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- 651: Sir Gawain And The Wife Of Bath
- ... leaves are missing. 2) The Hag is magically transformed into a fair maiden in all the tales except SD. Jo Janet's equivalent of the transformation is the revelation of her royal identity. 3) A crime brings on the hero's plight in TF, SD, and P. 4) The enchantment ends with a kiss in DR, M, DS, KO, and LD. 5) The hero turns away from her in bed in ... has been scornful and shrewish toward him, suddenly begs his pardon and offers him her love. A fuller synopsis of the Parzival episode will be included in the discussion of the third feature, that of crime, below, as well as my reason for including Parzival as an analogue. Transformation is the only reason that Libeaus Desconus is included, even as an analogue. As the hero lies asleep, the dragon (an analogue ... turns into a beautiful young maiden. It is certainly the dragon's choice and not the hero's, though his being kissed does transfer sovereignty to her, and his reward is fortunate and unexpected. The crime of the hero in Chaucer's tale is the rape of a virgin, obviously the shedding of blood by force. The crime is the same in The Shepherd's Daughter: He took her by ...
- 652: The Need For Extreme Criminal Justice Reform in California
- ... a strong proposition for the California Legislature...and that is a strict and logical reform to the present Criminal Justice System in California. B. "The California Legislature is to be commended for its stance on crime. Not for their "get tough" policies such as the "Three Strikes" law but for their enactment of a little known section of the Penal Code entitled the "Community Based Punishment Act of 1994." (Senator Quentin ... ineffective methods of criminal behavior correction remain intact." (Charles Calderon-US News) D. By immediately eliminating incarceration for all non-violent offenses and requiring victim compensation and community service, resources can be committed to preventing crime rather than to the feeding and housing of offenders. E. This is consistent with the findings of the legislature and is cost efficient, requires minimal systemic change, and increases public safety and security. IV. The ... moves away from the concept of punishment and focuses on a more functional goal of victim and societal repayment. The proposal offers prevention at the front end rather than repayment at the back end of crime reduction efforts. The advantages of such a system are numerous. One of the most important assets of a revision of this kind is that of allowing for a major change in the criminal justice ...
- 653: Reviving The Death Penalty
- ... two sides have drawn lines in the sand and are emphatically holding their ground. The need for capital punishment is greater today then it has been at anytime in the past for several reasons. The crime rate is soaring out of control. Murders are tearing our people, our cities, and country apart. Many people have the same belief as Thomas Draper, an author on the book called Capital Punishment, that no society can abolish crime, so their only hope is to do everything they can to control it. It is time for the United States to mandate the death penalty for the crime of murder in all 50 states and to carry out the executions of those sentenced to death. Capital Punishment is the lawful infliction of the death penalty. In England, by 1500, only major felonies ...
- 654: Computers And The Military
- When the first computer was built some decades ago, it was capable of doing simple calculations and other basic tasks. The engineers had no idea what the future would bring within the world of computers. Their invention was the ... the industrialized world. Computers invaded in the following decades the lives of most people in various worksaving machines and in the middle of the Eighties also in the form of Personal Computers (PCs). But the computer revolution also made its impact on other areas, which the bright scientists probably never anticipated. War has in all times been one of the main reasons that new inventions have been made, and the military was quick to see the destructive potential in computer technology and to try to exploit it to get ahead of the enemies. MAIN PART Due to the development within technology, the military is now far more than just infantry whose task is to ...
- 655: Capital Punishment: Deters murder, and is just Retribution
- ... dead, he will not be able to kill again. Most supporters of the death penalty feel that offenders should be punished for their crimes, and that it does not matter whether it will deter the crime rate. Supporters of the death penalty are in favour of making examples out of offenders, and that the threat of death will be enough to deter the crime rate, but the crime rate is irrelevant. According to Isaac Ehrlich's study, published on April 16, 1976, eight murders are deterred for each execution that is carried out in the U.S.A. He goes on to ...
- 656: The Modem
- The Modem First of all I would like to start with an introduction I chose this topic because I thought it would be interesting to learn about how a modem works in a computer. With modem we are able to access the Internet BBS' or Bulletin Board Systems. The MODEM is one of the smartest computer hardware tools ever created. modem is an abbreviation of Modulator De Modulator it is fairly simple to explain; through the telephone lines we are able to send messages between one single computer or a group of computers. The Originating computer sends a coded message to the Host computer which decodes it and there we have the power to access the Internet, talk to other people through ...
- 657: Benefits Of Capital Punishment
- ... dead, he will not be able to kill again. Most supporters of the death penalty feel that offenders should be punished for their crimes, and that it does not matter whether it will deter the crime rate. Supporters of the death penalty are in favour of making examples out of offenders, and that the threat of death will be enough to deter the crime rate, but the crime rate is irrelevant. According to Isaac Ehrlich's study, published on April 16, 1976, eight murders are deterred for each execution that is carried out in the U.S.A. He goes on to ...
- 658: Crime Of Passion By Barbara Hu
- The essay A Crime of Compassion was written by Barbara Huttmann. A story of love, dedication, moral values, and a nurse who loved her job and her patients very dearly. One of her patients was a young police officer ...
- 659: Prison Alternative
- ... overcrowd their cell-block, deprive them of meaningful work, and the result is an embittered underclass more intent on getting even with society than contributing to it. There is a better way to deal with crime and punishment in America. Americans pay too much money for prisons to fail so badly. Like many big government solutions, prisons are expensive. In the Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics 1997, the Bureau of Justice ... sending a student to a four-year college. Due to overcrowding, more than ten billion dollars in construction is needed to create sufficient space for just the current prison population. "Building more prisons to address crime is like building more graveyards to address a fatal disease." (Robert Gangi, Executive Director, Correctional Association of New York) Ervin 2 Prisons take the nonviolent offender and make him live in the same conditions that ... were violent offenders (US Department of Justice Report, "Prisoners in 1996"). The government should initiate work programs; where the criminal receives a task and must relinquish his or her earnings to the victim of their crime until the mental and physical damages of their victims are satisfied. A court will determine how much money the criminal will have to pay for his restitution costs, and what job the criminal will ...
- 660: Local Area Networks
- LANs: Local Area Networks Local Area Networks also called LANs have been a major player in industrialization of computers. In the past 20 or so years the worlds industry has be invaded with new computer technology. It has made such an impact on the way we do business that it has become essential with an ever-growing need for improvement. LANs give an employer the ability to share information between ... for technicians that set-up and perform maintenance on LANs systems. And through all the technical words what they are trying to say is a LAN is a small area network that distributes information among computer in a small work environment unlike WANs that distribute information across global areas. It is usually the case that LAN is owned by the same organization that owns the attached devices. For WANs, this is ... though a single shared connection. These protocols prevent collisions of data caused by simultaneous transmission between two or more computers. Computers on most LANs use protocols known as Ethernet or Token Ring. An Ethernet-linked computer checks if a shared connection is used. If not, the computer transmits data. Since computer can sense an idle connection and send data at the same time, transmitting computers continue to monitor their shared ...
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