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    Honour & Shame

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    week ago concerning about my plight with honour based violence. After two years of lengthy legal proceeding over evidence of injury which included tampered medical records I managed to get a divorce. I was sure that such crimeshonour based violence against women was prevalent and practiced behind closed doors‚ after my divorce I wanted to assist other women in similar situation and have my phone number published in the newspaper. I thought I lost her but then‚ few minutes later‚ she was back. “Sorry

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    Cragon McBride Mr. Cravens Wednesday Comp. II 9 October 2012 Argumentative Essay Hall of Shame Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa may very well have saved Major League Baseball. The season after the MLB strike of 1994‚ attendance and TV ratings were the lowest they had been in over a decade. Baseball needed a way to boost interest and increase the games appeal and more importantly to the league‚ revenue. And it received that boost in the form of the greatest home run race the game has seen. Mark

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    The Ring of Shame

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    Student Name Mrs. DiPaolo English 11 2 15 December 2004 The Ring of Shame “Ye have both been here before‚ but I was not with you. Come hither once again‚ and we will stand all three together!” In his feeble attempts to make public his hidden shame‚ Reverend Dimmesdale attempts to include himself in the infinite ring of ignominy that he‚ Hester‚ and Pearl have inevitably been trapped in. With this theme in mind‚ Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ in his masterpiece‚ The Scarlet Letter‚ uses the characters

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    Harvest of Shame

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    L Harvest of Shame Analysis of Stereotyping‚ Prejudice‚ and Social Identity Theory/Threat By Brenna Lofquist WSU ID #11190549 Brenna.lofquist@email.wsu.edu Term Paper submitted for COM471/CES404 Fall Semester 2013 Submitted to Dr. P.M. Wadleigh The Edward R. Murrow College of Communication Washington State University Pullman‚ WA 99163 Edward R. Murrow once said “Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up‚ at least a little bit.” This

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    Capital punishment‚ otherwise known as the death penalty‚ is a form of ultimate punishment that has been in practice since ancient times. Criminals who commit the most vile crimes pay with their life. Throughout the past few decades capital punishment has been in the controversial topic spotlight. The United States is the only western civilization that still holds the death penalty in practice. Despite capital punishment being legal in the United States‚ many states have abolished or placed prolonged

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    The Death Penalty: Against the use of Capital Punishment Capital Punishment is defined as the execution of a convicted criminal by state as punishment for their grievous capital crimes. The death penalty is an ancient practice and a very controversial issue. The main reasons for removing or retaining the death penalty differs from country to country‚ but generally includes issues such as deterrence‚ retribution‚ public opinion‚ and the rights of the individual. Due to the fact that the death

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    Aristotle discusses in Book 2 Chapter 6 about Shame and Shamelessness. He defines shame as “pain or disturbance in regard to bad things‚ whether present‚ past‚ or future‚ which seem likely to involve us in discredit; and shamelessness as contempt or indifference in regard to these same bad things” (Aristotle‚ pg. 85). Aristotle makes an intriguing conclusion when he says that if we take these definitions as previously stated above to be true‚ we feel same at such bad things as we think are disgraceful

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    were rather completed by stoning. There were consisted of several reasons as to why the capital punishment was needed. The United States inherited its use of capital punishment from the European settlers in the seventeenth century but in the eighteenth century‚ German philosopher Immanuel Kant appealed that execution was the “fairest punishment for murder”. He presented that it is the most suitable punishment for those who have committed murder and that a person who has done wrong should suffer for it

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    Shame: A Feminist Analysis

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    If feminism has to address shame‚ then it must also locate how shame arises to corroborate with prescriptive roles of living in society with certain marked identities- male‚ female‚ muslim‚ hindu etc. In a society that consider sex as dirty‚ we must look at the way we have generated multiple discourses about the body and sex in order to maintain an order. Gender being performative‚ as Butler suggests‚ is an indicator of how cultural regulatory ideals reinforce their power through the performances

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    Many people feel shameful about some part of their identity for various reasons. Shame can derive from a bad decision or a character trait that one is born with and often‚ it can be an unpleasant burden for one to carry. In the short stories‚ “The Lie” and “Ysrael”‚ Dr. Remenzel and Ysreal both deal with shame‚ but Dr. Remenzel’s shame stems from trying to to use his name and identity to his advantage‚ while Ysreal feels shameful because of a traumatic experience in his past. Dr. Remenzel and Ysrael

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