Searching For Justice: American Cinema's Evolving Portrayals of Lawyers
With the Oscars less than a week away, it is an opportune time to look at the evolution in how attorneys have been portrayed in American cinema.
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A Pew poll study released in July, 2013 showed that lawyers and journalists were ranked as the most despised in the U.S.Military professionals ranked at the top of the list while teachers came in second. Doctors, scientists and engineers were understandably also viewed positively.
Liu Yingxia, who was listed as China's 46th richest woman with assets worth 4 billion (or $650,000,000), was removed this week from a senior political organization, for links to a former high ranking official facing graft allegations.
One of the main reason protesters in Ukraine braved the cold winter for the past few months, which has lead to deadly clashes with riot police was that they sought to challenge President Yanukovch's increasingly authoritarian rule of law and his method of centralizing corruption.
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