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Measure for Measure – power and corruption
Corruption
Measure for Measure
Compare and contrast the ways in which power and corruption is presented in Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare and other texts. In the play Measure for Measure, considered to be a dark comedy, Shakespeare shows the power and corruption of the higher characters within the society of Vienna, almost representative of the period it…
Death Penalty, negative side a practicability speaker
Death Penalty
Right to life
Practicability As the third speaker of the Negative team, I strongly oppose to this resolution, Resolved, That Death Penalty Be Restored in the Philippines. Why? Because Death Penalty deprives people the right to life. In Article II, Sectional of the 1987 Philippine Constitution states: “The State values the dignity of every human person and guarantees…
Unlawful Justice; It Is about the Death Penalty
Death Penalty
Justice
Some of these countries that have abolished it, to us are considered hired world countries. Are we any better than these third world countries if we still use the death penalty and they don’t? A total of 109 countries have abolished the death penalty. 749 prisoners have been executed since capital punishment was resumed in…
Anticipation, Recognition and Appraisal of Crime
Crime
Now to get more professional definition it is the anticipation, recognition and appraisal of crime and the initiation of an action to reduce or prevent it. It also means using instinct, common sense and action to reduce the crime from happening. Another way to prevent crime is to recognize that crime risk exists and taking…
Martin Luther King Jr. and Affirmative Action
Martin Luther King
Racism
The text focuses on Martin Luther King Jr.’s views regarding Affirmative Action, a program created to improve opportunities for minority groups and women. It specifically highlights the African American community’s pursuit of equality. “I have a dream today.” These words were famously spoken by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a renowned activist in the civil…
No Justice, No Peace
Peace
Peace Corps
In today’s society, justice for clear wrong doings no longer occurs for unlawful situations. In 2014, Eric Garner, a 43-year-old black man selling cigarettes, was wrongfully murdered in New York after two police officers put him in a choke-hold during his arrest and would not let go. His dying words were, “I can’t breathe”. His…
Legal Case Analysis of Oncale vs. Sundowner Offshore Services, Incorporated
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Service
Statement of Facts The facts of the case are a simple discrimination case involving a company worker. Petitioner Oncale is an employee of Respondent Sundowner Offshore Services. He was assigned as a roustabout in an oil platform operation under the said company. The workplace is composed of 8 workers and three of them allegedly…
Martin Luther King and Malcom X
Martin Luther King
One CauseMany black authors and leaders of the sixties shared similar feelingstowards the white run American society in which they lived. Malcolm X,James Baldwin, Martin Luther King, and Stokely Carmichael all blamed thewhites for the racism which existed. However, they agreed that it was upto the black society to end this problem. Using the black…
Hope That Sustains
Criminal Justice
Faith
Under the rule of martial law, civilians are forced to silence. Their cries for change seem to be in vain, and their hope for a better future can turn into a blind optimism or into a spark that revives a revolutionizing spirit. These statements resonate to the tragic short story of “No One Writes to…
The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail Act 2
Act
Walden
Lydian instructs Edward to accompany Henry on a huckleberry hunting expedition. Edward expresses his desire for Henry to be his father, a sentiment he later conveys to his mother as well. Suggesting that Henry should marry, Lydian implies that nature is his intended partner. Meanwhile, in the jail cell, Bailey implores Henry to serve as…