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- 8161: Capital Punishment
- ... secret information to the Soviets. The Rosenbergs denied, but were sentenced to death. Today their punishment is considered to have been unjust and cruel. The case outraged many Americans and even Europeans; it became a world-wide affair. Arthur Garfield Hays, General for the Civil Liberties Union, exclaimed: "The death penalty for the Rosenbergs was not justified...." Mr Hays did not argue for the innocence of the Rosenbergs but claims that ... retained the death penalty. Lawyer Clarence Darrow, famous for his criminal cases, believes this is an effect of the high homicide rate, which is higher in the United States compared to most countries in the world (Horwitz 52). Darrow believes that the high homicide rate is caused by the fact that the population is crowded into cities whose "slums are natural breeding places of crime" (52). Another reason for the high homicide rate of the U.S. is that people have gathered from all over the world; racial differences are known to "intensify problems" (52). As solution, Clarence Darrow suggest that the government focus on the causes of crimes because "criminals will breed faster than hangman can spring his trap" (52). ...
- 8162: Lacan
- ... If you are totally outside of the law of desire if your totally outside of societies laws then you are psychotic. You don t have a sense of meaning you don t have an ordered world you don t have a boundary between the conscious and the unconscious. So every women is subjected to the phallic function to some degree no women is completely outside the phallic function but also no ... simply men reinforce their masculinity by fixing women in place by giving them identities by imposing upon them sexiness and all of the other stereotypes men impose on women. Women is lack in a masculine world. The point is to cover that lack by a masquerade. To talk about the way women pretend to be the phallus to be what men desire. Covering up their lack of meaning by pretending to ... t the end of it. There is also a signifier that fills in that lack and that signifier is the phallus. I lost the thing and I got the promise of the substitute in the world of signifiers. A law of desire through which I can look for substitutes but only substitutes because the real thing has been taken away. It is the incest taboo. The phallus is the substitute ...
- 8163: Lady In A Rocking Chair
- ... was as comforting as a warm fuzzy blanket. She remembered attending her first day of school when she was a young child. Everything was so unfamiliar to her; new faces, new voices, a whole new world she could then discover on her own, without her mother holding her hand. Unfortunately the fun she expected to have did not go as she could have hoped. It was a seldom occurrence for anyone ... plastic blocks. At certain points she just wanted to cry or go back home to the warm, loving arms of her mother; that is where she felt safe and shielded from the evil of the world. Somehow, no matter how bad her day had gone, her mother could always make it all go away with a soft kiss to the cheek and a gentle pat on the bum. She would always ... back forth with her quilt nearly finished now. Her rocking chair creaks with each subtle movement and eventually the creaking diminishes to a faint sound and finally no sound at all. She had left the world in peace quicker than she had entered it but still much too soon. I guess it s true what they say about your life flashing before your eyes just before you die.
- 8164: Lafollettes-licensing Of Paren
- ... that America requires its citizens to acquire licenses for driving, medicine, and law. This reason is to protect innocent people from being harmed by incompetent people who are not skilled in these areas. Imagine a world in which everyone could legally drive a car, in which everyone could legally perform surgery, prescribe medications, dispense drugs, or offer legal advice. Such a world would hardly be desirable (LaFollette 522). So why, asks LaFollette, should the parenting of a child be any different? If two incompetent people decide to have a baby, doesn t that baby stand a risk ... agree greatly with everything that LaFollette wrote in his essay. I too believe that some sort of licensing system is exactly what America needs right now. Way too often babies are being born into this world to mothers in their teens. In many of these cases the father is nowhere to be found and young girls are left to raise a child. Maybe a couple hundred years ago it was ...
- 8165: Drug Prohibition
- Drug Prohibition There are no panaceas for the world's drug problems, but legalizing drugs, un-clog the court system, and free prison space for real criminals. comes as close as any single policy could. Removing legal penalties from the production, sale and use ... saved by legalizing drugs. "fighting drugs is nearly as big a business as pushing them." As Gore Bidal so rightly put it. Legalizing drugs would endanger the jobs of police officers, and politicians campaigning on war on drugs. Legalization would threaten thousands of careers that the taxpayers would no longer need to support. About 70 percent of the drug budget is used to reduce drug supplies while 30 percent is used ...
- 8166: Drug Legalization
- ... the legalization for the profit end of the industry , which is the only appealing side of the drug trade, but it is not appealing enough to sacrifice my children's future for money. The drug war can be won with the right policies, but legalization is not the answer. We need to save this country, it is the best country in the world, so why destroy it.
- 8167: International Space Station
- International Space Station The International Space Station, a worldwide project, is the next goal in a quickly growing space frontier. The station will be the first and next step towards researching the vast unknown world of outer space. What will be learned by this station? NASA has only the highest hopes that with the newest advancements in technology up in space, the fundamental physical, chemical, and biological processes can be ... of the solar system. It will bring faster utilization in both developing products in space and applying gained knowledge for use on earth. Called by some as the Vehicle that will finally bring together the world through government, academics, and industrial cooperation. A cooperative effort among 16 nations, the International Space Station will provide living quarters and science labs for long-term stays for up to seven astronauts. In building, operating ... the sky. That is still years away, but like all great structures ever built, this may be the most dangerous and expensive. The ISS will be a spectacular, challenging experience for us all, and the world can only wait to see what the International Space Station will bring back to the human civilization.
- 8168: Scarlet Letter 2 --
- ... weakness in Dimmesdale's character and the guilt that comes from within, he is forced to carry the tremendous weight of concealing his sin on his soul and heart. Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale lives in a world of hypocrisy which is brought on by the strong sense of guilt he feels that's a burden on his soul. As a minister, Dimmesdale is believed to be absolutely pure who follows his own ... following on the path of God. Dimmesdale despises himself for his inability to confess and he even inflicts many body injuries. Rev. Dimmesdale apprehends the fact that he has to admit his crime before the world. He says to Hester, " ' . . . Else I should long ago have thrown off their garments of mock holiness and have shown myself to mankind as they will see me at the judgment seat. Happy are you ... able to overcome a lot of agony with the strength of truth. The clergyman's life and death leaves us an important moral to remember: " Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby the worst may be inferred! " (242).
- 8169: Scarlet Letter 2
- ... deadly irony. Residing in a notch in the mountains of New Hampshire, a cottage sits on the side of a steep mountain. In the house lives a family whose contacts with the rest of the world are from the travelers that pass by. One night when the family was huddled by the fire, a traveler stopped by. The family was happy to have a guest and the guest was happy to ... The Ambitious Guest the forest surrounds the lonely family. They want to get out of the forest and get to know people. The forest is evil in a way, keeping the family from the outside world. They dwelt in a cold spot and a dangerous one (Hawthorne, Guest 1). In The Scarlet Letter Hester is plagued with solitude. Since she has the A on her chest she is isolated from the rest of the world. Hester wants to be accepted into society but she is rejected and forced into a lonely life. At the end of the book she tried to run away to Europe with Dimmesdale but Dimmesdale ...
- 8170: The Assassination of MLK
- The Assassination of MLK "One of the world's best known advocates of non-violent social change strategies, Martin Luther King, Jr. synthesized ideas drawn from many different cultural traditions." (Carson 1). However, these protest strategies only furthered racial segregation, resulting in the ... 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 Luther Ling, Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968, while seeking to assist ...
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