2.) Identify the author(s) authority, and what are his or her credentials, professional affiliations, education, and experience. Also, I look at the country of original work and consider the source.…
Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest operates as an entertaining and interesting novel on a pure surface level. There’s a good story, well-developed characters and fresh language. It has all the workings of a good novel, but One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest isn’t just a good novel. It’s a great one, because Kesey uses Chief Bromden’s perspective to let imagery flow out of the novel and have it all come back to one theme: individuality and its repression by society. This idea is highlighted by the image of gambling vs. playing it safe, whether in literal card games or as a way of living. The mental ward’s new patient, Randle Patrick McMurphy, is a self-described “gambling fool” (12)1, while his opposer, “Big Nurse” Ratched, forces the “Acute” patients to play it safe by trying to keep the ward in order with her mechanical routine. As McMurphy influences the men on the ward to be individuals, gambling becomes a part of the everyday routine. Eventually, the men on the ward begin taking gambles outside of card games until the novel’s climax.…
Author Shirley Jackson published, “The Lottery”, a short story in 1948 in the New Yorker. The Lottery tells the story of a small town in America that ritually participates in a barbaric lottery. Famed author D. H. Lawrence published , “The Rocking-Horse Winner” in 1932, which is centered around a little boy who can predict winners of horse races. The theme of sacrifice plays a pivotal role in both stories. Each author forces us to examine the human condition and not blindly take part in rituals that harm the human race as a whole. These authors were able to imagine a place so similar to our own environment with ideals…
v. Torture, cruel and inhuman punishment, and degrading treatment towards another human being will not be tolerated.…
As society changes, some traditions evolve, but some remain stagnant. Tradition is a substantial part of our life today, but decades ago it was a lifestyle. Anyone with an objection to a tradition was met with dire consequences. In “The Lottery,” the fortunate or in this case the unfortunate winner would be stoned to death. “The people of the village began to gather in the square, between the post office and the bank, around ten o'clock” (Jackson 1). This quote shows that the lottery runs on tried-and-true process, and the whole town passionately followed the ritual. The participants were of the view that the sacrifice would bring in bountiful corn during harvest time. In “The Lottery,” Shirley Jackson proficiently uses distinctive setting…
(1) When one blindly follows tradition, they become unmindful. In “The Lottery,” the citizens have practiced the ceremony for as long as anyone can remember. They see that sacrificing by stoning is the only way to handle their situation of a small food supply. However, it is obvious that there are more humane ways to handle the situation. This could have been the only way many years ago, but now people only continue it because they blindly follow the tradition.…
I. If you disobey the rules of society, they send you to prison; if you disobey the rules of the prison, they send you to Alcatraz.…
The meaning of cruel and unusual punishment lies on the person who perceives it, does he/she perceive it would be addressed depending on his/her point of view about human being’s dignity.…
Conditions in the early era were inhumane because of prisoners starving, and trends of punishment were in the form of physical punishment. Examples of this were punishments, such as prisoners hanged, tortured, beheaded, or mutilated. This punishment was popular in England, but it had an effect on its American predecessors. Although the conservative e trend that emerged in the 1970s continued to dominate justice system policy the debate between punishment and treatment brought new questions…
The penalty of death differs from all other forms of criminal punishment, not in degree, but in kind. It is unique in its total irrevocability. It is unique in its rejection of rehabilitation of the convict as a basic purpose of criminal justice. And it is unique, finally, in its absolute renunciation of all that is embodied in our concept of humanity.…
The public is constantly debating the ethical dilemma surrounding the issue of taking another person's life and for what crimes such a punishment is acceptable for the common…
The second is retribution; this means that they punishment needs to fit the crime. A judge will not sentence someone to five years for a traffic violation and give a convicted murder just a few days. Judges need to take into account the full impact the crime had on everyone.…
stoning of an unlucky woman. At first glance, I believe this strongly clashes with our contemporary values. A much deeper evaluation of the portrayal of swinging mindsets and how humans have the capacity to coincide with a mob mentality. As civilized and noble human beings, it's important to dissect and criticize the traditional values in the society described in the story "The Lottery" and others like it because we as a society play it out in reality. Judging the values that were portrayed in "The Lottery", its important to look back on our own history in the United States to compare and learn what we did wrong from our past mistakes. It would be wrong not to criticize these traditions because without being critical, we as humans may not progress past that point, allowing pillages to still take place.…
Chemistry: A Molecular Approach (Tro) Chapter 8 Periodic Properties of the Elements 1) Give the ground state electron configuration for Se. A) [Ar]4s23d104p4 B) [Ar]4s24d104p4 C)…
Poetry can be compared and contrasted in many ways. I have chosen to compare and contrast two poems by Siegfried Sassoon. “His poetry both described the horrors of the trenches, and satirized the patriotic pretensions of those who, in Sassoon's view, were responsible for the pointless deaths of millions” (Wikipedia). His poems contains a deep meaning and an important message, his poetry has a passionate expression of outrage at the horrors of war and feels pity for the young soldiers who sacrificed their life. He writes from experiences he witnessed and heard of. These are both examples of the type of poems that Sassoon wrote to showcase the difficult lives faced by British soldiers in the trenches of World War I. He felt he had to expose the ugly face of war to the naive civilians on the home front.…