Were You Paying Attention?
Popular Trials
The rhetoric of popular trials
Pentad
Common Sense?
100
This the last name of the accused
What is Shakur
100
- Pencil Factory - Defecation - Character Roles
What is Leo Frank
100
Give one characteristic of TELELITIGATION
What is 1. TECHNOLOGY/PUBLIC RIGHT TO KNOW 2. PERSONALITY & STARDOM 3. THE LURE OF DRAMA 4. FEELING NOT ARGUMENT (emotional dose)
100
These are the 5 elements of the pentad
What is -act, agent, agency, scene, purpose
100
Some months have 30 days and some have 31. How many have 28?
What is all
200
This is the year that the trial took place
What is 1994
200
- Nat'l Convention - Rock music, trial transcripts, animation - Gag orders
What is Chicago Seven
200
Tort reform?
What is proposed changes in the civil justice system that aim to reduce the ability of victims to bring tort litigation or to reduce damages they can receive.
200
This is the "what" of a story
What is the act
200
True or False:In California, it is possible for a man to marry his widow's sister
What is False
300
This was the outcome of the trail
What is Tupac was sentenced to 18 months- 4 1/2 years, but only served 8 months
300
-The theory of "Passing" - Poor Bobby Frank - a "Johhny and Clyde" story
What is Leopold and Loeb
300
The four constraints of a trial
What is * Adversarial format * Use of official symbols * The necessity of a decision * The theme of judging characters
300
this is the "who" of a story
What is agent
300
I have 10 apples and I give all but 6 away, how many do I have left?
What is 6
400
Shakur was convicted of this and acquitted of these
What is sexual abuse and acquital of the charge sodomy and also illegal possession of a firearm
400
-2.86 million dollars -the spill heard 'round the world' -tort reform
What is Liebeck v. McDonald's Restaurants or "Hot coffee documentary
400
What is the difference between "motion" and "Action"
* Motion is just movement * Motion becomes action when its interpreted of having purpose
400
This is the "how" of a story
What is the agency
400
If a doctor gave you three pills with instructions to take one every half hour, when will you take the last one?
What is in 1 hour
500
This is the prosecution's narrative
What is "Thug life" and Tupac’s image and how it relates to rape
500
-Pedophilia - documentaries -King of Pop
What is Michael Jackson's Boys
500
McGee's Fragmentation Thesis
What is a Response to the traditional notion of Speaker -> Text -> Audience It thesis states that text is pulled from fragments of different texts
500
What is the name of the creator of the pentad
Who is Kenneth Burke
500
Brothers and sisters I have none, but that man's father is my father's son. Who am I?
Who is the Son
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