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The Effects Of Race On Sentencing In Capital Punishment Cases
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... imposed “freakishly” and “wantonly” and “most often on blacks” Several years later in Gregg v. Georgia, 428 U.S. 153 (1976), the Supreme Court decided, with efficient controls, the death penalty could be used constitutionally. Yet, even with these various controls, the system does not effectively eliminate racial bias. Since Gregg v. Georgia the total population of all 36 death rows has grown as has the number of judicial controls used by each state. Of the 3,122 people on death row 41% are black while 48% are white (Gest, 1996, 41). This figure may be acceptable at first glance but one must take into account the fact that only 12% of the U.S. population ...



Love In Today's Society
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... attitude from the endless worship of submissive women. Lastly we enter the modern era with a article from my favorite magazine Men's Health on the mistakes a man must avoid in order to please his lover. As we shall see, the increased freedom is very interesting in our first representation to the last. My goal is to show how love has changed. I hope to show what is accepted in our society today, compared with only several decades ago. Application My sources run the gamut of ideas in the subject of love. I think Auden's poem is the best representation of what has been termed “courtly love.” This seems logical, since this Romantic Era type of love wa ...



The Battle Of The Sexes
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... demanding office jobs. There are exceptions though such as the big 250 pound butch women and the skinny frail men who switch roles and that is perfectly fine. This becomes a problem when the massive dumb man wants to be a successful secretary with his amazing eight words per minuit typing speed and the skinny little twig woman wants to be a lumberjack. Men and women have to realize that some jobs are meant for someone more fitting then what they are. When god created women, he gave them the ability to have children. This advantage kind of gives women superiority over men. I'm sure if men were able to they would have children, but they can't. Back in ...



Women In Films: User Or Victim?
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... of Argentina, and spent most of her childhood life under a cloud of illegitimacy. Besides being poor, Eva and her sisters were regarded as bastard children , and for this reason, they were Alooked upon as >brats= and often prevented from associating with the other children of thevillage. This sense of rejection and the ridicules that young Eva and her family received from the other villagers, formed the basis of her hatred of Argentinas middle and upper classes@ (19). Eva grew up to be an intelligent, beautiful, and glamorous teen-ager, who attracted many men=s attention. Aside from her good looks, Eva had the charm that could get her all the things she want ...



Maintaining Civil Liberty
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... gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to the rest." ( Mill, p. 72) Which would leave us to believe that the norm should be that the individual should have independent rights and freedoms only in accordance to the well being of the whole of society. Hence, the question of is there any good basis for an obligation to obey the law? It seems to myself that Mill and Aquinas justifuly answered that debate , yet, the Joseph Raz article , The Authority of Law , tends to disagree. Raz argues that there is no obligation to obey the law. That man should and does resist the urge/temptation to commit crime not for obligation but because of his ...



Status Quo And Change In The Late 1800’s To Early 1900’s
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... “American dream”, which included justice, and freedom. This became a dream of people to expand the country, and create wealth and opportunity. America changed from an isolationist country wary of “foreign entanglements” to a world power willing to take on and defeat Spain in the Spanish-American war. From a nation of small towns and cities and small farms, America became an industrial colossus, with ship-building, rails, steel mills and factories, with a rate of growth that began to attract laborers from around the world. This industrial miracle created huge fortunes, and the relatively equal wealth of the early 1800’s gave way to the fabulous wealth of the Rocke ...



Blacks: A Struggle For Racial Equality
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... upon when we examine a quote from The Runner , a novel by Cynthia Voigt. "If there's one thing I can't tolerate Pete agreed "it's an uppity nigger."2 We can see that Bullet, a cross country runner is talking to a team-mate named Pete. It is indisputable that Pete has some antagonism towards blacks. He treats them with very little respect and uses the racist term "nigger." This helps to justify that blacks are treated with considerably less appreciation than other races of people. Let us also look at the fact that blacks are often socially outcasted because of their race. We see this in The Runner. "You're telling me you won't work with him because he's ...



Definition Of Integrity
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... of witchcraft. Even though confessing would save his life, he won't confess to a crime he didn't commit. He knows that being dishonest isn't being loyal to his beliefs. In The Crucible, an example of not possessing integrity is also shown. Danforth, is the prime example of having no loyalty towards himselfor his beliefs. Danforth, is the Deputy Governor who convicts the citizens of being witches. When Danforth is asked to pardon the accused, he refuses saying that he can't because twelve have already hung for the same crime, and he refuses to let asnyone off. Even though he knows what is right and that they are innocent he won't because it would rui ...



Utopian Societies-The Impossible Dream
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... will prove why a utopian society is impossible by going into detail with some of these areas. Ever since the beginning of societies, everyone has had a different idea on what the perfect form of government is. Hitler thought it should be totalitarian, Washington thought it should be democratic, and Stalin thought it should be communist. So who is right? Is anyone right? Under a utopian society, totalitarianism wouldn't be the best because that society would be more perfect for one person than another. Communism wouldn't be the right choice because the government would have too much control over everyone's lives and being controlled isn't ideal for many people. A ...



Answer America's Call
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... was the one with the most men. Then came guns, then nuclear weapons, and finally computers. No longer do we need to send most of our country's men off to fight. Rather we can just sit some of them down on a computer and do just as much damage. With computers and the viruses that go with them, people can destroy the economies of whole countries without wasting a single American life. Countries can crumble with the push of a few simple buttons on a keyboard. But to understand all of this new technology requires a great deal of knowledge. Not just anyone can sit at a computer and make a country crumble. It takes an intelligent person to even turn on a comp ...




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