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- 3431: Ordinary Men, Review
- ... After the effects on the men of the outright massacre were seen, two changes took place. First, the 101st Battalion was assigned to clearing the ghettos and loading people on trains destined for the Treblinka death camp. Second, the real dirty work was to be carried out by SS-trained soldiers. This helped remove them mentally from the deaths, and made their work much more efficient. They went on through a ... shot during the Jew Hunts , and a minimum estimate of 30,500 Jews shot at Majdanek and Poniatowa, the battalion had participated in the direct shooting deaths of at least 38,000 Jews. With the death camp deportation of at least 3,000 Jews from Miedzyrzec in early May 1943, the number of Jews they had placed on trains to Treblinka had risen to 45,000. For a battalion of less ... to out of site, out of mind . Not only was the killing done by others, but it was done out of sight of the men who cleared the ghettos and forced the Jews onto the death trains. (Browning, 163) There have been a number of tests performed by psychologists that studied the effects of pressure from authority figures on human behavior. By examining one of the most famous, Milgram s ...
- 3432: The Caning Punishment Issue
- ... taken. What we are doing now is not working very well. Corporeal punishment seems like a good place to start. It is a deterrent step which we could take without expanding the use of the death penalty. Corporeal punishment instituted to a limited degree, not to the level they have in Singapore, would lower crime. Singapore has a $316 fine for chewing gum which is wrong and to the extreme for such ...
- 3433: Once A Warrior King---review,
- ... they were less than effective in strategic decision making processes. The American people also understood very little about the war. Understanding this puts anti-war protests in perspective; the American people could not envision the death and mutilation of children. American intentions in Vietnam were muddled, thus forces were misguided and outcomes were unfavorable. Originally the American presence in South Vietnam was mainly to push for the social betterment of the ... supplies in order to survive. We mostly gave them weapons, tactic training and Christianity. Donavan took part in a seemingly rare situation where positive, personal interaction of American and Vietnamese cultures can be seen. A death of a child from ringworm is disturbing. "To think what just a bar of soap would have meant to that child if he had had it in time! What a little elementary sanitation, or even ... they thought about issues."(322) I am sure that many veterans were personally affected as Donovan was. He lost many aspects of himself. This is evident in his lack of emotion when dealing with the death of his father and the feelings of waste when he had free time. Donovan was an idealistic person of action who is distraught that the war was not successful on any front.
- 3434: The Two Different Cases Regarding Capital Punishment
- ... as a habit must pay the ultimate price. This must be done for the sake of the community which was violated. We can debate whether some non-lethal alternative is a suitable substitute for the death penalty. But the standard of judgment is whether the punishment fits the crime and if it honors the nature of the moral community. LOVE AND AN IDEAL SPIRITUAL COMMUNITY Christian live, is unconditional. It does not ...
- 3435: Lack of Love and Frankenstein
- ... of love that everyone deserves. Mary Shelley has been compared to Frankenstein from the beginning of its existence. Her remarkable life is somewhat imprinted in the book. Throughout her time , Mary Shelley was surrounded by death. She never experienced a mothers gentle touch, for Mary Wollstonecraft died ten days after giving birth. Shelley was also an outcast to her family and the society. Too educated, too open-minded, and too ... scandal. Also, the fact that from all the babies she gave birth to, only one survived, made the impression of her not being the perfect parent. Mary Shelley was none other but the mother of death itself, which influenced her novel. Frankenstein is indeed a birth myth , but one in which the parent who brought death into the world, and all our woe, is not a woman but a man who pushed the masculine prerogative past the limits of nature , creating life not through the female body, but in a ...
- 3436: Our Prison System Sucks
- ... by the word, but I am not. I am disgusted with the fact that it is not here in Canada. I believe that for major crimes, such as that of Paul Bernardo certainly deserve the death penalty. If someone can go out and kill dozens of children, or adults. They surely have the guts to go though with the end of their lives. The amount of grief a family has to suffer ...
- 3437: African Americans In The Civil
- ... as felons when President Davis gave the order. And all slaves captured in arms would be handed to state officials (Allen). These soldiers would be treated like fugitives and would face life imprisonment or the death penalty (Smith 307). However, this did not stop African Americans from flocking to enlist. It was hard enough dealing with the Confederates threats of execution, but African American soldiers were constantly being discriminated against by many ...
- 3438: Oedipus 4
- ... concept. Muscle is the reality." The action of the gods may not have seemed fair, but, to coin a phrase, "life isn't fair." From his birth, Oedipus was prophesied to a fate worse than death, so his parents then sentenced him to death. He was bound at the ankles and carried off by a shepherd to be killed. The shepherd then felt pity for the baby in his arms and did not wish to kill it so he ... still believes that his father lives in Corinth, and therefore thinks that it would be impossible for Teiresias's prophesy to be true. A messenger comes from Corinth to bring news of the king's death. This both saddens and joys Oedipus because he did not kill him as was prophesied. In rejoicing that he did not kill his father, Oedipus explains his fears of his ill fate with his ...
- 3439: Euthanasia and the Law
- ... be a right allocated for bodied individuals of sound mind but for all human beings. Euthanasia is a controversial issue which encompasses the morals, values and beliefs of our society. Euthanasia, literally defined means "good death". There are two types of euthanasia, active and passive. Active euthanasia is the intentional killing of a person by medical personnel either by a lethal injection or by denying ordinary means of survival. The act ... respirator without a court order. Michelle's family could not afford to go to court, and legal aid does not provide assistance in such cases. So, Michelle lay there, for two years until her eventual death. She should have been able to end her life, without having to obtain a court order, when she felt that her quality of life had been reduced to such a level that it was no ... and to have the option, of suicide, at a time I feel I do not want to experience any more discomfort." In other words she wanted to be in control of her life and her death, a right that all people should be granted. Rodriguez went to the courts so that she could obtain permission to exercise her right. After several appeals and the final appeal to the Supreme Court ...
- 3440: Crime and Punishment
- ... Canadians to make. The result of the decision will decide of government have the right to kill its citizens. In making his decision, everyone have to consider the consequences of sending a innocence man to death. Death is the permanent depriving of any human activity. If an innocence man is sentence to death, there is no way he could every get his life back. Unless there is a way to prove a criminal is one hundred percent guilty, execution should not be reinstated.
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