Cruel College Essays Samples For Students

Introduction

There is genuine merit in the argument that it is in human nature to be cruel to others. This supposition is favored by the responses elicited by the various subjects in experiments conducted by Milgram and by Darley and Latane. In Milgram’s experiments, subjects were instructed to increasingly inflict electric shock pain on another human every time they failed to answer a question correctly (Milgram 60). Almost all the subjects obeyed, seemingly to maintain social etiquette or avoid disapproval from the authority figure of the instructor. In Darley and Latane, several experiments showed that people are less likely to ...

Introduction

No form of punishment engenders more controversy than the death penalty. Although capital punishment has been used since ancient times, its modern utilization is repeatedly called into question. The United States stands alone among Western world counterparts in its continued use of the death penalty. Among the international community, the general trend largely reflects a discontinuance of capital punishment. For instance, member states of the European Union have all abolished the death penalty (Shin, 2007, p. 505). Given the overwhelming number of nations that have since abolished the death penalty, it is somewhat surprising that the United States continues ...

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Ancient Greeks have invented gods that are cruel and their decisions are not in all cases fair. The cruelty of gods that the ancient Greeks prayed to was caused by the insignificance of the people in comparison to nature, their feeling of helplessness in the dangerous world, and the cruelty of the society which was a norm at that time.
Zeus is the central deity in Greek mythology. He is the main god that ancient Greeks believed in. In myths he is described very powerful and all-mighty. He was more powerful than all the rest gods combined. As the ...

One of the cornerstones of American legal system is the Eighth Amendments prohibition against “cruel and unusual punishment” (United States Constitution, amend. VIII). Because the Eighth Amendment is silent on what forms of punishment constitute inherently “cruel and unusual,” flushing out the details has been left up to the Supreme Court. As society advances and develops, views towards punishment correspondingly shift. While it may have been a widely accepted practice to draw and quarter people three hundred years ago, by today’s standards, this punishment certainly constitutes cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment.
The most controversial form ...

King Brothers and Lionel Tate

Background King Brothers and Lionel Tate:
Lionel Tate, was convicted of the July 28, 1999 murder of 6 year old Tiffany Eunick who was punched, kicked, stomped, and thrown to death (See Wrestling, 2001). The injuries Tiffany suffered as a result of the beating included “a fractured skull, a lacerated liver, and more than 30 other injuries” (Wrestling, 2001). At the time of the incident Lionel Tate was 12 years old and weighed 170 pounds. As a result of his role in Ms. Eunick’s death, Lionel Tate was charged with first degree murder. A part of his defense, his attorney tried ...

I. Introduction

It has been a long standing debate for over thousands of decades whether or not imposition of capital punishment is an effective means to deter commission of crimes. Advocates of capital punishment or death penalty makes reference to the biblical passage from Exodus 21:23-25, “An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a hand for a hand, a tooth for a tooth,” which means that for every wrong done, there must be a compensating measure of justice. While on the other hand, the group who believes that capital punishment is severe, degrading, inhuman, brutal and cruel sentence, and it is only God who is the ...

The films that will be examined in this paper have much in common though, at the same time they consist of different aspects in their plots and picture different characters (Hayward 67). The main issue that unites all these films is the theme of obsession. The meaning of this word in films is the same, but considering each character, it may have slightly different understanding. Each character has different aims and values and they act according to them (Parkinson 109). Nevertheless, there is one common and the most important characteristic feature in their behavior. It influences their lives and ...

Adolf Hitler showered death over millions of human lives not because of his personal hatred, but because to save Germany from the depression. He was cruel towards people just to retaliate what he met and got from the society. His intension to give back to the people whom he considered as enemies of his growth and his country grew from his childhood until he started his vengeance. It is a common nature of the human beings to have vengeance over the other if they get hurt at any cost. However, there were political and religious reasons behind all his cruelties. ...

Introduction

The complex nature of human government has been in existence since the classical period. In addition, the human government continued to employ titanic resources, which made it further complex. Consequently, political philosophers tried to create an understanding and influence various stakeholders with respect to human government. Such political philosophers have attempted to provide intricacies as well as paradoxes revolving around the political system that controls and manages humanity. Amongst the political philosophers who have provided the intricacies and paradoxes on human government include Niccolo Machiavelli and Thomas Hobbes. Machiavelli and Hobbes have provided similar and divergent views on purpose ...

Legal Considerations in Confinement

Criminal confinement or unlawful restraint can generally be defined as the act of holding a person in conferment or transferring them from their initial location to another place against their wish and will (Criminal Attorney, 2008). The State law categorizes this act as a misdemeanor offense, which may be upgraded to a felony according to the circumstances revolving around the act. Owing to the fact that the Law enforcement bodies are in charge of keeping law and order, they face exemption from the legal penalties of confinement; however, they are liable to face charges in situations that are egregious (Meeropol, 2003).
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Death penalty, simply means the lawful implementation of an order of a court or any other public authority to kill an adult person found guilty of a capital offence; first degree murder and aggravated murder. It is a form of punishment availed to the courts or public authorities with the intention to discourage members of the public from future committal or omission of the particular offence. The methods of killing the convicted persons include hanging, gun shooting by a firing squad, electrocution, lethal injection and confinement in a gas chamber (ACLU 1). This form of punishment has proved to ...

Introduction

In the modern age of technological progress, people begin to puzzle about their place in the environment and the relation of a contemporary human being to the nature. It seems like the link between a person and natural environment is lost, yet still despite the progress, humans try to connect to nature. There is a radical difference between the life in a modern city and in wilderness, which sometimes attracts adventurers and those who try to escape the civilization. There are radical examples, like Chris McCandless, who has chosen alienation from the society in order to live in wilderness ( ...

1. Explain in detail the Exclusionary Rule.
The Exclusionary Rule is the rule that is generated by the law under the constitutional rights. It does not allow the use of any of the non-legal obtained proof in the trials for criminal under the fourth amendment. It will usually apply for the elimination of the physical evident. The best example of exclusionary rule is stolen property, murder, or weapons that allows the police to catch a break in a case under the rights of the fourth amendment. The exclusionary rule could be under the Fifth Amendment, when no person can ...

Edgar Allan Poe is one of America’s most famous writers, arguably the prince of horror stories. His oeuvre covers a wide range of work, from poetry to prose, the Arab world to 19th century America, and detective fiction to horror stories. His 1845 poem, The Raven, made him a sensation and is regarded as one of the genre-defining works of American literature. His life and career were deeply troubled, but his legacy has enshrined him along with the greats.
Poe’s stories are stylistically unique – displaying a huge diversity of elements taken from all over English and world ...

English

Halal Food
Halal food has become a highly conversational subject in our world. Many people are familiar with the word Halal, while others do not know what Halal means. Halal food refers only to meat and chicken, and it means that the meat is slaughtered in different way. Halal is an Arabic term that means permitted. The food is permissible according to Islamic law; for a meat as certified Halal, it is not forbidden such as meat from hindquarters or animal such as pork. The Halal method is specifically practiced by the religions that believe in the God of Abraham. ...

Many people use deception to either cover up their deeds or to try to uncover the deeds of others. As one of William Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies, Hamlet is a play that has many deception themes throughout its story. Three forms of deception can be seen in Hamlet that is the fear of some of the characters that they are being deceived by others, the act of deceiving others, and the outcome of the deception. In the play, many of the characters such as Claudius, Hamlet, and Polonius all used various forms of deception to either hide information from others ...

Capital punishment is a legal procedure whereby an individual is executed by the state for the crimes he/she has committed. Even though this sentence has been adopted by many governments, capital punishment has remained a controversial issue around the globe. Capital punishment is mainly used for the punishment of atrocious and heinous crimes, particularly murder. In addition, death penalty as it is also known is also used on crimes against humanity, espionage, reason, and crimes against the state. Many states and interest groups have mixed reactions and views on capital punishment depending on their country and their faith. In my view, ...

Question One

Prior to the adoption of the prison system, jails were used for temporary detention, corporal punishment and imposition of fines. Capital crimes were punishable through public torture, humiliation, embarrassment, flogging, branding and mutilation. These forms of punishment draw from puritan punishment practices, which encouraged public shaming of wayward sheep. This is not unlike Arpaio’s use of perp walking, pink underwear and chain gangs for inmates serving sentences of up to a month to humiliate and use them to serve as an example to mothers and children that see them on the highway to avoid crime. Specifically, chain gangs hack ...

Monster Madness

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Theme of Isolation and Loneliness
The themes of isolation and loneliness are illustrated in Beowulf through Grendel’s character. Grendel felt excluded and isolated from the humans because he was living alone with his mother and this made him feel that he does not belong to the community. The loneliness and isolation Grendel felt made him the monster he was, he desired to belong to the humans in the community but they isolated him. The exclusion from the rest of the community pushed him into becoming a hideous and cruel beast with a hard heart and thirst ...

Introduction

Despite their small numbers and their hesitant relationship with the Canadian government, the Nation’s people contributed to the war. For many reasons, the exact numbers of the people who volunteered in the war cannot be ascertained. Nevertheless, the First Nation’s people volunteered during the war. Their number could be estimated at around four thousand members of the Canadian Expeditionary Force. These First Nation’s people were accorded limited civil rights during the time before the war. The British government declared war on Germany in 1914. Since Canada was a member of the British Empire, it was automatically at ...

Life is a journey that is marked with challenges, and obstacles, but one should strive overcoming them at whatever cost. We are born and raised in different environments; an aspect that defines and shapes our personality, behavior and identity in life. Based on the challenges one goes through in life, we tend to develop, and subscribe to certain philosophies, which define, and shape our thinking, and I am not an exemption. My past life was marked with numerous challenges because I was born, and raised by a single parent (mother) in my home country; Kenya. Life was hard because my mother ...

Beowulf

Beowulf is an epic poem based on a great hero called Beowulf. He decides to help Hrothgar who was under attack by the monster Grendel. He defeats Grendel plus his mother and becomes king. After sometime, Beowulf dies after being badly wounded by a dragon which he defeated. Beowulf travelled in great places and distances while fighting against supernatural beings and demons.
The themes of isolation and loneliness are illustrated in Beowulf through Grendel (Streissguth 78). Grendel felt excluded and isolated from the humans because he was living alone with his mother and this made him feel that he does ...

Literature

Thesis Statement: The effect of domination and oppression of the white masters against the black slaves symbolized by the cruel, inhumane and harsh punishments became the catalyst for the slaves to escape.
In the “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, the female author was speaking based on her own personal experience and used her pen name “Linda Brent” as disguise. In this book, Brent emphasized how the Southern whites have completely taken control over the blacks. The whites became the oppressor with the blacks as the victims. The author defined the word slave as a piece of merchandise, ...

Introduction

Slavery was an institution that began before the formation of the United States and was an unfortunate part of the early history of the nation. The Constitution included the paradoxical combination of a Bill of Rights as well as provisions that allowed slaves to be calculated as three-fifths of a free person for purposes of taxation and representation. African natives were captured from their native lands and sold as part of a three-way trade triangle, along with sugar and molasses, that comprised one of the ugliest phases in American history. Even though they were in the land of liberty, slaves were denied ...

Strictly speaking, a jail is a place for the internment of individuals that have been convicted for having committed a crime. But jails, like homes, differ. Whereas jails are supposed to ensure that the rights of the inmates are not violated, many jails come close to doing so.
All prisoners, without exception, have basic rights that are protected by the U.S. Constitution. For example, under the Eighth Amendment, prisoners have the right to be free from inhuman conditions for these would be “cruel and unusual” punishment. However, Fifth Amendment rights must, by the necessity of confinement and discipline, be curtailed somewhat; ...

Question a (1)

The first amendment of American constitution guarantee its citizens the right to freely participate in their religion., the same constitution also forbid the government from approving a law that favors particular religion, setting up a command of severance of the state and church (Stephens, & Scheb p. 408). The first right give individuals the freedom to practice and enjoy their religion at liberty with no interference. The American Supreme Court has struck down all legislations that restrain its citizens from participating in their religion. The American court held that it is unconstitutional for Amish children to attend schools till the eighth grade ...

Introduction

Imposition of the death penalty by the state has been practiced around the world for centuries; the first occasion in what is now the USA was in 1607. Since that time, capital punishment has been a tool of this country’s system of criminal justice. The purpose of this paper is to firstly respond to the question of how two specific court cases impacted capital punishment in this country and in particular in California, and secondly, to review the evidence for and against the effectiveness (or otherwise) of the death penalty being a crime deterrent in the U.S.
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Thesis: With the help of vivid characters, unexpected plot, and stylistic devices the stories “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell and “The Child by Tiger” by Tomas Wolfe raise the question of a twofold nature of every human who lives balancing between being a victim and a predator.

Introduction

The main ideas of “The Most Dangerous Game” and “The Child by Tiger”.
The theme of human cruelty and ambiguity of human soul described in two stories.
The basic conflicts of the stories and the moral questions they raise.
The main differences in the message conveyed by the authors.
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There is a lot of debate in the government and scholarly sphere when it comes to when to and how to incarcerate people. A subdivision of that argument comes down to the actual housing that a prisoner is kept in while they are in prison. One method that is used for inmates who commit certain acts, either inside of or outside of prison, is solitary confinement. While this is deemed to be a way to prevent a prisoner from being a danger to others or even himself/herself while in prison, there are many that say that solitary confinement for ...

Abstract

The United States Bill of Right is scattered in several Amendments of the Constitution due to the progressive developmental history of the U.S law and Constitution. Each amendment either introduced a new right or enhanced on the existing one. Of essence to my discussion, however, is the Due Process Clause was introduced in the American Bill of Rights by the Fourth Amendment to the U.S Constitution. As per the Amendment, no state should deprive any person his or her life, liberty, or property without following the due process of the law. In the Fifth Amendment, a similar stand was ...

English

Nowadays we live in peaceful times but still war remains a great problem of all societies. Nevertheless we have everything we need and want, people continue fighting and nothing can be done with it. Why are people so cruel? What is the attitude of different people and tribes towards the war? And why people cannot find themselves after war in life and live in peace with other people? All of these problems must be solved but they only accumulate and the government plays a certain role in it.
In present days people mostly are cruel and greedy. They use ...

Introduction

The Annals is a collection of sixteen books that survive, written by Cornelius Tacitus who was an historian of the Roman Empire as well as a Roman senator. In what remains of his final writings, Tacitus describes the Roman Empire beginning with Tiberius’ reign in 14 AD 14 up to and including Nero’s reign in 68 AD. The estimated date of the Annals is around 166 AD. The personages and events described in the Annals include Caligula, Claudius, Tiberius Nero, and Messalina. While Tacitus was writing from the perspective of an elitist and a scholar, it is evident ...

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Why Violence Works?
This article,” Why Violence Works?" has been taken from The Chronicles of Higher Education and was published on August 12, 2013. The Author wants to present the fact that world history is full of examples, which tell about the use of violence by common people and even the rulers and the governments to get the submission of the others. The main purpose of writing this paper is to make people aware especially the youth about the role that Violence has actually played and is playing in the political scene. The things that triggered author to write ...

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Slavery was always a very defined and argumentative topic in the old days. African-Americans were noticeably mistreated due to racism. Slavery was what these people were bound to. Many blacks stood up for themselves, formed groups and different movements such as the Abolitionists Movement. One thing is true, African-Americans always looked up to a brighter future, they saw themselves as equal and free people.
Harriet Jacobs, born February 11, 1813, to two slaves, Elijah and Delilah Jacobs lived in North Carolina. When Harriet was just 11 years old, ...

Answers to Questions One: Gang Intervention/ Prevention Program

An example of a gang intervention/prevention program: Mass Campaign against Gang Membership and Activities
Gangs in the United States have become a big problem in society. They engage in criminal activities and disturb the peace with every opportunity that they get. It is, therefore, important that these gangs be prevented from recruiting members and committing a crime. It is the duty of both the government and every citizen of the United States to participate in gang prevention and intervention activities.
Christian Outreach Planning Associates Incorporated or simply COPA is an organization that conducts sensitization campaigns against gang activity. There ...

Northanger Abbey does not seem to have as many dangerous relationships as Wuthering Heights. These could be because Austin does not seem to write her characters in same dark tone that Bronte does. Austin’s characters seem to better realize their own fallibilities. In Northanger Abbey the romantic relationships are between Catherine and Henry, Catherine and John, Isabella and James and Isabella and Frederick. While some of these relationships may be slightly troublesome none are near as toxic as the relationships in Wuthering Heights, especially the one between Catherine and Heathcliff.
In Northanger Abbey, Catherine Morland meets and takes ...

Introduction

The court practice of the United States of America demonstrates that the First, the Fourth, the Eight and the Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution are the most frequently invoked constitutional provisions in the country. Procedural violations of these Amendments are effective tools in the hands of skillful criminal defense attorneys. Analyzing the court practice is the only way to understand viewpoints of the judiciary on these sensitive topics, and to avoid perpetrating procedural mistakes in the future.
This paper seeks to analyze the most landmark cases connected with the alleged violations of the First, the Fourth, the ...

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This is of great importance for colonized people. The books about different life paths of colonized people and their culture, no matter if they are historical or fictional, act upon other people’s beliefs about themselves. They make a lot of others never give up in spite of any adversities, see flowers in every hardship and motivate them to pursue their dreams notwithstanding the cruel reality around. Also, the books proved that the world did not belong to colonizers but to colonized people who could not only survive in the savage conditions but furthermore achieve their end and change ...

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The books that will be compared in this comparison essay are ‘The Hunger Games’ by Suzanne Collins and ‘The Lottery’ by Shirley Jackson. While ‘The Lottery’ focuses on the town’s people having to draw out various slips of paper to see who gets a slip of each with a black dot of pencil, ‘The Hunger Games’ tells of Katniss taking the role of her sister as she is called to participate in the Hunger Games and tries to survive in the environment with Peeta. In the ends, this book maintains that Katniss and Peeta won ...

Capital punishment uses death penalty as a form of punishment in many states and countries. It is a practice that has raised endless questions all over the world. Capital punishment or death penalty policy has changed in many countries overtime. Countries such as, New Australia, Zealand and 15 states in the US do not have capital punishment. One of the major concerns arising with capital punishment is because it causes ending of a human life. People and organizations of different backgrounds are not pleased with the practice because it undermines humanity. Society being mixed of different people there are different opinions. Some ...

Organization

Introduction
The subject of existentialism is not easy to define as it is impossible to explain the purpose of human existence in few sentences. However, according to American Heritage Dictionary (3rd edition), existentialism refers to a philosophy that lays emphasis on isolation and uniqueness of the individual in an indifferent or hostile environment. This can be seen as the underlying theme of the short story by Jack London where a man in solitude travels through unfriendly areas of Yukon which symbolizes indifferent and cruel cosmos. “To Build A Fire” is a short story by Jack London which centers around a man travelling ...

The themes of racial segregation and frustration against the African of the black community run as the dominant theme across these stories. There are the plight and the issue of slaves being mistreated by their white or colonial masters. It is important to note and record and mention that these stories articulate the issues mistreatment against the people of color because there is no aspect of fairness and equality. Most of the stories begin from the background of zero economic wellness. Thus, most of the characters in these stories are sacrificed as slaves or domestic workers where they are ...

Toni Morrison’s ‘Beloved’ is a violent, gritty yet deeply moving novel set during the slavery era and the terrible grief of the slaves. The novel touches upon a lot of subjects such as slavery, love, motherhood, racism, violence, guilt, loss and more. Sethe is the protagonist of the novel, her life shaped by her being a black woman and a slave. Sethe, her husband and few others work as slaves in the Sweet Home plantation. Although they are slaves, life is tolerable for them. Things however change when Mr. Garner, the owner dies and the schoolmaster, his brother takes over the plantation. ...

The American Dream is the idea that anyone can fulfill their goals and dreams if they work hard enough. It is rooted in American ideals set out in the Declaration of Independence, and usually focuses on upward social mobility and materialistic success. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is set in the summer of 1922, which is the beginning of the “Roaring Twenties” or the “Jazz Age”; and a golden age of American materialistic success. The stock market was booming, illegal alcohol was flowing and societal norms had relaxed after the horrors or World War I. (Saunders 343-358). In ...

The Death Penalty

Overview
Death penalty is described as the capital punishment for murder and other major crimes. Senate or any state administration may regulate the death penalty. The Supreme Court has administered that the death penalty is not a violation of the Eighth Amendment in itself for regarding ban on unusual and cruel punishment, but this amendment form certain procedural features concerning when a jury may practice the death penalty and how it must be implied. The Supreme Court also decided that people who are mentally retarded should be exempted from the death penalty because they are mentally handicapped (cornell.edu).

Pros and Cons

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HOW PHILOSOPHY MIGHT SAVE US ALL

In the event that hostile aliens planned to eradicate life from the planet, the situation would begin to look grim immediately. There are few things that I could say as an astronaut to a more intelligent species that might persuade them to spare our lives, allowing us to continue living. I would have to assume they would want to kill us for one of two reasons: they want to harvest our planet for resources, or our actions have deemed us unworthy of life. Because I cannot use philosophy to argue against the harvesting of needed resources, I would choose to ...

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Death penalty Methods & the Eighth Amendment: An Introduction
The American Congress or any state legislature may lay down the death penalty for a convict, as a result of murder and other heinous offenses. The US Supreme Court noted that the capital punishment is not a breach of the US Eighth Amendment; however, it outlined some practical features concerning when a judge might apply the capital penalty and how it must be performed. Due to the Fourteenth Amendment's Clause, the Eighth Amendment is pertinent against the US states, and the federal government.
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Various human acts have been causing the degradation of the environment, especially the wildlife, for ages. The degree of the humans’ influence upon the environment makes human disregard the top issue of the environment’ survival and development. Different dimensions of environment are subjected to continuous threat of elimination due to human influence. Using animals’ skin for clothing is one of the crucial environmental problems of modern mankind. There have been constant calls by governments and non-governmental organizations to people all over the world, aimed at stopping usage of animals’ skins for clothing. The campaign for environmental conservation has reached a ...

Introduction

Forensic psychology is a branch of psychology that focuses on application of psychology to the criminal justice system (Fulero & Wrightsman, 2009). Psychology helps criminologists and people responsible for dispensing justice, to a greater extent in directly understanding and prediction of the human behavior. Judges and juries consult with forensic psychologists to gain understanding on why defendants behave in a certain manner. Forensic psychologists, therefore play many important roles in helping resolve cases in a court of law. Their services are very important and guide the proceedings and rulings made before a court of law. Generally, they are called upon to testify in trials as ...

The case Furman vs. Georgia is one of the most significant cases in the United States of America, when speaking about death penalty. In 1971, Mr. Furman broke into one house. He made much noise, hence, decided to escape. When escaping, Mr. Furman dropped his gun. The gun appeared to be loaded and killed the owner of the house. When police officers came to Mr. Furman to interview him, he stated that the gun had not been loaded. In this way, Mr. Furman’s case became not administrative (robbery), but a criminal one.
Although, Mr. Furman claimed that the ...

Comparison / Contrast of “Mrs. Dalloway” and “To the Lighthouse” by Virginia Woolf. The Significance of Marine Imagery in Both Novels as Metaphoric for Human Existence
Two novels by Virginia Woolf named “Mrs. Dalloway” and “To the Lighthouse” present a great interest for researchers in many crucial aspects that can be regarded in the variety of contexts and in the variety of themes, like natural human feelings, expectations, desires, the essence of finding the way to happiness. Many characters in both of these novels are depicted from the widest perceptions of close interactions with nature, specifically with sea, waves ...

Harriet Jacobs’ narrative demonstrates the life of a female slave. She is able to recount her life since she was a young woman. The narration highlights events that affected the narrator positively and negatively. These events vary from her escape from her cruel masters to how she ended up crippled for life. People are able to understand the dynamics of the tribulations and challenges that female slaves and slaves in general faced during her time. Frederick Douglas’s narrative demonstrates the life of a slave from a male’s point of view. His narrative is less personal compared to Harriet’s narrative. This ...

Overview and analysis of Shakespeare and King Lear

William Shakespeare, the most famous and celebrated English poet, has been known to the world over the past 400 and more years, and yet had remained a mystery throughout this time. Many researchers and historians have undertaken the task of writing his biography, and still it is not well known. The reason for this is that the facts about Shakespeare's personal life have been drawn from two types of sources, the first one referring to official documentation, which in the time of his life was restricted to court and church records, while the second is his rich opus. Indeed, according ...

Death as a punishment is not only unusually severe in its pain, finality and enormity, but it is also serves no penal purpose that is more effective than would a punishment that was less severe. The punishment’s fatal constitutional infirmity treats the human race fraternity as being non-human, or as objects that can be toyed and discarded, hence it is inconsistent with the fundamental premise of Clause which states that even the vilest criminal possesses human dignity. The punishment subjects individual to a forbidden fate by principle of the civilized treatment that is guaranteed by the clause and on that ground ...

“The Cask of the Amontillado,” is a short story presenting a death revenge castigated by Montresor the narrator to his unsuspecting friend Fortunato. Montresor fails to specify the reason that forces him to murder his friend in cold blood. He only affirms to the audience that Fortunato had irreparably affronted him. The narrator is successful in killing Fortunato; however, in the end it is obvious that the whole narration is recollection of his murder about fifty years ago. In the second story the “Night Drive,” by Rubem Fonseca an anonymous narrator presents the story in first person acclaiming his murder of ...

The synthesis paper on Human rights article that I earlier submitted had errors that I would like to correct and explain on how I arrived at the corrections. The main errors were mainly centered in the quotations, voice-markers and reminder phrases. This synthesis paper comprised a summary and highlighting of commonalities in the three articles namely “A long Overdue”, “Student Killings” and “The Cruel Trade”. The three articles dwelled on issues that touch on Human Rights. Human trafficking, right to fair trial and right to life are some of the human rights issues that have been tackled prominently. “A Long ...

The Book of Genesis is the first book listed in the Old Testament as well as in the Hebrew Bible. It includes the stories of the world’s creation, the people’s exile from the Paradise, the stories about the Great Flood and Babel Tower and many others. In these parables God is described as the most powerful creature in the Universe, he can rule people and their lives but he is also a kind Father for his kids, who did lots of mistakes and can still be forgiven though. Undoubtedly, the God is the central character of the Book ...

In Tom Regan's article “The Case for Animal Rights,” he makes the case for the rights of animals on the basis of equal treatment of all living things that possess inherent value. He argues that morality should be centered on the equal treatment of all living entities, rather than the reduction of suffering and the amplification of pleasure. Consequently, Regan's involvement in the animal rights movement is based on three issues: the elimination of all commercial forms of animal testing, animal agriculture and animal hunting. Ultimately, Regan's argument stands as a sound defense for animal rights on the grounds ...

Slavery was a part of the American culture for almost a whole decade (1776-1865), and during that time, many people had to suffer inhumanly for the only solid reason of being a bit different from someone else. There is no way of wiping the past from the memories of those who have struggled, which means that the terror of slavery will always be a part of the human history.
As the experience shows, world history is far from being pretty. It has presented its evils so many times that merely counting them would take ages. Every major society, every ...

Introduction

After watching a block of photos made by journalist Paula Brownstein, it is hard not have tears in the eyes. This woman is a great photographer and she put her soul into these pictures. The main idea of these photos is to express the life of ordinary people in Afghanistan 15 years ago. Some pictures are really terrible. The culture and way of life of those people are quite different from European ones and it is very sad. The photographer chose the right position and light to show all the feelings of her characters. The key images are about ...