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Cecelia Ahern's Use Of Bias In The Flawed

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Ms. Keeney
Fourth period
3/2/2023
Bias in Courts
Many people’s lives are and will be injured by bias in court rooms. Is similar to how bias is used in the Flawed. Cecelia Ahern’s use of bias in the Flawed damages people is similar to the bias in court rooms of modern day.
The bias that is seen in Flawed damage people similar to bias in courtrooms by incorrectly convicting and accusing people. After Celestine got off the bus and sent to Highland Castle Judge Creavan tells Celestine “Currently, Judge Jackson, … regards your act as a moral misjudgment and would like a flawed verdict. Judge Sanchez sees your act as aiding and assisting a Flawed, which carries the punishment of imprisonment.” (Ahern sixty-one). This bias damaged Celestine …show more content…

Totenberg, Nina. "Supreme Court Hears Case on Racial Bias in Jury Deliberations." Morning Edition, 11 Oct. 2016. Gale In Context: High School, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A473553318/SUIC?u=avon12&sid=bookmark-SUIC&xid=3112b61e. Accessed 23 Feb. 2023. The bias had damaged him because it says later in the article “The jurors initially deadlocked, unable to reach a verdict. … After 12 hours of deliberation in all and much shouting that could be heard outside the jury room, the jury found the defendant guilty on …show more content…

Mr. Berry was talking to Celestine about the trial and says, “You’re a poster girl for the Guild, you’re a poster girl for the Anti-Guild, you’re a poster girl for the clothes you’re about to wear …” (Ahern 69). Mr. Berry was trying to get Celestine to realize whatever she does people will be on top of it and will want whatever Celestine wears and same experiences as her. This can be damaging because if the clothes she wears will be used to describe her in newspapers, television commercials, and magazines. We are able to say that the bias is damaging because “… 75 percent or more of the articles were negative in tone including sensational descriptions of the crime, (such as ‘cunning sociopath, …” (Vitelli 2). The awful descriptions are made to make the reader or listener to be against the person. Then if we apply this to Celestine then we get more bias because then you get the bias of the people working with you. Then the people with you do something you didn’t want to happen then they will be against

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