Letter From Birmingham Jail by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Background - In the spring of 1963‚ Martin Luther King Jr. and his organization‚ the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)‚ targeted Birmingham‚ Alabama‚ with a series of peaceful demonstrations aimed at the ending segregation. The police reacted violently with attack dogs and high-pressure fire hoses. Hundreds of protesters‚ including King‚ were jailed. At first‚ King was criticized for taking on Birmingham; eight white
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Tomas Pinpin – “Prince of Filipino Printers” or the “Patriarch of Filipino Printing.” He was a printer‚ writer and publisher from Abucay‚ a municipality in the province of Bataan‚ Philippines‚ who was the first Filipino printer and is sometimes referred as the "Prince of the Filipino Printers." He is thought to have first come into contact with the printing world around 1608 or 1609‚ learning from the work of other Christian Chinese printers such as Juan de Vera‚ Pedro de Vera‚ and Luis Beltran
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Writer Thomas Paine‚ in his essay‚ The Crisis # 1‚ initiates the power Britain (the mother country) has over America during the dreadful Revolutionary War. Paine’s purpose is to encourage the neutrals to join the patriots by degrading Britain’s harsh rule over America. He adopts an emotional yet persuasive tone to emphasize Britain’s unjust rule. Through appeals and schemes‚ Paine influenced neutrals to take into consideration their rights of freedom to separate from Britain’s rule. Paine opens
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11 / 17 / 11 STS437 Theories of Justice Justice Not Blind? We are probably all familiar with the iconic symbol of justice in the Western world: the goddess with scales in one hand and a double-edged sword in the other. More importantly‚ she is often depicted as being blindfolded in order to show objectivity‚ so justice can be meted out fairly without fear or favor. This is the ideal concept of justice in the western tradition...fairness through impartiality. The fact that all of us probably
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the people and territories at the time. Thomas Hobbes‚ author of Leviathan‚ believes that men naturally want war with everyone who is not themselves. He believes that the only way to have peace in a world with such men is to have a single ruling entity. Hobbes’ states that men need to‚ “confer all their strength and power upon one man‚ or upon one Assembly of men‚ that may reduce all their
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Sir Thomas More- UTOPIA Sir Thomas More‚ son of Sir John More‚ a justice of King’s Bench‚ after his earlier education at St. Anthony’s‚ he was placed‚ as a boy‚ in the household of Cardinal John Morton‚ Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Chancellor. It was not usual for persons of wealth or influence and sons of good families to be so established together in a relation of patron and client. The youth wore his patron’s livery‚ and added to his state. The patron used‚ afterwards‚ his wealth or
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Discuss and evaluate the view of the concept of Justice in relation to Othello and two supplementary texts. Justice is to live in a society that is fair to everyone‚ were everyone’s human rights are met and were everyone has equal opportunity to succeed. The concept of justice is portrayed rather unevenly in Othello and does not prevail as the villain‚ Iago‚ is still alive while his ‘victims’ are not. Also in my supplementary texts the balance of justice is uneven. One of my supplementary texts ‘Men
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Thomas Hobbes was born the year of the Spanish Armada‚ and lived in England through the English Civil War. Therefore‚ times were not exactly peaceful. In addition to the Civil War‚ England was economically unstable‚ plague ridden‚ and run by gangs rather than police. His perspective on life was shaped by his times‚ and he stated that life is “solitary‚ poor‚ nasty‚ and short.” Hobbes’ most famous work‚ Leviathon‚ demonstrates his views of mankind‚ and proposes a social contract theory based on these
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Modern medicine has made life more comfortable‚ and humans are living longer‚ healthier lives thanks to discoveries like penicillin to treat bacterial infections and vaccines to prevent deadly diseases like diphtheria‚ tuberculosis and tetanus. In 1920 there were 206‚000 reported cases of diphtheria‚ and of those 15‚520 deaths were reported. Between the years of 2004 to 2008 there were no reported deaths related to diphtheria. The first vaccine to treat diphtheria was created in 1921‚ but not widely
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1 PRINCIPLES OF NATURAL JUSTICE Lecture delivered by Justice T.S.Sivagnanam at Tamil Nadu State Judicial Academy on 01.06.2009 to the newly recruited Civil Judges (JR Division) during Induction Programme 2009 All of you who have assembled here have been newly Inducted in to the Judicial Family. There lies an onerous responsibility on each one of you to carry forward your office with dignity and decorum. The post of Civil Judge Junior Division is the foundation of our Judicial Structure. It
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