Justice or Revenge? The death penalty has no place in a civilised society‚ but India seems to celebrate it. ndia’s first execution of a death penalty in eight years‚ the speed with which Ajmal Kasab (the only perpetrator of the 26 November 2008 killings to have been held) was hanged after his mercy petition was rejected by the president‚ the public celebrations that erupted in a few parts of the country and the manner in which the media has reported/commented on the hanging in Pune on 21 November
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Aubrey Lucy was a black female and went to a white college James Meredith who was armed with a federal court order to sign up for classes at the all-white Mississippi university and wasn’t able to until the Kennedy administration who sent federal state troops an d officials. He graduated in 1963 and began “March against fear”. And he later got a law degree at Colombia University. Mississippi governor Ross Barnett. Barnett‚ like some other Southern politicians‚ had been a moderate who veered to
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Joy Chase March 3 2013 RELA Mod 3 Essay: “The Story of An Eyewitness” and “Leaving Desire” - Introduction This essay is based on “The Story of an Eyewitness” by Jack London and “Leaving Desire” by Jon Lee Anderson. “The Story of an Eyewitness” talks about how the San Francisco earthquake and fire destroyed the city in 1906. “Leaving Desire” talks about a victim of hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. London and Anderson’s coverage of these disasters
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For Toni Morrison‚ art cannot be effective without it being political. All good art has been political and the black artist has a responsibility to the black community. In her works‚ she aims at capturing "the something that defines what makes a book ’black.’ And that has nothing to do with whether the people in the books are black or not." She thinks that one characteristic of black writers is a quality of hunger and disturbance that never ends. Her novels "bear witness" to the experience of the
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touches on is justice and revenge. When provoked by Thrasymachus on the meaning of justice‚ Socrates states that it is when the logic-driven soul controls both the emotions and the desires/appetites. When each part of the soul is in line and does its job‚ justice occurs because everything is working as it should. Socrates sees justice as a necessity within a city‚ and as a good and positive thing to strive for. But‚ when looking at another piece of literature that deals with justice‚ Hamlet‚ a completely
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Throughout history‚ many honor codes have based their sense of justice on the principle of an eye for an eye. However‚ while justice seeks to better society‚ revenge is solely designed to harm. In the play Medea‚ the author Euripides illustrates the perils of using revenge as a means to right wrongdoings. After Medea suffers the injustice of her husband’s betrayal‚ she feels justified in taking every measure she can to avenge herself. However‚ her support from the chorus disappears after she kills
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Restorative Justice Restorative Justice is an alternative to the traditional system. Even though restorative justice will never replace the traditional system‚ it has a balanced focus on the person harmed‚ the person causing the harm and the affected community‚ rather than just the crime through the eyes of the law. Restorative Justice is always voluntary for the victims‚ and the offenders have to be willing to cooperate and they have to want to do this. Restorative Justice is a forward-looking
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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION THEORY‚ VOL. 54‚ NO. 4‚ APRIL 2008 1735 [31] V. Vovk‚ “Competitive on-line statistics‚” Int. Stat. Rev.‚ vol. 69‚ pp. 213–248‚ 2001. [32] M. H. Wegkamp‚ “Model selection in nonparametric regression‚” Ann. Statist.‚ vol. 31‚ pp. 252–273‚ 2003. [33] K. Yamanishi‚ “Minimax relative loss analysis for sequential prediction algorithms using parametric hypotheses‚” in Proc. COLT 98‚ 1998‚ pp. 32–43‚ ACM Press. [34] Y. Yang‚ “Adaptive estimation in pattern recognition
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political conception of justice that comes from “fundamental intuitive ideas regarded as latent in the public political culture.” This political conception of justice should have the hope of “gaining the support of an overlapping consensus‚” which is “a consensus in which it is affirmed by the opposing religious‚ philosophical‚ and moral doctrines likely to thrive over generations in a more or less just constitutional democracy.” The overlapping consensus on the conception of justice is “moral both in
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Vengeance‚ the Jury‚ and Faith Justice‚ it is what separates humans from animals. There are different ways to achieve justice which differ in severity. The vengeance system typically involves revenge in the form of murder‚ whereas the court system is composed of a judge and a jury which give validation to either party. The faith system relies on a higher power to provide confirmation of the wronged-party’s belief in God. These methods are all illustrated in Aeschylus’ Orestia Trilogy. Each system
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