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    Unjust Laws of Today

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    Christina Argula Prof. Trapp ELI EDUCATING RITA At the very beginning of the movie it seem like Dr. Bryant did really want to teach any one. Because he told his literature class that the sun was shining and they should be making love. But if you’ll a professor its your job to teach your students regardless if you want to or not. You cant let your personal problems affect your job. Dr. Bryant didn’t want to teach at the begining . He said

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    • 1. In the Apology‚ Socrates recounts how he disobeyed the unjust order of the Thirty Tyrants to arrest a fellow citizen; he also claims that he will never stop philosophizing‚ regardless of what the legally constituted political authority commands. Yet‚ in the Crito‚ Socrates provides numerous arguments for obeying the decision of the legally constituted political authority‚ even though the decision (to put Socrates to death) was unjust. Critically assess whether Socrates’s view about political

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    Now a days‚ our culture differs from the past. We tend to be distracted from our social lives and our technology world. Every second of our lives involves using different electronic devices to satisfy our needs whether it is using a cellular phone to make calls‚ sending messages‚ or even playing games. Our way of communicating and doing anything has changed dramatically due to the change of culture. Culture does promote conformity in our society. Everyday our culture evolves more and more because

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    prisons Control over convicts The prevention of escape Rehabilitation Affordable prisons ISBN: 0-536-09974-X How does our system of justice work toward balance? Criminal Justice Today: An Introductory Text for the Twenty-First Century‚ Ninth Edition‚ by Frank Schmalleger. Published by Prentice Hall. Copyright © 2007 by Pearson Education‚ Inc. Punishment—Justice for the Unjust? The great Christian writer C. S. Lewis (1898–1963) once remarked that if satisfying justice is to be the ultimate

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    of laws: just and unjust. Every individual in a society has a responsibility to obey just laws and‚ even more importantly‚ to disobey and resist unjust laws." The speaker asserts that each individual in a society has a responsibility to disobey and resist the unjust ones. However‚ as far as I am concerned‚ such responsibility is neither jurally valid nor practically feasible and thus does not exist. People often try to modify the laws instead of passively disobeying the unjust laws. To begin

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    Position of Poverty In the world we live in today there are only two kinds of poverty as identified by John Kenneth Galbrith in “The Position of Poverty.” Galbrith made a distinction and labeled the distinction as “case poverty” and “insular poverty.” According to Galbrith case poverty is defined as‚ restricted to an individual and his or her family and often seems to be the caused by alcoholism‚ ignorance‚ mental deficiency‚ discrimination‚ or specific disabilities. Insular poverty on

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    Hammurabi’s Code was Unjust CURSED!! That’s what happens when you change Hammurabi’s laws. When Hammurabi was king 4000 years ago he established a series of 282 laws. He wrote these laws on his 38th year of ruling. These rules are unfair just like putting an innocent man behind bars. Hammurabi’s code are unjust because of it’s family law‚ property law‚ and personal injury law. In addition‚ injustice is found in law’s 48‚ 53‚ and 54 in the area of property law. For example‚ “If a man has borrowed

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    Poverty in modern era As many of the people in the world are concerned what to wear‚ what to buy‚ where to go on vacation est. the others continuously are facing the evil‚ so called poverty‚ not knowing if they are going to have lunch in the next day or many of them in the next week. The poverty is not a new problem but it is one of the biggest problems‚ nowadays. On one hand‚ there is rapid development of the technology‚ everyday there are new mobile phones with better and higher performances

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    Poverty The first theory that we will use for Poverty is the Conflict Theory. Conflict theory is defined as‚ “a theoretical framework in which society is viewed as composed of groups that are competing for scarce resources‚”(Copyright © 2009 by James M. Henslin‚ pg G9). In other words the outside forces prevent individuals from achieving a desired goal or to live a certain way. When it comes to poverty‚ people would like to be involved in an upward mobility to have a better quality of life for

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    ABOUT PASSIVE RESISTANCE There are two types of laws: just and unjust. Everyone has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely‚ everyone has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. It is morally justifiable to peacefully resist unjust laws; unjust laws do not change because a court or government decides; they change because people stand united together to make change happen. The governments of today make laws that self serve their own interests and that of

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