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Essays 1921 - 1950

John Rawls' Theory of Justice and the Administration of President George W. Bush

on justice that even the welfare of society cannot override" (Rawls PG). When examining the impact of Rawls theories with regard ...

H.R. 863 Congressional Bill of 2001

not been easy. It has been on the agenda for several years for congress (Voegtlin, 1998), and there has been an inclusion of the ...

Components of the Criminal Justice System

be the individual to conduct the follow-up investigation. In other words, after the initial report is made, a detective may be ass...

Conceptual Analysis of Boccaccio's The Decameron and Dante's Inferno

literature. In contemplating Dantes Inferno and Boccaccios The Decameron, many things come to light. To some extent both works ex...

Life and Morality

role in this respect. Plato held that the key agent in any sort of behavior but especially ethical or moral behavior (or lack of t...

Ancient Greek Justice and the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001

In five pages this report discusses how Homer, Sophocles, and Hesiod would have conceptualized justice regarding the 911 terrorist...

Trying Juvenile Offenders as Adults

from how we treat older criminals. But when it is precisely because of those exemptions that we make for juveniles that violent cr...

Overview of Historical Research Method

(1997), for example, has argued that teacher education programs have changed in recent years, in correlation with major demographi...

The Republic of Plato and Justice

In five pages justice is defined by Adeimentus, Glaucon, and Thrasymachus and then a response is offered by Socrates in The Republ...

Justice and Due Process

Social and cultural constructs are, in effect, the framework and the foundation which a society uses to develop the systems...

Biographical Profile of U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens

and 1955, Stevens became a member of the Attorney Generals National Committee to Study the Antitrust Laws (Court TV Library, 1999;...

Drug Abuse Historical Overview

identify, and treat deviants" (Indiana.edu, 2001). Conflict theory and its variants - Marxism/radical sociology/critical theory an...

Justice According to Thucydides and Plato

has Socrates presented with various definitions of justice. Socrates is always opposed to any rule or definition that can be appli...

Historical Account of the Expedition against the Ohio Indians by W. Smith

which Smith and his contemporaries perceived the Indians....

Historical Overview of the Oldest US National Park, Yellowstone

Years later, perhaps because of Colters vivid descriptions, mountain men like the famed Jim Bridger would frequent the area, and r...

Historical Connections Between Liverpool and Shanghai

This paper discusses the common historical aspects of these two very different and distant cities. The author examines how Ninete...

Historical Context of Emily Dickinson

indeed, cannot, be overlooked. A rare taste of boundless joy is exemplified in Wild nights, wild nights. Perhaps written o...

Black in Blue by Nicholas Alex

of the people and in the political structure of the Criminal Justice system. Nicholas Alex found that, in 1969, police officers...

The Historical Context of All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

poetry, essays, stories and novels from men who had never envisioned themselves as literary artists. From their painful wartime e...

Redcross in Spenser's The Faerie Queene

In five pages this paper considers how the hero Redcrosse in Spenser's The Faerie Queen represents Christianity and justice. Two ...

Historical Indian Epic Mahabharata

Western thinking is presented in an interview with French author Jean-Claude Carriere who adapted the great epic for the stage. ...

Forms, Justice, and Plato's Philosophy

texts The Republic and Crito, Plato learned his lessons well. In both works, Plato theorizes what justice is through deductive re...

Historical Value of The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx

In seven pages this paper assesses the historical value of Karl Marx's The Communist Manifesto as a document. One source is liste...

Historical Importance of the 1930s' Dust Bowl

the Dust Bowl was an area of land that had been so depleted of its natural resources that it dried up and turned into dust that no...

Discrimination and Justice in Public Education

that the number of children from diverse backgrounds, including religion, ethnicity, and race, is increasing and many of them do n...

Old Testament's Historical Canon Development

time on earth (Core, 2000). The early Christians debated at great length regarding the books that would be accepted as Old Testame...

The Trial Scene in A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

as those which the British themselves aspire to. Mahmoud...

Divine Justice and Fate Reflected in The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio and Inferno by Dante Alighieri

poem makes it clear that the human soul can only enjoy a happy eternity by pledging complete faith and allegiance in God, Boccacci...

Historical Figure of Moses

Akhenaten, the ruler who renounced the many gods of Egypt in favor of the sun god as the only deity (Wolf, 2000). This position ho...

US and Canadian Systems of Criminal Justice

(Dowd PG). Organizations such as the Dai Huen Jai or Big Circle Boys have created a business from planned home invasion robberies ...