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- 3591: Political Morality
- In Webster's dictionary, morality is defined as "principles of right and wrong in conduct; ethics." The principles of morality have countless times evolved over the ages. In earlier times, death was an easy penalty for many crimes. These crimes today are considered minor and are penalized with a slap on the hand. Is this considered wrong? Who is the correct authority to consult on what is right or wrong ...
- 3592: The Fall of Communism
- ... most of what was national unity was strengthened as well as the Soviet military machine. The Soviet Union became a super power, the U.S. being the only country more powerful than it. After the death of Stalin in 1953 Nikita Khrushchev became First Secretary of the Communist Party. Stalin’s death marked the end of supreme power for the head of the party, and Khrushchev condemned Stalin’s actions as unnecessary and harmful to the process of moving the Socialist government to it’s goal of ... health care system was under funded. Most hospitals were under staffed and the equipment was outdated, medical supplies were also scarce. This lead to the gradual decrease of the life expectancy of an increased annual death rate and a drop in the birth rate. All of these factors in a way, lead to the disintegration of then Communist Regime, taking into account all of the social problems and the years ...
- 3593: Julius Caesar: Addaddination
- ... soil, he died of murder- by Romans in Rome. Why was one of the greatest soldiers in all history, a man who, more than any other, personified Rome s rise to glory, brutally stabbed to death? Beneath the persuasive allure of his charm, lay an insatiable hunger for power. Although he was strong and clever enough to wield that power, his tragic flaw, an unbearable arrogance, brought him to a tragic ... A conspiracy was born and Caesar s unavoidable assassination took place on March 15, in front of the Senate steps. Caesar died with his head hidden in his toga, his pride evident even in his death. Caesar achieved a great amount of admiration and credit through military achievements; he also effectively used propaganda to his advantage. When he had conquered Gaul, he claimed to have acted for the sake of Rome ... power, Caesar had ignored the Senate. He took over forcibly and let their protests fall on deaf ears(Grabsky, p41). The anger and resentment resulting from Caesar, led to a deadly conspiracy. What made his death so tragic yet inevitable was his incredible skill and cleverness. He had a sharp mind, which without he would have been any average Roman citizen. He successfully proved his wisdom by bringing about such ...
- 3594: Julius Caesar
- ... was their prisoner, he would read them books of Roman and Greek literature. When they didn't show interest for him and his books, Caesar promised to hunt them all down and put them to death after he was ransomed. The pirates should have killed him right there instead of laughing at him while they thought he was making "Idle" threats. Julius Caesar made good on his promises, though. After they ... what he did to Rome remained extremely popular amongst the commoners of Rome. This made a path for his adopted relative Octavian to gain power and become the first real Roman emperor. After Caesar's death, there was a curious mixed reaction amongst the Roman people. Normally the Romans shunned and detested the idea of kingship, and anyone who gave the impression of supporting a monarchy or aspiring to rule as ... and despised, but in all actuality this was a way of greatly honoring the deceased. The funeral pyre and public funeral was the accepted and very "Appropriate" way to bury great men. After Caesar's death, Marc Antony gave a speech that has become famous in history, which began with, and that which I use a quote "We have come not to bury Caesar, but to honor him...", . In a ...
- 3595: Mrs Dalloway By Virginia Woolf
- ... Virginia Woolf presents individuals that are uncannily similar. These two individuals carry the names of Clarissa Dalloway and Septimus Warren Smith. Clarissa and Septimus, share the quality of communicating through actions, not words, and perceiving death as "defiance." Through these basic beliefs and mannerisms, Clarissa and Septimus, although never meeting, portray each other in their thoughts and actions. feels death and sorrow all around her. She consistently sees routine and habit around her but seems discontented Clarissa, she was now, "...Mrs. Dalloway; not even Clarissa any inside Mrs. Dalloway's soul, lies her belief character ... goodness of humanity under the cold, hard shell that society, portrays. Septimus believes in nature, love and goodness; but these are not the qualities of reality, they are the antithesis. For Septimus knows of war, death and destruction; he knows that society will not change and that he cannot live in a world that can be so constricting. Septimus takes a leap of faith and ends all his suffering in ...
- 3596: Nationalism: Art Of 19th Century
- ... spread. He knows he will be killed, but the reason he is dying for is patriotic, the belief that him dying will make the nation better as a whole. Most importantly the cause of his death is righteous. Sacrifices of many brilliant people were made for the pride of the country. The people mourned the deaths of many of those. They sacrificed their lives for their countries, believing that they will ... the Bodies of his Sons" by David pictures the sorrow of a woman crying for the loss of the Sons. Just another painful consequence for the fight the nationalism. Another of David's pictures "The Death of Socrates" points out that the great philosopher losing his life for the better of mankind. He couldn't live for something he didn't believe in, so he chose death. This message was spread to people throughout Europe "it's better to die for what you believe in, the live with something you don't." Governments told their people that they were better than ...
- 3597: Holocaust Surviovor Testimony
- ... these bunks just squeezed together." He describes a two hundred foot drop from a precipice at the bottom of which were jagged stones strewn with broken and decomposing bodies. "One hundred eighty-six steps of death that led from the bottom of this quarry up to the top of this precipice. This particular work detail was one of the worst tortures. Inmates would carry these heavy stones up the one hundred and eight-six steps of death. If they fell or stumbled or dropped the rocks, they were beaten to death right on these one hundred eighty-six steps or pushed from the precipice down to the jagged rocks below, to their deaths." All of these people share one quality, and that is adaptability. Without ...
- 3598: Native Son By Richard Wright
- ... unacceptable and being the subject of punishment. Although he later admits to Max that Mary Dalton's behavior toward him made him hate her, it is not hate which causes him to smother her to death, but a feeble attempt to evade the detection of her mother. The fear of being caught with a white woman overwhelmed his common sense and dictated his actions. When he attempted to murder Bessie, his ... society. While Bigger dominates the story, his appalling actions make him a man that the reader cannot look upon as a hero. In fact the author punishes the anti-hero character by condemning him to death for his crimes. One of the two most sympathetic characterizations of white persons in the novel comes from the character of Jan Erlone, Mary Dalton's friend. He exhibits an enthusiastic personality 3 and represents ... exists as a "lost" soul. Bessie circumstances prevent her from going any farther in her life. She briefly escapes with the use of alcohol which Bigger provides her in exchange for "love.” An aura of death surrounds her even before Bigger murders her. Like Bessie, Bigger's mother appears trapped on a one way street going nowhere. Breaking the proverbial barrier and the proper limits of what a black man ...
- 3599: John Dos Passos
- ... duty overseas but his father rejected his idea. So instead, he decided to make his first long visit to Spain, a country which held fascination for him all his life, to study architecture. With the death of his father lather in 1917, he joined the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Group and sailed for France. During his tour of duty as an ambulance driver, he collaborated with a friend, Robert Hillyer, on alternate ... Emory, the high-spirited but drunk architect who commits suicide; of Joe Harland, failed financier turned alcoholic; of Bud Korpening, a young boy looking for a job in the city but is driven to his death by the fear of it; of Anna Cohen, who dies sewing dresses for the wealthy. When Dos Passos's mother died in the April of 1916, it threatened to destroy whatever balance there was between ... there when he needed him, and instead, the only person he could trust in time of despair was his mother. He had known her intimately, and she had become a part of him. But this death was not the only that occurred for only a few months later, Dos Passos's father died too." It was the end of parental authority, of his feelings of moral responsibility to the ideals ...
- 3600: Holocaust 8
- ... compassion. Victims of the Holocaust went through dehumanization simply to make the killing of others psychologically easy for the Nazi’s. Many victims of the Holocaust suffered from various experiments which eventually led to the death. Some of the experiments were things such as: sun lamp, internal irrigation, hot bath, warming by body heat, freezing/hypothermia etc. The internal irrigation system is when, “the frozen victims would have water heated to ... be useless was killed in some way. By the late 1930’s there were hundreds of camps scattered throughout Germany; and camps were quickly being established throughout much more of Europe. In these camps “the death rates were so high, from malnutrition, typhus and exhaustion that the disposal of corpses became a serious problem.” (THE CAMPS) The treatment in transporting and caring for the victims is probably one of the main ... of their nationality. The Nazi’s made it a point to degrade these people in every way possible by taking away their rights and free will. Praying wasn’t permitted and was often followed by death. Alexander Kimel, a Holocaust survivor, expresses how the Nazi’s treated the victims: The Germans establishes a bureaucracy that dealt with people like we are dealing with commodities not even cattle. For example coal ...
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