...Furman V. George Case Aldeen Dillon CJS/221 Mr. A. Hazen Furman was burglarizing a home when discovered by a member of the household, then tripped and fell. The gun accidentally went off and killed the victim. Should the death penalty be handed down or is it a violation of the eight and fourteen Amendments? In the Furman V. Georgia case, the occupants work in the light to encounter William Henry Furman burglarizing their home. At trial Furman said he was trying to escape, he stumbled and fell and the gun that he was carrying went off accidentally and killed the occupant. His statement contradicted what he said before to the police; he said that he turned and blindly fired a shot while trying to escape. Furman was tried for murder and was found guilty based on his on testimony. He was sentenced to death, but the punishment was not carried out. As a civilized society, we ought to have in placed a system by which we protect our citizens from criminals who seek to do harm to the public. We have had a long history of trials and errors from incarceration in dungeons and jails, to capital punishment. Carried out by hanging, beating, and burning, sacrificing, lethal injection, electric chair, and the list goes on. The writer do believe that harden criminals who commit the most heinous crimes warrants that most severe punishments. However, it must be empowered with a blind eye for discrimination and other arbitrary ways of thinking. In the case of Furman V. Georgia...
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...advantage of a woman, who in this case is also poor and feeling negatively about her marriage. In the end, Tom walks off into the sunset with Daisy while Myrtle is left dead in the hideous Valley of the Ashes. Tom cared not for her, but only for his own primal desires. Moreover, when threatened at gunpoint by Wilson, Tom gives up Gatsby in order to save his own life (178). Thinking not of calming down Wilson and presenting alternatives, Tom selfishly points to another man and essentially orders his death. Tom thinks not of the consequences for other people, but rather, only the part of the result that directly affects him. Daisy, too, is a fine case study of disregard for others, despite her innocent demeanor. While Gatsby was away at war Daisy waited for him back home, but when he got misdirected towards Oxford she grew impatient. Gatsby constantly wrote letters back to her, but Daisy could wait for him no longer; she married Tom, leaving Gatsby in the past with a heart shattered in pieces that he would incessantly aim to repair (151). In the end, also, Daisy repeats the past by abandoning Gatsby for Tom. In that, she commits an injustice far worse than that of five years prior -- she had already known the pain Gatsby felt and the lengths to which he went to reclaim her, and yet she left him stranded yet again. The only problem was that on this occasion he was left dead. Daisy didn’t even attend Gatsby’s funeral, as she instead opted to stay home with Tom, not so much as replying...
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...<How Faithful Is The Great Gatsby?> By David Haglund Ever since Baz Luhrmann announced that he was adapting F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby—and especially after he revealed that he’d be doing it in 3-D—much digital ink has been spilled about the hideous sacrilege that was sure to follow. Nevermind that Luhrmann’s previous adaptation, William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet, was quite true to both the language and the spirit of that legendary play; Gatsby, as David Denby puts it in The New Yorker this week, is “too intricate, too subtle, too tender for the movies,” and especially for such an unsubtle filmmaker as Luhrmann. So the argument goes, anyway. In fact, Fitzgerald’s novel, while great, is not, for the most part, terribly subtle. And though it has moments of real tenderness, it also has melodrama, murder, adultery, and, of course, wild parties. In any case, we can put aside, for the moment, the larger question of whether Luhrmann captured the spirit of Gatsby, which is very much open for debate. There’s a simpler question to address first: How faithful was the filmmaker to the letter of Fitzgerald’s book? Below is a breakdown of the ways in which the new film departs from the classic novel. The Frame Story Luhrmann’s chief departure from the novel arrives right at the beginning, with a frame story in which the narrator Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire), some time after that summer spent with Gatsby & co., has checked into a sanitarium, diagnosed...
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...attention but at one point it does not have place within things or it can be rubbed off because cosmetic color is applied on the surface of thing therefore cosmetic color is superficial and it is thinner than the skin onto which it is applied. Metaphorically ,to color is to adorn , to disguise or to misrepresent the truth within. For that reason ,color Cosmetic is similar to drug and can be compared to female in term of seduction and illustrating illusion. Cosmetic color has ability to make the object more appealing even though the truth of that object is actually hideous. Cosmetic color aim to confuse and seduce , to fake and cover up. Barthes writes in Camera Lucida and he state that color was a coating applied later on the original truth of the black and white photograph, for me ,color is an artifice. Mean that color is a coating that distort the truth of the object within or distort the original and in Barthes case the original truth is black and white photograph. In western philosophy , western philosophy usually dealing with depth and surface , essence and appearance between the...
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...Modern Totalitarianism. In the 1940s through the 1960s, the world lived in a time of war. In September 1939 World War II broke out , and was followed by the Cold War of 1947 that lasted up until 1991. The historic wars of these times influenced literature and the writers of the time, as they shaped their novels and books around these events. Writers such as George Orwell and Kurt Vonnegut created novels of dystopian societies to alert nations that communism was not as great as it sounded. British writer George Orwell wrote the novel 1984 published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. in 1949. 1984 is a political novel written with the purpose of warning readers in the West of the dangers of totalitarian government. In 1949, the Cold War had not yet escalated, and many Americans supported communism as possible political systems for the west. Therefore, Orwell wrote his novel in order to expose the cruelty and oppression of communist countries. In his dystopian nation, Orwell gave a sneak peak of what a country could become if the people gave all the power to the government. In 1984, Orwell portrays the perfect totalitarian society in which the government monitors and controls every aspect of human life to the extent that having a disloyal thought is against the law. They do so with the use of technology such as tele screens and microphones across the city which allowed the government to monitor all the citizens almost all of the times. In order to keep the citizens of London...
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...Marshall McLuhan “The Man behind the message” A professor from Winnipeg, Marshall was one of the world’s most innovative thinkers. His theories about mass media turned him into a media guru. Arguably most famous for his quote “The medium is the message” Many would consider Marshall to be a brilliant man; others would say they don’t understand a word he is saying. I wonder how much thought his skeptics have put into what he had to say. I will agree that some of his theories are not clear at first but once dissected you begin to understand the man behind the message. “The message of any medium or technology is the change of scale or pace or pattern that it introduces into human affairs. The railway did not introduce movement or transportation or wheel or road into human society, but it accelerated and enlarged the scale of previous human functions, creating totally new kinds of cities and new kinds of work and leisure. This happened whether the railway functioned in a tropical or northern environment, and is quite independent of the freight or content of the railway medium. (Understanding Media, NY, 1964, p. 8) What McLuhan writes about the railroad applies with equal validity to the media of print, television, computers and now the internet. “The medium is the message” because it is the “medium that shapes and controls the scale and form of human association and action.” (E. McLuhan) Now, some may be thinking that they don’t understand the message of the preceding paragraphs...
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...In this anthology, The War Poems, Wilfred Owen, serves to convey the brutality meaninglessness, destruction and unnecessary loss of life that occurred as a consequence of war; his protest of such horrors is raw and violent. In particular, Owen uses several of his poems as a tribute to the innocent young soldiers who endured disquieting circumstances to suffer the complete suffocation of their mental and physical spirit; that is, they were reduced to a disheartening morbid state. Through the study of both ‘Anthem For Doomed Youth’ and ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est.’ Nonetheless, not all of Owen’s poems focus on the circumstance of soldiers some of his poems condemn those who send the young to war, providing them with “the old lie” that it is honorable to die for one’s country. Ultimately, Owen conveys his admiration of the sacrifice to engage in war, and shows how even ordinary people experience extraordinary circumstances. War’s relentless horror is exposed as Owen’s critical truth in ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est.’ structural manipulation, enhanced through poetic voice, allows Owen to graphically capture the horrific experience of a gas attack and its physical and psychological impact on the ordinary soldier. The appearance of traditional lyrics in full rhyme ‘sacks/backs … sludge/trudge’ is effectively destabilized by varied length, extinguishing conventional iambic pentameter just as traditional form and notions of war as noble and heroic became obsolete in 20th century modern warfare....
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...talked into going to a party with his roommate. However, Greg’s roommate suddenly had to work that day and could no longer attend. Greg now was going alone and had not been able to come up with a good reason to no longer go. When he arrived his anxiety was starting to hit him; he was sweating vigorously. Once he entered the party, he no longer wanted to be there. His new objective for the night was to hide in plain sight and get out as soon as he could (Jantz, 2014). The fear of letting down his roommate made it to where Greg felt obligated to go to this party. By doing this it triggered his anxiety and he no longer wanted to be there. He was now in fear of being around these people. Having fear of people can lead to a path of destruction. A study that was conducted found that in the 131 participants who had anxiety symptoms, higher levels of anger, and its various dimensions were associated...
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...Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Key facts full title · Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus author · Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley type of work · Novel genre · Gothic science fiction language · English time and place written · Switzerland, 1816, and London, 1816–1817 date of first publication · January 1, 1818 publisher · Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones narrator · The primary narrator is Robert Walton, who, in his letters, quotes Victor Frankenstein’s first-person narrative at length; Victor, in turn, quotes the monster’s first-person narrative; in addition, the lesser characters Elizabeth Lavenza and Alphonse Frankenstein narrate parts of the story through their letters to Victor. climax · The murder of Elizabeth Lavenza on the night of her wedding to Victor Frankenstein in Chapter 23 protagonist · Victor Frankenstein antagonist · Frankenstein’s monster setting (time) · Eighteenth century setting (place) · Geneva; the Swiss Alps; Ingolstadt; England and Scotland; the northern ice point of view · The point of view shifts with the narration, from Robert Walton to Victor Frankenstein to Frankenstein’s monster, then back to Walton, with a few digressions in the form of letters from Elizabeth Lavenza and Alphonse Frankenstein. falling action · After the murder of Elizabeth Lavenza, when Victor Frankenstein chases the monster to the northern ice, is rescued by Robert Walton, narrates his story, and dies tense · Past foreshadowing · Ubiquitous—throughout...
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...SOCIO LEGAL STUDY OF MAHR AND DOWRY AND DOWRY PROHIBITION LAWS Subject: Family Law- II Submitted to: Dr. Vijender Kumar Professor of Law Head, Centre for Family Law Submitted by: Shivam Bhatt IInd Year, IIIrd Semester Roll No. : 2012-47 National Academy of Legal Studies and Research, University of Law, Hyderabad. TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF ABBREVIATION i TABLE OF CASES ii TABLE OF STATUTES ii CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION 1.1 Dowry and Mahr…………………………………………………………………………..1 1.2 Research Plan 2 a.) Aims and Objectives 2 b.) Scope and Limitation 2 c.) Chapterisation 2 1.3 Research Methodology 2 CHAPTER II DOWRY AND MAHR AS A SOCIAL EVIL CHAPTER III DOWRY PROHIBITION AND DOWRY PROHIBITION LAWS 3.1 The Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961 9 3.2 Section 304B of IPC 11 3.3 Section 498A of IPC 12 CHAPTER IV MISSUSE OF DOWRY LAWS CHAPTER V CONCLUSION & SUGGESSTIONS BIBLIOGRAPHY iii LIST OF ABBREVIATION AIR – All Indian Reporter Co. – Company Ed. – Edition Et. al. – Et alia e.g. – ‘Exempli gratia’ (for example) HSA – Hindu Succession Act P. – Page number SCC – Supreme Court Cases v. - versus TABLE OF CASES Dinesh Kumar Mor v Lalitya Mor. 9 Dukhi Ram v State of U.P. 12 Gantupalli Rama Subhatha v Guntu Palli Rajamma. 10 Gordhan Ram v State of Rajathan. 12 Lajpat Rai Sehgal v State. 11 ...
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...What Makes Serial Killers Kill Naomi R. Bowles Valley College Author’s Note Written for Psychology: taught by Isaac Hatley What Makes Serial Killers Kill Looking back through the years there have been many serial killers. There are many throughout the country and even many that have killed in West Virginia. Many psychologists have tried to study serial killers and answer why serial killers kill and also if serial killers suffer from some type of psychological disorder. Doing my research I find that this is a task that is very hard to do. It is difficult to determine possibly because many serial killers turn out to be the people who you would least likely suspect. In this paper I will take a look as to whether serial killers may suffer from psychopathy. I will also attempt to focus on one particular serial killer – Dennis Rader – BTK. Psychology Of A Killer Many psychologists believe that psychological disorders are the only reason for the killings while other psychologists believe that the reason is the environment that they are raised in and/or are currently in. Seeking help when a person is young, if sadistic or animal cruelty behavior is caught early by their caregiver, can reduce the factors of becoming a serial killer. There also may be factors with nature and nurture and how that may have affected them in the creation of a future serial killer. According to my research, the most successful serial killers are people who blend into society who possibly could be a...
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...Delusions Between Religion and Religious Beliefs Glenn Watkins Park University 3 December 2010 Abstract This paper discusses the results a study conducted by Mental, Health, Religion and Culture regarding a qualitative study examining the relationship between religious beliefs and delusions. The paper discusses the definition of delusions as well as religion and makes a stark comparison between the two. The paper includes many different religions and how each claims having a monopoly to salvation. The study included white males from seemingly the same background who were diagnosed as having symptoms of delusions ranging from ages 34 – 57. The paper also discusses several theories as discussed in class regarding thoughts from Erikson, Sullivan and Fromm. Finally, the paper concludes with a brief historical summary of why the author has contention with religion and religious beliefs. Key words: Delusional, fanaticisms, capricious, analogous, and tantamount. When one person suffers from delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from delusion it is called religion. - Robert M. Pirsig There is a close kinship to the relationship between religious beliefs and religious delusion. Merriam-Webster defines delusion as a persistent false psychotic belief regarding the self or persons or objects outside the self that is maintained despite indisputable evidence to the contrary; also: the abnormal state marked by such beliefs. Religion is defined as...
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...characters in different colours and patterns, whether idolizing them, favouring them or even despising them; those characters succeeded in impacting the mentality of those children, marking a point of interest that I would like to thoroughly investigate in this research assignment. Bearing that in mind, I have centered the aim of my research on the pink innuendos flaring from the very similar roles of the helpless princesses of Disney – the same innuendos that are now mostly looked as the societal norms of the Disney world. Some particular films that I have studied include ‘Cinderella’, ‘Snow White’, ‘The Little Mermaid’, ‘Sleeping Beauty’, ‘Beauty and The Beast’, ‘Tangled’, and ‘Mulan’. Through the utilization of those films, I have carried my study in an order that would allow me to scrutinize the similarities assigned to the ‘pink’ customs fitted to Disney princesses, and any other differences that could break the code followed through years on the films – hence an investigation in the representation of conventional Disney princesses. Disney films have allowed children to compose a preconceived idea of women or female roles in the films or even in life altogether, as helpless, and in need of an external party (usually male – or the Prince Charming) to come in and switch their lives into the better. These stereotypical roles assigned to the princesses are usually coloured with the hue of certain behaviours, physical appearances and characteristic traits, which I will be looking into...
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...Marlon Maloney May 10, 2005 Section 3 Religion and Dracula Bram Stoker’s Dracula In modern day society pretty much everyone has heard of and/or seen an interpretation of vampires and, the supposed king of all vampires, Count Dracula, whether it be in all the several different variations and interpretations that can be seen in movies (most recently the series of Blade movies starring Wesley Snipes) that have been released over the last few decades all the way to “The Count” on “Sesame Street” the long running children’s television show) or “Count Chocula” (on the cover of a children’s cereal box). When people hear either the word vampires or Dracula, most of the time people tend to think about the mythical blood sucking race of immortals called vampires and also some people that know a little more than the average person does about vampires may think about several of their stereotypical characteristics such as: they are from a place called Transylvania, they have sharp, pointy teeth to draw blood from the necks of humans, they can not come outside during the day, they sleep in coffins, turn into bats, and they are killed by pure silver, garlic, and several religious artifacts. However, people do not really think about all the connections between the vampires and all of the religious artifacts that are said to kill them. Religion plays a major role in the story of Dracula, because when one looks closely enough to what vampires and Dracula...
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...Life Threatening Illness: Can you live with it? Abstract This paper is a personal reflection on facing death while living with a life threatening illness. While there are many ages of persons who can be affected by illnesses, when a child is affected it brings many stages of grief while accepting what you are faced with. Systems are in place that are available for those affected and if utilized can prove to be a blessing in what feels like a time where feels as if they are being cursed. Life Threatening Illnesses and Living with It This paper will hopefully give you a firsthand encounter of how a life threatening illness can affect not only the immediate victim of the illness, but the family and the friends of the victim as well. Life threatening illnesses, specifically Cancer in this instance creates an immediate crisis in the life of each family member. Normal daily life comes to a halt, parents will miss work or feel forced to quit their jobs, siblings might need to be cared for by relatives or neighbors and the ill child becomes the major focus of family time and attention. All other concerns that might have been before the diagnosis is put on hold and parents will have to make tough decisions and become their strongest ever at the weakest of moments. Life is taken for Granted Sometimes My cousin Amy was a beautiful red-headed...
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