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    “mens rea‚” the basis for the establishment of guild in a criminal case. The criminal should have a guilty mind when he commits the crime. My client‚ Oedipus‚ has been charged on the account of patricide against his father and incest with his mother. Although the evidence has showed that my client has indeed committed these crimes‚ he should be acquitted because he was not aware and did not have a guilty mind when he

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    Working Title: “Capital punishment for all proven rapists‚ pedophiles‚ and murderers should be made the order of the day.” In the eighteenth century‚ death penalty was used as the severe Punishment if a Person disobeyed the laws. Death penalty also known as Capital Punishment is the judicially ordered execution of a prisoner for a serious crime. The court‚ who administers the law enacted by parliament‚ will‚ after conviction of a criminal who has done serious offence‚ sentence him to be killed

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    Guilty people deserve to be punished in proportion to the severity of their crime. Crime is when an individual violates the laws and regulations of their country. Capital punishment is also known as death penalty. Capital punishment is the execution of an offender as a punishment for his crime. It is necessary for those who refuse to accept unjust administration of punishment. Capital punishment is often justified by saying that by executing the murders birth of new murders would be prevented. Executions

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    The Innocent Man The Innocent Man is non-fiction examining several particularly unjust criminal convictions in the Oklahoma justice system. But as non-fiction‚ you will not believe how innocent people can be railroaded onto death row on almost no evidence whatsoever‚ coerced confessions and unscrupulous prosecutors who want someone’s head on a stick without truly looking for the killer. The main target in the book is Ron Williamson‚ who has a humble beginning as the son of a door

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    Curley’s Wife: Floozy or Innocent Girl? Curley’s wife is a young‚ pretty woman‚ who is mistrusted by her husband‚ Curley. The other characters refer to her only as ‘Curley’s wife‚’ which is significant as she is the only character in the novel without a name. She is a simple object or possession belonging to her husband and this shows the severity of the sexual discrimination in America in 1930s. I believe Steinbeck would have thought of her not as a person but a symbol. Almost everyone on the ranch

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    Conjugar los verbos regulares‚ irregulares y reflexives LOS VERBOS REGULARES: TrabajAR VivIR VendER Yo -o -o -o Tu -as -es -es El‚ ella‚ usted -a -e -e Nosotros/as -amos -imos -emos Vosotros/as -ais -is -eis Ellos/as‚ usted -an -en -en Verbos regulares: FabricAR (to manufacture)‚ EstudiAR (to study) LOS VERBOS IRREGULARES: Preferir Querer (To want) Poder (To can) Yo prefiero quiero puedo Tu prefieres quieres puedes El‚ ella‚ usted

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    Orange Juice‚ an innocent orangutan surrounded by corruption. She wanted to find her kids‚ she was not meant for the environment that she arrived in‚ which is why she had to die. When first read‚ the death can look pointless and a mistake‚ but there is a purpose. Orange Juice represented the innocence that Pi had when he came onto the boat. This innocence would have ended in his death. When Pi was first placed on the boat‚ he made the choice to save Richard Parker. Soon he realized that he had

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    Guilty Feelings At the beginning of the book The Things They Carried‚ author Tim O’Brien says‚ “They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief‚ terror‚ love‚ longing - these were intangibles‚ but the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity‚ they had tangible weight” (Tim O’Brien). Soldiers in the Vietnam war carried home with them memories of ghosts‚ ghosts of people they killed‚ villages burned‚ and their own brethren dying in horrifying ways. Tim O’Brien tells about

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    Milkweed‚ “Until Then I Had Only Read These Things In Books” and “The Guard” all are about children experiencing the terrible life during the Holocaust. After reading these stories you can learn how these experiences had some in common some not. Among the three stories‚ there are many similarities. The first similarity is that two of the stories narrators are scared of the Jackboots. For example in “The Guard” the narrator kept his/her head down and make no contact with the guard. The narrator was

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    many different social classes and occupational groupings‚ however it wasn ’t until1917 that it was overthrown. The regime survived until then due to the relative disunity among revolutionaries‚ clever government tactics‚ and the support of crucial groups of the population. It was the combination of these advantages that kept the tsarist regime ruling successfully up until 1917. The factor responsible mostly for the survival of the tsarist regime was the relative sense of disunity amongst the revolutionaries

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