Clarence Darrow

‘I was caused to write this essay.’ Discuss. Causation and freedom is an essential part of ethics as it considers whether or not one should be held morally accountable for their actions. The three philosophical approaches to the issue of free will and determinism are hard determinism, libertarianism and soft determinism which each take different approaches to decide whether or not our actions are caused or whether we are able to act upon our own free will. We assume that we are free when we make…

Scopes was a former biologist who became a high school teacher. Scopes wanted to teach his class the scientific theory, but was forbidden based on Tennessee law. ACLU and Scopes argued that this went against the 1st amendment. ACLU retrieved Clarence Darrow, a famous attorney, to help with the case. By the end of the trial, Scopes was fined 100 dollars and the case was left unresolved. One of the victories Scopes achieved was hearing William Jennings Bryan admit that not some religious ideas…

John Scopes played a small role in the trial, as most of the case consisted of Scopes lawyer Clarence Darrow and William Bryan questioning each other. The prosecution side had a very clear plan. Instead of debating the value of the Butler Law, they were only interested in being able to prove that Scopes had actually broken the law [Ruse (2003)]. After…

Since the early 5th century BC, creationism was the leading theory of life in many presocratic European and colonial nations. Today, though millions of people still believe in it, creationism has been a banned subject in public schools since the late 20th century, largely due to controversial debates such as the battle between creationism and free thought in the 1926 Scopes “Monkey Trial”, with the defendant John Thomas Scopes against the state of Tennessee. Evolution and religion were put to…

Capital punishment is a Human Rights Issue. A human deserves the right to life as human life is so valuable. Archbishop Desmond Tutu tells us that ‘To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge it is not justice. Is it justifiable for those who tell us murder is terrible to repeat that murder – in cold blood? It is said that all people everywhere have the same rights which no one – not even authority – should take away from us. In 1948 the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was created.…

The American society in the 1920’s went through a great number of changes. The rising prosperity led to a lot of the younger generations in America living different lifestyles, loosing their traditionalist backgrounds. The boom and post war situation had also caused a significant rise in the immigrant population. All of these changes were received differently by most Americans, which lead to conflict, or in some cases extreme intolerance. One of the most influential promoters of racism was the…

The Roaring 1920’s Much like the month of March, the 1920’s roared in like a lion, and went out like a lamb… well, maybe more like lamb chops, as the economy and morale of the country were utterly slaughtered by the end of the decade. America’s short official involvement in World War I had fortified the economy with wartime industry and increasingly productive technologies supporting manufacturing. Business was soaring and the stock markets followed suit, with an unprecedented surge that…

The abduction and murder of Bobby Franks broke the Chicago newspapers on May 23, 1924. Two days pervious to this, Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold were responsible for the crime. It quickly became known as “the crime of the century” and retained that dubious designation throughout the seventy-five years left in that spectacularly violent time span.1 This case was viewed upon so drastically because it was just so different from any others during this time. It was relatively unheard of, for men of…

The 1920s were an eventful decade. While the ’20s may have seemed like a carefree, fun, creative time that made the '20s roar, many social and economic issues transpired during that time, which also made the '20s roar. After WWI, there was a widespread fear of immigrants, which was referred to as the Red Scare. Immigrants are getting blamed for many things out of their control, such as taking jobs from Americans and raising the unemployment rate. Americans started to equate anarchy and…

Purpose of Tom Robinson’s Trial: To Kill a Mockingbird Literary Essay “There is no justice – in or out of court.” was a statement Clarence Darrow, famed defender of the Scottsboro Boys, once made. There is no greater attestation of the truth of this quote than in Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. In the novel, a black man, Tom Robinson, accused of a crime he did not commit, is unable to find fairness anywhere; not in his everyday life when he is just simply trying to be a good person,…