...The Acts of Mercy Mercy is kind forbearance shown towards an enemy or an offender. In the novel, “Mercy Among the Children”, by David Adams Richards, the beginning section is called “Mercy”. Throughout the novel, the main character Sydney Henderson lives his life based around mercy. Not only does Sydney experience mercy, but it's portrayed among others throughout the novel. During this essay my altercations will be based on, “Why this section is called Mercy”. Reason #1: Sydney shows Mercy towards everyone: Sydney's upbringing caused him to show mercy towards his enemies. At a young age Sydney experienced constant violence and negative public criticism. His father was sent to jail and the Henderson name was looked down upon harsh judgement and accusation ever since. In result of Sydney experiencing so much blame and accuse as a youth he promised himself that “he would never raise his hand or his voice to another soul.” (23-24, Adam Richards). Ever since he was the age of twelve, Sydney lived by his promise to show forgiveness towards the ones who betrayed or showed wrong against himself or his family. In Sydney's early years of marriage with Elly, Cynthia Pit accuses Sydney to be the father of her baby. Sydney shows mercy towards Cynthia by keeping quite and not taking a blood test after the child was born. When Diedre whyne approaches Sydney about the situation, he says, “I will not participate in the shame of one and the ridicule of another for my own welfare.”...
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...Opposing Thoughts in a Coexisting World The foundation of life of this world, is coexisting with one another at the same time or in the same place in peace. In the story “Twelve Angry Men” written by Reginald Rose, he creates a theoretical question, if opposing ideas can coexist as well. Justice verses mercy and certainty versus doubt is the underlying conflict throughout the story displayed by each juror with their personal backgrounds either leading to condemning or saving a teen’s life. After act one, we see the struggle between each juror going from certainty and pushing for justice only to be later filled with doubt and demanding mercy. These opposing ideas disrupt the vary balance of peace leading for any coexisting out the door. The Idea of justice versus mercy is constantly questioned and played out by juror number eight and juror number three. The struggle for justice by juror number three using laws to fairly judge and punish the teen for his father’s murder is contradicted by juror number eight as he seeks for merciful truth. In act one, juror number three says, “I never saw a guiltier man in my life. You sat right in court and heard the same thing I did. The man’s a dangerous killer…”(Rose 3) followed by juror number eight explaining his not guilty vote saying, “… this boy’s been kicked around all his life. You know, living in a slum, his mother dead since he was nine … I think maybe we owe him a few words, that’s all” (3). Juror number three is an extremely opinionated...
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...charges being brought up against him will put a halt on that. This is a terrible crime that has been committed and no one is trying to minimize the wrongdoing or hurt that Jacob has caused the victim, her family, and his own family and friends. This is the first crime Jacob has committed, and requiring him to register as a sex offender will destroy him and whatever future he has as a professional athlete. Jacob is only 17 years old and didn’t realize the seriousness of the crime. So please find it in your heart and take into consideration Jacobs age and the future he has ahead of him. You don't know me and you don't owe anything to me or Mr. Coldon. Yet, I am asking you to be as lenient as possible in delivering your sentence. May you find mercy in your heart. Thank you, Jennifer...
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...1) Teddy’s Supplies’ CEO has asked you to advise him on the facts of the case and your opinion of their potential liability. He wants to settle the case. Write a memo to him which states your view of whether the company is exposed to liability on all issues you feel are in play. Include in your memo any laws which apply and any precedential cases either for or against Teddy’s case which impact liability. Include in the memo your suggested “offer of settlement” to Virginia. Back up your offer using your analysis of the case against Teddy’s. Ms. Pollard was involuntarily transferred to a different environment, working in a warehouse surrounded by all men. Although she was transferred because she needed to be in an environment in which she would not be making so many personal calls, she never asked to be relocated to the warehouse. Being that Ms. Pollard could not report the events to her direct supervisor because he was involved in the incidents, she attempted to file an anonymous complaint online but the website was not working. Teddy’s needs to ensure that their website is working properly at all times in order to avoid this type of situation. The case states that Ms. Pollard’s supervisor (Steve King) rarely enforced any of Teddy’s rules to include smoking, horseplay, foul language and sexual harassment. This does not vie well for Teddy’s because he is already known for being a lenient boss. It does not mention that Steve King’s supervisor ever had a conversation with him regarding...
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...MERCY The term mercy describes both character and actions that transpire as a result of that character. From the theological view point the characteristic of mercy is rooted in God and experience in the relation to God. In the Bible the word mercy can mean loving kindness, to be merciful and to have compassion. “Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.” William Blake In the Old Testament there are two Hebrew words for mercy. First there is the word hesed, which means “steadfast love, covenant love”. According to the Catholic Biblical scholar John L. Mckenzie, the word hesed is used in connection with other words…such as hesed-emet (steadfast, dependable love), hesed-sedekah (righteous, holy love), and hesed-yesua (rescuing, saving love).” In the Old Testament the word hesed is used in connection with covenant that God established with Israel. This covenant was, on God’s part, a gift of and grace for Israel. God showed his loving kindness to Israel, his covenant people. No matter the continual rebelliousness of Israel God showed mercy to Israel. For this reason the meaning of the word mercy includes forgiveness as a main element in God’s determined faithfulness to his part of the covenant he had with Israel. “For the Lord thy God is a merciful God; he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them” (Deuteronomy 4:31). In the New Testament the Greek word for mercy is eleos....
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...A Mercy opens with Florens, a black slave, about sixteen years old, on a journey to visit the lover to whom she is addressing her thoughts and feelings. Florens is a literate slave, taught by a priest in defiance of the law. Florens recalls how she was given to her present master, Jacob Vaark, in partial settlement of a debt her prior master, a slave owner from the brutal Portuguese slave colony of Angola, owes to Vaark. Vaark is offered Florens and her mother, but her mother encourages Vaark to take only Florens because her mother is still nursing a baby boy. Florens, about eight years old when she is taken, recounts her shock, pain, and bitterness at this abandonment by her minha mae, “my mother” in Portuguese. The second chapter, told by a third-person narrator who reveals Jacob’s thoughts and feelings, recounts Vaark’s journey to meet with D’Ortega and something of his story as an orphan and beneficiary of 120 acres in the New World. Vaark, a trader and businessman, has a soft spot for “orphans and strays.” He owns Lina (a Native American slave acquired after Lina’s tribe is nearly decimated by an epidemic of measles) and has taken in Sorrow (a half-drowned foundling girl) in another business deal. The reader gets some sense of the politics and prejudice of the period, learning of Vaark’s attitude toward the “popishness” of Catholic Maryland and its luxuries, built upon the free labor of slaves, in contrast to his simple life as a northern trader. Vaark comes away from...
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...Chelsea Carson March 9, 2009 English 003-8:10-9:00 A Mercy In Toni Morrison’s novel, there are several different narrators that all serve a unique purpose in the story. Though the story is primarily focused on the main character, Florens, all the different narrators help to bring together the plot and give insight into slavery in America during the late 1600’s. All the narrators’ stories revolve around Florens and they all tie in together with each other. The story starts off with Florens point of view. Here she is addressing another character, whom we do not know of yet. However, some parts in the text suggest that she is perhaps talking to a man who used to be her lover. On page 5 she says, “I will see your mouth and trail my fingers down. You will rest your chin in my hair again while I breathe into your shoulder in and out, in and out.” This quote hints to the reader that the person she is addressing is most likely a guy that she is familiar with, but we do not yet know their relationship yet. The reader learns that she has been given a mission to go out and find the person she is addressing in the text. We also learn that Florens is a young Portugese girl who has been taken away from her mother to be enslaved by another character named Sir. This chapter plays an important part as it introduces the reader to almost all of the narrators in the story, Sir, Mistress, Lina, and Sorrow. The next narrator the reader gets introduced to is Jacob Vaark, or...
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...The phrase “mercy killing” refers to someone taking a direct action to terminate a patient’s life without the patient’s permission. The decision to take such an action is often made on the assumption that the patient’s life is no longer “meaningful” or that if the patient were able to say so, s/he would express a desire to die. The means include the administering of poison, massive overdose of drugs, shooting, and so on (Thiroux and Krasemann, 448). Whereas “mercy deaths,” is voluntary and done with the permission of the patient and usually at his or her request (Thiroux and Krasemann, 184). Mercy killings occur more often in the United States than one realizes. This is legally a form of murder. Yet mercy killers are seldom convicted of first-degree murder. In fact, they receive leniency in punishment (Lavi, 145). In 1923, for example, the Greenfield’s son, Jerome, was born with a condition of gradual mental degeneration. Despite his retardation, at the age of sixteen, he was well-developed physically but he could not talk, only babble (Lavi, 147). Following Jerome being banned from public school, due to his “social and intellectual unfitness,” his loving parents, Louis and Anna, solely took care of him in their small apartment in the Bronx. As Jerome grew worse, his parents began to mentally and physically decline. On January 12, 1939, Mr. Greenfield asked his wife to go to their millinery shop to assist his partner. While Jerome slept, Louis took handkerchiefs...
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...Introduction: As we’ve been going through this course what seems to jump out at me is the Hope and Mercy I have in Christ on a daily basis. In my mind I’m watching a movie about my life that goes back and forth in time. At times it causes me to have feeling of tenderness as I could see the Spirit of God working on my heart over the years. Then there are times of almost a gasp as to what if my family had not made certain decisions that brought me eventually to a place to accept Christ as my Lord and Savior then I would be separated from God forever. There have been times when there was the fear and emptiness of dying and being terrified of what would happens afterwards; not realizing without Jesus I was on my way to hell. Jesus was and is my HOPE and by His love he showed me MERCY by dying on the cross and redeeming me. I. Part One a. Theological Definition: Hope: hope is an indication of certainty. Hope means a strong and confident expectation. Hope stresses two things: futurity, and invisibility. It deals with things we can’t see or haven’t received or both. Bible.org/article/hope. The Webster’s definition is not so strong, it says Hope is something to happen or be true or think that is could happen or be true. b. Biblical Foundation: The bible calls Him “The God of Hope, In Romans 15:13 May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit”. He is the foundation of our hope...
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...Mission, Vision and Values Our mission is to follow Jesus Christ in His mission of mercy through the delivery of health, aged care and community services. Our vision is to build an enduring capacity and passion to serve those with special needs. Our values of compassion, hospitality, respect, innovation, stewardship and teamwork guide us in all that we do. Mercy Health About Mercy Health As a Catholic organisation, Mercy Health is grounded in a 2,000 year tradition of caring for people in need. Established by the Sisters of Mercy, Mercy Health provides acute and subacute hospital care, aged care, mental health programs, specialist women’s health, early parenting education and support, palliative care, home and community care, and health worker training and development. Our organisation is also supported through Mercy Health Foundation, which secures philanthropic support and donations to foster the constant improvement of care. Strategic Plan 2013-17 Mercy Health Level 2, 12 Shelley Street Richmond Victoria 3121 Phone +61 3 8416 7777 mercyhealth.com.au Mercy Health Strategic Plan 2013-17 The Vision As a ministry of the Institute of Sisters of Mercy of Australia and Papua New Guinea, Mercy Health is grounded in a rich history of providing compassionate care to people in need. We remain committed to working collaboratively with the Institute and its ministries to advance health and aged care services in Australia. Our key focus will continue to be responding...
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...Be Tough & Be Mercy I believe in the current market environment, staff reduction is not a problem only faced by Citi, it is really a universal headache in the banking industry. However, in my view, it could also be an opportunity to improve efficiency and public images. The effects depend on how we deal with this problem from both inside and outside aspects. ► The key issues to deal with this problem from inside include: 1. How to set up a criterion to determine which person should be laid off and which department can be eliminated? 2. What can Citi do for the future career of those fired employees? 3. How to inform those employees? ● For the first question, I think an thorough duty diligence is necessary first. Then, spot people who have flaws in following aspects: A. Had ethic problems in the past B. Could not finish assignments regularly C. Cannot get along with workmates D. Have bad habits such as gambling or shirks E. Have bad credit records F. Have intentions to work in other firms People who have problems above would harm the whole company somehow, so it’s a good time to clean them out. When making decisions, age is a factor that should be taken into consideration as well. Firing senior guys may cost a lot in the compensation and result in lack of skilled staff in certain positions. Firing young guys may lead to wastes of previous training budget and short of backup talents. I recommend to lay off people who have been working...
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...Grace and Mercy Niiyah Johnson According to The Oxford English Dictionary (OED), the English spelling of grace comes from the French word grace. The word grace goes back to the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries when it was spelled grass or grease. The history of grace originated from the Latin word gratia which lead to the Spanish word, gracia, the Portuguese word, graca, and the Italian word, grazia. The first definition given in the OED is "pleasing quality, gracefulness." Another definition for grace is "favor." A favor is usually asking someone to do something for you that you don't deserve. When I think of the word grace, I think of something wonderful and powerful. To me, grace is a gift from God. I have always known its definition to be "receiving what is undeserved." An example of grace is forgiveness. No one "deserves" to be forgiven. Forgiveness is something we "undeservingly receive." So, that makes forgiveness a form of grace. I learned these things from my parents and church sermons. Grace is a big part of my life because it allows me to love and forgive others. If I were not living under "God's grace" I wouldn’t be able to forgive others as easily as I do. Because grace is a gift, there is nothing that we as humans can do to earn the grace of God because it is given to us. The word grace has been around for many years. Grace's meaning began as one which applied to attractiveness. It was later used to mean favor and then to mean gratitude. Mercy is "not...
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...In the novel of “Just Mercy” by Bryan Stevenson, the audience is drawn in to experience and relate to multiple themes and tones set by the author. As to being asked to relate to either justice, mercy, or prejudice to anyone of the characters, Bryan the author himself displayed prejudice as the first theme to the audience which is why I will relate that same theme for my response. First and foremost, it is important to understand that the actions of prejudice taken against Bryan are what created the man who eventually wrote the novel we all read this summer. In the novel, Bryan speaks of an incident which occurred earlier in his life where innocently sitting in his car while being entertained by the song playing, police officers address him...
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...she is terminally ill, would it not be merciful to allow the person to die? Would not euthanasia--or mercy killing as it is termed--be acceptable to the suffering patient as well as to those who are close to him? mercy killing causes no harm to anyone. in fact, it provides a relief to the realtives of the victims as they undergo immense agony, seeing a dear one suffering. Euthanasia is an act of professional support to the terminally ill patient and hence canot be held as a cruel act on the part of the person who commints it. On the other hand, there is a deep rooted belief that life is a god given gift and it is presumptious on the part of a human being to end it. As for taking it away from another human being, howsoever merciful the motive, it is regarded as playing god. If the patient is terminally ill or in a coma, without having expressed any idea on the subject, who is to decide on terminating the persons life? The possibily of greedy and unscrupuluos relatives colluding with an equally unscrupuluos doctor to kill a patient, is a real danger. Morever, though it is an individual decisiom, it cannot be ignored as a major social problem as it opens up a chapter of suffering for the realtives of the patient. Any law, therefore, on euthanasia should have safeguards to preclude any possiblity of exploiting the situation by unscrupulous elements. The Scam in Mercy Killing Imagine one of your family members is terminally ill and presumed she will die very shortly....
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...Portia’s speech “The mercy speech” In this famous speech, Portia is dressed as a doctor of law, and has taken the identity of a young lawyer named “Balthazar” She tries to plead with the Jew (Shylock) to have mercy on Antonio, however she says that mercy cannot be forced, that it must come freely, and compares it to a drop of rain falling from the sky. She explains to Shylock, that mercy is something so beautiful and pure that it is really its own reward, she goes on to say that mercy is not only a blessing on the person receiving it, but also a blessing on he who shows mercy. Portia then tries to convince Shylock that it is a mighty symbol that could be shared by him and king’s alike, that mercy suits a king even better than his crown. This is something very powerful to say, as a king’s crown is the very symbol of his power and respect. She explains the power of the king’s sceptre, that it is the symbol of his authority over all, that it is the most prized symbol of kings, that it is so special it leaves all in awe of the monarch’s strength and authority. However she adds that mercy is in itself more powerful even than this awesome symbol of strength. She says that mercy is something cherished by all king’s and that it is the one true symbol of strength. By saying all of this she hopes to give Shylock the impression that he will show true inner strength and will be respected just by showing mercy. She then goes a level above that of kings, by saying that it is an attribute...
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