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- 4321: Capital Punishment: Injustice of Society
- ... such poor character that they have subsequently been disbarred.”(Tabak 37). With payment caps or court determined sums of, for example, $5 an hour, there is not much incentive for a lawyer to spend a great deal of time representing a capital defendant. When you compare this to the prosecution, “…aided by the police, other law enforcement agencies, crime labs, state mental hospitals, various other scientific resources, prosecutors …experienced in successfully ... off mistaken execution as an incidental cost in the greater scheme of putting a criminal to death? “Revenge is an unworthy motive for our society to pursue.”(Whittier 1) In our society, there is a great expectation placed on the family of a victim to pursue vengeance to the highest degree -- the death penalty. Pat Bane, executive director of the Murder Victims Families for Reconciliation (MVFR), stated, “One parent told me ... cost of putting someone away for life is a deal. Is it really worth the hassle and money to kill a criminal, when we can put them away for life for less money with a great deal more ease? In earlier times--where capital punishment was common, the value of life was less, and societies were more barbaric--capital punishment was probably quite acceptable. However, in today’s society, which ...
- 4322: An Analysis of the Novel Candide by Voltaire
- An Analysis of the Novel Candide by Voltaire The novel Candide by Voltaire is a great peice of satire that makes fun of the way people in medievil times thought. The book is about a man, Candide, and his misfortunes. Throughout the book Candide has countless things go wrong in order ... must not be evaluated too closely. If it is picked apart and some of the things are taken too seriously then the general idea trying to be presented is not recognized. Voltaire uses alot of great humorous filling inside of a few major ideas and attacks the areas needed to be attacked in a witty and humorous matter. The novel Candide is a well written, funny, to the point book stressing ... he proves that this is not the best of all possible worlds by showing the reader the problems of medievil times. Voltaire presents these ideas through a young boy, Candide. Voltaire's Candide is a great satirical peice that makes fun of medievil people's ideas in hope to open minds and inform the reader.
- 4323: Hamlet - He Loves Her? He Loves Her Not?
- ... stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world." (14 Act 1 Scene 2 Line 131). It is through his soliloquy’s that the audience learns the depths of Hamlet’s depression. Hamlet not only regards the world with pessimism, but he also has suicidal feelings. The main reason at this point for his anger and frustration, is his mother’s abrupt marriage to Claudius. The actions ... I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not with all their quantity of love make up my sum." (131 Act 5 Scene 1 Line 272). Although there have been scenes in which the reader has great doubt, he/she comes to feel that Hamlet loved Ophelia. His claims of love, and his bitter reaction to her rejection prove his love. Although Shakespeare may not have made it clear, the popular belief ...
- 4324: Gay Marriages-Acceptable to God and America?
- ... themselves to the fact that gays have no say in their sexual orientation that hate starts to grow. It is sad that there are those “in the closet” who commit suicide, or suffer years of depression and anxiety blaming themselves for being gay. I believe in equal rights for everyone, after all what is this country founded on? Homosexuality is prevalent in U.S. history, I heard that some presidents were ... tied up and brain washed by her local church. And I am sure that this ministry isn’t having much success in reforming gays of their inherent lifestyles. The American Psychiatric Association warns of the great risks involved with ‘conversion therapy’ since it based on the assumption that homosexuality is a mental disorder, or that the person being forced to change his/her sexual orientation, can have disastrous results. The entire ...
- 4325: The Superfluous Man As A Mirro
- ... that of a sociopath. Certainly, on an amoral, destructive level, Pechorin matches well. As a direct result of his own actions, he is responsible for the deaths of Bela, her father, and Grushnitsky. He brought great shame to both Vera and Mary, not to mention the great upheavals in the lives of Bela s brother Azamat and the bandit Kazbich. While he displays sorrow for Bela s death, it is entirely insufficient to account for the indifference with which he alters other people s existences. Certainly, upbringing does have a great deal to do with what sort of person we become, and I have come to the belief reinforced by reading about these superfluous men that a child, given all it needs to survive and ...
- 4326: War Engenders Many Journeys In
- ... success. Decisions make up the main bulk of our inner conflict. In making a decision, two possible situations come to mind--one can either do this or that. The decisions can either be one of great complexity or a fairly simple one. An example of a complex decision can be the choice to take or refuse drugs if asked by a peer to use them. By refusing to take the drugs ... is a cave swarming with a multifarious amount of emotions, from love to misery. Of all the emotions, misery becomes the greatest battle we wage in our war. We are most vulnerable to misery and depression. In one point in time we will come up against misery. Learning to cope with misery becomes one of the hardest stages in life. Misery is a hole that we must learn to climb out ...
- 4327: How Did World War 2 Change The
- ... the majority were house wives. The misnomer that very few women had jobs back in the 30’s and 40’s, is not true. In fact, the majority of women had jobs. Even during the Great Depression, almost all women leaving school looked for jobs, and eventually found one. Of the women born in 1915, 91% had a job by 1938, which was relatively good compared to the 96% of men in ...
- 4328: Status Quo And Change In The Late 1800’s To Early 1900’s
- ... the same time, most people who had “arrived” economically attempted to maintain the status quo by looking back to the social forms of earlier times. People imitated the plantation life in the South, or the great houses on the Hudson in the North, and wealthy people imitated the manners of Europe, if they could. Politically, they attempted to halt the immigration of “foreigners”, and gave favor in the immigration laws to ... anti-black movements was a major part of the social history, both in the South and in the northern cities. This curious mixture of the “manifest destiny”, the feeling that America would grow and become great, and a desire for an older, simpler time, led to a revival of classicism in the South, and romanticism in the North among the leisure classes, and the rise of “jingoism” among the common man ... reading public and became influential in creating rapid intellectual change. Among these were Darwinism, social Darwinism (“survival of the fittest”), and the “Gospel of Wealth”. These ideas, considered so progressive at the time, were a great change from the traditional Christian ideals of the previous age. The new ideas justified the behavior of the “robber barons”, who became for many, heroes, and for others, hated masters. As the century drew ...
- 4329: Warm Feelings For Cold Blood
- ... reader wanting more. The plot will develop in a certain area and the scene switches so that another angle can be seen. In Cold Blood read like a novel, with a plot line, vivid scenes, great characterization and good dialogue. Most incredible of all, the thoughts of the characters were present. (http://www.sgi.net/marbles/zeno/capote.html) This sums up some major aspects of the book and why it ... saw the book as a bold and praiseworthy step for the technically conservative Capote: "He has always been known as a distinguished stylist and as an imaginative storyteller, but he has not previously shown a great deal of interest in the possibilities of innovative arrangement."(Microsoft Encarta) Truman Capote is a truly great writer. His early childhood and his growing up all affected his writing. Even though In Cold Blood is a true account, he had to add many features to it so that the novel would ...
- 4330: History of Computers
- ... computer world. I will show how in just forty years, computers have come from complex, slow, room-sized machines, to the small and fast computers of today. These powerful machines are the art of many great men and women, which I will also briefly explain in the project. This project is to show others how these machines, that run many aspects of our life, have come from. Body of Research Computers are one of man-kinds largest achievements. In just forty years, computers have come from room-sized machines, that compute slowly and store little data, to machines that fit in your pocket, that store great amounts of data and process very quickly. The computer that is credited with making the first complete digital operation is Howard Aiken’s Harvard Mark I (created in 1937), which was made up of 78 ... computer I am typing on right now, is the result of a slow, room-sized machine that existed only twenty years ago. Bibliography Ritchie, David. The Computer Pioneers. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986. Spencer, Donald. Great Men and Women of Computing. Ormand Beach: Camelot Publishing Company, 1996. Rusch, Richard Computers: Their History and How They Work. New York: Simon & Schuster. 1969. Hintz, Sandy. Hintz, Martin. Computers in our World, Today ...
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