According to Socrates a just city where most of the population is virtuous‚ because a just city is based on the virtues of wisdom‚ moderation‚ and courage. The reason the city came into existence was for justice‚ not pleasure and happiness. Wisdom and good judgment are based upon knowledge. Also‚ Socrates examines the effect of wealth on craftsmen‚ and states that if a potter gets rich‚ he will not be concerned for his craft and will become lazy and a bad potter; unless he remains poor‚ then he wont
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A Story of Corrupt Justice: The Perpetuation of the Abominable Salem Witch Trials Salem‚ Massachusetts‚ a place of beginnings in the New World‚ shows that the Puritans’ “self-denial‚ their purposefulness‚ their suspicion of all vain pursuits‚ their hard-handed justice were altogether perfect instruments for the conquest of this space so antagonistic to man” (Miller 6). The Crucible‚ by Arthur Miller‚ describes the Salem witch trials during the seventeenth century. Numerous people were hung and jailed
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research. You will see that in the end Lena’s life no matter how terrible it was‚ it wasn’t all in vain‚ and still today she is remembered for her last heartfelt words and calm disposition. Ulysia Gayle Julie Warner English December 3‚ 2012 Justice for Lena Lena Baker was a black woman born with three strikes against her. The first was that she was born in the south. The second was that she was born black. The third was that she was born poor. She was a black woman born in a small
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which inaugurate’s new features of an certain status. Robert Gray and Christo Erasmus‚ both explore the concept of self discovery but alter the discovery to being either new and refreshing or challenging and confronting. “Journey‚ North Coast” written by poet Robert Gray‚ demonstrates the self discovery of a concealed environment. This influences the persona’s demeanour to an undulate and stimulating psyche. However‚ the poem “The meatworks” by Robert Gray‚ and short film “The Pencil” (TROPFEST) directed
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Harvard philosopher John Rawls (1921-2002 ) developed a conception of justice as fairness in his now classic work A Theory of Justice . Using elements of both Kantian and utilitarian philosophy‚ he has described a method for the moral evaluation of social and political institutions. Imagine that you have set for yourself the task of developing a totally new social contract for today’s society. How could you do so fairly? Although you could never actually eliminate all of your personal biases and
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Is juvenile justices right or wrong? Edwin Desamour was driving with his 3-year-old son in their Philadelphia neighborhood when the little boy looked up and said‚ “Daddy‚ look at the moon! I want to go there‚” so his father did what many parents would: he bought his son books on science and space and encouraged him to believe that his dreams can come true. Edwin’s son has been blessed with a vastly different childhood than Edwin had. Edwin grew up poor in a violent neighborhood in Philadelphia
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Robert Greenwald’s ’’Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price’’ is not ’’Fahrenheit 9/11.’’ There are no goofy takeoffs of old television series. You won’t see H. Lee Scott Jr.‚ the chief executive of Wal-Mart‚ the largest retailer on the planet‚ practicing his golf swing or making revealing comments on camera. He doesn’t have to. Mr. Greenwald’s film features plenty of star witnesses‚ many of them former employees. Weldon Nicholson‚ a store-manager trainer for 17 years‚ says that when Wal-Mart came
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I have aspired to be a police officer my whole life and found it only fitting to interview a Police Officer from the Northern Virginia area. The officer told me of his own aspirations to become a cop and it only furthered my motivation. He said his goal as a police officer was/is to make positive influential changes for his peers by protecting and serving his community to his fullest potential. Before returning back to patrol the streets‚ the officer was a Student Resource Officer (SRO) at Herndon
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The purpose of this essay is to critically evaluate both the welfare principals and punitive principals that are paramount to the youth justice system‚ firstly by looking at what is meant by welfare approaches and how they have been used in adapting the Children’s Hearing System that is used in Scotland today when dealing with young offenders. Then looking at punitive approaches‚ how they are also used in dealing with young offenders and how they appear to be re-emerging back into the system in the
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On December 30‚ 1691‚ the influential and scholarly Robert Boyle left science with a strong legacy of discoveries and experiments. The Irish physicist‚ chemist‚ and natural philosopher brought significant discoveries to chemistry‚ the theory of matter‚ and pneumatics. With much of his time being devoted to writing and studying‚ Boyle became interested in natural philosophy‚ religious topics‚ and ethical issues; even though some of these topics did not have much of an overlap with science‚ Boyle found
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