Today in class we watch a movie on about Robert Kearns the man who came up with the idea of putting a timer with the windshield wiper. But I’m not here to talk to you about how he came up and made the idea. I’m here to compare the dark sad feel of the road Robert Kearns and the happy go lucky one of Erin Brockvich.
I saw in the retelling of Erin Brockvich story “an unknown legal researcher” (http://www.brockovich.com/mystory.html) that made it big. By helping a family that was being poised the water they had on their land. She showed a lighter side of law in a way that was not shown in Roberts Kearns movie. The things I saw from her is that lawyers may want money but they’ll fight for you even if they can’t win. She stayed by the family’s side and would not stop fighting for their rights and heath, even if it was a long fight with little.
On the other hand for Robert Kearns, he showed the darker side of what the law could do to you. With having a dream be pulled from below you, and giving to the world under someone else’s name. As was said before he worked in making the two items we all use when it rains, to help us see and drive. The law in his path way a lot sadder then Erin’s and showed me how thing can be with big corps. I feel for Robert Kearns for in the end all I really would want too is to have the world know I made something. He lost so much in his fight to make the world know from his wife to his time with his kids.
As they say there is two sides to every coin and the can be said with the law as well.
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