mao sui November 20‚ 2013 Jurisprudence & Judicial Proc By: Gardner Marilyn‚ Christian Science Monitor‚ 08827729‚ 7/16/97‚ Vol. 89‚ Issue 161 WHEN US‚ NEWCOMERS’ VALUES CLASH Jurisprudential Problem: Cultural Defense Cultural Explanation/Defense This article began with the arrest of Wilfredo Cordero who had been arrested for allegedly beating his wife Ana Mora. Cordero’s first wife‚ Mora‚ offered a cultural explanation. After defining the meaning of cultural explanation‚ which
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Indian architecture encompasses a wide variety of geographically and historically spread structures‚ and was transformed by the history of the Indian subcontinent. The result is an evolving range of architectural production that‚ although it is difficult to identify a single representative style‚ nonetheless retains a certain amount of continuity across history. The diversity of Indian culture is represented in its architecture. It is a blend of ancient and varied native traditions‚ with building
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The criminal justice system in the United States has traditionally operated under two fundamentally different theories. One theory is the Crime Control Model. This theory is characterized by the idea that criminals should be aggressively pursued and crimes aggressively punished. The other theory is the Due Process Model. This theory is characterized by the idea that the rights of the accused need to be carefully protected in any criminal justice investigation. (Levy‚ 1999) The Due Process
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that applied to a certain group of people. Many treaties were made to deal with the Indian nation. Indians were treated very poorly in the mid 1800s into the 1900s. Two treaties in this time period had to do with the Chippewa Indians and the Lakota Indians. The two treaties were put together and enforced in different ways and the U.S. manipulated these treaties to benefit themselves. The Ojibwe (Chippewa) Indians made numerous treaties with the United States that involved mostly hunting‚ fishing
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Indian History - Important events History of India . An overview : The people of India have had a continuous civilization since 2500 B.C.‚ when the inhabitants of the Indus River valley developed an urban culture based on commerce and sustained by agricultural trade. This civilization declined around 1500 B.C.‚ probably due to ecological changes. During the second millennium B.C.‚ pastoral‚ Aryan-speaking tribes migrated from the northwest into the subcontinent. As they settled in the middle Ganges
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The first dynasty of China is the Xia Dynasty. The Xia dynasty lasted for almost 500 years. 17 emperors ruled the Xia Dynasty. The Xia Dynasty emperors were chosen by their abilities. During this dynasty‚ a lot of bronze was produced. The last emperor of the Xia dynasty was Emperor Jie. He was a terrible emperor. He lived an extravagant life and did not care for his country. He killed many of his ministers who came up with good advices. His actions made the people angry so they followed the Shang
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socially. Before his rule‚ China was not politically stable‚ so to avoid political chaos‚ conquered states could not be referred to as independent nations. Shih Huang Di then divided his empire into thirty six commanderies. These administrative units served well for China‚ for they made China more organized. And what made this system so unique was that it was different from what previous dynasties had done. Previous dynasties had used loose alliances and federations‚ which did not do the country well
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justice and citizen involvement in their political process. A democratic nation like Australia consists of a political system based on the rule of law and the will of the people. Australian legislative (parliament) consists of a two party preferred system in which either the Labour party or the Liberal party will form the government depending on preference of the people. Contrastingly a communist government is marked by authoritarian rule‚ single party control and a tightly run economy. In China the
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The founder of the Ming Dynasty‚ Zhu Yuanszhang‚ began life at the bottom of society. His home region in Anhui province (Southeast China) was hit with drought and plague around 1340. Zhu Yuanzhang also lost his family at the age of sixteen. He went on to be a leader in one of the peasant uprisings that overthrew the Yuan Dynasty. When Zhu was twenty five he joined the Red Turban rebels and rose quickly among them. He even married a commanders daughter and within a couple years Zhu had between twenty
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collapse are Rome and the Han empire such as they were both invaded by foreign enemies‚ the corruption of the governments‚ and the weak leaders. There are also many differences between the collapse of the Roman and Han empires such as‚ the Roman empire fell because of Germanic invasions‚ and the Civil Wars. The Han empire fell because‚ power was not held by the central government‚ and uprisings of desperate peasants. There were many similarities between the fall of the Han and Roman empires. Both
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