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    Garner v. Tennessee

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    and remanded. Certiorari was granted. The Supreme Court held that: apprehension by use of deadly force is a seizure subject to the Fourth Amendment’s reasonableness requirement; deadly force may not be used unless it is necessary to prevent the escape and the officer has probable cause to believe that the suspect poses a significant threat of death or serious physical injury to the officer or others; Tennessee statute under authority of which police officer fired fatal shot was unconstitutional

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    to marry her. Robert leaves Edna because he loves her and that causes Edna to commit suicide. “Edna’s suicide represents her final attempt to escape -to escape her children‚ her lovers‚ and most important‚ time and change. For only by complete isolation of self can Edna be truthful to her inner life”(Susan Rosowski). Nobody what Edna did to try and escape her responsibilities never worked which led her to commit suicide. She can’t take

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    things that they use to escape from life with. Tom uses the fire escape as his escape from Amanda. Laura has her glass collection‚ her “Glass Menagerie”‚ which she has her own imaginative world in – a world away from everything else‚ fragile but colorful. This glass collection also represents a number of things about Laura’s personality.  Like the glass figures‚ Laura is old-fashioned‚ whimsical‚ and gentle. Outside of the Wingfields’ apartment‚ there is a fire escape. It represents what its’

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    Crito and Socrates

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    a last day of Socrates. Crito visited Socrates in prison and wanted to help Socrates to escape from the prison before the execution, but Socrates refused. There are two reasons can be discussed in this essay. Firstly‚ it can be that Socrates was afraid Crito may get into trouble for helping himself to get away from the prison. Socrates insisted his honor principle and he thought it is irresponsible to escape from the prison. Secondly‚ Socrates thinks that to obey the law is the most important rule

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    The Giver, By Lois Lowry

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    whether Jonas dies‚ is dreaming or he actually escapes to elsewhere. In others it is quite obvious in how the story ends. In the story‚ Jonas receives memories‚ some jubilant‚ and some melancholy. In the end of the story Jonas is sent on a quest by The Giver to escape to elsewhere allowing the memories to run loose from Jonas’s mind and escape into the community and cross the boundary of memory. In this story “The Giver” by Lois Lowry‚ Jonas escapes to elsewhere and shares all of his given memories

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    member of Wingfield family refuse to accepting their realities by set themselves in the fantasy world that they had created to avoid the reality. Sadly‚ no matter how hard they try to escape‚ in the end‚ they still had to face the cruel‚ brutal world they had try to escape in a long time. In The Glass Menagerie‚ Amanda escape the reality by went into the world of memories and dream. She refused to accept the way things are and constant on seeing what she wanted to see. When

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    Albert Camus - 1

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    clarity whose call echoes in the human heart.” (The Myth of Sisyphus) IV. Suicide. Suicide is not a logical consequence of the absurd. It attempts to escape the absurd by removing one of its elements: the human longing for order (philosophical) or the unbearable‚ unintelligible world (physical). One must live with the absurd‚ not try to escape it. A. Philosophical Suicide. The existential leap of faith to believe in an ultimate order and intelligibility‚ but one inaccessible to man‚ is

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    harlem renaissance. It is told by the musician ’s brother who takes Sonny into his own home after being released from heroin rehabilitation. The story examines Sonny ’s path as a musician but has an underlying theme of the suffrage and attempted escape of Harlem residents at this point in history. Baldwin justifies Sonny ’s drug habit by showing empathy for his struggle to obtain creative relief. Sonny ’s life revolved around finding an outlet for his creative energy. This was the root of

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    my house; I wanted to escape. Likewise the animal in “Emancipation: A Life Fable” and Cory in “Boy’s Life” both wanted to feel free so that they could leave. In both of the stories‚ their themes have similarities and differences. This essay will outline the similarities and differences in theme of escape in both of these stories. Although at first the animal in the passage “Emancipation: A Life Fable” didn’t want to leave the cage‚ after a few minutes his instincts for escape kicked in and he ran

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