http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/confession Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Mon, 15 Jun 2026 07:45:03 -0400 Mon, 15 Jun 2026 07:45:03 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/937/the-modern-memoir-popular-confession-and-how-it-sells-a-million-little-pieces By Edward A. Carr - In this context, the reasons that Frey would manipulate key aspects of his memoir are straightforward: in order to make the story more dramatic and compelling, to get his story published, and to sell many copies. In The Limits of Biography: Trauma and Testimony, Leigh Gilmore looks at the emerging popularity of memoir and its relation to trauma culture. Gilmore notes that “the literary market has proved a shaping force. Although it is unclear whether the market has led or followed, market demand currently encourages marketing practices such as subtitling an author’s first book &ldquo... Tue, 04 Nov 2014 05:18 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/937/the-modern-memoir-popular-confession-and-how-it-sells-a-million-little-pieces http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/682/wrongful-conviction-in-the-american-judicial-process-history-scope-and-analysis By Joshua A. Jones - This paper addresses the historical, current, and projected scope of wrongful convictions in the judicial process of the United States. Herein, numerous research studies are reviewed in order to identify the trend  of this problem, determine its origin, and propose solutions. Specifically, the paper addresses the implications of the expanding American custodial system and the decline in homicide clearance rates necessary for the efficacy of the current justice process. It further examines wrongful convictions as a social problem from an interactionist perspective concerning racial and economic... Mon, 20 Aug 2012 09:05 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/682/wrongful-conviction-in-the-american-judicial-process-history-scope-and-analysis http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/338/memoirs-and-confessions-the-hybrid-form-of-decadent-texts By Jeremy S. Page - Decadent texts are a subclass of literature paradoxically characterised by both creation and decay, and are thus texts that resist a standard classification of genre. That is to say, Decadent texts are always operating with a dual purpose: the literary movement itself critiques and deconstructs the reigning moral and cultural assumptions, while simultaneously creating a collection of works that are to become what they have moments ago destroyed; the Decadent lifestyle is destructive to the undertaking body, yet simultaneously opens up a world of hitherto unobtainable experience. In Oscar Wilde... Wed, 08 Dec 2010 10:46 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/338/memoirs-and-confessions-the-hybrid-form-of-decadent-texts http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/31/sublime-inauthenticity-how-critical-is-truth-in-autobiography By Scott Berghegger - In the autobiography, time and history, at first glance, seem paramount. After all, autobiography is the account of the things that have happened in a person’s life, selected and made ready for public consumption, usually written in the first person. However, the understanding of autobiographical narratives can vary from story to story. Is the purpose of the autobiography to deduce truth from the myriad of subjective experiences surrounding history? Is it a self-searching exercise taken on by the most poetic and self-indulgent among us? How critical is memory, that fragile function of the... Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:58 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/31/sublime-inauthenticity-how-critical-is-truth-in-autobiography