A controversial area in the United States law enforcement policy in recent years has been the practice of using racial profiling to attempt to identify or curb criminal activity. National Institute of Justice defines racial profiling by law enforcement as‚ “A practice that targets people for suspicion of crime based on their race‚ ethnicity‚ religion or national origin. Creating a profile about the kinds of people who commit certain types of crimes may lead officers to generalize about a particular
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Why do some societies follow traditions that have pointless rules? “The Lottery” is a short story written by Shirley Jackson that asks the same question. The narrator presents a small-town where a traditional lottery is held annually every summer on June 27th. The town’s people get together for a lottery (1). The reward is unknown at the beginning to reader‚ but increasingly becomes more apparent as the story continues to its climax. The reward is a sadistic random tradition in the form of murder by
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He does not want to begin his speech using negative words or to openly and radically condemn the South. He uses the term “great contest” instead of war. The word war has many negative connotations that drum up fear‚ anger‚ and apprehension. Lincoln in no way wants to foster these feelings in his audience. His argument is logical‚ so he wants
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Meursault’s emotional detachment from these significant events in his life‚ as a degrading trait and it is this mannerism that condemns him as a stranger to the society in which he lives. In the novel‚ The Outsider‚ there is one fundamental theme that drives the story: Meursault’s philosophical notion of absurdity. It is this single notion that alienates Meursault and condemns him as a stranger to the society in which he lives. The Urban Dictionary defines absurdity as a condition or state in which
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By saying “to tilt at the old windmills” the author refers to the fact that the soldiers strike at windmills instead of actually fighting‚ which suggests that Cheng believes war is useless and pointless. This ironic comment shows that the author condemns war. The diction of “creaking bones”‚ “suppressed grunts” and “battle-weary knights” conveys the idea of the tiredness and exhaustion soldiers suffer from‚ and that they cannot escape from it as they are doomed to fight forever. The second stanza
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do. Younger generations do make mistakes but instead of older generations helping out‚ we seem to condemn them instead. It is of course the easiest approach to condemn. No wonder why there are so many problems around the world. According to various laws‚ young people falling in love and due to this make new life‚ are condemned. If a mother is too young and the father is too old‚ then we condemn again. Children need protection‚ but when fathers in a relationship might face prosecution and up to
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“The first legal assassination of the history” Introduction: The apology of Socrates is one of the top works of his disciple Plato‚ where he recounts the defense of this Greek Philosopher before the accusations of "impiety and corruption of youth‚" made by his detractors Meletus and Anitus before a Council conformed by Greek citizens. As we enter the arguments described by Plato‚ we realize that we are in front of an exceptionally superior man who asserts his thinking and seeks the truth through
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has created. From that moment on he tries to suppress the consequences of his experiments and wants to escape them by working in other sciences. Victor even withdraws from his friends and psychological changes are visible.Mary Shelley seems not to condemn the act of creation but rather Frankenstein’s lack of willingness to accept the responsibility for his deeds. His creation only becomes a monster at the moment his creator deserts it (1). Thus Frankenstein warns of the careless use of science - the
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for him Speak well of him and stand by the institution he represents. Remember- an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.... If you must growl‚ condemn‚ and eternally find fault‚ Why! Resign your position. And when you are outside‚ Damn to your heart’s content. But as long as you are part of the institution‚ Do not condemn it. If you do‚ the first high wind that comes along Will blow you away And probably you will never know
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deaths that in the future would influence his writings in War and Peace. Another jolt to Tolstoy’s reality was the death of his oldest brother Nikolay. Leo Tolstoy “revered him as saintly in their modesty‚ humility‚ and unwillingness to condemn or judge others”. This inevitability of life jolted him to the core and this is why death is such a common occurrence in most of his books. (Merriman) Tolstoy’s legacy is set upon his writings in his novel War and Peace and the Victorian qualities
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