...unknown to us. How could this absolute ruler be all but erased from the annals of time? Was her Step son/nephew Thutmose III to blame? Did he have her killed after watching her usurp his thrown for over 20 years (Sayer, 2012)? Did he chose to further avenge himself by completely destroying any hope that she would enter the afterlife? Hatshepsut’s legacy remained a mystery until 1904 when one of three sarcophagi she had made was discovered empty by Howard Carter in the 20th Tomb in The valley of the kings (KV20) (Brown, C. 2009). The search continued for who this Pharaoh was, how did she die, and why did she chose to progressively alter her image to male. The Religion of Egypt at the time would not support a women ruler. Not outside of the confines of a regency until the “rightful” king reached maturity (Brown, C. 2009). So if she intended to rule, she would need the support of the priests and through them the people. This transformation may seem drastic and unstable to modern eyes but to myself I see the most impactful and original political spin job in all of history. Hatshepsut was a millennia ahead of her time. I will be brazen enough at lay at your feet my own theory, that her disappearance was not done to be malicious. But was done to protect her. Hatshepsut the only surviving child of her father Thutmose I and his queen Ahmose, she was forced to marry her half-brother (son of Thutmose I and a second wife) Thutmose II. Thutmose II died early in his reign, the royal couple...
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...Texas Death Penalty – Deterrent or Not Extra Credit Essay GOVT 2306-21402 Autherene E. Webster November 26, 2013 Throughout the history of time the death penalty has always been a hotly debated topic. At one point every state in the nation banned it through a federal mandate but later dismantled the ban and state by state began bringing it back. The state of Texas is well known for being the state which has executed more people than anyone in the history of the nation. Texas, known for its penchant for enforcing laws and carrying out sentences has long since had the reputation for executions that are done more swiftly and more often than anywhere else in the nation. When the nation reinstated the death penalty in 1976 each state determined whether or not they wanted to reinstate it. Since its reinstatement there have been 1335 executions. The state of Texas was responsible for 507 of those executions. Prior to 1976 the death penalty had been made illegal in every state. The 1972 United States Supreme Court banned death penalty executions because it felt there had been many years of racial bias and other procedural faults within the capital punishment system (Nolen 2000). Interestingly enough, that is still the feeling surrounding death penalty executions today. The punishment was banned until 1976, when the court ruled that applying capital punishment to first degree murder was not a violation of...
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...Steinbeck received Le Morte d’Arthur for his ninth birthday, which later inspired him both to write and to incorporate many elements of King Arthur’s tales in Tortilla Flats. Steinbeck and his sister, Mary, “would imagine the turrets of Camelot in the sandstone erosions in the Pastures of Heaven, where his aunt lived”(National Steinbeck Center).Steinbeck also had a pony, Jill, which went onto inspire The Red Pony. As a teenager, Steinbeck, nervous and terrified, would send in works to literary magazines “under a false name and never put a return address on them[…]I was scared to death to get a rejection slip, but more, to get an acceptance”(Valjean...
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...overturned a death penalty hearing. I was never interested in law before but thanks to my son who is in training to be a police officer in the sheriff department has sparked my interest. This article is about a judge that has taken upon himself the role of telling juror that they should be the one to state whether a guilty person should get the death penalty or not. A U.S. District Judge has ordered that a case should go back to a new sentencing hearing and that the jury should make the decision on death or life in prison. You see Florida is one of the few states that allow juries to issue the death penalty, and the vote does not have to be unanimous, the majority vote is the decision on life or death. Trial judges in Florida have the authority to override jury recommendations on death penalty cases. It would appear that they rarely do according to the writer. His article points out that because of the judge overturning the jury verdict that their will be more appeals hitting the court system from others in prison for the death penalty hoping for new sentencing hearings. I completely agree that the jury should be the one to determine life in prison or death row, by reading this article it would appear that the author is not to keen on the judges decision either. If would appear that the Florida law is going to have to be a little more specific about the death penalty. Why should those people who serve on the jury have to explain why they choose the death penalty rather...
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...The death penalty in the United States and around the World Raul Lopez-Rodriguez Liberty University Online CJUS 230 Professor: Jeffrey Sexton July 31, 2013 Abstract This document explore the advance and disadvantages of the death penalty in the United States. The death penalty has been used by many countries including Europe in the early years of society. In addition, during the years, death penalty has been an option to suppress those who are not so privilege in society. The death penalty crime in those areas, where the Capital punishment is permitted those states are in a higher crime rate. The American Civil Liberties Union has been one of the most important organization in the world in support of many human rights and are against the death penalty. Since, the American Civil Liberties Union gives us; some of the reasons that helps to understand why this punishment does not help to minimize crimes in our society. Although, many lawyers are use or put on the cases to help those in need to be free, there has been many of those lawyers who if they are not paid a good amount of money they will not work hard enough to get them what they deserve which is their liberty. Christianity has not been in support of the death penalty at all and it has been working against the destruction of human beings using the bible as their back up and the Holy Ghost who change people hearts. The death penalty is against the rights of defendant and cannot be...
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...The death penalty has been in our society for centuries. The death penalty is a process of getting rid of dangerous criminals such as someone who has committed murder. The death penalty is a long process for the court system and the person standing trial. In my opinion the death penalty should be banned. In the United States of America about 13,000 people have been executed since the colonial times (B.A Robinson 2012). The majority of these 13,000 people were poor and could not afford a lawyer. Although they could have had a lawyer appointed to them, there is a chance that the lawyer did not try their best to prove that the criminal was innocent. The process of the death penalty varies from about 17 year to well over 20 years (death penalty information 2013). In the court process the criminal attempts to prove his/hers innocence even after being convicted. From 1995 to 2000 federal prosecutors sought the death penalty for more than 183 defendants 74% were minorities. (B.A Robinson 2006). This proves that minorities have higher rates of getting the death penalty than whites. I believe that having the death penalty as a sentence is torture to the person that is receiving it. The reason I say this is because knowing that you are going to die can cause someone to go insane and make bad choices. The bad choices I am talking about can include suicide, or possibly killing a guard or another inmate. Do we really want to let a guard with a family die just because the inmate knows he...
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...Cold Blood, one controversial issue has been Perry’s plea. Was justice served correctly by sentencing Perry to death row? On one hand, it is a fair eye for an eye sentence, in which the consequence matches the wrongdoing. On the other hand, Perry could have been sentenced to an insane plea, which would’ve spared his life, and therefore given him a chance at treating his psychological illness. In Cold Blood, Truman Capote illustrates the events of the trial to the reader. On November 15, 1959, both Perry Smith and Richard Hickcock broke into the Clutter’s home in hopes of finding a safe with a monetary reward. Unfortunately, there was no safe and Richard, who was the mastermind behind this massacre, felt it was best to murder...
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...and receives a death sentence, really put my views on death penalty in perspective. The convict begs for a retrial, which is denied, but later on finds God, and inner peace, on the death row. He admits everything, and shows positive psychological progress while time is ticking towards his demise. In the end, the convict is executed by the lethal injections. Now, the big question still remains – is capital punishment the right ethical choice in a modern world? After all, America is the land of opportunity. In the film we are faced with many opinions and decision made on hatred and vengeance by the victims’ families. Most of them link to Exodus 21:24, “Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot”. The convict killed their son, and therefore he must also die - very plebeian mind-set if you ask me. I understand the grief and sorrow connected to their son’s death, and the impact it has on their mentality, and I agree, that the killer must get the right punishment. I am, however, disgusted by execution and the course of action taken in the court. Now, correct me if I’m wrong. But I believe that we are in the 21st century. The 21st century… – and yet we still have the guts to not just blindly, but also callously obey to the outrageously ancient law of Talion? No matter how brutal and cruel a person can be… No matter how hard-hearted, insensitive and unfeeling a person can be – I do not believe in any form of righteousness in death penalty. As Sister...
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...committed while in prison for lesser charges. Ama notably became the subject of the popular 1976 film, Bitayin si... Baby Ama! (Execute Baby Ama!). Another famous case was of former powerful Governor of Negros Occidental Rafael Lacson and 22 of his allies, condemned to die in August 1954 for the murder of a political opponent. Ultimately, Lacson was never executed. In total, 51 people were electrocuted up to 1961. Execution numbers climbed under President Ferdinand Marcos, who was ironically himself sentenced to death in 1939 for murder of Julio Nalundasan—the political rival of his father, Mariano; the young Ferdinand was acquitted on appeal. A well-publicised triple execution took place in May 1972, when Jaime José, Basilio Pineda, and Edgardo Aquino were electrocuted for the 1967 abduction and gang-rape of the young actress Maggie dela Riva. The executions were ordered broadcast on national television. Under the Marcos regime, drug trafficking also became punishable with death by firing squad, such as the case with Lim Seng, whose execution in December 1972 was also ordered broadcast on national television. Future President and then Chief of the Philippine Constabulary, General Fidel V. Ramos, was present at the execution. The electric chair was used until 1976, when execution by firing squad eventually replaced it as the sole method of execution. Under Marcos' 20-year authoritarian rule, however, countless more people were summarily executed, tortured, or simply disappeared for...
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...Composition 1 December 10, 2015 My Addiction, My Recovery "It can never happen to me" I thought, as I watched my father drink himself into oblivion and smoke his drugs, from sunrise, to sunset, and sometimes, for days, even weeks with no break in between. When he left, I remember feeling relieved, even at the early age of two. He was in and out of my life, just as often as he was in and out of rehabiliation centers for the chemically addicted. I didn't mind, I didn't have to watch him slowly kill himself, and hurt my mother, brother and I in the process. I never wanted to be like either one of my parents, both addicts with two different choices of poisons, I told myself every single day that would never be me. Me risk losing it all, my family, my friends, my health, everything in the world that means anything to me at all? "Never" is what I told myself, every time I thought of my father, or looked at my mother. That wasn't what I wanted for my life, I wanted a good life, full of happiness and ambition, surrounded by those I love, and I would never settle for less. My parent's and their lifestyle were things I looked to for motivation to stay focused, and on the right track. Boy, did that ever backfire! My brother and I are three years apart in age, he is older, but not by much when it comes to mentality. One night, after a long night of work, I was 15 and already had dropped out of school, I walked into my brothers room and found him at...
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...Angela Janet Caldwell was the best person in the world in the eyes of her son Bud. Throughout Bud's young life he lives one hell scenario after another and throughout all of these terrible situations he could always recall all the good things his mother did for him and it always helped him prevail. In the face of starvation and sleeping underneath a tree Bud uses this atrocious time to reminisce about the good times with his mother. "These things I'm going to explain to you later be a great help for you. Then momma'd look hard in my face, grab a holt of my arms real tight and say, And Bud, I want you always to remember, no matter how bad things look to you, no matter how dark the night, when one door closes, don't worry, because another door opens." (42-43) Angela was very hard working and attentive. Michigan was one of the poorest states during the great depression. Her work ethic is referenced several times. "I looked over and thought I was dreaming. My clothes are all folded up in a neat pile the same way momma used to fold them when she'd go to work before I got up." (185). What we know about Bud's mother that he is too young to realize is the depths of her sacrifice. Single Black women during the depression were working long...
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...lived with their mom and dad. One of the boys name Luke was mentally retarded. Times were hard for this family, but got even worse when the mother committed suicide. After the mother committed suicide, financial hardships caused the family home to become foreclosed. After the family home was foreclosed they moved in with family members. Even though they moved with family, the youngest child who was mentally retarded was no welcomed into the household. Subsequently, father and son had to fend for themselves. One day, the father left Luke in the car alone. Shortly afterwards the father returned to the car, surprised to find that Luke was missing. Now the investigation begins for the search of little Luke. At the beginning, there was a family of three boys. The youngest sibling was mentally retarded. His name was Luke. Luke was always referred to by family and peers as retard or slow kid. The boys lived with both their mother and father, until the mother committed suicide. After the death of the mother, the father who name was Matthew was granted full custody of the boys. Due to overwhelming financial hardships upon Matthew, the family house got foreclosed. With all this bad luck happening in such a short time span, the father turned to family for help. The family moved in with the mother sister named Sally Ann who was the children’s aunt. Unfortunately, she had a husband who was the children uncle through marriage named Carl. Carl refused to take on the responsibility...
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...Colin Campbell Ross, Joe Arridy, Thomas Griffin and George Stinney all have something in common. Despite all coming from very different backgrounds and very different families they all share one thing in common, they were all wrongly put to death. Each of their cases were revaluated after their deaths and each man was proven innocent, their families were awarded a large sum of money as compensation for the Courts mistakes. But with this fact being said can any sum of money truly contemplate for the loss of a life? Can money truly replace a loved one- a son, a husband, a wife? It is an obvious fact that money cannot buy back a human life. There have been many other recorded cases of executions; cases that were later proven to be innocent and...
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...physically hurt by a boyfriend or girlfriend. Girls and young ages of 16 and 24 experience the highest rate of intimate partner violence almost triple the national average. Among female victims of intimate partner violence, 94% of those ages 16-19 and 70% of those ages 20-24 were victimized by a current or former boyfriend or girlfriend. Violent behavior typically begins between the ages of 12 and 18. Intimate partner violence is often greater in cases where the pattern of abuse was established in adolescence. Marcus Mctear was a star running back at Raegan High school in Austin Texas. At 16 and he was bright and popular and dreamed of college. Until a spring day in March 2003.the popular athlete stabbed his girlfriend, Otralla Mosely, to death in a hallway after she tried to break up with him. Marcus was arrested and charged with murder. He pleaded guilty and is now serving a 40 year sentence. I would never think someone could be so sweet and focused be on the right track, but 4 out ten times them be main ones that end up that way. Sara Van Zanten, 18 was lying on the floor, an ice pack on her aching ribs; she had no idea where she was. She was dating a football player Jeremy Carson he was insulting demanding, and finally physically abuse. She put out a restraining order. Jeremy came to school drunk and pushed her against the lockers and yells at her saying you can’t hide from me. He told her that he was going to beat the crap out of her....
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...the loss of her father. Not only has she lost her father, but also her brother, who died as a teenager 23 years ago, and her mom, who died just a few months after. Annie lives alone now, and is having a tough time. With no family of her own to depend on, she is literally on her own, all the way up in distant Northern Ireland. The plot of the short story involves Annie meeting her father after his death, through different occasions. These supernatural occasions are divided into sections throughout the story, which is reflective of the distinctive composition. Instead of a coherent text, which normally characterizes the short story, there are different sections each consisting of a supernatural experience, which Annie, the narrator, experiences. The story jumps in time, from one occasion to another, which gives the story a special touch of its own. Some on the text is told in streams of consciousness, and because of this, the chronological order has been unregulated. It starts in media res, in the middle of an important event. The first time Annie sees her father after his death, is while showering, two weeks after his funeral. As he is standing with his back to her, with the tap running, Annie thinks to herself; "His things were all where he'd...
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