Max concludes his argument for Bigger’s life with a speech in a final attempt to persuade people to see the greater good in letting him live. His purpose is to convince that public as well as the judge that Bigger’s violent nature is spawned from the oppressive society that keeps him and other African Americans in constant fear and poverty. He achieves success in articulating his points by employing various rhetorical strategies: similes‚ cause and effect‚ and comparison. The speech is punctuated
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DIMAPORO V. HRET FACTS: This is a petition brought by Congressman Dimaporo seeking to nullify the twin Resolutions of the HRET which denied his Motion for Technical Evaluation of the Thumbmarks and Signatures Affixed in the Voters Registration Records and Motion for Reconsideration of Resolution Denying the Motion for Technical Examination of Voting Records. Pursuant to the 1998 HRET Rules Congressional candidate Mangotara Petition of Protest (Ad Cautelam) seeking the technical examination
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Slavery is awful and unacceptable; the word itself rings with cruelty‚ suffering and inhumanity. Slavery is a loaded with meanings word; even originally in a biblical sense the slave employee and conscripted labor were not clearly defined. There were a lot of forms of slavery around the world; in fact‚ slavery exists even today in a different forms and degrees. Slavery as a legal term means the ownership of human beings by other human beings as if it was a property. It is the purest form of slavery
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Words and phrases such as “pacification” and the “elimination of unreliable elements” are used to name acts such as bombings and murder without invoking a mental image. He claims that “political speech and writing are largely the defense to the indefensible” (3). Then‚ in paragraph five‚ he explains how “language can also corrupt thought” (5). Next‚ the essay transitions from informing the reader of the problems in modern English to how this process can be reversed. As he says earlier in the essay
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the standards that others must meet for the same opportunities‚ it is at the expense of the others‚ who may therefore be denied opportunities‚ even though they may have met a higher standard. On this basis‚ Affirmative Action may not be morally indefensible. Our Constitution is not colour-blind and recognises the need to take race and gender into account in making certain decisions. It sanctions the use of restorative measures such as affirmative action 2. . 3. South Africa chose to implement
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Socioeconomic Status and Sentencing – Is it Fair? CRJU 354 – Corrections Abstract In 1963‚ the Supreme Court ruled in Gideon v. Wainwright that the Sixth Amendment guarantees every defendant‚ regardless of socioeconomic status‚ the right to an attorney and equal protection under the court of law. This means that an indigent defendant that cannot afford to hire a private attorney may have a public defender appointed to him or her. However‚ fifty years later‚ the promises of Gideon
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the sanctity of the individual. For this case it was prudent to recognize when ethics and the law meet and when they repel. The court realized that ethically‚ this decision rested with the Defendant‚ and the refusal of the Defendant is morally indefensible. Regardless the court ruled in favor of the defended to protect an individuals rights and freedoms. When reviewing this case‚ there were several main issues that had to be considered before forming a decision. The first being if the ancient statute
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lead to wrongful conviction. There are numerous cases where African American men were killed just because of the color of their skin “for the 15th year in a row‚ the results show the over policing of people of color and suggest a devastating and indefensible use of racial profiling throughout the state” (Mittman 2). For example‚ Michael
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When you go to war‚ you need to be strong and have the ability to perform under pressure. Unfortunately‚most people never talk about the mental aspect of war. Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong is a story told by Rat Kiley in the book‚ The Things They Carried‚ by Tim O’Brien. It shows how the war takes a toll on people mentally. This story shifts from light hearted to mysterious and uses lighthearted diction‚ mysterious syntax‚ and environmental imagery. This specific story is told through the perspective
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all Muslims for the radicalism of a misguided few. ISIS is terrorism‚ i’m sure everybody agrees. What ISIS does in the name of Islam‚ does not portray all‚ or even the majority of Muslims . I will never defend ISIS’s actions because they are indefensible. They have manipulated something so wonderful‚ for their own political schemes. When ISIS burns people alive‚ the whole world should feel guilt. But for some reason when White Americans burned black people alive; it almost turned into a national
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