout the narrative, Sister views her own efforts as undervalued”(115), “Like her furnishings, Sister appears incomplete” (Whitaker 115), and “ Why I Live at the P.O. also bottles up knowledge itself through its deliberate repression by various characters” (115). Each of these claims allows the reader to contemplate different aspects of the story so they can gain a better understanding of the characters. I will examine theses three claims and try to find evidence in the story to support or disprove them. When reading Why I Live at the P.O. it is easy to see why Whitaker would make the claim that “Throughout the narrative, Sister views her own efforts as undervalued” (115) From the very start of the story sister expresses a sense of feeling unappreciated with her comment “There I was over the hot stove, trying to stretch two chickens over five people and a completely unexpected child into the bargain without one moment’s notice” (Welty 415). This comment shows that Sister believes no body cared enough about the effort she puts into making dinner for the family to inform her that there would be more people to feed. As the family sits down to eat the dinner Sister has prepared no one thanks her or even acknowledges the fact that she alone made dinner for everyone. Sister later tells how she was...
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...considered how many different types of chemicals are on the food you are eating for dinner? That is exactly what Rachel Carson writes about in her novel Silent Spring. Pesticides are all around us, they are in the air we breathe, the water we drink and the ground we walk on. Their effects on our bodies and the environment are unknown, but chances are that they are not going to be good. Rachel Carson dedicates an entire novel to try to prove her point of how horrible they are for the world. She argues constantly that we need to find an alternative before it is too late. Within her arguments, Carson uses several different methods and types of evidence while trying to convey her point. Throughout the entire novel, Carson is constantly putting down the use of pesticides. However, everything she says would be useless if she did not have evidence. She uses qualitative and quantitative data several times throughout the book. Her use of qualitative data begins with her first paragraph. She describes the beauty of nature and how much life is abundant in it. Then as her fictional story continues, she begins to start explaining how none of this would be with the continuous use of pesticides. Carson also goes into detail describing the disastrous effects that it could leave on the environment as a whole. Her realistic descriptions of the possible harms of the pesticides can really appeal to the reader. With the vivid descriptions that she has, the reader can imagine the world as she describes...
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...Williams 1 Isaiah Williams Professor Hemington English 1A, 9:30 Section 28 January 2016 Marrying Too Young Do you believe in young marriage? For centuries young marriage has often been the practice of many individuals. Whether through cultural, religious, or familial beliefs, marriage early on in the stages of a youth’s life has been widely integrated into societal structure. And as such, has in turn been largely studied as more and more data pertaining to certain trends grew evermore apparent. Adopted earlier on in the ever-growing quest for civil advancement, young marriage would’ve been more precisely dubbed as child marriage in accordance with the fact that a large number of youth were married off as early as fifteen years of age. In today’s society, the more extreme practice is generally frowned upon as much as it is ill-boding and largely not recommended, however, marriage occurring as early as at eighteen years of age still persists to this day. In 2014, data presented by the Pew Research Center through the March Current Population Survey concluded that the percentage of people being married ages 18 – 32 years of age, though showing decline from recent years, remained at thirty-six percent. Some people believe that young marriage could be an economic boon to those involved as a 2013 study presented through the National Marriage Project's 2013 "Knot Yet" report concluded that the highest percentage of people ages 20 - 28 who considered themselves "highly satisfied"...
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...“Twelve Angry Men” is an examination of the dynamics that plays in a jury room in the 50’s in the United States. The action revolves around the opinions, perceptions, reason and logic of twelve diverse characters that are tasked with pronouncing the guilt or innocence of a young man accused of patricide. The extraordinary element is that their finding will determine his life or death. This work will explore some elements of critical thinking and creative thinking found within the context of this remarkable movie. Critical thinking involves the use of a group of interconnected skills to analyze, creatively integrate, and evaluate what you read and hear. To become a critical thinker you must be able to decide whether an author’s opinions are true or false, whether he or she has adequately defended those ideas, whether certain recommendations are practical, as well as whether particular solutions will be effective. The characteristics of that kind of thinking are: Knowledge, Comprehension, Application, Analysis, Synthesis, and Evaluation. Within that movie, there were three points raised in the trial that juror #8 believed argument analysis: 1- The knife that was the murder weapon was unique and the boy was seen with it, although he said he had lost it. 2- The old man gave evidence that he heard the boy say “I’ll kill you” from his apartment below and he saw the boy running from the down stairs of the apartment after rising from bedroom. 3- That the old lady saw the boy...
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...depictions of evidence as supporting claims, the film depicts evidence as suggesting claims. We see this immediately as paranoid people restlessly accuse each other of being child murderers, because of their visual interpretations. Within the first ten minutes of the film we are shown adults arguing, almost embarrassingly, on whose recollection of what they saw is more accurate: adults yell at each other: Red! Green! Red! Green! In this way the efficacy of seeing as an objective medium to gathering evidence, and even what counts as being evidence is questioned. In this paper I will explore the question: “What constitutes evidence?” by focusing on the coalescence and manipulation of evidence through sight in ‘M’. Despite the ostensible validity a fingerprint or paperwork may hold, and the objectivity police seemingly have, police still end up gathering these pieces of evidence in such a way that they actually invalidate them. The film portrays this manipulation of data by showing how police inspection (through bare sight), creates a sense of control over how things are seen and the impending problems with controlling how things are seen. Police commissioner, Lohmann, is shown seated as a line files past him one by one as he inspects their paperwork for them to identify and thereby prove their identities. A person has no paperwork, another is inspected to have fake paperwork, and a newspaper article overrides valid paperwork. He constantly dismisses their forms of evidence as not...
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...CONTINUOUS WRITING Music Music is one of God’s greatest gifts to human beings. Music is a magical gift we must nourish and cultivate in young …………… because music is a part of the fabric of our society. The intrinsic value for each individual is widely recognised in the many …………….. that make up our lives. If we look around us, every human culture uses music to carry forward its ideas and ideals. The value of music is shaping individual abilities and characters are attested in a number of places. In America, secondary students ……….. participated in bands or orchestra reported the lowest lifetime and current use of alcohol, tobacco and illicit drugs. There are also scientific evidence that prove that an education in the arts makes better Math and Science students. It enhances spatial intelligence in newborns too. Thus, participation in arts and music is a ………………… experience that broadens students’ understanding and appreciation of the world around them. It is also well known and widely recognised that arts ………………….. significantly to children’s intellectual. Since music and pop culture are the norm of today’s society, they help to ……………. jobs, boost tourism, spur growth in related businesses, hotels, restaurants, and thus improve the overall quality of ……….. for our cities and towns. Success in a society, of course, is predicted on success in school. Any music …………… or parent of a music student can call to mind anecdotes about the effectiveness of music study in helping...
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...The families' motivation for pursuing the civil case and the end result. -- Comparing and contrasting the characters and/or actions of those characters to demonstrate what you consider to be ethical and unethical actions. The action that I felt was ethical was Jan and his team taking on the case but what as unethical is him not discussing his decision-making without them knowing and as for the lawyers on the other side that they want people to lie to safe the companies face. -- Describe the various stakeholders and their perspectives. The families that loss their children due to them wanting closure by wanting somebody to apologize, the employees and their families because of both factories was their only source of income, the town without the factories would not continue to exist, lawyers on all sides had to put in many hours and spend a lot of money on the case but -- What evidence do you see of considering various stakeholders and alternatives and getting the facts before making decisions by the various characters? The evidence I see is all about getting the data needed to argue the facts at hand. Jan needed more data; he should have gotten all doctors reports and got the EPA involved sooner before going to court. The Beatrice and Grace Lawyers needed evidences to show never was at fought. Alternatives for them were to get their own team to check the land to prove that never was at fault. But Facher, Beatrice attorney, argues that neither the pollution nor its results...
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...that is how most of their stories were written where people’s actions affected everybody instead of it being something that was only self-destructive. In Othello, the drama focused more on the betrayal of other’s and jealousy and rage. The story also touched on issues of racism that we may not have seen before and that was one of the bigger issues in the story. Desdemona’s father felt that Othello even though he was a brave and noble soldier, was still beneath him and his daughter all because of his race. Iago felt the same way; he thought that he was better qualified for the Moor position which led to chain reaction of events that inevitably ruined all the characters’ lives. People were easily convinced of people’s crimes in this time. There was no need for hard evidence, Othello was given little circumstantial evidence that his wife was cheating on him and he ordered Iago to kill...
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...naturally contradictory to economical, informal and quick. Nonetheless, the AAT reconciles competing aims through its flexibility to deal with proceedings as it deems fit. II HEIGHTENED ABILITY OF TRIBUNAL TO ASCERTAIN RELEVANT INFORMATION One of the principle features of the AAT is its enhanced ability to collect and find facts in making a decision affecting the rights of the applicants. The Senior Member (SM) of the tribunal indicated that she has to come to her own conclusion, which is the correct or preferable one, on the materials before her instead of the material before the original decision maker. It is notable that the SM can give appropriate weight to other factors beyond character grounds set out by the Migration Act. The Minister considers whether or not the applicant has passed the “Character Test” in deciding to cancel his visa, guided by Direction 55 that outlines its application. While some factors may overlap, the AAT has the discretion to assess the other factual details such as the severity of the applicant’s criminal offences, the availability of family support, the impact of family...
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...If an individual is put on fire and the situation suits the theory “Spontaneous human combustion”, then it would be effective or supportive. Therefore, it would be tricky to demonstrate bearing in mind ethics and the fact that if it is “spontaneous”, then one cannot locate its occurrence (Arnold, 1995). 2. Many reported ghost sightings involve reenactments of battles, deaths, or murders. This finding suggests that certain physical objects, such as stones, can record emotions and events like a video recorder. [Kneale, N. (1972) "The stone tape," broadcast on BBC, December 25, 1972.] Over the 20 years, scientist believed that ghosts existed due to battles, deaths, and murders that were committed. However, there is no single evidence that supports the existence of ghosts or...
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...* CRITICAL THINKING REQUIREMENTS * * * Firstly, recognise that thinking critically does not mean simple criticism. It means not simply accepting information at face value in a non-critical or non-evaluating way. * The essence of critical thinking centres not on answering questions but on questioning answers, so it involves questioning, probing, analysing, evaluating. In his novel "Sophie's World", the Norwegian writer Jostein Gaarder notes that: "The most subversive people are those who ask questions". * Remember that prominence does not equate to importance. A newspaper may have made its lead story the rumour of a break-up between Britney Spears and her latest boyfriend, but that does not necessarily make it the most important news item that day. Conversely, in 1914 that tiny story about the assassination of an obscure nobleman in some backwater called Sarajevo proved to have rather more repercussions than most readers first appreciated. Try an experiment: one day, buy five or six national newspapers, compare their coverage of the same stories on the same day, and note the different prominence - and the different slant - given to the same stories. * To understand a news item, try to give some context to the current event. For instance, if it is reported that a group of Sunnis today attacked a meeting of Shiites in Iraq, three things are needed to make full sense of the report. First, explanation: what is the difference between Sunnis and Shiites and...
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...Advertisement Has WIRETIME, Inc., committed any torts? If so, explain. WIRETIME, Inc. might have committed written defamation, alongside BUGusa, Inc. by inserting an ad in a magazine saying that the corporations had defective and low quality merchandise. BUGusa must attest to four fundamentals to confirm a case against WIRETIME. Initially, BUGusa must prove that the announcements made in the advertisement are not factual. The ad was published in a magazine, proving the distribution to a third party component. The ad precisely cited BUGusa’s recording devices, me the criteria. The last part to show that BUGusa suffered harm is because of the advertisement. A substantial decrease in sales after the printing date of the advertisement is adequate evidence to prove the final element. Scenario: WIRETIME, Inc. (Janet) Has WIRETIME, Inc. committed any torts? If so, explain. In the situation between Janet and WIRETIME, Inc., Janet was called by the Human Resource manager for WIRETIME, Inc. and requested if she would come into work for them unknowing there is a contract between Janet and BUGusa, Inc. This contract states she is not permitted to be employed by any of BUGusa's competitors for the extent of the 2-year contract. Once she gave the manager a copy of the agreement, she was soon offered a 10% increase in her current salary, in addition a $5,000 bonus for signing. WIRETIME, Inc. did commit a tort. They committed a tortuous intrusion with existing contractual association...
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...Bus Radio Theft Investigation Case Joseph Hawley Sec/430 October 28, 2013 Damain Torres Bus Radio Theft Investigation Case In every crime discovered by the authorities, expect an investigation. It is done for the authorities to know more about the case at hand, to find out the responsible party, their reasons, why they chose the victims and so on. It is used to create a case and to give justice to what the victims has experienced. Although the main reason for investigating us take for example a case in Kelsey known as the “Bus Radio Theft Case”. It happened at one of the schools in Kelsey which is the Unified School District. The perpetrators choose to steal radios from school buses. Although the case happened a few years back, there are some aspects of investigations used in this case that we want to study and show you. In reviewing the said incident, we can simply learn one thing, how to solve the mystery involving radio bus thefts. We will take a look at how the investigators of the said case created and accumulated their documents, how they made observations and derive their resolutions from it. We will also take a look at some o the important and useful techniques they used to make the investigation a success including choosing the right people for questioning. The way these investigators compiled the information they gathered will be taken into consideration as well. The investigation about the bus radio theft incidents started after a report came in saying there...
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...Oregon v. Alvarez A139512 Facts: Maximilliano Alvarez is the Defendant in this case and Eric Johansen argued the versus the State of Oregon. The defendant appealed from conviction that was a gang-related assault. The defendant hit and beat a 16 year old with a metal baseball bat, and also his friend used a metal rod. The jury gave him guilty verdicts on two counts of first degree assault, and 3 counts of unlawful use of a weapon. The defendant pointed out an error on the first degree assault stating that the state did not prove that his assault caused the victim “serious physical injury” the defendant did not think that his actions did not cause damage to a point where the victim was at risk of dying. The court didn’t show evidence that when Mr. Alvarez hit the victim with the metal baseball bat that his hits created a “substantial risk of death”. Questions presented: 1. Was the beating that Mr. Alvarez gave to the victim enough to cause a substantial risk of death? 2. Should the defendant be able to get rid of the first degree assault to a lowered charge because the prosecutor didn’t show how his actions made the risk of death? 3. What is enough to cause “serious physical injury?” Answers/holding: We conclude, the court decided that because a blow to the victims head hard enough to make a “ding” sound, to have a wound where it exposed the skull, to have to need four stables and, cause the victim to be unconscious it still was a substantial risk of death. Also the...
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