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    judge someone on their appearance. However‚ as humans we also tend to judge a whole race of people for the actions of only a few of them. Men of color are more at risk of suffering injustices because of stereotypes and there are examples of that happening everyday. Black people face a tremendous amount of injustice in the criminal justice system. White and Black people use drugs at similar rates‚ however Black people are jailed on drug charges ten times more often than White people are. (Hinger)

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    Injustice is the deprivation of the vital human necessities and rights. Examples of injustice include inequality‚ (someone who is not accepted for who they are because of their ethnicity‚ religion‚ race‚ sexual orientation‚ and/or gender) and child or animal abuse. Fear is an emotion experienced in the minds and bodies of most living beings when believed that someone or something else is threatening‚ dangerous‚ and/or prone or perceived to inflict physical or mental pain. Fear can arouse a number

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    How does someone know the difference between justice and injustice? Justice is the concept of moral rightness‚ while injustice is the absence of moral rightness. It is our government ’s job to deal justice to people without discrimination of race‚ gender‚ national origin‚ color‚ religion‚ disability‚ or age. The understandings of justice varies throughout the world‚ but based on the same concept. "... most everyone is born with and that is a natural instinct of what will make humans as a race a

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    Injustice‚ A Lack of Temerity Francis Bacon‚ the former lord chancellor‚ once imparted that “if we do not maintain justice‚ justice will not maintain us.” Through the statement‚ Bacon depicts that when people speak up‚ they sustain the justice they deserve. Justice is in the matter of its people‚ and whether or not it is present‚ it is determined by the tenacity of the individual. Much the same‚ Albert Einstein’s assertion that “those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act” demonstrates

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    “Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world‚ bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death‚” Billy Graham once said. In Harper Lee’s novel “To Kill A Mockingbird Atticus is a father and a lawyer‚ who lives with his children‚ Jem and Scout‚ and their cook‚ Calpurnia‚ in a town of Maycomb‚ Alabama. Maycomb is a town populated with black and white people‚ where racism is apparent. White people feel they are superior than the black people and treat them poorly. Racism is evident when Tom Robinson

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    Many consider the word justice to be very powerful‚ as it can mean a variety of things. On the other hand‚ injustice is the opposite. In Oedipus Rex‚ Oedipus is the victim of a tragic prophecy. He is ultimately lead to murder his father and marry his mother. As a result of this‚ Oedipus is the cause of the plague that affects the city of Thebes. His tragic fate is an injustice to himself‚ the city‚ and its citizens. As the king‚ he attempts to find justice for his city and is unsuccessful. Throughout

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    other versions of you who walk‚ talk‚ and act just like you‚ with slightly different decisions that coincide with the major difference of that world. There may even be a world in which you were your generation’s Einstein‚ or their OJ Simpson. In Candide by Voltaire‚ Dr. Pangloss states that we as a people live in the best of all possible worlds‚ when in fact there are infinite possibilities‚ some better and some worse than our own. In my project‚ I used this theory to illustrate that we do not live

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    the end he lived in Switzerland as he continued his writings until his eighties (Besterman‚ 1972). At the age of the enlightenment there were different schools of philosophy. In his novella‚ "Candide or Optimism"‚ Voltaire criticizes the ideas if these schools through the contact of his main character "Candide" with different characters in the novel like "Martin and

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    According to Cicero’s De Officiis‚ one should embrace his gifts from nature rather than envy other for theirs‚ i.e. an artist is better off perfecting his artistic talent than studying law. He also argues that fraud is the worst form of injustice‚ that is‚ the one who “practice[s] fraud to the utmost ability [to] do it in such a way that [he] appear[s] to be [a] good m[a]n (I.13). Although Cicero condemns fraud for obvious reasons‚ such as‚ corruption‚ is one unjust for using this gift against the

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    harshness and injustice that happens everyday in the adult world. To Kill A Mockingbird is a novel about youth seeing the hypocrisy‚ evil‚ and injustice in adult society. Though some people may consider children to be naïve and unintelligent because they have not seen all the bad in the world‚ in reality‚ children seem to have an extremely clear insight into most situations. Leading up to‚ during‚ and after the trial‚ Scout and Jem are revealed to the terrible traits of injustice humans

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