1. Connect to your major. Numerous texts we read this semester had similarities to the criminal justice career field, such as a utilitarian aspect and sacrifice. The criminal justice system is heavily based on the concept of “the good of many outweigh the good of a few.” The same issues that arise in the texts can also be seen in the criminal justice system. For instance, in “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” by Ursula Le Guin, the society lives in a sort of utopia that is paid for with the
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realize the significance in war until something happens to it. By all means, it is a human reaction to not cooperate with something one recently supported, due to an effect the cooperation has cost. For instance, The Lottery by Shirley Jackson, displays Tessie a woman who was pro “lottery”, which is later shown as a sacrificial drawing, but suddenly changes her opinion when it is her name that is chosen. Thus doing this, it is shown that Tessie symbolizes people who are pro-war, saying it is a necessity
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Such relief is short lived. As “[t]he mother smiled to know her child / Was in the sacred place, … that smile was the last smile / To come upon her face. / For when she heard the explosion, / Her eyes grew wet and wild. / She raced through the streets of Birmingham / Calling for her child” (728). This mother’s knowledge of how the church and norm were safe are shattered with the bombing of the very church she sent her child off to. As soon as she heard the explosion, she realizes what happened, and
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The actions of man throughout history are often defined by two different codes of conduct: good and evil. The tendencies of human beings can be observed and analyzed through the work of several psychologists. Renowned psychologist, Philip Zimbardo’s research shows that good people will continue to commit evil acts when they are put under certain conditions, eventually generating the loss of their identity. These conditions test the moral strength and personal conscience of intrinsically good people
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Leon Stewart Sr. and Fannie P. Stewart on January 31, 1946. She was the second of the couple’s three children. Vera was fearless when it came to the pursuit of knowledge and standing by what she believed in. In 1963, she graduated from Andrew Jackson High School. After graduation, she went to Saint Paul's College where she joined Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Sociology from Norfolk State University in 1967. She later earned a master’s degree
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Student Name Professor English Composition II 27 March 2015 A Modest Proposal: Part Two A “Modest Proposal” is a short story written by Jonathan Swift. To the best of my understanding it is supposed to show a solution to a problem of a social issue. In this story the apparent problem was the overabundance of children whom their mothers could not care for and they were roaming the streets begging or stealing. The setting as in
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Name: Andraie Lewis Eng. 122 May 8,2013 Blind obedience Society often view obedience as a good quality or trait to have; employers want obedient employees and parents often wish for obedient children. Being obedient means that an individual shows respect for an authority figure and will carry out the instructions they are given; when someone is obedient they are widely accepted by society, because they do whatever it is that society asks
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Okonkwo to the extent that he even called Okonkwo “father.” Sadly, to conform to the traditions, Okonkwo killed Ikemefuna. Such brutality is comparatively the same as the murder of an innocent woman due to traditions in the story Jackson’s Lottery by Shirley Jackson. This depicts injustices, social misconception, and complete lot of societal
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Randall, in The Ballad of Birmingham, contrasts the security of maternal love with a harsh event resulting from maternal concern, the death of a child, to bring into question if those concerns truly matter and if any place is sacred. In “The Lottery”, Shirley Jackson tells the story of a community that takes part in a ritual killing, but in dialogue addresses the resistance to the idea that tradition could be not worthwhile and abandoned. The fact that death will come no matter what one’s path in life
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Law and the Humanities Online Dr. Hugo Walter Spring 2014 Email: HGW@BerkeleyCollege.edu HUM360 Online 4 Credit Hours Office Hours: Online every day, seven days a week (Sunday through Saturday). Please always feel free to email me with any questions. I will also designate an hour each week when I will be available on Blackboard IM to answer your questions. COURSE DESCRIPTION This course examines the treatment of legal themes in literature
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