befall the innocent thru the use of irony. The tale itself is about a Wolf who has come to the same pond as the Lamb for a drink‚ when he begins to accuse the Lamb of things he has never done. Enraged at the Lamb’s rebuttal he attacks the Lamb with the excuse of the “debt” owed to himself. To start the Wolf of this story can be seen as a person of his power‚ most likely politically due to La Fontaine’s history. This could be an aristocracy or the king himself‚ a predator that is always on the prowl for
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cruel intention‚ like a "gesture without motion." The men seem to know deep down that they have committed a wrong in the way that they are fervently denying their guilt‚ as anyone ashamed of something well generally deny it more than usual. Yet this excuse of passive planning could never possibly emancipate them from a fate in purgatory. In the third part of the poem‚ Eliot introduces this desert-like landscape which the men currently inhabit and refers to it as "the twilight kingdom." The statement
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over the 2014 fatal shooting by Chicago Police of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald? It found numerous incidents of unjustified force. Chicago Police was shooting at vehicles without justification‚ using tasers on people who posed no threat. They even went as far aa using force to retaliate against and punish people. CPD excuse was they have not provided officers with adequate guidance to understand how and when they may use force. Or how safely and effectively control and encounters to reduce the need
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ever thought about what you would do if you had to fight for your life against an attack from a person you considered your wife or boyfriend? That is probably an answer only the person that has had to fight for their life can answer or is it just an excuse to kill. This is what the trial of Jodi Arias is about in Phoenix‚ Arizona; the slaughtering of Travis Alexander‚ Jodi’s lover whom she stabbed to death 27 times‚ slit his throat from ear to ear‚ and finally shooting him in the face because she said
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and the reality of the persistence of inequality by attributing it to nature’ o Hannah Arendt – one of the inevitable offshoots of capitalism is colonisation – you need a mechanism for justification of exploitation • Extreme inequality in colonies • Needs to be justification • Criminals in metropole – justification is racist discourse - Opponents/Restrictions o Identity more complex and fluid than just race o Although because of 1970s cultural turn we are obsessed with race‚ this was not the
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“Law is invariably constructed as a response to conflict or‚ specifically‚ to a given social problem; it is a mechanism that attempts to control certain kinds of activities or behaviours” (Boyd‚ 2007‚ p.45). Every citizen in our society is affected by the law in one shape or the other. As such‚ this paper will examine that as students and analysts of law’s evolution we should accept both natural law and positivism. Consequently‚ this essay will gauge the strengths and weaknesses of this claim. Indeed
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For those who spend their lives working to prevent and end wars‚ whether and how war itself can be justified must be an urgent question. Of course‚ war’s justification is an ancient tradition. Bizarrely‚ Just War theory was formulated within the Christian church‚ whose founder chose a donkey instead of a war horse and taught his followers to overcome evil with good. Not only is the theory still mainstream among churches but‚ as Dan Smith‚ head of an important NGO working for conflict transformation
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because the church held him against his will and the will of his parents. Rob Jr. is still a minor‚ therefore‚ still under the guardianship of his parents. Moreover‚ the church did not allow Rob Jr. to see his parents. His parents had to make an excuse just to see the child‚ which caused severe infliction of emotional distress on them and by the church not allowing them to see their own child is negligence‚ because his parents does not know whether the child is in good health or not. Tom Marsden
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beautifully designed with the intention to target the emotions of the customers by empathizing the issues the buyers faced during the sale. Few critics found this daring step a wise one. However‚ few complained that the letter failed to give a proper justification to various questions of the buyers which in return questioned the company’s integrity. What Flipkart failed to understand while adhering to this issue via an apology is that: • Whether an apology email will make the buyers shop again at Flipkart
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In William Shakespeare’s play‚ Othello‚ the character Iago lacks a superego which allowed his id to run free and this caused him to lack any form of sympathy and to become a sociopath. This led to him hurting everyone he could and to his eventual downfall. He also tried to justify his actions throughout the play to reinforce his righteous ego. First to understand Iago and his actions we must look at what the id‚ ego‚ and superego actually are. According to Freud these are different divisions that
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