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  • Death for the Crimes You Commit

    Death for the Crimes You Commit

    Mrs. Flamenco English 3 March 19, 2005 Death for the Crimes You Commit “If men were angels,” wrote James Madison, “no government would be necessary.” However, since neither men nor women are angels, governments establish and enforce laws and impose punishments when those laws are violated. The severest of all these punishments is the death penalty (Egendorf 9). Typically, when one thinks of capital punishment, one tends to place it into a moral realm. Whether

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    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Victor
  • Benefits of the Death Penalty

    Benefits of the Death Penalty

    Benefits of the Death Penalty Have you ever thought about if the person next to you is a killer or a rapist? If he is, what would you want from the government if he had killed someone you know? He should receive the death penalty! Murderers and rapists should be punished for the crimes they have committed and should pay the price for their wrongdoing. Having the death penalty in our society is humane; it

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    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Vika
  • Socrates a Sophist? or Just Sophisticated?

    Socrates a Sophist? or Just Sophisticated?

    Philosophy Socrates a sophist? Or just sophisticated? Plato goes a long way in attempting to distinguish Socrates from the likes of Protagoras, a self admitted sophist. In Protagoras, Socrates is depicted as a street smart, wisdom dispensing young man, brash with confidence and a bit of arrogance that goes a long way when confronted with the old school rhetoric of Protagoras. Plato begins to separate the two at the hip right from the get go.

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    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Mike
  • Death

    Death

    Death Death has a great impact on people's lives in such a way that they learn to value life or even live it to the fullest. But what happens to us after we die? Many religions have answered this question for us according to their faiths. Buddhism is a religion where Buddhists believe in the concept of death and reincarnation or rebirth. On the other hand, Christians believe that after you die you go into

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    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Jack
  • Death of a Salesman & Oedipus the King

    Death of a Salesman & Oedipus the King

    An overwhelming desire for personal contentment and unprecedented reputation can often result in a sickly twisted distortion of reality. In Sophocles' Oedipus the King, a man well-known for his intellect and wisdom finds himself blind to the truth of h life and his parentage. Arthur Miller's play, The Death of a Salesman, tells of a tragic character so wrapped up in his delusional world that reality and illusion fuse causing an internal explosion that

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    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Andrew
  • The Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy Trial

    The Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy Trial

    The Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy Trial Was assassination the goal? The general agreement is that the first goal of the conspirators had been to kidnap the President. A few attempts to kidnap Lincoln fell through, and then the Confederacy surrendered to the North. Booth's thoughts turned to killing the President. Up until recent times, there was a great deal of theory as to the existence of an abduction plot. Some people felt it might be used

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    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Monika
  • Death Penalty

    Death Penalty

    Death penalty Since our nations founding, the government has punished murder victims and in recent years rape with the ultimate sanction death. Over 13,000 people have been legally executed since colonial times. In the 1930's there were as many as 150 people executed each year. Legal challenges caused these executions to come nearly to a halt by 1967. By 1972 in Furman v. Georgia the supreme court excused hundreds of scheduled executions, declaring that existing

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    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Anna
  • Death Penalty

    Death Penalty

    As we turn on radios and televisions, and even when we open the local newspaper today, we are bombarded with news of arrests, murders, homicides, and other such tragedies. There are many things I don’t agree with in today’s society but, out of the wrongdoing that takes place, I believe murder including the death penalty is the worst of them. I am strongly against the death penalty because it violates “God’s commandments”, costs the taxpayers

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    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • United States Healthcare: A Medical Death Wish

    United States Healthcare: A Medical Death Wish

    America’s Medicaid program provides medical assistance for individuals and families with low incomes and/or few resources. The program began in 1965 and is now the largest source of funding for medical and health-related services for people with limited income. Today, the program covers 53 million people, nearly one in every six Americans, and costs $300 billion a year in federal and state funds. In fact, Medicaid in some states accounts for more than one-third of

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    Essay Length: 780 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Mike
  • Capital Punishment - Legal Punishment of Death for Violating Criminal Law

    Capital Punishment - Legal Punishment of Death for Violating Criminal Law

    CAPITAL PUNISHMENT The definition of capital punishment is the legal punishment of death for violating criminal law. The person who gets capital punishment is the ones who committed serious crimes. Methods of capital punishment throughout the world are by stoning, beheading, hanging, electrocution, lethal injection and shooting. The two most common methods capital punishment use in the United States are lethal injection and electrocution. The lethal injection is the most used form of capital punishment.

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    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Vika
  • Capital Punishment: The Death Penalty

    Capital Punishment: The Death Penalty

    "The Punishment of death has never prevented determined men from injuring society." --Beccaria Today, one of the most debated issues in the Criminal Justice System is the issue of capital punishment. Capital punishment was legal until 1972, when the Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional in Furman v. Georgia stating that it violated the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments citing cruel and unusual punishment. In 1976, the Supreme Court reversed its decision with Gregg v. Georgia and

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    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Death Penalty

    Death Penalty

    The Death Penalty has many issues with people. Some people consider it to be cruel as others don't. Some people consider it not necessary as others do. Some people consider that even though this person kill someone anyone that considers this punishment to them are just the same as them because they are killing the person. This is a matter of opinions and will most likely always be debated. The Death Penalty was first issued

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    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Artur
  • Life’s Influence on Death, in Art: The Middle Ages

    Life’s Influence on Death, in Art: The Middle Ages

    LIFE'S INFLUENCE ON DEATH, IN ART: THE MIDDLE AGES 25 million Europeans died in just under five years between 1347 and 1352 due to the epic plague known as the Black Death. The great plague swept over Europe, ravaging cities causing widespread hysteria and death. One thirdthe population of Europe died. Simply mentioning the bubonic plague sends shivers down ones spine as it was one of the deadliest epidemics in history. It was originally transmitted

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    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Monika
  • Death Penalty

    Death Penalty

    The debate over capital punishment has been continuous for many years now. It is a very controversial issue that revolves around several theories of punishment and social justice such as utilitarianism, retribution, and the right to live. These arguments come from different types of schools and reasoning, but they can all be evaluated within a utilitarian view. It views society as one organism. Its goal is to improve the state of society for all citizens

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    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Mikki
  • The Apology of Socrates

    The Apology of Socrates

    The apology begins with Socrates telling the jurors that he is not experienced in court and the he will use a language that he is familiar with, the truth. He has been charged with, corruption of the young and not believing in the city's gods but rather in spiritual things. Socrates tells a story about Chaerephon and his trip to the oracle. This is supposed to show the jurors that he believes in the cities

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    Submitted: November 27, 2009 By: Jessica
  • The Death Penalty in Thailand

    The Death Penalty in Thailand

    The Death Penalty in Thailand Throughout the history of man, the penalty of death was given to criminals who broke the law. Capital Punishment is the extreme penalty for crime and is still in use today in many countries even in Thailand. According to the history, the death penalty in Thailand obviously appeared in Ayutthaya Empire and it has been used in the country until these days. There have been many debates on abolishing the

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    Submitted: November 27, 2009 By: Artur
  • Death Penalty

    Death Penalty

    June 29, 2003 Home Law Campaign Rights Corner Law Opinion Law News Law Lexicon Reader's Queries Star Law Report Law Week Back Issues Contacting Us The Daily Star Death penalty Is it violation of human rights? Mohammad Towhidul Islam Though the modern world is very sympathetic to the concept of human rights issues, death penalty as a form of capital punishment has still been in practice in the world. During 2001, at least 3048

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    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Death Penalty

    Death Penalty

    There have been many debates in the United States over all different things, but the death penalty has been one of the most debated issues in decades. Capital punishment is by definition the execution of a person convicted of committing a crime so extreme that no other punishment fits the crime. The people anti-death penalty, prefer life without parole instead. However, the death penalty holds advantages for the general public over life without parole in

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    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Jessica
  • The Tragedy of the Black Death

    The Tragedy of the Black Death

    The Tragedy of the Black Death Imagine yourself alone on a street corner, coughing up bloody mucous each time you exhale. You are gasping for a full breath of air, but realizing that is not possible, you give up your fight to stay alive. You're thinking, why is this happening to me? That is how the victims of the Black Death felt. The Black Death had many different effects on the people of the Middle

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    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Bred
  • The Black Death

    The Black Death

    The Black Death, or The Black Plague, was one of the most deadly pandemics in human history. The Black Death erupted in the Gobi Desert in the late 1320s.The total number deaths worldwide from the pandemic is estimated at million people which was about two-thirds of Europe's population. It reached Paris in the spring 1348 and England in September 1348. 1348 was the worst of the plague years. It took longer to reach the

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    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Yan
  • Capital Punishment - the Legal Infliction of Death

    Capital Punishment - the Legal Infliction of Death

    Capital Punishment is the legal infliction of death as a penalty for violating criminal law. It has been around for thousands of years and still continues to execute people today. Capital Punishment is inhumane and in some cases sentences the innocent to death. It is obviously the most severe form of criminal punishment. Being morally unjust, the purpose of it has no significance. Killing a person for their wrongdoings does not in anyway help our

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    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Mike
  • Socrates Diner Party Speech

    Socrates Diner Party Speech

    In Plato's Symposium, a dinner party was held with the discussion of love as the focus. Everyone who attended the party gave a speech, an ode to Love. Socrates spoke last, alleging his speech was a reiteration of what Diotima had once told him. Diotima, a priestess, whom Socrates allegedly met in the past, told him of the secrets of love. Another attendee of the party, Alcibiades, was asked to make a eulogy for love

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    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • The Witch Trials and McCarthyism

    The Witch Trials and McCarthyism

    Arthur Miller's masterpiece, The Crucible, is a work of art inspired by actual events as a response to political and moral issues. Although the play provides an accurate account of the Salem witch-hunts and trials of 1692, its real achievement lies in the many important issues of Miller's time that it deals with. The Crucible is a searing parable of conformity and the imbalance of power of the 1950s. In The Crucible, the need to

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    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Wendy
  • Romeo and Juliet - Death by Coincedence

    Romeo and Juliet - Death by Coincedence

    The play Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare tells the story of two very young lovers who die. It just appears that fate controlled the outcome of the story. But if you really study and interpret the story you will realize it is a series of a few simple coincidences, which made the outcome so tragic. It was just a coincidence that Romeo happened to meet Juliet. Near the beginning to the story Capulet

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    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Fatih
  • Psychological Importance in the Death of Ivan Illych

    Psychological Importance in the Death of Ivan Illych

    Psychological Importance in The Death of Ivan Illych In The Death of Ivan Ilych Leo Tolstoy conveys the psychological importance of the last, pivotal scene through the use of diction, symbolism, irony. As Ivan Ilych suffers through his last moments on earth, Tolstoy narrates this man’s struggle to evolve and to ultimately realize his life was not perfect. Using symbols Tolstoy creates a vivid image pertaining to a topic few people can even start

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    Submitted: November 30, 2009 By: Yan

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