Was Antigone`s decision to bury her brother just? In the Antigone by Sophocles‚ king Creon issues a decree that whoever tries to bury the body of Polyneices (Antigone`s brother)‚ shall suffer a penalty of death by stoning in the presence of the assembled citizens. Antigone refuses to follow this law because she believes that it`s more important to follow the god’s principles than to obey a man. In the book‚ she tells her sister‚ Ismene : "I will bury him myself. If I die for doing that‚ good: I
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Name ______________________ *********Complete and submit this Algebra 1 Midterm Review Packet when you return 1. Write the Order of Operations: __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ Evaluate: 2. 3p – q when p = 7 and q = 3 3. when w = 10 and u = 5 4
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Yes‚ I agree with the statement “Macbeth’s murder of Duncan has had horrible consequences for both Macbeth himself and Scotland.” Even before Duncan’s murder Macbeth understood there would be grave consequences for his actions. He knew that murdering Duncan would start an unstoppable cycle of bloodshed. “It will have blood they say: blood will have blood” The murder has affected Macbeth’s life in many ways. He’s lost his peace of mind‚ his moral core has been destroys‚ his relationships collapse
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In basic terms the felony murder rule is the ability of the state to charge an individual with murder‚ even if they have not directly murdered someone. Generally‚ one of the requirements for the felony murder rule to be used by the State in a court of law is that a person must die while a felony is being committed. A common example of this rule being utilized is a police officer dying in a vehicle crash not involving the suspects‚ while pursuing a robbery suspect. The fleeing suspect who was involved
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Is All Murder Morally Wrong? By Lianna Nicole Santiago PHI 2010 Murder is a touchy subject that can be very controversial depending on who the victim or victims are‚ and also who the predator is. Things like the relationship between a victim and predator‚ and the essential “reasons” behind the murder play a big part on whether or not all murder is ethical or unethical. The basic view of murder by most of the population‚ in any sense‚ is that it is morally wrong. Though there are circumstances
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London murders: a predictable pattern? Four stabbings to death in a single day. Ninety murders in 7 months. Shocking figures—or are they? Knife crime makes the headlines almost daily but are Londoners really at increased risk of being murdered? David Spiegelhalter and Arthur Barnett investigate— and find a predictable pattern of murder. Violence in London attracts headlines. After four people were murdered in separate incidents in London on July 10th‚ 2008‚ BBC correspondent Andy Tighe said “To
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guilty and sent to jail". These were the words of John MacFarlane‚ Chief Inspector of the Metropolitan Police in July 2013 following the final conviction in relation to the murder of fifteen-year-old Sofyen Belamouadden at London’s Victoria tube station‚ which remains the leading case involving English Joint Enterprise murder. The appalling killing is still heralded by many‚ including MacFarlane‚ as a prime example of how the complex doctrine of Joint Enterprise can be successfully used to prosecute
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The Personalization of History in "Murder in the Cathedral" T. S. Eliot was born in St. Louis‚ Missouri. He went to school at Harvard and‚ after graduating‚ lived in England. It was here that he was employed as a schoolmaster‚ a bank clerk‚ and a literary editor for a publishing house called Faber & Faber. After working there for a number of years he became a director. Eliot ’s poetry shows the growth of a poet with devout religious views‚ but Eliot was always careful not to become a religious
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Results The mean attitudinal sore of all 25 respondents towards the Aaron Hernandez murder trial was 71. As can be seen in Table 2 below‚ this mean falls in the undecided category. The sample standard deviation of the scores was 11.74. The distribution of the 25 scores is seen as well. The two most frequently scored categories are undecided and unfavorable. The category with the fewest respondent is favorable. TABLE 2: Distribution of Scores Attitude Categories Score Range Frequency Very Favorable
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Mass Murders‚” focused on mass murders’ personalities‚ mental health‚ and other factors that could have contributed to how or why these people became murders. It talks about how aggression is the behavior carried out with the proximate intent to harm someone. However‚ violence is the intentional use of physical force or power‚ threatened or actual‚ against oneself‚ another person or against a group or community. The article speaks of a similarity to how violence is the form of mass murders. There
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