In high school mock trial, as a team captain my team placed in the top ten out of 180 teams four years in a row. I coached my little brother’s team about mock trial, and they placed first in middle school, and fourth in high school last year. My section in band was the only section that was completely memorized for the first marching band show
school that the man who shot John F. Kennedy was Lee Harvey Oswald. However, as I grew older I started learning more and more outside of school about the real facts. Such as the fact that Oswald was assassinated just before he was supposed to go on trial for his alleged assassination of Kennedy. Or the fact that Kennedy’s successor Lyndon B. Johnson had several political and personal differences with Kennedy and that Johnson and his associates controlled many details of that fatal trip to Dallas’s
We all know the famous OJ Simpson case, where everyone was shocked that their favorite NFL running back had been accused of a crime. Not just any simple crime, but murder. Although he got a lot of negativity, his lawyer, Robert Kardashian, got even more backlash. Now, the ending verdict is not what matters here. The question is, why is it that during these types of cases, where an individual is accused of a horrible crime, the criminal lawyer defending the accused gets more hate? The criminal justice
from the Parlement of Paris, Louis called in the French equivalent to Parliament, the Estates General after over 100+ years of adjournment to force the nobles to pay up. Within two weeks, Louis disbands the Estates General for the more democratic National Assembly, headed by sympathetic clergyman Sieyes. This is the group that is behind the famous Tennis Court Oath, that some of the nobles will work effortlessly, until a constitution that encompasses equality for all the French citizens is drafted
1963 President John Fitzgerald Kennedy arrived in Dallas to an excited crowd of people lining the streets hoping to get a glimpse of the President. At 12:30 in the afternoon, the President’s car made the last, fatal turn. As the car turned left onto Elm Street, past the Texas School Block Depository and headed down the slope that leads through Dealey Plaza, Governor Connally’s wife said, “Mr. President, You can’t say that Dallas doesn’t love you” (Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination
The Success of Franklin Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt was President of the USA during a period encompassed two of the most significant events of recent history- the American Depression and the Second World War. In this essay we will look at the qualities that made FDR such a notable President; we will also examine some of the circumstances surrounding the Presidency to discover if perhaps that also had an impact on perceptions of both the man and his Presidency. We will also be
Texas, one of the West South Central states of the United States. It borders Mexico on the southwest and the Gulf of Mexico on the southeast. To the west is New Mexico, to the north and northeast lie Oklahoma and Arkansas, and Louisiana bounds Texas on the east. Austin is the capital of Texas. Houston is the largest city. Texas is the size of Ohio, Indiana, and all the New England and Middle Atlantic states combined, and its vast area encompasses forests, mountains, deserts and dry plains, and a