Against DEATH PENALTY

Anti death penalty, Zahir

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Pro Death Penalty

Pro death penalty, ZAHIR , ZAHIR

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12 Angry Men (1957) REVIEW

12 Angry Men (1957)

The stars of the movie 12 Angry Men (1957) starred Henry Fonda, Lee J Cobb with many others.

The story involves 12 Jurors who has to decide whether to send a person to death for murder, or believe that he did not do it. This leads to one Juror going agaisnt the other to prove that the defendant is innocent. Beliefs are challenged and the truthfulness of eye witnesses are tested.

The Best Bits, for me was when Juror No.8 talked about the fact that the knife could be found anywhere. The part where the old man talks about the other old man who was an eye witness was very interesting to me and made me wonder if the eye witnesses are actually telling the truth or trying to get on the new paper.


My Favorite Juror is No 8.  At first people thought that he was a business salesman but he is actually an architect. For an architect he is very insightful and does believe that the person is guilty. Over the course of the movie he gains support from his fellow jurors and gets the accused acquitted. The way he gets the people to talk about it and gain evidence that the person is innocent is what i see as an idol for me. I think he is the best character in the movie because he has opposing views and he is good at explaining why.


Over the Course of the movie, the jurors change thier minds. I believe that number 11 , the immigrant worker at first was sure that the person was guilty, but until the fact that the boy would no go back to the scene of the crime, he changed his decision and went with Not guilty.


No 4 is very stern and very calm and really believed that the person was guilty due to an eye witness. Until the old man told NO 4 that she had marks of wearing eye glasses and she could have the possibilty of not seeing anything from 60 ft without her glasses, No 4 gains reasonable doubt.

The movie in general made me think more about human nature and what would people do to get fame. It makes me believe that maybe most of the eye witnesses are telling most lies just to be part of newspaper. It also makes me think that nothing meets the eye and that every human makes mistakes.

Cyber Bullying :o

General Questions

• Who is the perpetrator in this case? Who is the target?
• What acts of cyberbullying have happened in this case? How serious would you rank each one as being?

The Perpetrator is Nazar. This is due to the fact that he was the one that created the website that involved Cyber Bullying.

The Target is Chong Wei. Even though he was the one who started it. The case now stands that he is the victim of Cyber Bullying.

The acts of cyberbullying that has happened in this case is

-Insulting: Posting or spreading false information about a person that will cause harm to that person or that person’s reputation.

Targeting: Singling someone out and inviting others to attack or make fun of her or him.

Harassment: Repeatedly sending someone nasty, mean and insulting messages.

Insulting someone and spreading false information is ranked as the most serious in this case due to how effective it could be to hurt a human being. Targeting is the second most serious because it is not as hurtful as Insulting but singling someone out really brings out the depression out of the target. The least serious but still serious is Harrasement due to the fact that it is not as bad as insulting by making false information.

Nazar: How can you defend your actions?

Nazar could defend his actions by saying that it is not his fault that he created this. He was forced to because Chong Wei was being very mean for no reason at all. There was days where Nazar was crying due to people unfriending him because Chong Wei said to. This is why he was some what desperate to do it. You cannot blame the victim, never blame the victim.

CYBER BULLYING BOIIIIIIIII. It's Tuesday

Cyberbullying Scenarios

Civil deals with property rights, personal dignity and freedom from personal injury. Civil penalties consist of fines and limitations on behaviour. 

Criminal law makes certain behaviours illegal and punishable by fines and/or imprisonment. (For example, if you don’t get your faulty brakes fixed and you hit another car, that will likely fall under civil law. If you ram another car on purpose, that will fall under criminal law.)

Read each of the scenarios below, and rate the seriousness of each one from 1 to 5, where:

1 = Totally acceptable and appropriate   

2 = Possibly wrong, but no action needs to be taken

3 = Wrong, and school authorities or Internet service providers should take action

4 = Wrong, and civil action could be taken by the target or the target’s parents

5 = Wrong, and criminal charges should be pressed

1.A student posts a negative review of a concert given by another student’s band. The review focuses on the band members’ skill as musicians and the quality of their music.

1

2. A student posts a story making fun of a teacher, suggesting that he is unqualified to teach. The teacher’s name is not used, but he is clearly recognizable to anyone who knows him.

4

3. A student uploads to YouTube a video of his band performing a song that makes fun of teachers. No specific teacher is named or is identifiable from the song.

2

4. A student writes a letter to the school administration stating that a teacher has used improper discipline in class.

1

5. A student finds that photos of her, which were taken by her (now ex) boyfriend have been uploaded to his Facebook page. Then they were copied and reproduced in many more places, including photo-sharing sites. Her ex-boyfriend says that he is not responsible for what was done with the photos after he uploaded them.

4

6. A teacher asks students in her class to help write holiday greetings in a variety of languages for the school’s Web site. Without the teacher’s knowledge, one of the students’ contributions is a false and insulting statement against another teacher.

3

7. During an instant messaging session with several participants, a student accuses her boyfriend of cheating on her.

2

8. A student creates a Web site in which she criticizes school policies and suggests that several teachers, whom she names, are overly strict in their discipline.

3

9. A student creates a Facebook group in which he states that one of his teachers is a space alien who is scheming to abduct students and take them to her home planet.

3

The person who should be punished would be the student.

10. A teacher discovers that students are being pressured by a popular student to remove an unpopular student from their Facebook “friends” lists.

2

Seeing the World

To an extent people are born with different cultures and that people always see things in different ways. One of the examples given is that when a Malaysian raised child see pork, it is a disgusting animal that should not be eaten. This is not the case for a western family where pork is a delicious delicacy.

Another way that affects how people are seeing the world is through the country they have been raised in. A prime example is that if a person in Afghanistan was accused of adultery, there would be a chance the adulterer would be stoned to death unlike in USA where the adulterer would usually be shunned or embarrassed.

Eye Witness Accounts, Can they be trusted?

Eye Witness Accounts.They are known to help a lot of criminal cases to be solved around the world but are they reliable? Eye witness accounts are also one of the biggest causes for wrongful conviction.

To an extent, there is reasons why eye witness accounts are very good for convictions. First of all, it could be the only evidence that the prosecution has. There are also accounts where the people actually remember and it really helps the case. Finally even though some parts of the accounts are wrong, even if they are 80 -90 % right it will really help the enforcement to find the culprit.

The eyewitnesses accounts can also be unreliable when the witness is distracted or there is a mistake. One huge problem is the fact people have certain prejudices.

DP - Death Penalty

The Death Penalty is a punishment that is given to people that usually have a committed a crime very server in the law of the land. Usually the penalty is irreversible and there is not much opposition as soon as the punishment is set. There are people who believe that it should be abolished and people who say that we should keep.

People who wish for the Death Penalty to be abolished have good points such as
- Many if not all countries are under a Universal Law specifying the rights of every human and implementing the DP is taking out one of the most important rights which is the right to life.
- Sometimes the Innocent are punished and since the PD is irreversible then it is a bad and inhuman to kill a innocent person.
- It can be said from some points of views that the DP does not stop crime and does not act as a deterrent for crime due to the fact that there are many reasons to commit crime such as being poor, the enforcement being bad and most probably the ignorance of information.

People who do not wish for the Death Penalty to be abolished say such as but not limited to
-It is plain murder, an eye for an eye will make the world blind. Even revenge has it's consequence.
-Everyone should have a right to life. This was included in the Declaration of Human Rights created by the UN.
- The enforcement will slack off and this will create problems.

Should Different Offences be given one Fixed Punishment?

I do not think that there should be one fixed punishment for different offences. Each crime is committed by someone for different reasons.

There is a wide range of offences in this world, there should not be one fixed punishment for the different offences this is because some are severe and some are not. Also the range of people that do this crimes. and the reason why these people did it. Depends on why the person did it.

For Example, if someone who is hungry stole one bun from a bakery because he is starving and needs it for his live, I personally do not think he should be punished but instead should be helped. This person is perfectly innocent and is just trying to keep himself alive.
But if there someone who would steal a bun for the fun of it, that is an actual crime.