Criminal Justice System: Picking Cotton

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Mohammed Nur
Mr. Don Miller
English 111, FON10
02 February 2017

The criminal justice system, like any other collective human activates and responsibilities, that govern, and protect relationships between individuals in the society isn’t perfect. Relying solely on the eye-witness testimony could lead to the wrong conviction, in result of that, an innocent human being could be wrongly convicted. The authors of Picking Cotton, tackled almost every corner of this story deeply from three dimensions, the integrity of telling each side of the story shows the ethical commitment to the truth individually, as the story progresses, pathos took the right in correct place in it, reflecting the right amount of emotional appeals used throughout the book, although the book had several logical fallacies, such as hasty generalization and others, the evidence presented for the main argument, to some degree, made a logical cohesion. …show more content…
Her emotional suffering was clear from the first part of the book, when she stated: ‘’ the definiteness of that knowledge- that I was going to be raped- settled on me like his weigh, crushing me. Was this how I was going to die? Was this the last thing I would see? My head ran its own track of protest while my body lay there, unable to move…’’ (13). After that Jennifer had escaped, her normal relationship with her family and Paul has changed for
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