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- 3651: The Characters Of A Jury Of He
- ... justice. The next major character is Mrs. Peters, the sheriff s wife. This woman also feels a deep loyalty to womanhood and that is why she does not tell her husband about Mrs. Hale s crime. This quiet and relatively new comer to the county has really no ties to anyone except her husband. That makes the entire situation more complex for her. She has loyalty to her husband and is ...
- 3652: The Life Of Charles Dickens
- ... innocent man and not favoured for the simple reason that he is black. Tom stands accused of raping Mayella Ewell, a white woman, in a very racist, southern town. Tom is not guilty of this crime, but is condemned by the people of Maycomb because they are afraid to stand up for what is right. When Jem and Scout Finch receive their longed-for air rifles, their first instinct to shoot ...
- 3653: The Jungle 3
- ... jail. His wife dies, his baby dies. He gets released from jail, only to get jailed again, injured. Released from jail a second time, Jurgis becomes a hobo, then he turns to a life of crime. One day he wanders into a political rally seeking warmth. An evocative orator converts him to socialism and his life takes a turn for the better. Jurgis gets a job as a hotel porter, in ...
- 3654: The Jungle 2
- ... fight in a bar and is sent to jail. In jail, he meets Jack Duane, an experienced criminal. After being freed from jail, Jurgis and Duane team up in a luxurious, but risky life of crime. Jurgis learns about the connections between criminals, police, politics, and big business. He becomes a member of this complex network and moves into politics. He runs into Connor again, and beats him up again. Connor ...
- 3655: Ovid The Poet
- ... us, for what seems an apology to his prince is in fact an elaborate self defense and self-justification" (785). In his days in exile, Ovid spent his energy writing apologies and justifications to his "crime" in attempt to escape from exile along with love letters to his last wife. Despite his attempts to be released, Ovid died exiled from Rome. "Ovid's poetry falls into three divisions: the works of ...
- 3656: King Oedipus By Sophocles
- ... love.” Because he continually boasts about how he has saved Thebes from the Sphinx, he believes that no one could know more than he, especially if he is the one to be accused of a crime he “knows” he didn’t commit. In response Teiresias argues, “You are please to mock my blindness. Have you eyes, and do not see your own damnation? Eyes and cannot see what company you keep ...
- 3657: The Scarlet Letter -x
- ... failing. Chillingworth treats the minister's physical condition, but a suspect some wound or trouble in Dimmesdale's soul is contributing to his declining health. Eventually, Chillingworth discovers that Dimmesdale is Hester's partner in crime, and secretly plots his revenge. However, Chillingworth's plans fall far short of fulfillment when Dimmesdale finally summons the courage to stand on the scaffold with Hester and Pearl. It is there, in the presence ...
- 3658: The Scarlet Letter
- ... as the case may be. Also the townspeople, the magistrates, and Chillingworth, Hester's true husband, can be seen in both lights. Either they can be perceived as just upholding the law -she committed a crime, they enforce the law. On the other hand are they going to extreme measures such as wanting to take Pearl, Hester's daughter, away just because Hester has deviated from the norm, all to enforce ...
- 3659: Affirmative Action
- ... because he had to hire a less qualified person because of the affirmative action policy. At that point I knew that I had to know about this affirmative action. That night I turned on my computer and started searching the web for this affirmative action policy. My search started on yahoo.com where I typed affirmative action in the search box. My search produced 77 different site matches that listed the ...
- 3660: Trouble And Her Friends
- ... gentleman was the stem of all the problems leading up to the time of this book. When it comes to the point where a break and entry with a screwdriver and a hack with a computer are legally the same, the system breaks down somewhere, and the government need to pick up the slack (Cowgirls line 14-15). To trust the government is one thing, but as you can see in ...
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