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    In Aristophanes’ play‚ “clouds”‚ there is a battle between the “old” and “new” way of going out about life. This can be seen through the “just” and “unjust” speech‚ whose argumentative outcomes dictate the way in which society should go about educating its citizens. The “unjust speech”‚ which is a heavy logical and manipulative approach to thinking about life (“new”)‚ seems to subvert the “just speech”‚ which appears to rely on moral and mythical justification

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    Who Is Gandhi Unjust?

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    The assassination of Mahatma Gandhi was unjust because Gandhi was non-violent‚ he was a spiritual leader who fought for independence and equality. However many people believed Gandhi had too much power and authority. He wanted to make a huge impact on other’s lives to prove you can make a difference without having to fight. Mahatma Gandhi was a very non-violent person. Whenever Gandhi was attacked or abused he wouldn’t fight back with fists or weapons‚ he would always use his words to prove his

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    Hammurabi’s Code was Unjust CURSED!! That’s what happens when you change Hammurabi’s laws. When Hammurabi was king 4000 years ago he established a series of 282 laws. He wrote these laws on his 38th year of ruling. These rules are unfair just like putting an innocent man behind bars. Hammurabi’s code are unjust because of it’s family law‚ property law‚ and personal injury law. In addition‚ injustice is found in law’s 48‚ 53‚ and 54 in the area of property law. For example‚ “If a man has borrowed

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    • 1. In the Apology‚ Socrates recounts how he disobeyed the unjust order of the Thirty Tyrants to arrest a fellow citizen; he also claims that he will never stop philosophizing‚ regardless of what the legally constituted political authority commands. Yet‚ in the Crito‚ Socrates provides numerous arguments for obeying the decision of the legally constituted political authority‚ even though the decision (to put Socrates to death) was unjust. Critically assess whether Socrates’s view about political

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    Just War Is Unjust

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    (Return to CO.Quaker.org Home Page) 2013-07-09T16:58:18#BeginEditable "Heading" Just and Unjust War2013-07-09T16:58:18#EndEditable 2013-07-09T16:58:18#BeginEditable "body" by Howard ZinnReprinted (with permission of the author) from the book Declarations of Independence‚ (...also found in The Zinn Reader‚ and Howard Zinn on War) I enlisted in the Army Air Corps in World War II and was an eager bombardier‚ determined to do everything I could to help defeat fascism. Yet‚ at the end of the war‚ when

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    types of laws: just and unjust. Every individual in a society has a responsibility to obey just laws and‚ even more importantly‚ to disobey and resist unjust laws." The speaker asserts that each individual in a society has a responsibility to disobey and resist the unjust ones. However‚ as far as I am concerned‚ such responsibility is neither jurally valid nor practically feasible and thus does not exist. People often try to modify the laws instead of passively disobeying the unjust laws. To

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    What Is Unjust Slavery

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    Unjust Slavery Slavery is despondent and that’s that. Whether a person is black‚ white‚ Asian‚ or otherwise‚ it is not just to be whipped‚ beaten‚ and given extremely hard jobs with no pay‚ maybe very little. This is how most slaves were treated before 1863‚ then the Emancipation Proclamation was signed to save many normal human beings. Slavery is pernicious. Back before the Emancipation Proclamation was signed almost all plantations in the south had slaves. Most masters did not care

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    P A R T 4 Corrections RIGHTS OF THE CONVICTED AND IMPRISONED Common law‚ constitutional‚ statutory‚ and humanitarian rights of the convicted and imprisoned: ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ A right against cruel or unusual punishment A right to protection from physical harm A right to sanitary and healthy conditions of confinement A limited right to legal assistance while imprisoned A limited right to religious freedom while imprisoned A limited right to freedom of speech while imprisoned

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    is for this reason that many times‚ laws that are enacted for the “good of the people” can be in direct conflict with a person’s conscience. Due to the various struggles that the United States has faced in building a government‚ this topic has been a popular discussion throughout American literature. Although they did not live during the same time‚ American writers Henry David Thoreau and Martin Luther King‚ Jr. each wrote about how a person should not follow laws that they believe to be immoral. Thoreau’s

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    Law Enforcement Police departments have always had their ups and downs. A majority of the time people seem to show a decent amount of respect to our police officers at any level of authority. In this paper we will discuss what some of these issues that police officers have to deal with; how our local‚ county‚ state‚ and federal officers work with the United States Department of Homeland Security; and what improvements can be made to this relationship with the United State Department of Homeland

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