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- 4441: Justice
- ... beholder because we all have different attitudes about right and wrong. Criminal justice is a term that refers to the area of social laws which a group of people deem valuable in order for the day-to-day mechanics of society to function. When these laws are broken, the infrastructure of a society breaks down, and this deviance from the "norm" must be corrected. Personal feelings, morality, religious beliefs, and inflammatory, biased feelings ... matter what verdict would have been handed-down, someone, somewhere would have been unsatisfied. If Shively were sentenced to be executed, then his family and friends would have had to fight for justice until the day he died. As the verdict of "not guilty" arrived, Paterson's family, many police officers, and friends of the family cried for justice. Yet, justice had been served. Equal and satisfying justice has always ...
- 4442: The Role of The Emperor in Meiji Japan
- ... and the sacred objects of nature revered in Shintoism. Two of the most important traditions and symbols in Japan; the Emperor and Confucianism have endured through Shogunates, restorations of imperial rule, and up to present day. The leaders of the Meiji Restoration used these traditions to gain control over Japan and further their goals of modernization. The Meiji leaders used the symbolism of the Emperor to add legitimacy to their government ... a high social position would shave their eyebrows and blacken their teeth to appear beautiful. But on March 3rd 1873 the Empress appeared in public wearing her own eyebrows and with unblackened teeth. Following that day most women in Tokyo and around Japan stopped shaving their eyebrows and blackening their teeth.Footnote37 The Imperial institution provided both a key tool to change Japanese culture and feelings about industrialization and it provided ... months of illness it was as if the Imperial Cult of the Meiji era had returned. Everything in Japan closed down , private television stations went as far as to not air any commercials on the day of his death. And now almost six years after his death more then four hundred and fifty thousand people trek annually to the isolated grave site of Emperor Showa.Footnote45 The traditions and symbolism ...
- 4443: British Control of the Caribbean and Its Allusion in Caribbean Literature
- ... show the confusion that the children were undergoing, In the other passage by Naipaul, a similar confusion exists. "Aunt Gold Teeth" is confused by the barrage of propaganda by the various religious groups, and "every day her religious schizophrenia gr[ows]" (Naipaul 459). In trading the narrators' perspectives, one can assume the young white girl would react differently to the situation than the Indian boy. Assuming the white girl believes in ... individual identity is a consist theme used by Caribbean authors, and it is directly associated with the British occupation. With "Crick Crack Monkey", Hodge was showing the confusion of childhood in the Caribbean. The first day of school was not as simple as packing of lunch and walking to school. There was a long drawn out confusing process to find a school. When a school finally starts, it is as if ... Without the outside world and the confusion it brings with it, the Caribbean would economically collapse, and with the intrusion of the outside world, the Caribbean people become confused with their identity's. Perhaps one day the vicious circle will be solved, but until then, Caribbean writers will keep fighting for the justice their people deserve.
- 4444: Bill Clinton - Redefines Democratic-Republican
- ... as the federalists and the Democratic-Republicans, the first of which soon diminished and the later eventually bisected. The result is the two party Democrat and GOP system which the majority of politicians of current day subscribe. However, many political and economic analysts find themselves perplexed by an incredible new phenomenon radiating from the white house - the economic policies of President Bill Clinton. This dilemma has left many wondering, did we ... accused Reaganomics of benefitting most - the wealthy." Thus, the question remains . . . will Clinton's ambiguous policies fair well when presented to a blatantly republican Congress? It is a fact which remains to be seen. Robert D. Rieschauer, former head of the congressional budget office, views Clinton's economic misidentity as a clear-cut case of Gingrich induced skitzopreniea, noting that "in the world of the campaign, Clinton was the anti-gingrich ...
- 4445: The Communications Decency Act
- ... the Safe Surf program will not connect to the site. If this, or something similar, were mandated for the Internet the Communications Decency Act would be unnecessary. Says Eric Stone, an Internet user, "[The C.D.A.] attempts to place more restrictive constraints on the conversation in cyberspace than currently exist in the Senate Cafeteria..." (1996). The liability is still with the end-user. The American, or fireigner, who sits in ... is called editorial discretion. When the Government does it, it is infringement of privacy. So why are we still trying to let the Government into our personal and private lives? The popularity of the C.D.A. with the unknowledgeable and the right conservatives makes it a very popular law. The left ant the knowledgeable are in the minority, so our power to change this law is not great. The Government ... than the majority in re-election. This law will have to be recognized for what it is, a blatant violation of the First Amendment right of free speech, by the average citizen before the C.D.A. will be changed. Works Cited Cavazos, E. (1994) Cyberspace and the law: Your rights and duties in the on-line world. Boston: MIT Press Macdissi, K. (1995) Enforcement is the problem with regulation ...
- 4446: Political Parties During the Civil War
- Political Parties During the Civil War There are many political parties in the U.S. to day. The republican and the Democratic Party are the main ones everybody knows about. But I'm going to talk about the Republican Party. Founded by a coalition in 1854, the coalition was composed of former ... to oppose immigration. The Republicans joined the Democrats as one of the nation's two major parties in the late 1850s. They gained support as concern grew in the North over Southern influence in Washington, D.C., and they reassured the antiforeign Know-Nothings that they cared about the social impact of immigration. In 1860 their candidate, Abraham Lincoln, was elected to the presidency; the Southern states reacted by seceding from ...
- 4447: Bill of Rights
- ... PEACEABLE ASSEMBLY: In Alexandria, Virginia, there is a law that prohibits people from loitering for more than seven minutes and exchanging small objects. Punishment is two years in jail. Consider the scene in jail: "What'd you do?" "I was waiting at a bus stop and gave a guy a cigarette." This is not an impossible occurrence: In Pittsburgh, Eugene Tyler, 15, has been ordered away from bus stops by police ... in the Bill of Rights. Amendment VIII Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. EXCESSIVE BAIL AND FINES: Tallahatchie County in Mississippi charges ten dollars a day to each person who spends time in the jail, regardless of the length of stay or the outcome of their trial. This means innocent people are forced to pay. Marvin Willis was stuck in jail ...
- 4448: President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative: In Relation With the Soviet Union
- ... lazier guns attached to it. These lazier would intercept and destroy nuclear missiles when they emerged from their silos. Reagan was willing to share this technology with others willing to reduce their nuclear arsenals. "One day a madman could come along and make the missiles and black mail all the world. but not if we have a defense a against them." 12 "We all got together in 1925 and banned the ... July of 1985, "Made a decision we would not trade away our program of research SDI for a promise of Soviet reduction in nuclear arms." 19 While the Soviets were "whining" about the research we'd done on the SDI, they had been conducting similar research for more than twenty years.20 Gorbachev was adamant that the U.S must cave in on the SDI. 21 Reagan stated that "this will ...
- 4449: The Green Party of Canada
- ... of the planet as the Green Party suggests we should. They advise us that we should be eliminating waste and learning to rely on those resources that are renewable or can be recycled or a day will come when we will not be able to sustain ourselves (Darfler). The trouble is that to educate people to do this would take a substantial amount of money and the present day government isn't willing to comply. In this day and age the human population is exploding, with this population boom we are using up large amounts of our finite resources. It has been evident for a long time that there is a problem ...
- 4450: The Hippie Movement That Arose From Vast Political Changes
- ... announcement the students went into action. By May 4, 1970, a hundred student strikes were in progress across the country. At Kent State University in Ohio, students burned down the ROTC building. On the same day, National Guardsman at Kent State responded to taunts and a few rocks by firing their M-1 rifles into a crowd of students, killing four, wounding nine others. Kent State was a heartland school, far ... milestones affected everyone, one way or another, either directly or indirectly. They changed the way people thought. You would be hard pressed to find someone over the age of about forty-five who, to this day, cannot remember what they were doing the day Kennedy was shot, and how they were affected by it. The sixties simply evolved; a microcosm of numerous political and social change that swept the then current generation. The hippies were simply reacting to ...
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