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The “Csi Effect”: Better Jurors Through Television And Science?, Michael Mann

Michael D. Mann

This Comment explores how television shows such as CSI and Law & Order have created heightened juror expectations in courtrooms across America. Surprise acquitals often have prosectors scratching their heads as jurors hold them to this new "Hollywood" standard. The Comment also analyzes the CSI phenomena by reflecting on past legal television shows that have influenced the public's perception of the legal profession and how the "CSI effect" has placed an even greater burden on parties to proffer some kind of forensic evidence at trial.

The Comment was published in volume 24 of the Buffalo Public Interest Law Journal (2006).

Memory, Mythmaking, And Museums: Constructive Authenticity And The Primitive Blues Subject, Stephen A. King

Stephen A. King

This essay explores how museums, public memory, and authenticity intersect to privilege an understanding of the past. Reflecting White control over the promotion of blues music, the curators at the Delta Blues Museum, located in Clarksdale, Mississippi, employ two rhetorical strategies to satisfy the expectations of (White) tourists who share culturally specific memories of the blues. First, the museum's rhetorical depiction of blues artists reflects White fascination with the mythic image of the primitive blues subject. Second, the exhibit recreates an early 20th century Delta society to complement tourism goals to market the Mississippi Delta as America's last remaining “pure” …

The Night Of October 2, 1984, Donald G. Laird

Dr. David Morgan Lochhead

October 2, 1984 David Lochhead made an address on the occasion of his becoming Full Professor of Theology at the Vancouver School of Theology. He entitled his address: Theology in a Digital World. This was four years before it became available in print.

Exodus From Eden: Comprehending Our Creation In An Un/Real World, Curtis Ackley

Dr. David Morgan Lochhead

Rev. Curis S. Ackey. Keynote Address Presented October 14, 2006 at the David Lochhead Memorial Symposium Virtual Un/Reality: The Spirituality of Cyberspace Copyright © 2006 by Curtis S. Ackley

Getting Real In Virtual Reality, Debbie Herring

Dr. David Morgan Lochhead

Address of Dr. Debbie Herring at the David Lochhead Memorial Symposium, October 14-16, 2006. Dr. Herring is A Senior Lecturer at the Urban Theology Unit of the Sheffield University Biblical Studies Department.

The Utopian Dimension Of Thought In Deleuze & Guattari, Eugene W. Holland

Eugene W Holland

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The Role Of Connective Tissue Growth Factor In Skeletal Growth And Development, Philadelphia University

Philadelphia University, Jordan

No abstract provided.