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- 2151: Kantian Philosophy of Morality
- ... Once it is clear that the maxim passes both prongs of the test, there are no exceptions. As a paramedic faced with a distraught widow who asks whether her late husband suffered in his accidental death, you must decide which maxim to create and based on the test which action to perform. The maxim "when answering a widow's inquiry as to the nature and duration of her late husbands death, one should always tell the truth regarding the nature of her late husband's death" (M1) passes both parts of the Universal Law Formation of the Categorical Imperative. Consequently, according to Kant, M1 is a moral action. The initial stage of the Universal Law Formation of the Categorical Imperative ...
- 2152: Port Phillip Prison
- ... opened. The Port Phillip Prison has been built with intergral hanging points in 580 of their cells. Five people have died because of it. Correctional Services Commissioner, John van Gronigan has stated, after the fifth death in custody at Port Phillip, that he is "satisfied with the prison's management". The Government is claiming that because Muirhead Cells (strip cells) have no obvious hanging points, thus they have complied with recommendation ... in the Prison. These people have died at Port Phillip Prison: - 30 October 1997 George Drinken aged 28 years, on remand, was found hanging from the shower fitting in his cell. This was an unnecessary death if they had of build the Prison without the hanging points. - 16 December 1997 Adam Irwin aged 20 years, on remand, was found hanged with an electrical cord from the shower fitting. This also was an unnecessary death. - 4 January 1998 Vienh Chi Tu aged 20 years, on remand died on Sunday afternoon. Believed to have died of an overdose. This death could have been avoided if the guards enforced the rules. - ...
- 2153: Gentlemen Of The Night
- ... do not go gentle into that good night" is chanted throughout the poem. There is unwillingness, in opposition to Frost's poem, to be part of the night. All indications point to the night as death or dying as we are presented with an image of old people near death, "who see with blinding sight," or no sight at all. At nighttime, light has been snuffed out, and that is what Thomas does not wish to occur, for in being blotted out, you become part ... meteors". Wise men in this poem have no choice about the night because "their words had forked no lightning". It's the careful imagery in both poems that really helps convey emotion. Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Rhythm in both poems exists heavily and the rhyming scheme in "Acquainted..." ...
- 2154: Authur Miller
- With the Death of a Salesman during the winter of 1949 on Broadway, Arthur Miller began to live as a playwright who has since been called one of this century's three great American dramatists. He has also ... Crucible, A View from the Bridge, A Memory of Two Mondays, After the Fall, Incident at Vichy, and The Price. And who could forget the film The Misfits and the dramatic special Playing for Time. Death of a Salesman was not Arthur Miller's first success on Broadway. Two years before, when All My Sons opened at the Coronet Theater, Brooks Atkinson of the New York Times wrote: "The theater has ... a warmth in the world that had not been there before. It made it possible to dream of daring more and risking more." He did however push the limits when he released his controversial piece Death of a Salesman. And, he gained even more acclaim. Soon he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. He was quickly catapulted into the realm of the great, ...
- 2155: The Genetics of Violence
- ... another liaison. In humans, tribal men in Venezuela and Paraguay simply refuse to feed the children of their wives if the children are from another union, or simply demand that the children be put to death. Few conclusions can be derived from these tendencies. Certainly, in humans, the tendency to murder stepchildren can not be determined as purely genetic. One could say that the cause is primarily social, as the stepchildren ... to a gene. It is also an example of the difficulty of using social and genetic evidence, together, to track the source of any animal behavior. Society and Genetics In the ten leading causes of death, violence kills more children than disease. In 1988, 8150 US children between the ages if one and fourteen; 840 of the deaths were clearly determined to be homicide; 237 were suicide. Homicide is the fourth leading cause of death for children between one and nine years old, and in the fifteen to twenty-four age group, it is the second leading cause of death. Obviously, crime and violence do a considerable amount of ...
- 2156: Othello - Desdemona
- ... Scene 3. Line 49). This line comes from a song Desdemona sings but it represents Desdemona’s feelings towards Othello perfectly. She won’t blame him for the way he treats her. Even on her death bed Desdemona does not blame Othello for anything. In answer to Emilia’s question as to who killed her, Desdemona replies, "Nobody; I myself. Farewell. Commend me to my kind lord. O farewell." (Act 5 ... he wants him. Othello believes everything Iago has told him and thinks Iago is a great man for helping him. Othello continues to believe that Desdemona is a whore right up until after Desdemona’s death. After Desdemona’s death, Othello’s perceptions of Desdemona changes once more when it is revealed that it was Iago who placed such destructive thoughts into his mind. Iago was the mastermind behind all the conflicts. Othello realises ...
- 2157: Do Unto Others, As You Would Have Them Do Unto You
- ... choir, and wore pretty clothes. How could this conviction be true? In the story, the sheriff’s wife, Mrs. Peters, and the neighbor, Mrs. Hale, helped Minnie Wright to be free from blame for the death of her husband by hiding evidence that they found at the crime scene. Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale related to how Minnie felt before and after the death of her husband. Mrs. Peter’s especially knew; her baby had died and she had no one, which is just as Minnie Wright had felt even while her husband was still alive. I feel the ... Hale asked her where Mr. Wright’s body was, and she calmly pointed upstairs. She told Mr. Hale that he had died from a rope around his neck. She did not notify anyone of his death; she just sat there. She stated that she did not kill her husband, and that she was a sound sleeper, so she had not known how his death occurred. The Wright’s house was ...
- 2158: A Rose for Emily
- A Rose for Emily Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" is the remarkable story of Emily Grierson, whose death and funeral drew the attention of the entire town. The unnamed narrator, whom some people consider to symbolize "the town" or at least a representative voice from it, relates key moments in Emily's life, including the death of her father and her brief fling with a Yankee. Beyond the literal level of Emily's narrative, the story represents symbolic changes in the South after the civil war. Miss Emily's house symbolizes neglect in "A Rose for Emily". The story's opening with Miss Emily Grierson's death and funeral foreshadows the ending. The outcome is further emphasized by the symbolism of the decaying house, which parallels Miss Emily's physical deterioration and demonstrates her mental decline. Her life, like the decaying ...
- 2159: Israeli Occupation Of South
- ... deeper into Lebanon. However, the invasion moved an additional 25 miles further into Lebanon and circled Beirut. The Israeli army killed more than 15,700 Lebanese and Palestinian civilians during their invasion. Besides the horrific death toll another 30,000 people were wounded. Then between the dates of September 16th and 18th the Israeli army, who surrounded the refugee camps of Sabra and Chatila, allowed Lebanese Christian militiamen to enter the ... that Hezbollah guerrillas were making on Israel. The Lebanese despised the Israeli occupation and Hezbollah continued attacking the Israeli army in the security zone and in northern Israel. Hezbollah was ready to fight to the death against the Israel occupation and vowed to drive the Israeli’s from southern Lebanon. Until 1992 there was localized feuding between the Israeli army and Hezbollah but there were no large-scale confrontations. That would ... the US negotiated a truce between the two groups for a short period until Hezbollah fired on the Israeli army in southern Lebanon killing 7 soldiers in 1993. The attack on the Israeli army and death of 7 soldiers caused the Israeli’s to launch its 3rd military action on Lebanon. Israel launched “Operation Accountability” on July 25, 1993 (Barrett). The military action lasted 7 days. During this period, 123 ...
- 2160: Macbeth - Supernatural And Spirits
- ... the supernatural and interference of the spirits, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are led to dangerous tempting things. Macbeth’s character becomes completely different from the brave soldier to the evil king and to his tragic death where he discovers humility again when it is too late. Lady Macbeth’s character also changes from being a loving wife and masculine woman to madness woman. The use of supernatural also makes the play ... of all the confidence in the world, he fears no one. The prophecies at the beginning of the play led him to his success, and those apparitions at the end just led to his tragic death. It is a tragic death because without known that Macbeth will become a king, he would still be a brave soldier, honest and humble man. From all above, the use of the supernatural and spirits provide suspenseful play in ...
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