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- 1001: Capital Punishment Should be Abolished
- ... very little valid evidence to suggest that capital punishment deters criminals. The most recent study of research findings on the relationship between the death penalty and homicide rates, conducted for the United Nations Committee on Crime Prevention and Control, in 1988, has concluded that:"this research has failed to provide scientific proof that executions have a greater deterrent effect than life imprisonment."1. Many murders are committed under the influence of ... alcohol and drugs, some murderers might be mentally ill. If one of these factors influenced a person, how could he/she control and asses what he/she is doing or be deterred from committing the crime? It would be impossible, and after the incident he/she might not remember it. A cover story in the "Time"3 presents a report about a man called Doug McCray, then 32. He had a ... t know if he was guilty or not. He was found guilty and is in Florida's death row. This anecdote clearly indicates the possibility of executing a person who might not have committed the crime. Some emotionally ill people would see death as the only route to freedom, so the death penalty does not deter them at all. If the death penalty does not deter many people, then why ...
- 1002: The Lost World: Summary
- ... a guy that was making specialized equipment for their trip. He said that he didn't know what was going on. They contact Malcolm and they go to Levine's apartment. They go to his computer room and see all this stuff on the wall about site B. They go onto the computer and Arby gets all this stuff about site B on it. Malcolm then finds out that the island that Levine went to was Isla Sorna. They plan this whole trip to go there, just Malcolm ... this device they have, the find him and go back to the trailer. Before the go back, you find out that that Kelly and Arby hid in a compartment in the trailer. They find a computer and get into the system and find that there are camera's all around the islands. Sarah Harding tries to find a way to the island, but can't, until she finds a boat ...
- 1003: Fyodor
- The author by essence is the creator of his book akin to God creating in his own like image in man. With this in mind, Fyodor Dostoevsky through writing Crime and Punishment creates the essence of man that he believes to be a replica of himself. By creating specific characters in his novel, Dostoevsky demonstrates his likes and dislikes in humankind. Readers will find that ... the dirty roots of life in the city. The stifling air that engulfed the poverty-stricken slums and the obtuse drunken crowds in the Haymarket Square section of St. Petersburg are so vividly captured in Crime and Punishment because he alone had known this from his own personal experiences. From the beginning Dostoevsky's fiction depicted desperately poor men and women as victims and they all needed a superman. He was the superman for the poor, a Russian Robin Hood. Fyodor in Crime and Punishment suggests a dominant connection between emotional instability and physical illness. Clearly, Raskolnikov suffered from this, along with Katerina. Dostoevsky shows the reader the duality of Raskolnikov; a revolting, self-centered character that ...
- 1004: Creative Writing: Year Long Period of Solitary Confinement and What I Would Bring With Me
- ... Solitary Confinement and What I Would Bring With Me During my assignment of a one year long period of solitary confinement on Antarctica the three things that I would bring with me would be: a computer equipped with internet access and teleconferencing capabilities; my ski equipment including my climbing gear; and a snowmobile that is run by electricity because of a lack of Mobil stations at the South Pole. The computer, ski equipment, and snowmobile would allow me to endure and make the best of a year long period that would be pure Hell without these three things. The sub zero climate of the Antarctic winter would make it unbearable to venture outside of my quarters. The computer that I would bring would allow me to keep in contact with the world outside of Antarctica, and with my family and friends via the internet and teleconferencing. The computer would also serve as ...
- 1005: God V. Man In Antigone
- ... her sister, and Antigone goes on without her. She justifies her blatant disregard for the King s law by commenting, Antigone: But I will bury him; and if I must die, I say that this crime is holy: I shall lie down With him in death, and I shall be as dear To him as he to me. It is the dead, Not the living, who make the longest demands: We die for ever (140). Antigone feels that her crime is a display of respect for her dead brother, and her intentions were, in no way, criminal. Antigone s love for her brother and her reverence for the gods' wishes help her to overcome her ... thick blood of the dead. O my son, These are no trifles! Think: all men make mistakes, But a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, And repairs the evil. The only crime is pride. (154) Teiresias warns Kreon that his pride is blurring his vision, and as a result, his ability to reason as far as the law is concerned has also been distorted. Kreon, at ...
- 1006: Punishment
- ... sixteen-year old walks into a school and opens fire on students, strict punishment should be acted upon by the courts. Our jails have become more of a hotel for criminals. Murder is a vicious crime and the consequences of this crime, especially if it is a child, should have serious attributes to these crimes. Rape has become a serious crime in America today. We hear of rape crimes at least one every five minutes here in America. Like murder most of these crimes are committed by teenagers. I think that convicting a young teenager ...
- 1007: Lizzie Borden
- ... 1860-June 1, 1927) It is best described by the closing arguments for Lizzie Borden's defense, made by her attorney, George D. Robinson: The Lizzie Borden case has mystified and fascinated those interested in crime forover on hundred years. Very few cases in American history have attracted as much attention as the hatchet murders of Andrew J. Borden and his wife, Abby Borden. The bloodiness of the acts in an ... gruesome nature of the crimes is the unexpected character of the accused, not a hatchet-wielding maniac, but a church-going, Sunday-school-teaching, respectable, spinster- daughter, charged with parricide, the murder of parents, a crime worthy of Classical Greek tragedy. This is a murder case in which the accused is found not guilty for the violent and bloody murders of two people. There were the unusual circumstances considering that it ... police department, none of the neighbors saw anything helpful on the morning of the murders. What makes the Fall River murders so confusing is that the motive, the weapon, and the opportunity for such a crime are all absent. They found no money or jewelry missing, not even small amounts of change were taken in the daytime break-in at the Borden home a year earlier. The home had been ...
- 1008: Persuasive Essay: Capital Punishment
- ... arrests, murders, homicides, serial killers, and other such tragedies. It is a rare occasion to go throughout a day in this world and not hear of these things. So what should be done about this crime rate? Not only is it committing a crime, but today, it is signing your life over to the government. This is a risk one is taking when he decides to pull a trigger or plunge a knife, but is it really up to ... punishes another? The offender should have the chance to go back into the world and prove himself honorable. May he that makes no mistakes take the rights of he that made the big one. A crime is a crime, be it desiring a brother's wife, or shooting her. Only is it the latter that the world may see and condemn. He that carries a false tongue should sleep no ...
- 1009: The Internet
- The Internet The Internet is a worldwide connection of thousands of computer networks. All of them speak the same language, TCP/IP, the standard protocol. The Internet allows people with access to these networks to share information and knowledge. Resources available on the Internet are chat groups ... of your screen. Every Web page has a unique URL which begins with the letters "http://" that identify it as a We b page. This is the equivalent of the Internet address and tells the computer where to find the particular page you are looking for. The greatest advantage of producing information in HTML format, is that files may be linked to one another via hyperlinks (or links) within the documents ... different color than the rest of the text on a Web page and are often underlined. Navigating the Web is as simple as clicking a mouse button. Clicking the mouse on a link tells the computer to go to another Internet location and display a specific file. Also, most Web browsers allow easy navigation of the Web by utilizing "Back" and "Forward" buttons that can trace your path around the ...
- 1010: Capital Punishment and The Death Penalty
- ... eight states have the death penalty, but is the concept of "a life for a life" the best way to castigate a criminal? Of the thirteen states that do not have the death penalty, is crime more likely to occur there than in states that have the death penalty? (The Economist, April 1, 1995, p. 19) Have there been criminals wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death row? Does the death penalty really scare criminals off and make them think twice about committing a crime? Is the death penalty fair to everyone, even the minorities and the poor? How does mental illness and retardation come into play? When a person is sentenced to death by lethal injection in New Jersey ... the government's jobs is to protect its citizens, but there are others ways to do it without killing. There are no creditable studies that show that capital punishment acts effectively as a deterrent to crime, murder, and other capital offenses. Most crimes are committed on the spur of the moment or in the heat of passion, and the person is usually either under the influence of drugs and/or ...
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