for environmental justice. These results can be presented in court and hearings to help save communities and lives. We read about many examples how these worked in our book‚ and one of those examples was the Lindsey collaboration. The Lindsey collaboration used street science to understand what pesticide did to the air and the how it affected the bodies in the community of Lindsey. Lindsay collaborative was a citizen science alliance that looked at the burden of chlorpyrifos and the air in of the
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To what extent does the law achieve justice? The literal meaning of justice is ‘the quality of being morally right and fair’ but there are various theories which can be considered and compared since they all define justice in a different way. Formal and concrete would need to be considered. Formal justice is concerned with the methods and procedures in place for decision making and allocating goods and services. It can be said that as long as procedures are fair and everyone has an equal chance
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Portrayal of Justice in Death and the Maiden and the Name of the Rose Extended Essay Subject: Literature/English Word Count: 3451 Hyde Park Academy Session: May‚ 2014 Candidate: Tia-Bryanna Balentine Candidate Number: fd1007 (001194-0009) Abstract “If justice comes from the people you fight against how can you get justice?” (Matuz). This is a question that has been long asked by citizens of the world and even some began to write about this topic in their novels. Umberto Eco and
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Two sides of the same coin: Justice and Peace By: Melduard Hernandez One of the latest news today is about the Vizconde Massacre. As what the DOJ Officials said‚ “It is a long road back to 1991.” The related rumors were why it is that Hubert Webb and other accused persons acquitted by the Supreme Court of the Philippines? Who are the real suspects of the case? Why is it that eye witness Jessica Alfaro considered now as false witness? There were so many questions and mysteries that were attached
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THE SAME COIN: JUSTICE AND PEACE Melduard Hernandez One of the issues that made a mark on Philippine history is the Vizconde Massacre. As what Justice Officials say‚ “It is a long road back to 1991.” The big questions were: “Why Hubert Webb and others accused are acquitted by the Supreme Court?” “Who are the real suspects of the case?” and “Why eyewitness Jessica Alfaro is considered as false witness?” The case was shrouded in mystery since it took place. The symbol for justice is a scale‚ and
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mix up the terms Revenge and Justice. Many believe that with revenge comes justice and justice always starts with revenge. “Yet certain overlaps between--and ambiguities within--the two terms do exist.” claims Leon F. Seltzer in Don’t Confuse Revenge With Justice: Five Key Differences article. This description conveys that although there are similarities‚ there are major differences that override them. For example‚ “it would be convenient to advance the claim that justice is fair and revenge is not
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Question 1 Moral‚ Legal‚ and Religious Perspectives on Social Justice includes: In Chapter 1 of your textbook‚ justice is analyzed from three perspectives‚ each with its own set of relevant concepts. The text includes three case studies for consideration from each perspective. Select one (only one) of these case studies as the focus of your initial post in this discussion. Then analyze the selected case study from the justice perspective which accompanies it and answer the following questions
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In 2011‚ the Access to Justice Review‚ as commissioned by the Minister‚ stated that “access to justice is an indispensable feature of a democratic society committed to fair and equal treatment”. I could not agree more. The key driver in encouraging and accommodating such access is the law‚ a vital component affecting all layers of our society. I am particularly interested in how the law is constantly developing‚ carefully mended by the legal profession to ease the blur between right and wrong‚ and
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Assignment: Explain the thesis‚ create an argument against it‚ then conclude with a counter argument to the counter argument. John Rawls‚ using Kantian rationality‚ discusses ways to determine principles of social justice. He begins by making a clear distinction as to what defines the social justice used in his argument – “the way in which the major social institutions distribute fundamental rights and duties and determine the division of advantages from social cooperation”. Rawls then continues to introduce
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“Classical Utilitarianism” Utilitarianism is a moral theory that distributes benefits and burdens in a society based on the goal of maximizing utility‚ defined as the satisfaction of desire. John Rawls has developed a competing moral theory called Justice as Fairness‚ which yields significantly different insights into the proper structure of society than does Utilitarianism. This paper details three of Rawls’s most convincing criticisms of Utilitarianism along with my comments as to the effectiveness
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