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- 731: The Lord of the Flies: A Picture of Our Society Today
- ... from adults forced reality upon them and so they had to think for themselves and work together. As a commentary of today's society it does well to explain some of today's issues like violence, laws, pride, greed, fear, religious power and the conflict between living in a civilised society or savagery. It is all about the choice the boys made when life became real. In the beginning their lives ... gods or protection from all fears in society can make person donate to a religious unit material goods or loyalty. Even traditional religions like Catholicism can allow the leaders to lead a life of luxury. Violence in the book increases as it does in society today. At first, the intention of killing the first pig was there and then when a pig was finally killed, killing became easier. The restraint that ... together. In conclusion, the Lord of the Flies is a picture of our society today. It shows the darkness of man's heart and where the break down of restraint can result in killing and violence. When laws and morals can no longer apply to man then the darkness of man's heart will escape. This anarchy is a picture of our society today in war, greed, fear, and is ...
- 732: The International Crimial Cour
- ... One purpose of an international criminal court would be to put an end to this. Another purpose of an international criminal court would be to help end conflicts. Often, as in situations of ethnic conflict, violence leads to further violence, resulting in a gruesome chain of bloodshed. One of the possible ways to lessen the hideous effects of such a conflict is to put war criminals on trial. This not only directly can reduce war ... hoc tribunals to try to accomplish this task, the issuance of these tribunals is not always consistent. For example, ad hoc tribunals were issued in Yugoslavia and Rwanda in hopes of aiding the reduction of violence, but they were not issued to aid the situation of "killing fields" in Cambodia. An international criminal court would be more consistent in prosecuting war criminals and therefore would be a larger deterrent to ...
- 733: The Debut of Television in America
- ... programs aired on it. TV is a great source for news, current events and other information. It is also very resourceful and educational. And above all it is entertaining. However, the amount of sex and violence, and foul language used on local TV has become very controversial. Many people find much of the television programming of today to be quite offensive. Parents dont want their innocent children to be exposed to such things: violence, sex, drugs, nasty language, etc.; the list goes on. On the positive side, steps have been taken to try to appease the angry viewers. About three or four years ago, networks devised a rating system so that parents would have a general idea of the content of each TV program. Also, the law now requires manufacturers to install a V-Chip (V standing for Violence) in new television sets. It also requires that they must transmit the ratings of the TV programs so they may be recognized by the V-Chip. Many say that both the rating system and ...
- 734: Brief History of the NRA
- ... S., people and cargoes travel state to state without inspection or hindrance, if there is a shortage of goods, you simply move and find it. "Firearms are nowhere near the root of the problem of violence. As long as people come in unlike sizes, shapes, ages, and temperaments, as long as they diverge in their taste for risk and their willingness and capacity to prey on other people or to defend themselves from predation, and above all as long as some people have little or nothing to lose by spending their lives in crime, dispositions to violence will persist."17 As long as crime continues to pay, people most choose between being victims or to defend themselves and not be hindered by ineffective gun control laws. Bibliography 1. Blackman, Paul H, Richard E. Gardner, and Institute for Legislative Action. The N.R.A. and Criminal Justice Policy. Reston: NRA, 1986: 2. 2. Blackman, 3. 3. National Rifle Association - Institute for Legislative Action. The "Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act," Does it live up to it's name? Reston: NRA, 1996: 3. 4. National Rifle Association - Institute for Legislative Action, 9. 5. Kopel, David B. "Why Gun Waiting Periods Threaten Public Safety." ...
- 735: Legalization of Drugs
- ... directly to the drug dealers and not the users. "The 'war on drugs' drives up prices, which attracts more people to the drug trade. When potential profit increases, drug dealers resort to greater extremes, including violence." For example, the street price of heroin has risen 5,000 times that of hospital costs. These artificial prices lead to turf wars in which one dealer attempts to protect his sales from another. These ... keep up with the inflating prices. If the importation, sale and use of drugs were legal, the open competition would eliminate the profitability of drug dealing. Without the economic incentive to commit violent crimes, the violence of drug dealing would be dramatically reduced. In addition to the elimination of the economic incentive, the health risk factor would help to reduce the role of the drug dealer. A potential customer would probably ... demanded, someone is always willing to supply it for the right price. The problem with criminalizing a product is that it drives down the supply which increases price and, as mentioned earlier, leads to more violence. "The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot ...
- 736: The Question of Equality
- ... Maurice Duverger shrewdly describes as an accurate continuation of the Jacobin theory of terror: ". . .Man is born but capitalism corrupts him: In order to destroy the system of oppression, exploitation and alienation development by capitalism, violence must be used. Violence against the state, in the first palace, so long as it is in the hands of the exploiting classes: This means revolution. Next, when the working class has taken power, the force of the state ...
- 737: A Grain Of Wheat And Jomo Keny
- ... was unsuccessful, however, and African resistance to colonial policies and the supremacy of European settlers in Kenya took on a more militant tone. In 1952 an extremist Kikuyu guerrilla movement called Mau Mau began advocating violence against the colonial government and white settlers. Never a radical, Kenyatta did not advocate violence to achieve African political goals. Nevertheless, the colonial authorities arrested him and five other KAU leaders in October 1952 for allegedly managing Mau Mau. The six leaders were tried and, in April 1953, convicted. Kenyatta ...
- 738: The Assassination of MLK
- ... Despite these conflicts, King still used non-violent protesting techniques. (Phillips 5). Martin Luther King, Jr.'s effectiveness was not only limited by divisions among African-Americans, but by national political leaders. As urban racial violence escalated in the south, and King criticized American intervention in the Vietnam War, King lost the support of many white liberals. His relations with the Lyndon Johnson administration were at a low pont when Martin ... Americans did not agree with Martin Luther King, Jr. either. "After his death, King remained a controversial symbol of the Afrcian- American civil rights struggle, revered by many for his martyrdom on behalf of non-violence and condemned by others for his militancy and insurgent views." (Carson 3).
- 739: Lady Lazarus
- ... respected doctors and trusted ladies, the crimes in Lady Audleys Secret shock because of their unexpectedness. Crime in the melodrama of the fifties and sixties is chilling, because of the implication that dishonesty and violence surround innocent people. A veneer of virtue coats ambitious conniving at respectability. Lady Audleys Secret concludes with a triumph of good over evil, but at the same time suggests unsettlingly that this victory occurs ... in which a criminal kills for the sake of killing, Lady Audley is brilliant in her bigamy, her arson, and her "murder". The nature of her crimes reflect a general fear of intimate and buried violence, suggesting a growing anxiety about being threatened from within. Her moves are calculated and planned. Murders and robberies spring from a specific social context, not from psychosis or vindictive malice (Kalikoff, 81). Murders in Victorian ...
- 740: Italian Mafia History
- ... for protection. The only people that these victims needed protection against were the same criminals who handed them these notes. Victims had to give the money up or else their families would be victims of violence, kidnapping, bombings, and murder. In 1876 Don Raffaele Pazzolo ran for political office to infect the Sicilian government with the Mafia. By having voters vote under gunpoint he reached his goal. He used his power to get Sin Cripso to be the Prime Minister of Sicily. Sicily was now under Mafia control due to this manipulation. This created trouble with honest politicians, which resulted in much violence. Such as the case with Emanuel Notarbartolo, the director of the Sicilian banks. Emanuel promised to rid the country of the Mafia once and for all. He was assassinated in 1893, and Don Palizzolo took ...
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