...Russia and North Korea have declared 2015, the year of the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II as “Friendship Year”. Since last year, Russia and North Korea have increasingly improved their ties with each other. The growing ties and relationship between the countries has got the world thinking about the intentions of their alliance. More recently, North Korea’s Kim Jong Un has confirmed his visit to Russia. This will be the leader’s first visit to anywhere since taking on the position of North Korea’s leader after the death of his father, Kim Jong-il. Russian President Vladimir Putin has been facing a lot of heat from the United Nations recently because of their military operations in Ukraine. North Korea was sanctioned by the United Nations because of their nuclear test programs in 2006 and since then, the relationships had been worsening, with the States again charging North Korea’s Kim Jong Un of heinous crimes against its own population and more. Both Russia and North Korea have been left in isolation and it seems that both the countries were in need of a remarkable alliance. The countries have announced that they will deepen economic and political ties starting from this year; their ‘year of friendship’ (McCurry). An official North Korean news agency said that the countries would “develop bilateral relations on to a new higher stage in various fields including politics, economy and culture under a mutual agreement”. Another question in the minds of the people...
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...Amari Pipkins-Walker Fraga May 19, 2015 Current Events This article is about South Koreans trying to reunite with North Korea. Thousands of Buddhists pray for peace between the two countries because so much violence has happened since the split. The spiritual leaders of the Buddhists wants to really target Kim Jong Un and the other people who has Buddhism rooted into their hearts. The plan is to use a peaceful routine to soften up Kim Jong Un and also to keep peace between North Korea and the U.S. So the plan is to use the method is to use the non-violence strategy. What I think about this is that I think this might work because other people or one person has tried the non-violence method and has had multiple results either positive or negative. If the results were negative, I think that would help because they can learn from the reaction and use another way to use a peaceful method to reunite with North Korea. If the results is positive then the South Koreans can feel like they have made some progress of finally reuniting with North Korea. Why this affects me is because I really wouldn’t mind the two countries finally getting back together like before. Also, there are a lot of people that I know who are going to visit South Korea, so it would be a god idea for them to be able to experience both countries as one. Also the whole world would probably be happy that the feud between the two countries is over....
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...he was introduced to his teenage classmates as “Un Pak,” the son of a North Korean diplomat. He understandably struggled in classes taught in German and English. He assumed power when Kim II died, in December 2011, and at around the same time he was wed, in an arranged marriage, to Ri Sol Ju, a former cheerleader and singer about five years his junior. Kim slowly pulls the country out of its Dark Age and lives a long life, overseeing decades of moderate prosperity and perhaps cracking open the door to more domestic freedom and better relations with the West. The problem with best-case scenarios is that reality usually intrudes. One of the most unsettling things about Kim Jong Un is his tendency to act unpredictably, even bizarrely. It may be, as Pinkston maintains, that Kim is “totally on top of it” and that “people underestimate him at their peril.” But it’s also true that he inhabits a kind of never-never land. The most hopeful reading of Kim’s rule so far is that maybe—maybe—he is on the path to becoming a relatively benevolent dictator, at least by the grim standards of his father and grandfather. When North Korea-watchers talk about a best-case scenario, it looks like this: Kim slowly pulls the country out of its Dark Age and lives a long life, overseeing decades of moderate prosperity and perhaps cracking open the door to more domestic freedom and better relations with the West. Supreme Leader Kim Jong-Un used his talent, intelligence and deceptively hard...
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...Capital Punishment Many distinctive doctrines in criminal law originated in efforts to restrict the number of capital crimes and executions. For instance, in the late 18th century, when all murder in the United States was punishable by death, Pennsylvania pioneered in dividing murder into two categories. The state enacted laws that authorized punishment of first-degree murder by death, while second-degree murder was punishable by imprisonment only. Elsewhere, penal codes uniformly required death for certain serious crimes. In these jurisdictions, discretionary powers to commute death sentences gradually expanded. (A commutation substitutes a lesser penalty for a more severe one—for example, replacing execution with a life sentence.) Today in many nations, including Turkey and Japan, the death penalty remains legal but the number of executions has declined over time. Although many jurisdictions limited imposition of the death penalty, no government had formally abolished capital punishment until Michigan did so in 1846. Within 20 years Venezuela (1863) and Portugal (1867) had formally eliminated the practice as well. By the beginning of the 20th century the death sentence had been abolished in a handful of nations, such as Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Norway, and The Netherlands. Although not formally eliminated, it had fallen into disuse in many others, including Brazil, Cape Verde, Iceland, Monaco, and Panama. The defeat of the Axis powers provided a foundation for...
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...A Catharsis for All Henry Louis Mencken’s essay, entitled "The Penalty of Death," is a persuasive essay about the death penalty. The author does not attempt to alter the reader’s opinion as to the merits of the death penalty. He attempts to answer two questions most commonly heard in his day. First, executing a person is a terrible business and it “degrades” (Mencken) those whom-ever choose to administer this style of justice as a profession. He addresses this first question by simply agreeing with it. Most people would agree that the prospect of being the hangman is a vocation that would be most unpleasant. He points out that although it may be unpleasant, it is still necessary for society to support such a profession. The second question he addresses is to those that view capital punishment as a useless deterrent to crime. The author contends that those who wish to abolish the death sentence are in error if their assumption is founded solely upon the mistaken belief that the “whole purpose” of punishing a criminal is to deter some potential future crime. Mencken believes that they are “confusing [a] part with the whole” (Mencken). The future deterrent is only a part of the “whole purpose” of punishing a criminal. There are many more reasons to list: like revenge, justice, or relief just to name a few. Mencken's primary purpose is to identify the motive for this type of punishment. He identifies this motive as a catharsis, and he describes it as a "healthy letting out of...
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...Capital Punishment Many distinctive doctrines in criminal law originated in efforts to restrict the number of capital crimes and executions. For instance, in the late 18th century, when all murder in the United States was punishable by death, Pennsylvania pioneered in dividing murder into two categories. The state enacted laws that authorized punishment of first-degree murder by death, while second-degree murder was punishable by imprisonment only. Elsewhere, penal codes uniformly required death for certain serious crimes. In these jurisdictions, discretionary powers to commute death sentences gradually expanded. (A commutation substitutes a lesser penalty for a more severe one—for example, replacing execution with a life sentence.) Today in many nations, including Turkey and Japan, the death penalty remains legal but the number of executions has declined over time. Although many jurisdictions limited imposition of the death penalty, no government had formally abolished capital punishment until Michigan did so in 1846. Within 20 years Venezuela (1863) and Portugal (1867) had formally eliminated the practice as well. By the beginning of the 20th century the death sentence had been abolished in a handful of nations, such as Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Norway, and The Netherlands. Although not formally eliminated, it had fallen into disuse in many others, including Brazil, Cape Verde, Iceland, Monaco, and Panama. The defeat of the Axis powers provided a foundation...
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...CONSULTA SOBRE CONJUNTOS ¿Qué es un conjunto? Es la agrupación en un todo de objetos bien diferenciados en el la mente o en la intuición, por lo tanto, estos objetos son bien determinados y diferenciados. Es la reunión, agrupación o colección de elementos bien definidos que tienen una propiedad en común, este fue inventado por Georg Cantor hace 100 años. Sus conceptos han penetrado y transformado todas las teorías formales y todas las ramas de la matemática y de la lógica, así como la misma ontología. Como este es un concepto primario, el conjunto no puede definirse; sólo se puede dar una idea intuitiva de el. A pesar de su sencillez este concepto es la base de las Matemáticas actuales, ya que, entre otras cosas, sirve para la construcción de los números. Sirve además para estudiar las estructuras algebraicas, con las cuales se organizan ordenadamente todos los conocimientos matemáticos. Ejemplos: los alumnos de un colegio, los números impares, los meses del año, etc., siendo cada alumno del colegio, cada número impar, cada mes del año, respectivamente, elementos de cada uno de los correspondientes conjuntos. ¿Qué es un elemento? Elemento es cada uno de los objetos por los cuales esta conformado un conjunto. Por ejemplo, par los ejemplos tomados anteriormente en el concepto de conjunto. Luis, Antonio, Paula, son los elementos del primer conjunto, por que ellos son alumnos de colegio. 1,3,5 son elementos del segundo conjunto...
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...Arun sharma Prof.Brown ENGL-1302 04/02/2012 Capital punishment, the death penalty, death sentence, or execution is a legal process whereby a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for a crime. Ever since the inception of this practice, issues have been raised about its inhumanity, immorality and inefficiency. As human civilization is evolving and more effective and less violent practices for criminal justice are being devised, the debate is getting hotter than ever. And while some might find reducing criminals rather than crime, an easier approach to a better and safer society, Capital punishment is not an ideal solution for controlling crime because it is unusually cruel and the least efficient among all other methods of crime reduction. Capital punishment is an unacceptably cruel way of controlling crime. It has its roots in the barbarian era of human civilization when slavery, branding, and other similarly painful punishments were commonplace. There can be no justifications for the use of this savaged method which is based on the 4000 year old Babylonian law advocating the “eye for an eye” principle. Attacking this inhumane practice in his article The Case Against The Death Penalty, Professor Hugo Adam Bedau of Tufts University states, “No society can safely entrust the enforcement of its laws to torture, brutality, or killing. Such methods are inherently cruel and will always mock the attempt to cloak them in justice”. Capital punishment demonstrates a lack...
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...Capital Punishment or as some people refer to it, the death penalty, is the legal process in which an accused is sentenced to death for their crimes. There is a wide range opinions regarding the death penalty and whether it is a cruel and unusual punishment or if justice is better served by means of execution. Currently the total population of state and federal death row is at 3,170 inmates. It has been greatly debated for years whether the death penalty should be enforced. In this paper I will discuss my reasoning as to why I feel the death penalty should be eliminated. Some have argued that capital punishment is a form of cruel and unusual treatment which makes it unacceptable due to the pain and suffering that it causes the condemned individual. An execution is a violent spectacle of official homicide which endorses killing to solve social problems. Governments worldwide have often attempted to justify their lethal fury by insisting that the benefits that these executions would bring to the rest of societies safety. People would argue that a person accused of taking another person’s life should suffer the same pain that they caused not only the deceased but also their family. I would say that it would be reasonable for a person to feel that way but not only does the deceased’s individual’s family have to suffer for the loss but, the accused’s family members must watch their loved one be executed. Just because we sentence someone to death it does not mean that it will bring...
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...Assignment #7 Death Penalty Valerie Miller A. Reading: Chapter 5 B. Answer the following questions, 1 pt each unless otherwise noted: 1. In the U.S., is it legally permissible to execute juvenile and developmentally disabled offenders? Do you believe this should this be changed? Explain why or why not. (2 pts) Currently it is not permissible to execute juvenile and developmentally disabled offenders. As it was found in two court rulings to violate the Eighth Amendment. I do not feel that this should be changed because I feel that the death penalty overall should be abolished. 2. In this chapter, the arguments opposing and in favor of incapacitation, retributive justice, human dignity, and human rights are presented. Discuss which argument(s) you support and why. Which argument(s) do you least support and why? (2 pts) I am in agreement with the human dignity argument that the death penalty lowers us to the level of the criminal. I am in strongest disagreement with Retributive Justice. How can we carry out an “equality of crime and punishment”? As Bentham says, how can one act of violence cancel out the other? And it’s unrealistic to say equality of crime and punishment, because we aren’t going to rape a rapist or burn down the house of an arsonist. 3. Why is there a concern about who receives the death penalty? AND How does Van den Haag respond? (2 pts) Because of the number of innocent people that are executed, and because the death penalty also...
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...Ingrid B. US History 114-602 Fall 2012 Bergen Community College THE PAUL ROBESON—JACKIE ROBINSON SAGA AND A POLITICAL COLLISION. By Ronald A. Smith Journal of Sport History, Vol. 6, No. 2 (Summer, 1979) P 5-27 Dr. Ronald A. Smith, a historian and Professor Emeritus at Penn State University analyzes Jackie Robinson's appearance, and impact before the House UN-American Activities Committee in light of anti-American messages made by the entertainer and former Rutgers University All-American football superstar Paul Robeson. Smith argues that for symbolical grounds, the federal government reached out to Jackie Robinson so he can assist in getting rid of Paul Robeson from his function as a black leader. Using a relative analysis of both Robinson and Robeson early lives, Author Ronald Smith affirms that they spearheaded change from different paths. Smith illustrates how Jackie Robinson was willing to cooperate with white society for the purpose of positive racial goals and Paul Robeson wanted improvement own his own terms, not necessarily those suggested by white society. Nonetheless, Smith insists both Robinson and Robeson fought for equal rights in their respected ways. In this informative and well written essay, The Paul Robeson-Jackie Robinson Saga and Political Collision, Ronald A. Smith (following his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin, he spent 28 years at Penn State teaching sport history and researching intercollegiate athletics) illustrates how a...
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... actors, directors and anyone who was in the screen entertainment business was denied employment due to the belief they were a part of the communist party. It all started when the HUAC called out for seventy-nine people who they were hinting pro-communism into their movies. Although never proven true, those seventy-nine convicted when they refused to share their political parties. Nineteen of the seventy-nine refused to cooperate, while others dropped out from many other excuses. That left the ten. Those convicted ten, were known as the Hollywood ten (technically eleven) “Are you now, or have you ever been a member of the communist party?” Is what was asked of by the accused ten men during the trials that followed after by the house of un-American activities (HUAC). It was proven at some point that each person was a member of the communist party. the ten refused to answer any questions regarding their political belief. Many members of the communist party were only members briefly before switching back. It is said that many people joined the communist party on the act that the believed it had more benefits at the time than capitalism....
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...of mutual understanding caused mass paranoia within America as they feared that communists would infiltrate their society. This hysteria was known as the Red Scare which lead to “a range of actions that had a profound and enduring effect on U.S. government and society.” (Red Scare, 2013). During World War II “moviegoers learned to appreciate cinema for what it was: a powerful delivery system of ideology” (Doherty, 2003, p. 19) and after World War II “Soviet Communism and American Democracy, found its domestic expression in fierce debates over the subversive influence of the popular media.” (Doherty, 2003, p. 21). Hollywood was scrutinized first for allegedly using the film industry to influence the public about communism. The House of Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) was formed in 1938, and it’s investigations were “frequently focused on exposing communists working inside the federal government or subversive elements working in the Hollywood film industry” (Red Scare, 2013). On September 21, 1947, HUAC “subpoenaed forty-three members of the Hollywood film community to answer charges about communist infiltration in the movie industry” (Friedman, 1984, p. 214). Ten of the Forty-three appeared before HUAC and “refused to answer the Committees questions about their political affiliations” (Friedman, 1984, p. 214). They became known as the Hollywood Ten and...
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...Reflection paper on the Documentary Berkeley in the sixties uring class we were shown the film Berkeley in the sixties directed by Mark Kitchell. Released in New York in September 26th 1990, the film was a documentary showcasing the free speech movement starting with the House Un-American Activities Committee that was taking place in San Francisco Hall in 1960. The documentary would highlight the many demonstrations and protests that occurred at or around the Campus of the University of California, Berkeley in the sixties. Regarded by many as the center of political activism, it was here at the heart of this campus where we would see the barbaric enforcement and overreaction to the protests/demonstrations by the university’s leadership and local police that had taken place at Berkeley. Started from a group of political radicals on the Berkeley Campus, SLATE would Grow into one of the first groups to proactively advocate for free speech, sometime using protests and sit-ins as weapons against injustices. What made SLATE so appearing was its bi-partisan stand that it was controlled by no individual campaign party. That the members were from all different political parties focusing on one common goal. In the First 20 minutes of the Film in which Martin Luther King was highlighted as a speaker. He would state some of the uphill battles that were similarity faced by the students on campus. I was so captivated by this speech I had to look for it on Social media...
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...McCarthyism McCarthyism originated in the late 1940’s during the Second Red Scare period when Senator Joseph McCarthy began making rash accusations of treason and such crimes in fear of Communist influence on American culture. A spectrum of actions resulted from this irrational, growing fear of Communism. The Red Scare began after World War II and carried out tensions from the Cold War between the two world superpowers. The House Un-American Activities Committee was created in 1938 to monitor Communist actions. This committee sought to expose any suspected Communist supporters living in the United States. Many suspected communists lost their jobs, homes, families and were even imprisoned. Government officials, Hollywood stars, and educators were targeted mostly by these exaggerated accusations. Many well-known and appreciated people were subjected to testify their beliefs, involvement with and general knowledge of the Communist Party in the United States. The Hollywood “blacklist” included those who could not be employed due to their supposed affiliations with the Communist party. The “Hollywood Ten” were a group of ten hollywood stars subpoenaed by the HUAC that took a stand and tried to defend their first amendment rights to freedom of speech and the freedom to assemble. The Committee failed to see the value in their argument and sentenced them all to six to twelve months of imprisonment. All those who were accused after the Hollywood Ten case plead the fifth and became...
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