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- 2301: Death Of Pol Pot
- ... steer loyalties toward the state instead of the family. Many of the people were send to concentration camp where they were put to labor or kill. The Khmer Rouge often force people to confuss to crime even if no crime were commited. Hundreds of thousands died of overwork hunger and diease. Many more were excuted in the course of the pograms launced against all form of culture and intellectual life. Other died in vicious factional ...
- 2302: The Extradition of Nazi War Criminals
- ... namely, murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation, and other inhumane acts committed against any civilian population, before or during the war, or persecutions on political, racial or religious grounds in execution of or in connection with any crime within the jurisdiction of the Tribunal, whether or not in violation of the domestic law of the country where perpetrated. Leaders, organizers, instigators, and accomplices participating in the formulation or execution of a common plan ... in current American penal statute. But, according to the American rule of dual criminality a way away around this small detail can be found: The law does not require that the name by which the crime is described in the two countries shall be the same; nor that the scope of the liability shall be coextensive, or, in other respects, the same in the two countries. It is enough if the ...
- 2303: Compare And Contrast Essay Of
- ... due to ignorance. For example, being drunk can be considered ignorance, but that will still be a voluntary act, because he/she chose to get drunk. One might argue that a man who commits a crime in a fit of passion does not know what he is doing at the moment of the crime. Aristotle would probably say that this is an involuntary act in the sense that the rightness or wrongness does not enter their thinking. For Mill however obviously emphasizes consequences more than Aristotle does, being that ...
- 2304: Utilitarianism
- ... is that utilitarians are moralists.They believe that a person is judged by their actions and not by their character. For example, if a person is accused of doing something morally wrong, like committing a crime, but then the person’s character is changed during his or her time incarcerated. No matter how good one’s actions are now, that person will always be perceived as bad because of his or ... of their actions.” An example, of Mill’s response to his theory is, if an individual is caught up in the wrong crowd and is caught stealing, and the person is truly sorry for the crime that he or she has committed and is a well rounded person, than he or she should not be looked upon as a destructive individual for the rest of their life. Mill is morally correct ...
- 2305: The Mystery That Was Gatsby, T
- ... that succeeded his death. Gatsby is the rich, majestic, protagonist of the novel. While it isn't clear how he made all his money it is obvious that it was through illegal dealings in organized crime. There was a reference to the 1919 World Series, (That's the one where the players on the Chicago White Sox helped out organized crime by not trying their hardest when it counted. Go Reds!) When asked about his line of work, Gatsby claims to be in the drugstore business. Drugstores were a common means of bootlegging liquor during prohibition ...
- 2306: Alcohol
- ... it can also destroy others self-wort and integrity. Alcohol affects virtually everyone, whether the individual is himself an alcoholic, is the family member of one, or has been the victim of an alcohol related crime. In spite of the dangers alcohol presents,it is still in countless social cirles. Alcohol penetraes all ages, educational, occupational, and socioeconomical boundaries. Each year it is estimated that ten percent of all deaths are ... more dominant among men, than women. There is no known reasoning for this. However, it is theorized by some that women are more apt to be "closet drinkers", and are less likely to commit a crime under the influence. Thus, it can be assumed that the number of female alcoholics could be conceivably higher. Alcohol is a depressant, and also impairs judgment, so suicide is often contimplated by the alcoholic. Approximately ...
- 2307: Cultural Revolution Of The 1920s
- ... of communists. January 2, 1920, he ordered department raids on meeting halls and homes in thirty cities nationwide to gather all suspected communists. Twenty seven hundred people were arrested without being charged with a specific crime. In all, more than 6,000 people were arrested. The raids ended after May 5th. This was due to a government ruling that mere membership in the party is not in itself a crime. Most people that were arrested were released, few of the people arrested were actually communists. The Red Scare continued when on April 1, five legitimately elected members of the New York State legislature were expelled ...
- 2308: The Crucible 3
- ... God. The most important scene in the play was act two, scene three, where John Proctor is able to talk with his wife, Elizabeth, one last time. He decides that he will "confess" to the crime of witchcraft, thereby avoiding being hung. However, to accept what he said, the judge also requires him to sign a written confession which states that he confessed to the crime of witchcraft. Judge Danforth would post it on the church door, to use Proctor as an example to get other people to confess. That upset Proctor greatly, because people would look down on him with ...
- 2309: Social Unrest
- ... fellow classmates to. Students, on top of being made fun of, may be influenced to bring a weapon into school based on what they do in their free time at home such as the violent computer games they play or the music they listen to. In the case of Columbine High School, the computer game Doom and the music of the German band, Ramstein , were to blame. The violence portrayed in the game and in the music may motivate some kids to lash out at those who do not ...
- 2310: Poe's Man in the Crowd: Types of People Based On Appearance
- ... narrator. He continued to follow the man of the crowd, noticing his patterns of following people by the mass and his shambled cloting and he concluded that he “[was] the type and genious of deep crime. He refuses to be alone.” Prior to viewing the man of the crowd, the narrator observed several different types of people, all of which were able to be “read” through their outward appearances.. The most ... order to elaborate their beauty it is essential for women to wear makeup. Without makeup, women look natural and Baudelaire states that nature portrays all of the evils in humans. Nature is vicious and “counsels crime.” Makeup brings out the goodness in women and hides the evils of nature. Baudelaire describes virtue as “artificial” and “ superficial”. He also says that “evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of ...
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