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- 1111: Aristophanes Views On Love
- ... long as they live, the pair of them, being as one, may share a single life; and that when they die they may also in Hades... be one instead of two, having shared a single death (192c). At this point Aristophanes myth shows a different concept of love that has appeared in the early speeches. Love is the sharing of a life. It is growing together-symbolized in the physical growing ... expressive of the desire physically to be permanently fused into a single organism, but reaching well beyond the physical in the concept of a shared life, shared experiences, and shared growth, and even a shared death. Aristophanes returns to his myth, explaining that this sort of love is again natural because it is in its essence an attempt to return to ones original state before the sectioning took place. The reward in such a relationship is the relationship itself not something else for the sake of which the relationship is establishes. The reward is to be what is natural for humans to be. The penalty for not pursuing our humanity in this way is, he reminds us, further separation from what it is to be human. In Mythology this penalty is presented as the result of opposing Eros (193b). ...
- 1112: The Inequality Of American Jus
- ... inequality, Cole shows this: Imagine what kind of pressure legislatures would feel, for example, if one in three young white men were in prison or on probation or parole. Imagine what the politics of the death penalty would look like if prosecutors sought the death penalty 70 percent of the time when whites killed blacks, but only 19 percent of the time when blacks killed whites. Or imagine what our juvenile justice policies would be like if white youth ...
- 1113: Native Son
- ... the only people that cared about him and did not judge him by the color of his skin. I think that Max had a significant influence on the judge even though Bigger did receive the death penalty. Look at Jan and tell whether he is a realistic charter or not. I feel that Jan could be a realistic person but his views on topics are too exaggerated and Jan is too forgiving ... and held my attention throughout the entire novel. I hated the way the book ended though I thought that somehow it would go on and say that somehow, someway Bigger would get out of the death penalty. I feel that Max in his closing statement made an accurate description of what Bigger was feeling at the time that he murdered both Mary and Bessie.
- 1114: Charles Dickens 4
- ... can see that Dickens approves of working women because at no point in the novel does Dickens disapprove of Biddy s lifestyle (Internet Site #5). Dickens also criticizes his society on the issue of the death penalty. He was strongly opposed to this idea. He believed that taking a person s life did nothing to prevent crime (Internet Site #6). The most obvious incorporation of this belief into his books is in ... are innately bad, but that frequently society makes them that way (Internet Site #6). Magwitch turns out to be a respectable man who proves his worthiness to society. If the society had given Magwitch the death penalty, he would not have been able to prove anything, and his life would have been made worthless because he was dead. Some people because that Dickens criticisms were largely negative, which is true, ...
- 1115: Is the US Policy on Drug Prohibition Effective?
- ... of an inferiority (Trebach and Inciardi 34). The sad reality is that Prohibition has created much of this discrepancy. The analogy between selling drugs and stealing diamonds shows why this difference might exist. If the death penalty were applied to people who stole diamonds, it would discourage people from stealing diamonds since the value of the diamonds did not increase. However, if the death penalty were applied to drug dealers, there would still be an incentive to sell drugs since the ability to receive profit from dealing drugs would increase. The difference would then be that the people ...
- 1116: History of the American Drug War
- ... most heavily directed - decorated soldier in uniform when he retired. We submitted the biggest drug budget ever, we have dramatically increased control and enforcement at the border. We supported a crime bill that had 60 death penalties, including the penalty for drug kingpins, and I supported a big expansion of the Safe and Drug-Free Schools program to support things like the DARE program because I thought all those things were very important....I have ... border." Bob Dole continuously blames Clinton for the rise in teen drug use, and how drug abuse doubled when he was governor of Arkansas. Senator Dole had voted against the crime bill that had the death penalty for drug kingpins in it and voted to cut services to 23 million schoolchildren under the Safe and Drug-Free Schools Act. National opinion polls show Bill Clinton leads Bob Dole by 10- ...
- 1117: Drug Prohibition
- ... of an inferiority (Trebach and Inciardi 34). The sad reality is that Prohibition has created much of this discrepancy. The analogy between selling drugs and stealing diamonds shows why this difference might exist. If the death penalty were applied to people who stole diamonds, it would discourage people from stealing diamonds since the value of the diamonds did not increase. However, if the death penalty were applied to drug dealers, there would still be an incentive to sell drugs since the ability to receive profit from dealing drugs would increase. The difference would then be that the people ...
- 1118: Smoke The Prohibition!
- ... rates as some sort of an inferiority. The sad reality is that Prohibition has created much of this discrepancy. The analogy between selling drugs and stealing diamonds shows why this difference might exist. If the death penalty were applied to people who stole diamonds, it would discourage people from stealing diamonds since the value of the diamonds did not increase. However, if the death penalty were applied to drug dealers, there would still be an incentive to sell drugs since the ability to receive profit from dealing drugs would increase. The difference would then be that the people ...
- 1119: Antov Chekhov's "Misery": All Gray
- ... theme. The surroundings amplify the sentiment of the main character, Iona Potapov. Cold and gray surrounds' Iona Potapov and he is extremely miserable. Iona Potapov wants to speak to another human about his son's death but no one will listen. Failing to speak with any humans, Iona is resigned to speak with his horse. At the beginning of the story Anton Chekhov sets the environment for the story. "The twilight ... landscape." (30) The dis-pair and loneliness that Iona feels are sorrow. "May it do you good . . . But my son is dead, mate . . . Do you hear?" (33). Iona desperately wants to tell about his sons' death, and how it is affecting him. "He wants to tell how his son was taken ill, how he suffered, what he said before he died, how he died"(34). Ionas' son has died, and he ... evening are falling on the town. The pale light of the street lamps changes to a vivid color, and the bustle of the street grows noisier."(31) When Iona tries to tell of his sons death, he is unable to say what he really feels. "Iona looks at his fare and moves his lips . . . Apparently he means to say something, but nothing comes out but a sniff."(31) He tries ...
- 1120: Satan A Seducer (paradise Lost
- ... Satan's speech to his angels, he makes Hell seem almost a haven, compared to the dangers awaiting him outside. Satan's seductive and persuasive ways is again seen when he meets with Sin and Death. When Satan first sees Sin, a combination of an old sea serpent with scary folds and a dream-figure, the seductress and enchantress, he discovers that he is her Father. She was sent down by God to guard Hell's Gates, so no one would escape. Then, she introduces Satan to Death. After Satan heard Sin complain about her misery as when she says "Rest or intermission none I find" (Book II, 802), Satan of course, being Satan, uses her sadness and vulnerability to get his way ... no enemie, but to set free From out this dark and dismal house of pain, Both him and thee and this once known, shall soon return, And bring ye to the place where Thou and Death Shall dwell at ease, and up and down unseen" (Book II, 822-41). After hearing his extremely caring and concern argument for entering the New World, Sin and her son, Death were very pleased ...
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