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- 681: A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
- ... not so apparent. I have had problems to figure out the clear and correct ideas, also I had some doubts and questions. Actually the main idea of this poem is trying to tell us the death or the separation of two lovers is not that serious. Love can still extend and leap over the gap and the limit of time and space. The first and the second stanza seemed to describe ... though people surrounded him were unwilling to let him go. But the speaker thought we should not or we did not need to tear or sigh. The real love should be beneath the line of death and live. Some said: "death is only another form of life." If two persons truly loves each other, the combine of the spirit and the firm affection would certainly last forever. Here I got one question: Why is "laity" ...
- 682: Young Goodman Brown / The Masque Of Red Death
- Young Goodman Brown / The Masque Of Red Death There are many different item that have to be contributed into a story for it to be considered a piece of Romantic Literature. In these two stories that I read I am going to discuss ... in an unreal universe but when he finally woke up and entered the real world he just acted as if he were in his own unreal dream like world. In The Masque Of The Red Death the rooms that the prince decorated were all decorated as if you were in a dream. Each room was a different color where every decoration all the tapestries and all the furniture matched the color ... ever happens in reality goes against what he learned in his dreams. So whenever normal actions occurred in real life he questioned it and wondered what it really meant. In The Masque Of The Red Death Prince Prospero for some reason decorated his rooms in a bizarre way and with haunting furniture he had a eccentric yet August taste. He also wanted everyone around him to dress in masks and ...
- 683: Lord of the Flies: The Beast Within Us
- ... like a wild animal. This is kind of like Jack's own way of initiating himself into a different person. Then after we see Jack as a different person, we see such acts as the death of Simon, the smeared blood on the children's faces, and the attempt on Ralph's life. All these things show how his inner demon's presence. Another place where we see the evil come ... even in Frankenstein, we also see the same contrast in the real world. When a serial killer takes one life after another, they are each acts of evil. But then when this person receives the death penalty, it is also an act of evil. So the point is that the serial killer was inherently evil, because no one forced him, or taught him to kill multiple people. But then on the ...
- 684: Kurds Vs Turks
- ... arrested him in Kenya in mid-February. Okyay said foreign observers would not be permitted to attend the trial and that it would "proceed without pause" until a verdict is reached. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for Ocalan for founding and leading the Kurdish Workers' Party, the separatist guerrilla group blamed for the deaths of thousands of Turkish security forces, state employees and Kurds allied with the government over the past 15 years. Turkey has not carried out a death penalty in more than a decade and the court's decision for Ocalan's second-in-command does not bode well for the PKK leader. The top lieutenant to rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan was ...
- 685: ROBBERY OF FREEDOM:The Ultimate Injustice
- ... me that I had told the ABI. I just sat there in total shock at what was being said. My attorney just shrugged when I would look at him, he never opened his mouth. The death penalty was suggested as a possibility by a DEA agent, Orvie Locklar. He was a lifetime friend of my parents, so they thought. One can only imagine the helpless horror of that ordeal. I had never ... mother and I talked alone after the bug-eyed, red faced judge went back to the bench. He had screamed to the top of his lungs! My mother was crying at the thought of the death penalty, because she knew just how brutal they could be. The appointed attorney told me that the best thing to do was plead guilty, that it would not affect my nursing license, that there ...
- 686: Is the Criminal Justice System Racially Biased?
- ... in the eye of the Supreme Court for years, however with issues of capital punishment it has taken a new twist. In the 1972 Supreme Court case Furman v. Georgia, the court ruled that the death penalty was cruel and unusual punishment as prohibited by the eighth and fourteenth amendments. Five on the nine justices addressed the racial issue. Judge Marshall said it was unconstitutional because it, "imposed discriminatorily against certain identifiable ... at stake. However, this is easier said than done. "Police are more likely to arrest black suspects"(Henslin 213). A recent study revealed astonishing evidence of racial bias in Virginia. Sociologist Donald Partington examined all death row inmates in Virginia charged with rape and attempted rape between 1908 and 1963. Between this time, of the 2798 convicted men 56% were black. All of these black men were executed. Ironically none ...
- 687: Electrocution is the Only Way
- ... of the two for the state of Florida. Florida, along with Alabama, Georgia, and Nebraska, is one of the only states left that still uses the electric chair as a way of carrying out the death penalty. Lethal injection might be more humane, but after committing murder, a convict deserves a fierce death penalty. Maucker needs to take a step back from his one-sided beliefs and realize the importance of this form of punishment. This editorial is directed towards an educated and experienced audience. It begins ...
- 688: How Should The United States Treat Todays Criminals?
- ... is believed that there are forces beyond that persons control that caused him/her to make the decision. For example, in the United States Penitentiary, Atlanta, an inmate brutally stabbed a correctional officer to death with a homemade knife. This inmate is not allowed to possess or manufacture such weapons and has no need for such a weapon. Under the Justice Model this inmate is held accountable for the life that he had just taken by receiving the death penalty, but the Medical Model would have sentenced this inmate to a number of rehabilitation programs believing that this decision to take human life was caused by the environment that the inmate lived in. Unlike ...
- 689: Justification of Violence
- ... start a war, nor should we declare war on another country unless they have already started attacking and killing our people. Two acts of violence that I have a split opinion on are both the death penalty and abortion. I don't believe that both are either totally wrong or totally right. I think the death penalty is a good concept, because I think it might scare some people away from committing any crime that would require its use. However, I don't think it's very effective because it ...
- 690: Boston Massacre
- The Boston Massacre is considered by many historians to be the first battle of the Revolutionary War. The fatal incident happened on March 5 of 1770. The massacre resulted in the death of five colonists. British troops in the Massachusetts Bay Colony were there to stop demonstrations against the Townshend Acts and keep order, but instead they provoked outrage. The British soldiers and citizens brawled in streets ... Preston pleaded innocent. The eight men and Preston were tried separately and only two were found guilty. The others were acquitted while the two found guilty were branded on the hand and released, an easy penalty for murder. Preston was found innocent. Adams was successful in proving the soldiers fired in self-defense. The soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre were proven innocent. Adam proved that the soldiers fired in self ... soldiers would have been guilty and been convicted with murder. Adams said, the killing were justified and blamed the violence of the immigrant Patrick Carr and Crispus Attucks (Mahin 1). So if Adams believes the death of the five men were blamed on them two how come they weren t just arrested and how come the others were shot. Adams told the jury that the illegal assembly was guilty of ...
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