...Tianna Dockett PHIL 101 Final Exam 1. Retributive justice is a legal principal that dictates that punishment for a crime is acceptable as long as it is a proportionate response to the crime committed. In this type of justice system, a crime is typically seen as being done against the state or government, rather than against an individual or community. The standard of fairness is likewise found in the thought of reasonable play. On the off chance that individuals accept that a reasonable procedure was utilized as a part of choosing what it to be dispersed, then they may well acknowledge an irregularity in what they get in correlation to others. 2.3. As a record of political association on the bigger scale, Plato's protection of a aristocratic government was unrealistic to win wide endorsement in fair Athens. He utilized the characters Glaucon and Adeimantus to voice pragmatic complaints against the arrangement. They are particularly concerned (as Plato's Athenian counterparts may well have been) with some of its procurements for the gatekeeper class, including the support of both men and ladies, the disposal of families, and the instruction of youngsters. Likewise, Plato accepted that the hobbies of the state are best saved if kids are raised and taught by the general public overall, instead of by their natural folks. So he proposed a basic (if startlingly new) plot for the reproducing, sustaining, and preparing of youngsters in the gatekeeper class.4. Using a...
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... a woman was created by God as a companion for man, but she also brought misfortunes to man. Although both stories are about the creation of the first woman and how their disobedience is the source of despair for mankind, the story of Eve has a more positive view of women. In the Greek myth of Pandora, the creation of the first woman was ordered by Zeus as a gift to punish man for stealing fire. Zeus ordered the other gods to create Pandora. She was given several traits by different gods such as beauty, musical talents, healing, manual dexterity, and gardening. Pandora was lovable, talented and was the ideal female. In addition, Pandora was also given a box and told never to open it. Yet, given the traits of foolishness and curiosity, she opened the box and released the misfortunes that afflict mankind. In the story of Eve, the creation of the first woman was by God, who decided that Adam should not be alone : “It is not good that the man should be alone. I shall make him a helper meet for him” Gen Ch2; 18. Therefore, God caused a deep sleep on Adam and He took one of his ribs and created Eve as his companion. So, a woman in the story of Pandora was created by gods for punishment, but a woman in the story of Eve was created by God for man’s companion. Both stories depict the woman as the cause of man’s misfortunes. Pandora brought misfortunes to man by opening the box when told not to. When she opened the box, out came: violence, crime, disease, plague, poverty, and...
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...Around 1205 CE, Chinggis Qahan and the Mongols defeated the Naimans and the Merkits, who were part of the Mongolian empire. Qahan conquered his very own people because they called for his execution. Jamuga, a Naiman survivor and brother to Qahan, became a robber after the conquest of his people and climbed the Tanglu Mountains with five companions. His companions then turned on him and took him to Chinggis Qahan. The exchange between Jamuga and Quahan was recorded by an anonymous author and was written in The Secret History of the Mongols, which is the oldest surviving Mongolian text. The Secret History of the Mongols gives insight into the relationship between Jamuga and his brother, Quahan. In the beginning of the text, Jamuga...
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...Frankenstein When a crime is committed, the blame is usually placed on the criminal and this is because a crime cannot take place without a criminal. However, a criminal always has a reason for his actions. Crimes can be prevented if proper precautions are taken. In Marry Shelley’s Frankenstein, a creature is created and given life to, by Victor Frankenstein and it causes several emotional pains to him. Yet the monster is not being solely responsible for them. The creature is born like a fully grown newborn, despite its size; it knows nothing of the world. It can be argued that the creature’s mind is like a “blank slate” and that it only learns to be good or bad from its experiences. Therefore it’s not born good or bad, but learns the bad behavior we see in the novel, from those surrounding him. Frankenstein’s monster was judged by society due to his unusual physical appearance and this caused him to become evil and commit murders to his own creator’s loved ones. The encounters the creature has with people he meets, makes him hate himself over and over again because people react with fear and detest to his disproportioned and twisted appearance. The monster demonstrates the reaction of people in the village when they see him as he states, “some of the people ran away when they saw me [the monster] but the others shouted and threw stones at me. They wanted to kill me.” (Shelley 22). The monster feels judged and mistreated by the people of the village. There was no...
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...aggravated robbery, which was alleged to have been committed during a rape in 1979.[1] He had been paroled in July 2010, after serving 30 years of a 75-year prison sentence in Texas. Prosecutors cleared him of the crime after a test of his DNA profile did not match traces of semen evidence from the case.[2] Dupree, who had been represented by the Innocence Project, spent more time in prison in the state than any other inmate who had been exonerated by DNA evidence.[3] Rape and robbery caseEdit On November 23, 1979, a 26-year-old woman and a male companion became the victim of a carjacking after visiting a liquor store in Dallas, Texas.[4] The abductors drove the woman to a park nearby, where they raped her. The perpetrators decided not to kill her, but kept her rabbit fur coat. About two days later, two men were seen trying to sell the coat at a grocery store two miles away. The victims' car was found in the parking lot. Dupree and Anthony Massingill were arrested the following month because they resembled suspects from a different sexual assault and robbery case. However, Dupree did not match the description of the perpetrators of the November carjacking.[5] Trial and appeals The 26-year-old victim picked out Dupree and Massingill from a police lineup, but her male companion did not. Dupree was charged with armed robbery and rape, but was never tried on the rape charge. In 1980, he was convicted and sentenced to 75 years in prison for aggravated robbery. Three of Dupree's appeals...
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...Topic: Prohibition and Its Harmful Effects Since the beginning of the eighteenth century, early colonists have attempted to control the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages in the United States. Prominent people like George Washington and Benjamin Franklin were once leading figures in the Temperance movements that started in early Colonial times. The first temperance society in the United States was begun in New York in 1808 which begun a long battle between reformers and the American public for years to come. The modern movement for prohibition had its main growth in the United States and developed largely as of the agitation of the nineteenth century temperance movements (Colliers Encyclopedia 97). When World War I began the idea of prohibition was thought to be a way to keep the country patriotic and at the same time strong. A phrase that was commonly heard was “A drunk worker is not a productive worker” (McDonnel 394). Prohibition proved to be very difficult to enforce and at the same time the overall effect did more harm to the United States than good. In the United States constitution, amendment eighteen which was passed in 1919 stated that “ After one year from the ratification of this article, the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverages purposes is hereby prohibited.” Throughout...
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... having to marry a suitor. Twenty years had gone by and Penelope had not heard a word about Odysseus, yet she still waited for him. In this she shows the reader her true devotion to her beloved husband, Odysseus. In book ten, Odysseus’ men were disloyal when they accused him of keeping riches in the bag of Aeolus. This resulted in a dire event. They had sailed for nine days and finally they could see their “People tending fires, we were very close to them. But then the sweet sleep came upon me, for I was worn out with always handling the sheet myself, and I could not give it to any 2 other companion, so we could come home quicker to our own country; but my companions talked with each other and said that I was bringing silver and gold home with me, given me by greathearted Aiolos, son of Hippotes; […] and the evil counsel of my companions...
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...2. The monster asking Victor to create a female companion for him draws parallels to the Bible, mainly with the parts of God creating Adam and Eve. When God created the Garden of Eden and creatures, he created Adam, a man. Eventually, God created Eve, a woman to accompany Adam. The monster asks Victor to “create a female for [him] with whom [he] can live in . . . (page 174),”. The monster asks Victor because he calls Victor “[his] creator (page 174,)”. The monster can be considered to be Adam, the hypothetical woman would be Eve, and Victor is God since he created Victor and has the possibility of creating Eve / a companion for the monster. 6. Most of the travel takes place by boat. Victor takes a boat to “descend the Rhine . . . from Strasbourg to...
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...Today in our society some many different crimes or being committed, some are petty and some or major offenses. Majority of the crimes being committed are petty crimes such as shoplifting. Every offense should be punished but not every offense should be punished with jail time. Probation is used as a deterrent to help with the overcrowding of the prison system. While everyone that commits a crime should be punished everyone should be given a second chance. Probation is a court punishment to discharge the criminal to the public under direction, with promising annulment of ruling if circumstances permit. Probation is used as an alternative to jail time and is the most commonly used method of a correctional system. Probation is a derived of the deferred decree, given to us rather ultimately by way of preceding legal procedures. Probation is given and can be taken away if the terms of the...
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...current leaders of their respective societies. Although at some point, they both face their downfall of power caused by the main characters, Cady and Macbeth. At first, Cady and Macbeth are merged into the communities previously mentioned. Macbeth does this at the beginning of the play after the war when he becomes part of a higher level in society and after his victory on the battlefield. Cady merges into her society through school after growing up in Africa. Another way they are similar is that their closest ally pushes them down a path that leads them to gain power and become corrupt. The allies of each main character in the stories are Lady Macbeth and Janis. Both of these character use their own interest to persuade their partners in crime to commit actions against their regular character. Different situations from each story not only help further the point of connecting characters above, but also give us a chance to tie the theme to similar incidents throughout. A situation that takes place in both films that was described above, making a connection between Janis and Lady Macbeth’s characters, was when each character convinces their partner to commit an action against the person who holds most of the power in the beginning of the stories for their own, personal reasons. In Mean Girls, this is when Janis persuades Cady to take down the Plastics. She does this for the personal reason to exact her revenge on Regina because she was mean to Janis in eighth grade. In Macbeth,...
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...answer of all answers. The awful truth is they are mostly overcrowded and under staffed. More animals get euthanized inside the shelter due to lack of space than adopted by potential lifelong owners in the animal shelter. The animal shelter should not be used as a way to ease guilt on the former owners’ conscience. It should not be used as a dump site or a place to put your older animal like you would a senior citizen in a nursing home. Is animal abandonment ethically and morally wrong no matter what the circumstances? It would depend on each individuals’ specific upbringing and belief system. Does Utilitarianism apply in the matter of abandonment? Does Deontology play a role in decision making? Does all of this mean that as long as a companion animal is put in a better home than you provided that the act of abandonment is alright to choose? It all would depend on your...
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...Page 2 GAMBLING The United States has had a long history of allowing some forms of legal gambling and a degree of tolerance of illegal gambling. Casino’s were built as early as the 1800’s in the United States but gambling in general took place far before that. One of the most popular places to gamble took place on river boats traveling throughout the Mississippi river and other major waterways. In the 1800’s Professional gamblers were frowned upon by the majority of people and blamed for limiting economic growth, interfering with business, endangering the streets, and committing crimes. Gambling was brought to California by The Gold Rush making San Francisco the capital of gambling in the United States. It soon became outlawed throughout the country but not eliminated due to underground gambling. In 1931 gambling was legalized once again in the state of Nevada. In today’s society gambling is everywhere around us. People are able to walk down the street to almost any convenient store and buy lottery tickets. Anyone with a credit card (even if they are underage) can get on the computer and gamble on casino websites, poker websites or place a bet on sporting events. There’s different opinions about gambling and how it effects people and the community. The gambling industry offers benefits to the community and can build a cities economy. They offer thousands of job opportunities from anywhere such as waiters/waitresses and casino workers to law enforcers to keep the...
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...if you will, companion, and they stole a Carbuncle. A Carbuncle is an expensive jewel that belonged to the Countess. Holmes eventually finds out who had stolen the jewel and stuffed it into a goose. I know right? A goose! Sherlock ends up letting Ryder and Cusack free. In my opinion, Sherlock Holmes positively made the wrong decision. One reason why I believe that Holmes did wrong was Ryder still tried to steal the Carbuncle...
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...Profiles of high risk crime victims closely resemble profiles of crime perpetrators for numerous reasons, only some of which are clear on first appearance. In lecture we learned that the archetypically-profiled victim of robbery is a poor, young, single, city-dwelling male of minority ethnicity, and is victimized by a member of his own race (Lecture, 2015). It is thus easy to imagine why a criminal might choose to prey on someone young, isolated, lacking resources, physically proximate, and free of companions. However this does not represent the full relationship. The profile link also exists, in part, because there exists a strong relationship between criminality and victimhood. In the popular lexicon, the term “victim” has come to mean an individual who is free of guilt from wrongdoing. However this is more likely a reflection of media portrayals of criminal-on-bystander violence than it is an accurate statistical representation of violent criminality. Victimization is described as an “asymmetrical interpersonal relationship that is abusive, painful, destructive, parasitical and unfair” (Karmen, 2015, p. 7). Nowhere in this definition is the criminal status of either victim...
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...is the protagonist and the central character. The Grandmother is a smart woman who knows how to assert herself by trying to use all the available resources around her and manipulating them by appealing to their morality. 3. As you can gather from the clothes, it's in part a matter of appearances, of looking "nice" and "respectable." It's also a matter of manners and of being respectful. 4. "Does it seem right to you, lady, that one is punished a heap and another ain't punished at all?" The Misfit victimizes himself here: he was made to suffer greatly for a reason he doesn't understand. But the tricky thing is, he also never denies committing a crime, and he never denies that the papers are evidence that he committed a crime. 5. After the family has an automobile accident and encounters The Misfit and his two companions, the family is led a few at a time into the woods to be shot and killed. Although she expresses a desire not to go to Florida, ironically, the grandmother is the first family member ready to go the next morning. Not only is she the first ready to go, but she is dressed in her Sunday best. We see hints of death again as the family travels along the...
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