State laws are not always just. State violence is not always legitimate. Discuss these issues in relation to protest and dissent. In his 1918 essay Politics as a Vocation‚ Max Weber described the monopoly of state violence as an essential characteristic of modern governments. (1918 p.1) State violence is monopolised towards the pursuit of societal compliance‚ which according to political history‚ is a necessary condition for a functioning democracy. (1918 p.2) As Tolstoy points out‚ history has
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Is Achilles Justified in Killing Hector and is Odysseus Justified in Killing the Suitors? Holding the power of life and death is a very serious responsibility. Under most circumstances death penalty is not right and can be handled in a much better way. Because we are made in the image of God we are commanded not to kill. But there are some circumstances in which the killing of a wrong-doer is justified. Actions speak louder than words.
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William Shakespeare’s Macbeth‚ the tragic characters often have ambition to thank for their fatal or perilous ends. Ambition cannot exist in a pure form‚ free from consequence because there will always be a dark path to take that might seem to be justified by the ends. The natural order of humanity is disrupted once Macbeth indulges his ambitions. In addition‚ Macbeth begins to lose sight of what he wanted and what he aspired to be originally. He reaches a place of no return. In the end‚ Macbeth and
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The Eureka Rebellion‚ the great triumph of our nation‚ where we won our fight for rights and freedom‚ the beginning of democracy. Was it really a triumph though? Can it be argued that it was instead a tragedy? From who’s point of view is it from? The diggers? The officers? The women? Perhaps people like Rede or Hotham. Most importantly though‚ what about now‚ in our times? From these unique viewpoints it adds up‚ it is neither triumph or a tragedy and it is both simultaneously. When someone is to
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There was another event that took its beginning in February of that mysterious year – the conflict in Syria. To remind‚ the opposition of Syria rebelled the President Bashar Assad’s regime and wanted his resignation. Even though the inception of the rebellion has started in peaceful way‚ nowadays the situation in Syria raised to the level of civil war. The uprising is going on with firefights between opposition’s armed forces and military forces. According to the recent news from Syria there are more
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Rebellion Against the British In the 1700s there was growing anger with the British because of the taxes being raised. They passed acts that included the Currency Act and the Stamp Act. The colonists were justified in rebelling against the British government because the colonies had multiple problems with the British rule. The colonies believed that the government was taxing them unfairly and they didn’t like the fact that one family was running the government‚ and the government was not giving them
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NAME: Liu Yiran ID: 11412011 TA: Ramesh Ganohariti Instructor: VYAS Utpal The Serious Consequences Of Torture The subject of my article is Torture. I would like to talk about the serious consequences of torture. Let’s make an example about that. Filled with brutal torture and capital punishment witch trial. Let me briefly explain background events. From the fourteenth century to the seventeenth century‚ during this period of up to three hundred years‚ the whole of Europe into a female Asian
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Hitler was a bad man‚ right? Lots of Germans looked up to him as a leader though. Why? Hitler gained power without firing a single shot because people were desperate‚ they were afraid‚ and he denied Jewish rights. The first way Hitler rose to power was because people were desperate. People were desperate to get out of the Great Depression‚ which was terrible for Germany. They were also desperate to blame somebody or a group of people for their loss in the war and all of their current problems
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Brutus convinces himself that Caesar needs to be killed‚ by justifying that once Caesar becomes King‚ the power will manifest his true selfish nature and he will ruin Rome. Brutus has no personal grudge against Caesar. But if it is for the greater good of the people‚ for Rome‚ he will kill Caesar. In Brutus’s personal experience Caesar has never shown fault. Thus‚ he goes through a process of logic in the unknown to convince himself that Caesar should die. In his justification‚ Brutus considers that
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Classifying the Americans “We want rights‚ we want rights.” People in america after the war would protest against the government.Such protest is known as shay’s rebellion. They were controversial for some people. Although Many people and documents state Shay’s rebellion are reckless rebels‚ Nevertheless they should be seen and recognized as freedom fighters because‚ they stood up for others‚ they aimed to help their country‚ and kept the gov’t aware of the needs of the country. To demonstrate
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