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- 2101: Bring Back Foolishness, Corpor
- ... quarters, and hopes that the image will fuel the readers’ probable fear of human rights violations. Another statement within the fourth paragraph, which I see as an attempt to fool people, is when he says, “ Crime is out of control, despite the deluded happy talk by some politicians.” This sentence come out sounding as if it were a fact, when in actuality it is his opinion based on feelings rather than ... of law, you have to be convicted. This is an example of over simplifying statistics, which are actually complex. In accordance with the wording, this statistic could include those who were found innocent of the crime or those cases where there are no indictments! Of course the percentage would be high. I’m not even sure if the use of the word “murders” is valid. Jeff Jacoby has thus far twisted ...
- 2102: Hamlet as a Tragic Hero
- ... avenging his father's death is shown as evidence of his tragic flaw. Hamlet encounters numerous opportunities to kill Claudius, yet he always comes up with some excuse preventing action. After first hearing of the crime from his father's ghost, Hamlet immediately sets out to take action. Hamlet then began to think that perhaps his father's ghost was conjured by the devil in an attempt to make Hamlet become ... will have had his sins forgiven and that he wants to damn Claudius's soul. Hamlet resolves to wait and kill Claudius at another time. Claudius, through all of this, realizes Hamlet knows of his crime and plots to have Hamlet killed by first sending him to England and then having him murdered. Hamlet escapes this ploy and Claudius plots again to have Hamlet killed in a fencing match. At the ...
- 2103: Macbeth: Independence and Failure
- ... he is unable to complete the task and “carry them [the daggers], and smear the sleepy grooms with blood” (II, ii, 48-56). The scene is painful in the way it separates husband and wife. Crime had at first brought them closely and eagerly together, but now they discover how the execution of the crime separates them…In fact, after the murder they can only speak in short sentences, not communicating or even answering questions. (Jorgensen 67) Although he blames his rage on the grooms for killing Duncan, he was ...
- 2104: Hamlet: Live by the Sword, Die by the Sword
- ... exclaims that the king must have been bitten by a snake and died from the venom. “The serpent that did sting thy father's life now wears the crown.” (p 29) It is the perfect crime except that young Hamlet gets wind of the evil deed from the ghost of his father. Hamlet is told that the only way to put his father's soul to rest is to right the crime that was committed. So Hamlet sets his sights on proving that Claudius murdered his father. Hamlet devises an ingenious plan to trap Claudius. He rigs a play to portray the same murder that Claudius commits ...
- 2105: Okonkwo: Overwhelmed By His Past
- ... of a highly respected man of the clan, Ezeudu, Okonkwo gun had fired, punctured and killed the son of Ezeudu. The only course open to Okonkwo was to flee from the clan. It was a crime against the earth goddess to kill a clansman, and a man who committed it must flee from the land. The crime was of two kinds, male and female. Okonkwo had committed the female, because it had been inadvertent. (124) Okonkwo becomes aware of his actions, and must face the realization. His life is filled with injustice ...
- 2106: Business And The Environment
- ... for over 20% of overall electrical costs. Software, financing information, lighting product consumer reporting is provided free of charge. Public recognition is given through public service ads, news articles, marketing materials, broadcast specials and videotapes. Computer manufacturers who install automatic "power down" on their computers join the Energy Star program endorsed by the EPA. Consumers and businesses look specifically for this symbol in many cases, causing a gain for the computer manufacturer. Variable Speed Drives for heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems save 40% or more efficiency. The EPA has formed a special group buy to make them more affordable. Payback is within three years. Plans ...
- 2107: A Clockwork Orange
- ... in a man who deliberately chooses evil, than in one that is forced to be good. Burgess repeatedly reveals his powerful beliefs that even the most violent crimes are trivial when compared to the heinous crime of oppression. He considers it to be a destructive wrong against one’s spiritual existence. His war is against moral oppression and the government causing it. His weapon, a powerful one, is his incredible satiric ... society has placed him in (Cohen). This serves to bind the whole of the novel together, even to the final chapter where ‘Our Humble narrator’ is finally ready to break the repetition of violence and crime. Burgess’s definition of moral freedom as the ability to perform both good and evil is presented by implication in his discussion of A Clockwork Orange. In his introduction, he states that if one "can ...
- 2108: Gangs
- ... members tries to be the most manly. This often leads to all members participating in "one-up-manship". Quite often this will then lead to each member trying to commit a bigger and more violent crime or simply more crimes than the others. With all members participating in this sort of activity it makes for a never ending unorganized violence spree (A sort of Clockwork Orange mentality). In gangs with more intellegent members these feelings end up making each member want to be the star when the groups commit a crime. This makes the gang much more organized and improves the morale of members which in turn makes them more dangerous and very hard for the police to deal with and catch (There is nothing harder ...
- 2109: Oedipus - Fate
- ... story. There are a number of characteristics described by Aristotle that identify a tragic hero. For example, a tragic hero must cause his own downfall; his fate is not deserved, and his punishment exceeds the crime; he also must be of noble stature and have greatness. Oedipus is in love with his idealized self, but neither the grandiose nor the depressive "Narcissus" can really love himself (Miller 67). All of the ... Teiresias is simply trying to ease him slowly into the truth; but Oedipus is too proud to see any truths, and he refuses to believe that he could have been responsible for such a horrible crime. He learns a lesson about life and how there is more to it than just one person's fate.
- 2110: Opposing The Death Penalty
- ... these individuals are legitimate, the only common bond within this group is that they are all mortal, and hold no respect for human life. These delinquents are on death row, because they have committed a crime of such ghastly proportions, that society has deemed them unfit to live. They deliberately and nonchalantly depraved another human of their life. They emphatically partook in reprehensible malice of inhuman dimensions, never bothered by their ... are going about the solution in the wrong way. If we teach people to value themselves and accept others, and therefore dissolve economic and class differences, we will truly begin to put an end to crime. Till then we will have to accept our reality.
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