Essays on Killings

Krishna played a key role in the lives of warriors in that he made certain decisions that could not be altered. When Arjuna questions about his instructions to slay the enemy, Krishna tells him not to worry about using their arrows to kill the mere body since it did not matter. According to him, only the eternal Atman mattered. Additionally, if one was slain in his life of duty, then that was okay since he died performing what he was supposed to. Krishna acts of justifying killings were not at all justifiable. In saying that it was good for ...

INTRODUCTION

Throughout human history there has always been crime, from the most petty of crimes to the most heinous of criminal injury, abuses and murder. The most gruesome of crimes are those involving murder, whether premeditated or “heat of the moment,” which carry heavy criminal consequences. These cases are tragic, but no murders are more disturbing and shocking than those committed by serial murderers. These are killers who torture, dismember and murder victims in very specific and very ugly ways that are an extension of the killer’s needs. There have been many serial killers who have become famous for ...

This is a photo taken in the mine site of of Benguet Corporation in Itogon, Benguet, Philippines. The Cordillera Peoples Alliance (CPA) had been campaigning against the re-opening of the Benguet Corporation by showing photos that depicts the effects of open-pit mining which is the scheme of Benguet corporation in the area for many years. Source: http://pinoyweekly.org/new/2015/11/phfightapec-mining-and-plunder-in-the-north/ The Philippine activists launch a campaign against Chinese bullying with regards the Scarborough Shoal. The Chinese government has been insisting their control over the shoal and used their armed forces to push away the Filipino fisher folk in the area. The Philippine ...

Introduction

The question of racial discrimination in the legal system of the United States is a sought after topic despite limited evidence to support its existence at present. Although the nation once participated in discriminatory practices in the past, the majority of the activities ceased during the last few decades. Despite sweeping developments in recent years, the news never grows old while reporting a possible aberration. This research paper examines the evidence of data available in the books against the media reports which claim the rampant existence of racial discrimination. Each section in this research paper will raise question regarding ...

Introduction There is plentiful evidence that America needs stronger and more comprehensive gun control laws. There have been hundreds of thousands of shooting deaths in the United States since the 1990s, when the gun control laws were supposedly strengthened. Mass shootings have been going on for years, at schools, churches, shopping malls, theatres, and other public places. These mass shootings are usually caused by high caliber firearms that pose an overt threat to public safety. There has been a documented increase in the number of women in domestic violence situations who have been shot to death in the last ...

Paul Fryes discusses how the American politicians ignore the problems of the Black people as one of the largest disadvantaged groups in the world and how the Black people cannot create a response to the ignorant politicians by developing a political strategy as a group of all Black voters. As known, political parties give attention to the groups providing a financial contribution to their campaigns, the size of voters in the group, and loyalty of voters in the group. The main aim is to collect the highest possible financial support and collect most of the votes for politicians. The ...

A Reflection on Human Nature

When The New Yorker published Shirley Jackson’s famous story “the Lottery” in 1948, American readers immediately backlashed against the author and the magazine because they found the topic of the story—a mass stoning of a housewife whose name was drawn at random from a lottery—extremely offensive and grotesque. Readers went as far as cancelling their subscriptions to the magazine and numerous threatening mails started pouring in, addressed to the author and editorial staff of the magazine. Readers were also offended because many easily recognized their rural communities and the typical activities conducted in these places such ...

The activity of AMPK supports the normal function of the endothelial barrier (Xing, Wang, Coughlan, Viollet, Moriasi, & Zou, 2013), while on the other hand, the exposure of LPS ensures that there is inhibition of AMPK, thus accentuating lung injury and endothelial barrier dysfunction (Kratzer et al., 2012). It is a fact that LPS increases the permeability of the endothelium, which occurs once there is a decrease in the AMPK activity. This is consistent with the fact that the activation of AMPK activator, AICAR, emphasizes LP, once it is applied in vitro to test the hyper endothelial permeability. Experiments done ...

‘Coming of Age in Mississippi’ is one of the most favorite memoirs of American history wherein author Anne Moody shares first-hand account of her life, civil rights movement and contemporary American society. Moody’s account is more realistic than other African writers because she belonged to a common African American family and suffered pain like other African Americans. This paper proposes a discussion on Moody’s autobiography, ‘Coming of Age in Mississippi’ and further analyses the relationship in race, social movement, and citizenship. Anne Moody was born as Essie Mae. She was the eldest among her eight siblings. When ...

Police brutality has sparked up a lot of tension and chaos in the recent past. This form of brutality refers to any unnecessary excessive force applied to victims by the police (Bird and Smith, 93). Members of the black community are often the victims of this brutality. Young black males have been killed in cold blood by the police who claim that the former are armed and are a threat to their lives. What has sparked a lot of anger is the fact that some of the slain men are usually unarmed is and a non-threat to the police. ...

Abstract

In the minds of many citizens and people across the globe the U.S. army is seen as a powerful machine that produces strong characters, devoted hearts and brave men. However, they are also human, and deep psychological problems develop while military men are exposed to wartime realities and massive killings. The problem of suicide in the army is a high-profile health problem that is complex and poorly studied. Military suicide is becoming a number one public concern as it puts a question of what are the real causes of suicides and how they can be prevented. The causes and ...

The use of drones in warfare has become increasingly questionable in its morality. Though using drones exhibit a way to minimize casualties, the very act of indiscriminate destruction caused by these drones have been criticized. Drones have allowed for the killing of people at a more discreet and maneuverable manner. The very people who have piloted these drones appear to be the ones most traumatized by these acts. These pilots show signs of PTSD caused by their murder of innocent people who are casualties caused by collateral damage. The problem with drones or with any other kinds of air ...

Abstract

This writing will through light on Deviance. It will start with defining deviance as a sociological concept. Later on, briefly, David Email Durkheim’s Structural Functional Theory will be discussed. At the end, a contemporary example will be taken and the applicability of theory on the example/issue discussed will be discussed to effectively relevance of the issue with the theory. At the end of this reading, the reader would be able to effectively understand the concept of deviance and its contemporary example and how that can described using David Email Durkheim’s Structural Functional Theory.

Deviance

Any Act that violates ...

Citizens are at times licensed to own handguns, but they are required by the law to conceal these weapons since they are supposed to be used when it comes to protecting oneself or property. Such initiatives are usually aimed at deterring crimes since it is believed no ordinary person or a criminal will risk confronting an individual who is possession of a gun. This paper shall demonstrate the pros and cons of concealed handguns, the arguments for and against this issue and propose a public health policy to deal with this critical health problem. Essentially, every individual is at ...

There can be no doubt that pop culture in America comes to focus on the thematic content of serial killers or violence in general. As one goes through the contextual texts, it becomes clear how movies showing murders and violence have continued to gain popularity over the years. There are many examples from the domain of cinema that portray vicious killings and gruesome violence. It can very well be opined that the thematic content of the films mirror the criminality or violence looming over the society at large. One has to opine in congruence with the sources that the ...

Vital stakeholders in advocating & protection of children's rights

The current global society faces several challenges one of them being the increase in the number of orphaned and abandoned children. In war-affected regions such as the ongoing war in Syria, several children have been left to fend for themselves after the death of their parents/guardians. In other cases, early marriages have been the cause for the increase in the number of abandoned children. According to recent statistics from UNICEF, the number of orphaned children in 2016 is 132 million (Grovogui, 2016). The same organization reports that there are over 30 million children forced to live away from their ...

International Marketing

International Marketing Marketing is simply a legit communication between sellers and buyers with an objective of transaction whereby, a seller sells goods or services to the buyers. There are so many things that sellers can sell to the buyers, but food seems to be the most common good that sellers sell worldwide, simply because food is a basic commodity in the lives of people. Different countries have different tastes and preferences to various foods, meaning that what one country produces and sells is not what another country produces and sells. Therefore, there is a need for international marketing that ...

Bangladesh is among the world’s most populous nations, but most of its population is poor. Formerly East Pakistan, Bangladesh gained independence in 1971 after the war with West Pakistan. The size of the country whose capital is Dhaka is 143,998 square meters with a population of 161 million people. The main language for the Bangladesh people is Bengali with the major religions being Islam and Hinduism. Life expectancy is 69 years and 70 years for men and women respectively. The population growth rate is estimated at 1.2 % with infant mortality rate of 45/1000. The city of Dhaka ...

Insanity defense, as it is known in many jurisdictions refers to the assertion by a person accused of criminal prosecution that at the time of committing the criminal act(s) they were not in the right state of mind as to appreciate the wrongfulness of their acts. Insanity has been invoked in many jurisdictions to reverse legal decisions or acquit people accused of crimes and it comes forth as the perfect defense. Whenever it is applied, it permits a person who is factually guilty to escape punishment and incarceration. Canadian laws have numerous circumstances exempt individuals from criminal responsibility ...

A Crisis Briefing in Response to the Shooting of A Cop Television Audio Technician at Omaha, Nebraska.

The Crisis occurred on August 19, 2014. The Organization Used Denial Strategy in Response to the Crisis. The Strategy was Helpful as it covered the Police Department. The Communication was made by the Director of the Department.

The Crisis Communication was done on September 10, 2014.

The Image Restoration Strategy used by this briefing was mortification. Since the information was already available within the public domain, denial strategy would not have worked best as for that reason, the department should have admitted and apologized to the family of the bereaved and the general public as a whole.

Crisis Briefing: US Police Department

Introduction. We as the United States of America Police Department, would ...

Introduction

The Watchmen is a film that is based on an American epic set in a rather alternate non-fictitious and that narrowly tends to mirror the current world especially the world of the 1980s. The chief differentiating factor just lies in the existence of some superheroes as part and parcel of the film production. A single point of diversion in the plot tentatively takes place somewhere in the early years. The existence and involvement of the superheroes in this American version is portrayed to dramatically affecting as well as altering the forthright outcome of the well-known real-world occurrences inclusive of ...

What is the reason why social movements appear? The term “social movement” implies the creation of large groups of people that share common views on various social and political issues and act to defend their views and to cause a social change. The worldwide peak of social movements was seen in the 1960s, but even after its passing, the idea of social movements continued to be challenging for society. Della Porta writes, “The excitement and optimism of the roaring 1960s may be long gone, but social and political events . . . have hardly rendered the investigation of grassroots activism any less ...

Introduction

No doubt this nation has suffered greatly in the recent past and its staying power has been challenged to its limits, chief among them the insurgency of Boko HaramBoko Haram will soon know the strength of our will and commitment to rid this nation of terror we shall spare no effort until we defeat terrorism (Buhari cited in Associated Press, 2015b)). The above quotation is from the first speech of the newly elected President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari. Buhari knew exactly what he was saying, when put tackling Boko Haram as the first issue of his agenda (Associated Press, ...

Philosophy

Introduction “So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.”- Ernest Hemingway. The above quote by an eminent American writer speaks volume of the involvement of perception of different individuals in deciding any action, morally right or wrong. Some philosophers also had this belief that every individual has an inner voice, which can never encourage you to do anything wrong. However, it is necessary to listen to the same extremely attentively. They refer this inner voice as the voice of ...

Civil Rights and Government Responsibility

The most memorable event of an expansion of civil rights liberties is the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that realigned race relations between the whites and African-Americans. The gains of the Act in the last fifty years cannot be underestimated, as it opened the social space on which black people could utilize to better their lives and make their impact in the growth of America (Fairclough, 2003). State Governments, especially the ones from the South that were very conservative The Act legalized affirmative action that gave black people equal rights to employment with the whites. Through this move, many ...

Introduction

The paper will examine the local and international media, which have played a crucial role in the Rwanda genocide. Local print and radio fueled the killings, while the international media did not take the news seriously and misconstrued events on the ground or even ignored the local reporting. The illiteracy rate was high at the time of the genocide in Rwanda and radio was one of the most important means to deliver the governmental messages to the wider public. It can be stated that the western media, such as CNN, BBC, The New York Times did not maintain the ...

The Cold War alludes to to an economic, military and political conflict involving the Soviet Union and the United States from 1945 to 1991. After the Second World War, changes in general superiority led to complications which resulted in tensions between the two blocs. The United States was opposed to attempts by the Soviet Union to extend their territories hence leading into diplomatic tension, upgrading of security systems and proxy wars between the two great nations. The Soviet Union wanted to acquire Poland in addition to taking a share of Berlin. The then president of the United States, Harry ...

Introduction

The 2nd amendment is one of the most important parts of the American Constitution, which gives an individual right to bear arms. “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed” (U.S. Const. amend. II) has raised many public debates about the controversy of the topic with trying to limit and even ban the right of the firearms from citizens. The 2nd amendment added to the Constitution on the December 15, 1791 has been questioned and seen different interpretations. The American ...

Summary (Heracles)

Heracles is considered a half-god; of course he was the son of the gods (Zeus) and a human mother. He is equally portrayed as the strongest man who has ever lived. He showed his extraordinary force and strength with the desire to win during his early life, for instance, when he fought a snake which slithered right inside his baby cradle (Caruth, p. 1-12). However, the most saddening incident throughout his life comes after his marriage with Princes Megara with whom they got three children. Because she cannot forgive Zeus, her husband, Hera’s jealousy prompted her to make ...

Introduction

For many years, the American racial problem has seen discrimination in various aspects which lead to underdevelopment among the black community. Racial segregation has seen discrimination of the African-Americans within the society which increasingly leads to harassments and mistreatments to the people. The issue needs to considered as important to the society due it magnitude and effects on the people and their lives. Racism has resulted to the rise of activists and nationalists looking to fight for the rights of the black people. Initially, the black community was not considered as a voter population in the United States thus ...

In this paper, we would like to dwell on some issues concerning knowledge, religion, and women rights. Things that would appear impossible to link are actually strongly connected. As an object for our discussion, we took a book ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’ written by Khaled Hosseini. One of the main topics of the book is an unfair and abusing treatment of Muslim women and their luck of knowledge to deal with it. What is knowledge itself? Due to the Oxford dictionary, it is a fact, information, or skill that a person receives through experience. This definition could be used ...

Introduction

There is abundant evidence that the United States government should take action on problems such as the number of handguns and automatic weapons in circulation around the country. It is important that gun owners register their weapons in order to control the problem of gun-related killings and violence. The United States has repeatedly and steadily reduced the funds for public agencies that manage gun control and that monitor gun-related laws. American policies, politicians, and pro-gun supporters approach the situation from such opposite perspectives that all discussions about gun control legislation seem to devolve into hysterical rhetoric. Many countries around ...

Several atrocities have been witnessed against humanity in the history of the world. These include mass killings and destruction of property by political tyrants who seem to believe they have a duty to play and in turn to exert their forceful influence on seemingly less powerful people in a manner that is ruthless and unjust. The impunity with which such merciless acts are effected, is what creates a cloud off bitterness shadowing the fateful events that can never be taken back. One example of such injustice is one that takes place at the dawn of the 80’s in ...

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in 1999 founded the Jamāʻat al-Tawḥīd wa-al-Jihād which is the present day ISIL. Initially, the organization pledged support to the Al Qaeda and fought alongside them against the Multinational force which invaded Iraq in 2003 (Spark 3). In 2006, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi died and the remnants of his militant organization founded the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI). Subsequent leadership who had the ability to keep the group aligned to the ideology of Al Qaeda died in US led attacks (Spark 4). Eventually, the Al Qaeda, in 2014 realized it could no longer keep ...

Affiliated Institution

Introduction For many years, Amnesty International has been a champion for global humanitarian and human rights issues. With the world continuously evolving, Amnesty International has adapted to these changes and accommodated them. Due to population growth, the world has witnessed continued conflicts over resources specifically in Africa and the Middle East. These conflicts are fueled by political regimes and their ideologies, (Weinstein 2010). Terror groups such as Boko Haram, Al-Shabaab and Islamic State (IS), have continuously violated human rights. In most African countries, dictatorial rule has come under threat with masses becoming more educated and informed of their human ...

Background

According to Martin Richard Kuklinski, also known as Iceman was an American professional murderer who was contracted to kill people. Eventually, Kuklinski was convicted of the five known murders (2006). Richard was given the name Iceman because of his continuous unique method of freezing the people he killed to conceal the real date of the murder. Richard was born on 11 April 1935 to parents Stanley a Polish immigrant and Anna Kuklinski, an Irish immigrant, in New Jersey. Richard Kuklinski was the second born in a family of four children. His father was a brakeman on the railway station; ...

Issues in global development

For a long time, Ivory Coast has been a stable and prosperous country compared to its neighboring countries. In fact, the country has been enjoying a collegial ethnic, religious, and political harmony. All this good social living, peace, and harmony changed in 1999 when the Army General – Robert Guie – found it better to organize a military coup that led to an overthrow of Henri Konan’s government. The impact was deeply causing serious national divisions. The Muslims from the northern side expressed a strong discontent in a mutiny, consequently emerging into a full-scale rebellion. This was in September 2002. ...

Introduction

There are four ways through which individuals in the world ultimately expire or die. The four include suicide, murder, accident and natural death. Among the four ways, the one that attracts the most attention is murder. Murder, also referred to as homicide, is the act of one individual killing the other. However, there are sometimes when homicide is not criminal. For example, a person can kill another while defending themselves. In other cases, someone may be given the authority by law to take the life of the other individual who may have committed serious crimes.

A Summary of the History and Evolution of the Law Regarding Murder

In developing the homicide ...

POLICY A: Provision of a mandatory yearly training to officers.

Cost The total cost of implementing this alternative will be approximate $100 billion per year. The cost would relate to expertise hiring and resources mobilization as well as logistics arrangements. Further, considering that the policy would have wider reaching effects on the whole police force makes it more beneficial regardless of the higher cost.

Stability

Can objectives be achieved with variable change In view of the substantial cost for the policy implementation, the greatest variable change change that could affect its success is the lack of funding. However, in cases of less funding from the government that is the main ...

Ever since the artists and publishers of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris were assassinated by the Islamic Extremists, France has been on a maximum security threat level. Several arrests have been made, but the vicious circle continues. When Charlie Hebdo exposed its first cover after the attack that left several of its staff members dead, another debate has sparked as to how far the boundaries can be pushed when it comes to freedom of expression in images. It is essential to know as to who draws those boundaries and how those boundaries get drawn (Charlie Hebdo attack ...

John Wayne Gacy had a troubled past and the events that occurred as a result of his choices on how to deal with his past are horrific to say the least. Gacy had a rough childhood to say the least. He was subject to multiple beatings by his father as was the rest of his family. His father was an alcoholic that seemed to become more of a bully than a father figure to his children. Gacy had a heart problem that made it difficult for him to form relationships with other children because he could not play with ...

Abstract

This paper describes in detail the explanation about mass murders, the definition of mass murders and the reasons why mass murders are committed. The paper also discusses why people are prone to mass murders and what major causes that trigger mass killing. It describes in detail the relationship between ethnic, religious, social and political reasons that relate with mass murders and why people are forced into killing others. There are also references in the paper taken from mass murders of the past, exemplifying the major mass murderers penned down in history, and it also mentions the recent trends in ...

“A Study in the Pink” is the opening episode of the TV series referred to as Sherlock, which was broadcasted on BBC, and aimed at introducing the main characters and solving a murder mystery. The episode is closely related to the Sherlock Holmes book referred to as the “Study in Scarlet” that was written in 1886, the first story to have used magnifying glass as a crime detection tool. This paper will review the TV series by analysing it plot and the main characters with the other section comparing and contrasting it to the book, “Study in Scarlet.” The ...

Oppression of women and girls is currently a major global issue especially in the Middle East. This social injustice towards women has been going on for a long time and has attracted a lot of attention all over the world. The most devastating aspect about the plight of these women and girls is that they are oblivious of their predicament which makes it even more difficult for them to free themselves . Organizations such as Half the Sky are investing heavily in order to create awareness and empower these women and girls with the aim of achieving real change. Gender ...

ABSTRACT

Brenda Spencer, at age 16, killed two people, injured a police officer as well as several school children when she opened fire on an elementary school across the street from her home while students were arriving for class. Brenda made startling proclamations about the school shooting. She claimed the shooting made her day better, and that the shootings were fun. After being sentenced to twenty-five years to life, she has been denied parole since the incident and remains incarcerated today. There is no comprehensive explanation for the crime of Brenda Spencer. Yet, her mental condition and the positivist theory ...

Introduction

The paper aims to tackle the constituents of Genocide. It also aims to tackle the differences and similarities of the Holocaust and the Rwanda genocide. Although at the core, both the Rwandan Genocide and the Holocaust are originated in racist ideologies, deep hatred and discrimination; at the surface they present the world in different views. The ways society accepted and aided both circumstances as well as the socio-cultural factors that provoked these atrocities were differentiable. In order to attain the paper’s objective, this paper will first give the definition of genocide, then facts about Rwanda Genocide and holocaust. ...

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Executive Summary

Recent news reports on racial minorities being shot and killed by the police, or by those taken into custody and are reported to have died while in that situation, pose a grim reminder that the relationship of law enforcement and the racial minorities in the United States have been one filled with tension and conflict, mistrust and suspicion, fear and force, and domination and struggle. This is not a civil rights position paper; rather, this is a research geared to proffer that the instance of encounters between racial minorities and the police have been generally characterized by conflict ...

Films have a history that is timeless as the sun. The different genres all have a followership among the millions of film enthusiasm all over the world. The followership is mainly due to the approach in production or the styles that the whole movie portrays. Besides, it could be that the main characters have a specialty in the role. This paper aims its research in comparing the horror in two films namely scream two and wrong turn by focusing its findings on two to three horror elements as depicted by Well and Evans in their respective book as discussed ...

1. Introduction National interests and sovereignty play very important role in the international relations. The paper will present the arguments for and against that humanitarian intervention as “national interest”, it will examine if it violates the concept of the state sovereignty and which international organization theory supports which arguments. Those arguments will be presented based on the Rwanda case. The research questions for the paper are: should state forfeit sovereignty if they fail to stop engaging in human rights abuses; who has the right to intervene; are organizations that indorse intervention able to carry out the mission; and does ...

Genocide is one of the most debated crimes in the world. The Cambodian genocide is a dreadful occurrence that took in the mid-1970, but its consequences are still being felt today (Le Billon & Bakker, 2000). Much has been written about it movies have been acted with regards to its condemnation, and more is yet to come. In this essay, I explore the Cambodian genocide concerning the movie Escape from Sobibor 1987. The Khmer Rouge rose to take over the Cambodian government in 1975, with the primary intention of converting Cambodia into a communist agrarian utopia. In doing so, they ...

The concept of state sovereignty affects virtually all principles of contemporary international law. It is impossible to understand the essence and character of the whole system of modern international relations, without the essence of state sovereignty. This concept is an essential legal and political state property. Sovereignty is inherent in any state since its inception. However, its scope does not remain constant, but varies with the development of the state and its participation in international relations and the extent of their obligations. State sovereignty is manifested in its territorial supremacy within the state borders and foreign policy activities in ...

Crimes occur every day throughout the whole world, and sometimes it is hard to identify the motives and the reasons for committing this or that crime. There is a wide range of crimes starting from small robberies and non-substantial financial frauds and finishing with mass murders, terrorist attacks and huge fraudulent activities that lead to serious consequences. Different motives drive criminals to commit terrible things: whether a greed for money, a desire of revenge, a need to become famous no matter for what, pure anger, psychological problems, etc. It is often a challenge for the investigation team from special ...

Media has impact on the lives of people, especially on children who are still developing their personalities. Media affects people in many ways and can lead to violence as well. Many young people commit mass murders if they are exposed to violence on television, but on the other side, television programs reflect reality so this relationship is reciprocal. Violence in the media has effect on the behavior of people in reality and it influences the way they speak and shapes their notions about the world. People often identify themselves with what they see on television which is why the ...

Remember when the police department as a whole cared about the people they served? When police officers spoke out against corruption and participated in community activities within the neighborhoods they patrolled? It seems those days are gone and have been replaced with almost “random” killings by police, as if there were a lottery drawing, perhaps. Police killings are not the only problem for citizens in America concerning law enforcement. People of all races face brutality, police being less than truthful, or outright lying under oath, and law enforcement officers facing no criminal charges, or even acquittal. Three cases that ...