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- 1921: History of Punishment and The Code of Hammurabi
- ... crimes. Blacks were threatened with death for same crimes committed by a white man (punished less harshly), it did not matter if the black man was free or a slave. Early societies punishment for a crime was left up to the family of the person wronged. The punishment that was given was cruel and by our standards today way out there for the offense committed. Torture and capital punishment evolved from ... vindication, but a means of protecting the laws from abuse by individuals in society. Deterrence and separation from society was the main purpose of punishment, not revenge. The length of the penalty depended on the crime committed. Having reforms lessened the amount of capital crimes, restricted corporal punishment, and abolished mutilation. Emphasis was placed on rehabilitation for the good of society and the criminal, not on punishment for its own sake ...
- 1922: Millennium: Winners and Losers in the Coming World Order
- ... computers. Many people work all the time because they can’t get away from all the high tech paraphernalia, which he refers to as “Nomadic Objects.” “Microchip-based technologies, such as the transistor and the computer, have already opened the way for the unprecedented industrialization of service-from communication to education to health care and security” (Attali 11). Products such as the laptop computer and Sony Walkman highly foreshadow the undeveloped form of the portable objects of the future. In the coming millennium, I believe that economic power will dominate military power. Japan will lead in the new economic ...
- 1923: Yours, Jack (about Jack The Ri
- ... the police who seemed to have no leads. The first confirmed Ripper murder took place on the 31st of August 1888. In response Robert Anderson an Irish born police official was appointed Assistant Commissioner for crime. Later Sir Anderson would become famous for saying that the police had captured Jack as a reason for the end of the murders, while refusing to state the identity of the killer. Anderson selected his ... day after the dogs were tested personally by Sir Charles Warren of the Home Office in Hyde Park. Unfortunately the dogs fail the test this time. Jack seemed remarkably unphased by the advancements in police crime stopping technology, as on October 16th George Lusk received a package in the mail. When he opened it he discovered that it contained half of a human liver. (Later identified a similar to the half ...
- 1924: Obidiah
- OBADIAH Judgement is pronounced. Obadiah¡¦s oracle against Edom as sentenced by Yahweh Himself is severe and without hope for future restoration of this people. Edom¡¦s crime and reason for judgement is explained by Obadiah in this sense, ¡§you stood by on the day of your brother¡¦s captivity; and rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction ... 9). While a son was cut off, another was saved and restored. Obadiah¡¦s oracle against Edom as sentenced by Yahweh Himself is severe and without hope for future restoration of this people. Edom¡¦s crime and reason for judgement is explained, penalty given, and sentence released, judgement is pronounced. SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 1. Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries. Inter-Varsity Press, 1988 2. The Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Inter-Varsity Press, 1980 3 ...
- 1925: College Education
- ... companies prefer and require a college education because it is a reliable reference that the person they are hiring is capable of solving company problems and achieve business goals. For example, Microsoft is hiring a computer programmer, which has a very high salary and a truck deliverer to transport the products to retailers with a low salary. The college graduate and high school graduate applies. Certainly, Microsoft then selects the college graduate to be the computer programmer and the high school grad to be the deliveryman. Microsoft decides this because the college grad has the qualifications and deep knowledge of computers from college, where as the high school grad doesn't ...
- 1926: Existentialism In Film
- ... involved in a murder scheme. It was shot on a low budget, and in only six days' time. The censorship board refused to allow its release because the main character was never punished for his crime. A final scene in which he is picked up by the police had to be added. The film capitalized on the historical situation emerging in the United States after World War II. Men were returning home to find America very different from how it was when they had left it. Behind the façade of the suburban middle class was the seedy world of the disenfranchised. The cities were increasingly crime ridden. The economy was in a slump and Mom-and-Pop businesses were being swallowed up into faceless conglomerates. The atrocities of the Holocaust were being discovered. The bomb had been dropped. There was a ...
- 1927: Kennedy Assassination
- ... seem likely that Castro would do such a thing, after telling a television reporter that it would begin a war and may cause Castro to loss his power. Robert Kennedy was working on persecuting organized crime, including the Mafia. The Mafia had said that it would be beneficial to them if either Robert or John were out of the way. The Mafia may have hired Oswald, many witnesses confess to seeing ... had to ability to carry out the assassination, and he showed that he would kill someone like when he attempted to kill General Edwin Walker. There is also no plausible evidence linking anyone to the crime besides Lee Harvey Oswald. There is nothing linking a second gunman to the assassination. The main argument that there is a second gunman is he would have been situated in the grassy knoll, but injuries ...
- 1928: Hamlet
- ... ness. Nora does not at first realize that the rules outside the household apply to her. This is evident in Nora's meeting with Krogstad regarding her borrowed money. In her opinion it was no crime for a woman to do everything possible to save her husband's life. She also believes that her act will be overlooked because of her desperate situation. She fails to see that the law does ... and realizes her subordinate position. Although she is progressively understanding this position, she still clings to the hope that her husband will come to her protection and defend her from the outside world once her crime is out in the open. After she reveals the "dastardly deed" to her husband, he becomes understandably agitated; in his frustration he shares the outside world with her, the ignorance of the serious business world ...
- 1929: What is an American?
- ... be like without the government we have today? Well, it would be a lot like the Colonial times, and that was not a good time period to be in. There may be a lot of crime in America, but there are always more policemen, soldiers, or CIA agents ; it does not matter. These soldiers and policemen and agents ; they are all modern Americans. They try to help other people in trouble ... up America. They hold the society together, and make sure our neighborhood is safe, and so on. If we didn't have people like this, there would be no America. Just a land full of crime, treason, greediness, etc. Modern Americans are responsible for being our friends and families who live in this country. This leads me to my conclusion that despite the certain obvious flaws, America is still and will ...
- 1930: The Spanish Inquisition
- ... examined. Under extreme torture, the inquisitors lead the Jewish man into confessing that he, along with other Jews, took a four year old Christian boy and crucified him to a wooden cross. This was a crime he did not commit. Although no body was ever found or reported missing, it still fueled an outrage in the Christian community. Torquemada took advantage of this situation by persuading the King and Queen to ... Spanish women were not allowed to colonize in the New World, the men interacted with native women. This sin was called cohabitation and the church viewed it with extreme disfavor. It then became the major crime to be dealt with in the Inquisitorial Courts. Through the strength of the Spanish Empire, the Inquisition became the most dominant in Spanish society. When the Suprema challenged the authority of the monarch, the Suprema ...
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