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- 1141: List Of Amendments
- ... oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. Amendment V (1791) No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger ... public use, without just compensation. Amendment VI (1791) In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have ... person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States. Amendment XIII (1865) Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. ...
- 1142: Gender
- ... After the six weeks, Helen went back to work and her mother took care of the baby girl, Michelle. Helen is presently at the insurance branch, but has expanded her skills to those of a computer programmer. She is currently searching a new job that will require her skills and offer a larger wage rate. Although the two sisters possess different occupations, their desires for a job come from the same reasons. Helen was born in 1962, placing her in Claudia Goldin's fifth cohort. This cohort wanted a career and a family. As Helen has expanded her skills to those of a computer programmer, she too wants a career and a family. This is exactly the same as Alla. Alla expanded her skills to that of a manicurist and now has a career and her family. Even though ... as Alla's had. Helen continually sought to increase her level of education, thus increasing her marginal productivity. From being a nurse's assistant to a member of the claims personnel and hopefully to a computer programmer, Helen is constantly increasing her level of education through knowledge of technology; Helen's human capital is increasing in order to obtain the highest wage rate that she possibly can. As Helen obtains ...
- 1143: Capital Punishment: For and Against
- ... maintaining the community whose foundation has been violated. We can debate whether some non-lethal alternative is a fitting substitute for the death penalty. But the standard of judgment is whether the punishment fits the crime and sufficiently honors the nature of moral community. LOVE AND AN IDEAL SPIRITUAL COMMUNITY Christian love, is unconditional. It does not depend on the worthiness or merit of those to whom it is directed. It ... and killing enemies in a just war when non-lethal alternatives are unavailable. They are necessary and tragic emergency means here and now to stop present and ongoing violence. Capital punishment is opposed since the crime has already been committed, and isolation can protect society against future violence. Love in the ecstatic dimension becomes superethical. In ecstasy one is delirious with impetuous joy in the presence of the other and totally ... to death who is innocent. 2. Unfair administration. Capital punishment is inflicted disproportionately on the poor and minorities. 3. Weakness of the argument from deterrence.The claim that the threat of capital punishment reduces violent crime is inconclusive, certainly not proven, extremely difficult to disprove, and morally suspect if any case. 4. The length of stay on death row. If there were ever any validity to the deterrence argument, it ...
- 1144: Leda And The Swan
- ... site "The Swan and Leda" (a poem on the same subject as "Leda and the Swan") "Swans, unlike most birds, have external genitals" (1). Thus, the swan is a perfect animal for such a hideous crime as Zeus performs on Leda. In further developing the underlying repercussion theme, the basis of the poem must be analyzed. In Greek Mythology, Zeus disguises himself as a swan in order to lure the pure ... real sense of power, from victim to agent of divinity and historical force" (196). What is so magical about the poem is that it takes a young and naive virgin, a victim of an unthinkable crime, and inadvertently makes her a representative of overwhelming mythological force. After his exhausting deed, Zeus becomes "so caught up, So mastered by the brute blood of the air." Zeus completely spends all of his strength ... powerful forces in the universe are subject to paying the consequence of their actions. Zeus is somewhat a victim of his instincts, yet he is clearly capable of reason, and should pay for his malicious crime. He selfishly attacks Leda like Godly prey, completely disregarding the repercussions he might face. Yeats and Postmodernism remarks that "One is responsible for everyone’s violence and, following his expulsion, for everyone’s peace. ...
- 1145: Metaphors that Justify War
- ... destroy his possessions or seek his destruction. In other words disrupt his manner of life. The Fairy Tale Metaphor The next metaphor under consideration is the “Fairy Tale of the Just War.” “The scenario: A crime is committed by the villain against an innocent victim (typically an assault, theft, or kidnapping). The offense occurs due to an imbalance of power and creates a moral imbalance. The hero makes scarifies; he undergoes ... those who employ it as the heroes no doubt. This was one of the analogies used by the Bush administration in a poll that gained the largest public backing (Metaphorical Definition p. 2). The Violent Crime Metaphor The last Metaphor under consideration is “War as Violent Crime.” This metaphor is dualistic in its approach. War is, in reality, violence and incorporates “murder, assault, kidnapping, arson... and theft” (Lakoff, 1991), and at the same time could be viewed from the point of ...
- 1146: Edgar Allen Poe
- ... cat. The wife, trying to save the life of the cat, catches hold of the axe. Then entirely out of his mind, the narrator plants the axe in her skull. To avoid detection in his crime, he bricks his wife into a cellar wall. But the luckless narrator accidentally bricks the cat into the wall as well. After searching for the dreaded cat, the narrator concludes that the beast has "in ... of a candle and exchanges it for the candle at his benefactor's bedside. Of course the benefactor suffocates; the evidence burns away; the taper is disposed of. The scheme is a success, as the crime goes undetected. For a number of years the narrator enjoys his good fortune. But he begins to mutter to himself, "I am safe," and finally, "I am safe--I am safe--if I be not ... narrator feels the pangs of suffocation, as if it were he who is now being poisoned. Finally, completely dominated by his perverse spirit, the narrator rushes madly through the heavily populated avenues to confess his crime to the authorities. He relates all that is needed to convict him of his crime, then falls "prostrate in a swoon." (275) Those whom Poe satirizes in "Never Bet the Devil Your Head: A ...
- 1147: Capital Punishment: Is It Required
- ... the violence. Seeking temporary gratification is not a logical basis for whether the death penalty should be imposed. Granted, revenge is easily confused with retribution, and most would agree that the punishment should fit the crime, but can society really justify murdering someone else simply on the basis that they deserved it? Government has the right and duty to protect the greater good against people who jeopardize the welfare of society ... hour, there is not much incentive for a lawyer to spend a great deal of time representing a capital defendant. When you compare this to the prosecution, "aided by the police, other law enforcement agencies, crime labs, state mental hospitals, various other scientific resources, prosecutors experienced in successfully handling capital cases, compulsory process, and grand juries"(Tabak 37), the defense that the court appointed counsel can offer is puny. If, in ... short period of time. There was also a great deal of public outrage following the serial murders by Clifford Olson. From these events, which received wide media coverage, many Canadians perceived an alarming increase in crime. However, as people were presented with more and more factual information, the numbers who favoured capital punishment decreased. In June 1987, following a free vote, capital punishment as a response to the crime of ...
- 1148: Capital Punishment: Injustice of Society
- ... is substantially lower than 50 years ago. This decline creates a situation in which the death penalty ceases to be a deterrent when the populace begins to think that one can get away with a crime and go unpunished. Also, the less that the death sentence is used, the more it becomes unusual, thus coming in conflict with the eighth amendment. This is essentially a paradox, in which the less the death penalty is used, the less society can legally use it. The end result is a punishment that ceases to deter any crime at all. The key part of the death penalty is that it involves death -- something which is rather permanent for humans, due to the concept of mortality. This creates a major problem when “…there continue ... hour, there is not much incentive for a lawyer to spend a great deal of time representing a capital defendant. When you compare this to the prosecution, “…aided by the police, other law enforcement agencies, crime labs, state mental hospitals, various other scientific resources, prosecutors …experienced in successfully handling capital cases, compulsory process, and grand juries…”(Tabak 37), the defense that the court appointed counsel can offer is puny. If, ...
- 1149: 1984: A Political Statement Against Totalitarianism
- ... Allies lost in World War II . The government in this novel gives no freedoms to its citizens. They live in fear because they are afraid of having bad thoughts about the government of Oceania, a crime punishable by death. This is the gem in Orwell's collection of novels against totalitarianism. This paper will show how George Orwell wrote 1984 as a political statement against totalitarianism. 1984 is about life in ... His dissatisfaction increases to a point where he rebels against the government in small ways. Winston's first act of rebellion is buying and writing in a diary. This act is known as a thought crime and is punishable by death. A thought crime is any bad thought against the government of Oceania. Winston commits many thought crimes and becomes paranoid about being caught, which he knows is inevitable (Greenblast 113). He becomes paranoid because he is followed ...
- 1150: The 26 Amendments of the US Constitution
- ... oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. Amendment V (1791) No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger ... public use, without just compensation. Amendment VI (1791) In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have ... person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States. Amendment XIII (1865) Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. ...
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