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- 1961: Gay Marriages-Acceptable to God and America?
- ... and see past the sexual preference of another person. This controversy would be highlighted by the murder of Matthew Shepard last October. Shepard, a gay college student, was severely beaten and left to bleed to death along a deserted roadside in Wyoming. I was ultimately shocked to see gay protesters show up at his funeral. They were led by a Kansas minister and held picket signs stating disgusting remarks such as ... sure. His name is Rev. Fred Phelps, pastor of the Westboro Baptist Church in Kansas, and a radical in his own right. He is probably the most notorious anti-gay activist in America, advocating the death penalty for gays and lesbians. I looked up his web site appropriately addressed as godhatesfags.com, and was hardly impressed with what I saw. He cites such ridiculous statistics as “the average fag fellates 106 ...
- 1962: How America Should React To Ho
- ... many societies during Greek and Roman era, most of the time homosexuals were considered to be sinners against nature and even criminals. In Medieval and modern periods homosexuals were prosecuted. Enlightenment brought some liberation, substituting death penalty by imprisonment. In Nazi Germany so-called "doctors" tried to "cure" gays by the ways of castration and extreme intimidation. Until 1973 attempts to find a cure against homosexuality, what by majority was viewed as ... fear, which in its turn leads to hostility. Homophobia is dangerous, because it affects all groups of people – heterosexuals and homosexuals, grown-ups and children, men and women. It may lead to violence and even death. There are numerous cases when people were actually killed because of homophobia. To name few of them – Matthew Shepard(homosexual), John Braun (heterosexual), Steve Kennedy (homosexual) and the list can be continued. As Jeffrey ...
- 1963: The African Queen Summary Char
- ... the Captain that Allnutt and she have brought the African Queen down to the rapids and through the Bora delta. This causes the Captain's admiration for Rose: He won't punish her by the death penalty. In the cabin, when looking round for Charlie, Rose becomes conscious of his sick weariness. The Captain knows that normally he has to intern the two persons. He doesn't want to do that because ... has to behave very pious. The first time she is thinking of herself is on "The African Queen". From that point her character begins to change. Rose, just suffering the grief of her brother's death blames indirectly the German for that event. The Germans make her furious and she feels, the very first time, a kind of patriotism. She is determined upon doing something for England. During the travel, ...
- 1964: Robert Kennedy
- ... to 1968. He was assasinated in Los Angeles in June 1668, whil campaigning for the Democratic nomination for President. In 1969, Sirhan Sirhan, a Jordanian-born Arab, was convicted of the assasination and sentenced to death. The sentence was changed to life imprisonment in 1972 after the California Supreme Court declared the state's death penalty unconstitutional. Robert Kennedy was appointed attorney general of the United States by his brother, President John Kennedy, in 1961. Robert Kennedy also acted as his brother's closet advisor. After the President's assassination ...
- 1965: Crime - A Game You Can’t Win
- ... people from committing crimes. In 1997, armed criminals in Florida committed more than 34,000 crimes, victimizing in excess of 93 people a day. These victims receive a life sentence of pain, fear, and often death. The perpetrators who impose these sentences must be punished and removed from society to protect innocent people. Florida incarcerated a total of 66,280 criminals in 1998(Orlando Sentinel). According to the Council on Crime ... Ask the victim of a violent rape if she would endure this violent act again in order to see the perpetrator receive a longer sentence. A man from Moreno County, California would have faced the death penalty for murder if the prosecutors had filed a related burglary charge as a “three-strikes”(Kataoka). Retribution through punishment is mandatory to remain the civilized society we presume to be. It has been asserted ...
- 1966: Thomas More’s Utopia
- ... s before. The young today anointed England’s King, The age splendor is forever more (Encarta). His wife, Jane More, died after giving birth to her fourth child. More remarried within the month of her death. Alice Middleton was the name of his new wife. She was a widow and was not liked by many people. More had a total of eight children from all his marriages; six girls and two ... along with a few others, were taken to the Tower. Everyone told him about how all the other priests and bishops took the Oath, but they still refused. According to the Act of Treason, the penalty was to be hanged. However, the king permitted that More be executed with an axe, beheaded. Four days went by and More wrote his family and friends letters. He said he was not afraid to ... and they would meet in heaven. After his letters were written, he was told he would be executed the next day before nine o’clock. The king did not want to speak much before his death. More was wearing his best gown. He fulfilled the King’s wishes and did not say many words except asking the people to pray and protest that he died for the Catholic faith. He ...
- 1967: American Violence
- ... violence. All other societies in the ancient world devised sets of laws. In the 7th century BC, a lawgiver named Draco drew up a very harsh code that punished offenses, no matter how trivial, with death. Not many years later, another Greek lawgiver, Solon, repealed all but the laws dealing with murder. In the Greek city-state of Sparta, there was a legendary lawgiver named Lycurgus who, after giving the Spartans ... homicides, hangings, beatings) can be made up for those who break the law. They become their own judge and jury, committing crimes to punish those who also broke the law. Capital punishment is the extreme penalty for crime for violators of government laws. Execution of criminals for a great variety of offenses has been carried out by such methods as drowning, stoning, hanging, and beheading. Modern executions are usually done by ... Roman Empire, Persia, and in medieval Japan, crucifixion was for a variety of offenders was common. This involved binding or nailing the offender to a crossbeam fixed on a vertical beam set in the ground. Death eventually ensued--from exhaustion, suffocation, bleeding, or heart failure. The purpose for combating crime and enforcing punishment is to prevent the disintegration of society. In other words, the preamble to the United States Constitution ...
- 1968: How America Should React To Ho
- ... many societies during Greek and Roman era, most of the time homosexuals were considered to be sinners against nature and even criminals. In Medieval and modern periods homosexuals were prosecuted. Enlightenment brought some liberation, substituting death penalty by imprisonment. In Nazi Germany so-called "doctors" tried to "cure" gays by the ways of castration and extreme intimidation. Until 1973 attempts to find a cure against homosexuality, what by majority was viewed as ... fear, which in its turn leads to hostility. Homophobia is dangerous, because it affects all groups of people – heterosexuals and homosexuals, grown-ups and children, men and women. It may lead to violence and even death. There are numerous cases when people were actually killed because of homophobia. To name few of them – Matthew Shepard(homosexual), John Braun (heterosexual), Steve Kennedy (homosexual) and the list can be continued. As Jeffrey ...
- 1969: John Brown
- ... his family’s tannery. In 1820 he married Dianthe Lusk, who bore him seven children; five years later they moved to Pennsylvania to operate a tannery of their own. Within a year after Dianthe’s death in 1831, Brown wed sixteen year old Mary Anne Day, by whom he fathered thirteen more children. During the next twenty-four years Brown built and sold several tanneries, speculated in land sales, raised sheep ... of May twenty-third, 1856, he and six followers, including four of his sons, visited the homes of pro-slavery men along Pottawatomie Creek, dragged their unarmed inhabitants into the night, and hacked them to death with long-edged swords. At once, "Old Brown of Osawatomie" became a feared and hated target of slave-staters. In autumn 1856, temporarily defeated but still committed to his vision of a slave insurrection, Brown ... treason, or the destruction of property, or to excite or incite slaves to rebellion, or to make the insurrection. I have another objection; and that is, it is unjust that I should suffer such a penalty. Had I interfered in the manner which I admit, and which I admit has been fairly proved (for I admire the truthfulness and candor of the greater portion of the witnesses who have testified ...
- 1970: The Role of Prejudice In The Merchant of Venice
- ... draws a similarity between Shylock's demand for payment in a pound of flesh with the crucifixion of Christ.Auden wrote, "Christ may substitute himself for man, but the debt has to be paid by death on the cross.The devil is defeated, not because he has no right to demand a penalty, but because he does not know the penalty has been already suffered" (Auden, p. 227).Shylock regards Antonio as his number one nemesis because of the countless public humiliations he has subjected him to and because Antonio has purposely hindered his business ...
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