...John Milton’s epic 17th century poem, Paradise Lost and Mary Shelley’s early 19th century novel Frankenstein both demonstrate an overlapping theme of curiosity. This is expressed in the texts through mankind’s curiosity for knowledge of the human race, which aids in construction of identity. While each of the texts support the mutual theme of curiosity, the authors exemplify the theme in not only similar, but also different ways. Both texts use the nature of the timeframe in history to provoke Eve and Victor’s wrongdoings through their curiosity for knowledge. In addition to this, Eve and Victor’s curiosity for knowledge is similarly attained through outside sources, such as Satan and the Tree of Knowledge, and the Monster. Their wrongdoings...
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...Saint Augustine once said, “For we have our existence from God, and it is from him that we deserve punishment for doing wrong and reward for doing good.” This quote draws up two philosophical propositions, which was taken from Book two of Augustine, “On Free Choice of the Will”. St. Augustine was a Christian theologian and philosopher and was the bishop of Hippo Regius, which was in Numidia; providence in Africa ruled by the Romans. He is seen as arguably the most important Western Christianity Church Father due to his influential texts in the Patristic Era. One could agree with St. Augustine’s philosophical proposition and one could disagree with his philosophical proposition. One could agree with St. Augustine’s philosophy “For we have out existence from God, and it is from him that we deserve punishment for doing wrong and reward for doing good” by analyzing biblical texts and having strong Christian beliefs. This claim can be interpreted that in the end of one’s life God will judge them at the gates of Heaven. Those who have lived a life full of good deeds will be rewarded; while those who have lived a life full of sin and wrongdoing will be reprimanded. When St. Augustine refers to those who will be punished for living a bad life one could interpret it that he asserts that person will receive his punishment in hell. Hell is a place of torment and punishment in an afterlife for people who have committed serious sins for which God will not allow them through the golden gates...
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...The human rights activists are against this type of punishment I believe in second chances. The Disadvantages of Death Penalty * Though there are scientific methods available to investigate the crime, nothing is guaranteed. You cannot remove the chances of punishing innocents completely. * The cost involved on the death penalty prosecution is greater than the expenses occurred in the life imprisonment of the accused. The appeals against such capital punishments take too long to decide, and often it takes years to decide the fate of the death penalty. All these things make the death penalty an expensive option for the governments who spend millions of the dollars of the taxpayer money on death penalty prosecutions. * It is reported that some of the jury members are not completely impartial as they decide the penalty on racial or religious basis. * Some of the accused are mentally ill, and it is ethically wrong to put mentally ill patients to the death. * In most cases people who can afford to hire the expensive lawyers often survived from such kind of capital punishment. People who are poor, and cannot afford to get a quality legal assistance becomes the victim of this penalty. * Some of the experts believe that life prison is a more effective punishment to control crimes as compared to the death penalty. The countries where the death penalty is banned have less capital crime rate as compared to those countries where the death penalty is practiced. ...
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...The Utilitarian theory seeks to punish offenders to discourage future wrongdoing. This theory appears to be more humane, punishment at best would be a necessary evil. Its main focus is punishment should be an option if it is going to produce an overall good. What if making an example of someone would lead to the most overall good, this theory would see a man punished for no reason if it would bring more good than harm. However, retributive theory is good in itself that those who have acted wrongly should suffer. When this happens people get what they deserve and justice is served. In this theory there is no reason to punish an innocent man, since doing so will not bring justice. There is no question. If Dr. Greenthumb has the capability to make the immune plant and therefore save the world, a pardon is in order. In this case looking at the future harm that might come to the world if he was executed as the retributive theory would require is not worth it. The Utilitarian theory needs to be applied to save the human race from starvation, the greater good needs to be applied. Society can always lie and say he is pardoned until he creates the immune fungus then he could be taken away for punishment. It is hard to decide which theory would lead to a better society seeing that rehabilitating the person might fail and punishing him in the same way as his offense might just fuel his hatred. However, retribution to me seems like justice. If a man chose to commit a crime why shouldn’t...
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...good and forbidding what is evil’ to be one of the basic principles of IFI Shariah Audit is due to ensures acceptance, validity and enforceability of contracts from Shariah point of view. Stating by Islamic Financial Services Board (IFSB), Shariah compliance actually is a central in assuring the integrity and credibility of the Institutions offering auditing. They state that Shariah non-compliance risk is the risk that arises from auditing failure to comply with the Shariah rules and principles determined by the relevant body in the jurisdiction in which the auditing operate. According to these standards, Shariah compliance is critical to audits’ operations and such compliance requirements must permeate throughout the organization and activities. As a majority of the auditors use Shariah-compliant auditing services as a matter of principle, the clients’ perception regarding audits’ compliance with Shariah rules and principles is of great importance to their sustainability. In this regard, Shariah compliance falls within a higher priority category in relation to other identified risks. They accordingly, require that auditing shall have in place adequate systems and controls, including Shariah Board, to ensure compliance with Shariah rules and principles. In other words, it could be said that IFI needs to be responsible for appointing people to carry out the responsibility of enjoining good, whenever people are neglectful, and forbidding evil (hisbah) since it is the highest...
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...Chase Hamblen English 2410 Mr. Wesley Jarrett 10 April 2012 Inferno Canto I I awoke from a daze to find that I was in a dark unfriendly place with cave-like features, filled with sin and wrongdoings. I do not recall how I got to such a place, but after collecting myself, I noticed a very dim light to one end of the cave, so I proceeded toward it. The path I had chosen seemed to descend, and as I appeared to reach the light I was astonished to find a lion with a bright glow blocking the path. As he paced back and forth, looking at me hungrily, I considered retreating. After realizing I was no match for the magnificent beast, I turned and began to venture back to the other side of the seemingly never-ending cave. Then, a man appeared before me and stated that his name was Izuel, a fallen angel. He explains that the lion represents different forms of evil and tells that another greater being that represents good will come one day and remove the lion from its post. Amazed by this story and his Izuel’s arrival, I asked why he had been banished from Heaven. He told me the story of how he had spoken against God and had been sent to Hell, and has been sent by my long lost wife in Heaven and given a short time to guide me to Heaven. He then outlines what the journey will be like and warns me that I must first journey with him through Hell. He says that there are three levels that we must travel through and that each level will be worse than the last, consisting of obstacles...
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...it took them so long to start looking into the homicide. Being so determined to find the murderer, he set harsh punishments for whoever killed Laïos. “They must be killed or exiled.” (17). It didn’t matter who it was, “If you think a man can sin against his own kind / And not be punished, I say you are mad.” (29). He’s saying that even if it was himself, Oedipus, the punishment would still apply. Little does he know, by saying those words, he’s digging his own...
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...Specific deterrence means dissuading the particular offender from engaging in criminal behaviour in the future. General deterrence means the concept that the sentence imposed on a particular offender will deter others from committing similar offences.(LCSA 2016). In case study, the sentence was given for both specific and general deterrence. 2.2 Factors affecting sentencing 2.2.1 Aggravating Factors Aggravating factors components specific to the offense, the casualty or the respondent which might warrant a higher punishment ( LCSA 2016). Example of aggravating factors is , if the victims are under 12 or over 60 or using or threatening to use an offensive weapon . In case study, the defendant, Mr Duncan John Hancott was in gambling addiction (Court Administration Authority of South Australia 2016). 2.2.1 Mitigating Factors Mitigating factors means features that help to decline the penalty of offender. 2.2.2.1 Demonstrated Prospects of...
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...“How much unity do a society need not to fall apart and how much diversity must it provide in order to secure freedom for its citizens? This has been the central question of political philosophy from the very beginning. As much freedom as possible and as much unity as necessary leads to a society which serves the human good.” Stephan Eisel, the fellow worker of Konrad Adenauer Foundation The relationship between individual and society directly influences the relationship between individual freedom and society order. Upon the problems of individual versus community and personal freedom versus social order, the pioneer philosophers mainly think and answer it in tow basic ways. One part of philosophers and thinkers emphasize wholeness, inevitability and divinity and advocate that the whole is more important than the part; the society is more important than the individual. Another part of philosophers view the issue at opposite angle. Why do individual and society, individual freedom and social order stay in opposition to each other? On the one hand, the reason is that any person has irrational component inside him; the rational component registers as being controlled and is inclined to be in order; the irrational component registers as being impulsive and is inclined to the diversity. One the other, the individual freedom requires the equality, but the maintenance of the social order would sacrifice some individuals’ freedom without a doubt. It seems to me that the equality...
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...What is death penalty? Death penalty is a form of punishment that involves the act of revenge to those people that commit a serious crime. Originally, death penalty viewed as an action that makes the criminal to pay the price to what they committed at the past. Death penalty is an irreversible form of punishment (Debate.org, 2013). It usually implement on person who commit on espionage, murder, or dealing drug crime. In the previous time, the methods to execute death penalty are very terror and cruel compare to now. This is because during past, death penalty normally does not see as the punishment but must be executed to ensure person was executed had to be painful (wisegeek, n.d.) Some of the common means of execution included crucifixion, boiling alive and etc. Until today, death penalty had been executed in more humane way. For example, electric chair, death by hanging or injection that can reduce the time of suffering for criminal. Recently, most of the country has executed death penalty as a form of punishment. The country with the most population among the world which is United State, China, India and Indonesia still practiced capital punishment. However, execution of death penalty is a very controversy form of punishment among the world. Many people started arguing whether the execution of death penalty is wrong since a long time ago. Although execution of death penalty is considered mandatory to deter criminal activity, there is several strong reason that death penalty...
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...Analysis on Son of Satan by Charles Bukowski, 1982 Hej skat. Du kan lige læse den igennem. Jeg ved ikke, om der er noget, der skal slettes eller tilføjes. Mangler din del til at kunne skrive den helt færdig. Elsker dig Are we born evil? Or is it something we are raised to be? Is it possible to be truly evil, do horrible things, show no remorse and not feel bad or regret your wrongdoing? Is anger such a strong feeling in some people that they have to act upon it in such ways that there is no turning back? And can a person really feel such hate for another human being just for behaving differently? These are all questions that start to form inside your head after reading the short story Son of Satan written in 1982 by Charles Bukowski. The story takes place in a small middle-class-type neighborhood near a larger city. It is summer, school is out and a group of three boys; the narrator, Morgan and Hass, in their early teens are sitting on the grass of the narrator’s backyard smoking cigarettes, talking about another boy, Simpson, who has claimed to have had sex with a girl under the house of the narrator. This leads to the decision of punishing him for lying: (Page 39, line 20-25) Though they are no more than eleven to twelve years of age, they do not behave as children like we know them. They do not play hide and seek or run about laughing or play video games. They swear, smoke and act like the grownups they see in video games. The protagonist does not mention his name...
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...Throughout all of history people have been writing about the temptations of mankind and their rise to glory and honour, which can ultimately lead to their demise. Through the three plays Agamemnon by Aeschylus, Oedipus the King by Sophocles and Hippolytus by Euripides, there are three prevalent themes. These are the role of the gods, the difference between good and evil and human responsibilities. All three of these tragedies reveal the importance of the role the gods play to mankind. The gods have control over mankind and sometimes use them as pawns to achieve their ambitions; the gods also ensure that each individual’s fate is secured. The tragedies also reveal to the audience the difference between good and evil; quite often the individual’s good intentions are misconstrued and in turn cause them to do evil. Another common theme in the tragedies is the responsibility of humanity; although often tempted or controlled by the gods individuals need to learn to control their emotions and take responsibility for their own actions. The role the gods play is an essential part of the Greek tragedies and without them the stories would be drastically different. The role of the gods is to watch over the people and ensure that they fulfill their destiny. In the ancient times, they believed that each person’s life was determined by destiny or fate, which they could not escape; no matter what a person does to avoid their fate, the gods made sure that their destiny was fulfilled. An individual’s...
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...Capital punishment known to some as the death penalty is the execution of a criminal by the state as a punishment. It has been around for a long time to stop political rebellion and for the punishment of a criminal. As of post WW2 91 countries have abolished capital punishment. Now in America this punishment is only given to the harsh of offenses such as murder, treason, and espionage. The United States has executed 42 criminals last year. In our country we have an issue with capital punishment. Many of our citizens call it inhumane and costly than just giving a criminal the death penalty, some believe that we don’t have the right to take someone’s life and to let them live their lives in prison. To be sentenced to death is a four step plan that must be meet sentencing, direct review, State Collateral Review, and Federal Habeas Corpus. In the United States the method of capital punishment is lethal injection which is a more humane way than off the past 50 years. The United States is split on the issue of if capital punishment is justified or not. There are some points in this paper that will show you why capital punishment is well justified and needed in our country. The first point is that 69 percent of the nation favors the death penalty. The death penalty has also decreased the crime in our nation. January 17, 1977 Gary Gilmore was executed by the firing squad in Utah. That same year that state had 55 murders but after the execution the murders in the state went from...
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...J. Fletcher March 25, 2014 Punishment and Its Purpose As long as intelligent beings have existed, there have been wrongdoings and retaliation of some sorts for those wrongdoings. As human beings came together and formed tribes, villages, towns, cities, etc., the society within each of those set rules and a standard of fairness in punishment, for all to live by, which is based on what they felt was the best consequences possible. Punishment comes in two forms: Retribution (backward-looking) and rehabilitation (forward-looking). In giving out punishment, we should always strive for what can bring the greatest good and least bad for a society. Forward looking punishment presents the greatest good and least bad for a society. Therefore forward looking punishment should be the preferred method of punishment. Before we explore this idea further, we must solidify what it means when we say punishment. One situation that we could safely label as punishment is a case of a person sent to prison by a government for a crime of breaking a law or rule set by society. On the opposite side, we could take a person that goes about life in a lawful manner, never being incarcerated, as a clear case of non-punishment. Now suppose we take this situation: If someone murders an innocent person, and then is immediately struck by a bolt of lightning, have they been punished? Without entertaining any theories of karma, punishment by a deity, or anything outside of time & space, I suppose this...
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...Allers present a clear difference between good and evil, whereas Shakespeare’s depiction of good and evil character in Hamlet is not so clear. The characters in The Lion King are categorised almost immediately in the orientation of the film, with the image of the characters giving the audience a clear picture of who the suspected betrayer is. However in the play Hamlet it’s a lot more difficult to label the characters as good or evil, the audience cannot be certain that Claudius is evil until the climax when he reacts to the play organised by Hamlet. There is a clear distinction between good and bad in The Lion King, this makes the audience highly suspect scar’s future betrayal of Mufasa and Simba. While in Hamlet we can never be sure about which characters to trust, as it’s difficult to ascertain whether Claudius is guilty for Hamlet’s (King) death because of his overly normal personality and lack in signs of guilt and worriedness. This indicates to the audience that Claudius is a calm and logical person, while it is then young Hamlet that is viewed to be untrustworthy due to his constant displays of madness. In The Lion King Scar is depleted as a skinny full grown adult male lion with a black mane, green eyes and a brown dark dirty fur complexion. Scars description connotes that he’s an unusual lion, most likely evil and unable to be trusted. Certain traits and events in The Lion King sets upon the audience that scar is evil, an example of this can be found in the orientation...
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