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    His death was also a “substitution” in that he was a substitute for us when he died. This has been the orthodox understanding of the atonement held by evangelical theologians‚ in contrast to other views that attempt to explain the atonement apart from the idea of the wrath of God or payment of the penalty for sin. This view of the atonement is sometimes called the theory of vicarious atonement. A “vicar” is someone who stands in the place of another or who represents another. Christ’s death was

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    Death penalty is a legal process in which a person who commits a crime that is so unconceivable is put to death by the state. When we look at it at a certain point of view‚ we can see that the death penalty system in action can be used as a deterrent to society who might want to commit a crime. They use fear to control the society to stop them from committing heinous crimes. But on the other hand it can be used as an act of revenge or retribution just to satisfy their need for justice. It may have

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    Brodie wall Mss.Scott Ela 30-2 April 10/13 Death of a sales man Do our ideals and belief’s change from being influenced by others? I believe at a young enough age and hearing others ideals will eventually influence a person’s perspective or attitude eventually in a bad way. Specifically this is most evident in families such as children taking the ideals of the parents subliminally. In the play death of a salesman the protagonist Willy and his ideas and perspectives affect the beliefs of his

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    Custodial Death Edit Article | Posted: Mar 12‚ 2010 |Comments: 0 | Views: 699 | INTRODUCTION[1]  The word custody implies guardianship and protective care. Even when applied to indicate arrest or incarceration‚ it does not carry any sinister symptoms of violence during custody. No civilized law postulates custodial cruelty – an inhuman trait that springs out of a perverse desire to cause suffering when there is no possibility of any retaliation; a senseless exhibition of superiority and physical

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    Death Be Not Proud Death be not proud is a poem by John Donne where he focuses on presenting an argument against the power of death. Using personification by Speaking to/about death as if it was a person‚ John Donne addresses death by warning it from its pride and “mighty and dreadful” force (line 2). He starts his argument by telling death that those he kills do not die‚ and that doesn’t even apply to the poet himself. In Donne’s point of view in this poem‚ Death brings “Much Pleasure”

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    THE DEATH PENALTY…ETHICAL? OR NOT? Outline 1608 Captain George Kendall becomes the first recorded execution in the new colonies 1632 Jane Champion is the first woman executed 1767 Cesare Beccaria’s essay On Crime and Punishment‚ theorizes that there is no justification for the state to take a life Late 1700’s United States abolitionist movement begins Early 1800’s many states reduce their number of capital punishment crimes & build state penitentiaries 1834 Pennsylvania becomes the first

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    Nora Death penalty should be abolished because it is against the bill of right. The eighth amendment of the constitution stated that it is unconstitutional to apply usual punishment to anyone. Although some people think that death penalty helps to decrease the number of crime‚ it was found that death penalty doesn’t affect the number of crimes in the society.[6] Some believes that death penalty helps the government to cut the spending in prison‚ but what can cost more than human’s life. There are

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    In my opinion Death penalty’s should be illegal because it is a possibility that people are sentenced to death when not guilty. People that have committed murder often means there is something wrong in their head and deserve to suffer in jail instead of being killed or in some peoples minds they deserve a second chance. Did you know that innocent people get put on death row and get executed once in a while?well for example according to the death penalty information center(DPIC)‚ tyrone Noling was

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    Death Essay

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    Death Essay Each day we are reminded about death: a commercial on the television about starving children in Africa or a suicide bombing in the Middle East‚ headline in the newspaper about a murder‚ suicide‚ shooting. Word of a untimely death of children or friends and family‚ it seems that death is everywhere. Death is my greatest fear and it is the greatest fear of most people‚ a famous Greek writer named Euripides wrote “Death is the debt everyone must pay” and honestly I don’t think people

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    The Death Penalty Whether utilizing the death penalty is right or wrong‚ people have been debating this since capital punishment was created. “Today‚ most nations that retain the death penalty reserve its use for the most heinous crimes such as murder‚ treason‚ or espionage”(Issit‚ par. 2). The most contentious point of capital punishment is the moral argument. Most people in support of the death penalty are blinded by vengeance‚ however when one takes into account morality the punishment does

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