Nov' 3 12 Angry Men, A Trial by Jury

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Nov. 3 --12 Angry Men, A Trial by Jury

• Class will begin with the midterms being returned
  and discussed.
• Make sure to watch 12 AM in original b/w version
  and to read A Trial by Jury.
• Questions to be discussed in plenary (not
  groups).
• What do Twelve Angry Men (original version) and
  ATMP have in common? (hint this is a question
  about visual recognition).

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12 Angry Men, Trial by Jury

• 2. A review of the course to this point. With
  which one of the following characters do you most
  identify? Why?
• i) Erin Gruwell, ii) Ken Lay, iii) Jeff Skilling,
  iv) Sherron Watkins, v) Bethany McLean, vi) Mayor
  John Pappas, Kevin Calhoun, vii) Mike Wallace,
  viii) Lowell Bergman, ix) Mike Wallace, x) Jeff
  Wigand, xi) Carl Bernstein, xii) Bob Woodward,
  xiii) Ben Bradlee, xiv) any other. Explain why.

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12 Angry Men, A Trial by Jury

• 3. Compare/contrast jury decision-making with
  small group decision-making in business or
  government, for example in corporate boards or
  cabinets, or other groups you are familiar with.
  Bear in mind the rationale for practices such as
  the size of the jury, choosing of jurors,
  sequestering of the jury.
• 4. What management skills does juror number 8
  (the architect, played by Peter Fonda in the 1957
  film) display? What skills does Graham Burnett
  report that he displayed? Compare and contrast
  them two.

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12 Angry Men, A Trial by Jury

• 5. Burnett concluded his book with the words
• writing it has done the thing I wanted so
  badly from the start it has made the trial into
  words, a thing to read, to interpret, to circle
  back through. A text. Like art. Meaning something
  different to each person. Keeping the large
  questions open.
• But the trial was not that.
• What does he mean? Do you agree?