is a private club conformed by politicians and corporations that encourage mass incarceration. “The 13th” continues to talk about oppression against black people by giving us an example of how similar slavery and mass incarceration serve as a justification for the murders of African Americans. These two scenes manifest the injustice caused by slavery and mass incarceration. On one hand‚ Demby was killed by Mr. Gore without a justifiable reason and “his horrid crime was not even submitted to judicial
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republican democracy to John O’ Sullivan‚ to Abraham Lincoln it meant a country of higher complexity and education‚ not just the expansion of simple farms. Before becoming more familiar with it’s origin‚ the phrase "manifest destiny" to me was the justification used by the former leaders of this country for taking land from the Indians. I can see it much different now. It’s not just the idea that America should own‚ posses‚ or control North America. It is more founded then that. It expresses how Americans
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Criminal Law Kiaira Knox 3.14.13. Criminal law addresses the government’s prosecution of individuals who have committed an act classified as a crime. Federal‚ state‚ and local governments categorize crime and prosecute criminals. This is the nature and purpose of law. Without laws‚ people wouldn’t know what to do. The rule of law is the belief that an orderly society must be governed by established principles (laws) and applied fairly to all of its members (basically stating that no one is
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explicitly articulated in a 1968 article on "Accounts" by Marvin Scott and Stanford Lyman‚ although it can be traced as well to J.L. Austin’s 1956 essay "A Plea for Excuses‚ in which he used excuse-making as an example of speech acts. Communications scholars have extended this work through the examination of strategic uses of excuses‚ justifications‚ rationalizations‚ apologies
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Tierney McDonald Michaela Winchatz INTC 333 27 February 2015 The Ethnography of Communication: Kanye Interrupting Beck Through a Social Drama Lens By definition‚ a social drama is “a moment (or series of moments) in a community when someone is called publicly to account for his or her violation of a cultural expectation. Subsequently‚ there is a process of response(s) to the challenge‚ acceptance or rejection of the response(s)‚ and either reintegration of the transgressor or social schism”
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respectable but the extent they will go to is not. Even after watching the entire section of this taboo episode I could not comprehend why they would not look for alternatives. Breast ironing seems physically and mentally harmful. To me there is just no justification of hurting such a very tender part of your body. I find it can be compared to genital mutilation in women that happens in other cultures. It can be completely avoidable with other methods. I know the cultural is not as evolved into thinking birth
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meat industries (Devine 485). This is yet another failed attempt to justify the use of animal products. Overall‚ "it is impossible to come up with a coherent moral justification for consuming animal food products unless we are willing to accept ’we like it’ as a sufficient justification" (Fetissenko 156). People will create many excuses to account for their eating of meat‚ but deep down they know that the consumption of animal products comes with cruel animal practices. If one is morally concerned
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individuals to excuse their negative actions by claiming that they were necessary to bring about a greater good. Ayn Rand‚ a Russian-born philosopher made a rather intellectual remark that‚ “The end does not justify the means. No one’s rights can be secured by the violation of the rights of others.” After all‚ isn’t it hypocritical to invalidate someone’s right while fighting to acquire your own? In Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar‚ the final outcome lacked justification; any potential justifications were
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the one that maximizes utility‚ or total benefit‚ and reduces suffering (746). I chose to use utilitarianism to some up moral reasoning and how Raskolnikov based his murder on the idea of utilitarianism. Raskolnikov uses utilitarianism as a justification for crime. For example‚ Raskolnikov appears to employ the fundamentals of utilitarianism by pitting the negative consequences of
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Moral relativism did not become a prominent topic in philosophy or elsewhere until the 20th century. Moral relativism is the making of an excuse for the action done. Behaviors should not be dismissed under certain circumstances. Moral relativism is dangerous and illogical which can be seen through murders‚ abortion‚ and lying. The justification of murdering is one major act in moral relativism in that it is illogical. An example is in a murder case somebody says they killed the person because they
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