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Injustice in "Les Miserables"

because he had to feed starving children; despite this, he was given a five-year sentence. Two things immediately spring to mind: ...

Ethical Decisions - Case Study

their behaviors or lack thereof. Also, Georges wife, Mary, is not a decision maker but she no doubt has an influence on the decisi...

"Arc of Justice" - Justifiable Homicide

huge influx of immigrants to the city, and that made the residents nervous and fearful that they would lose their positions to the...

The United States - A Reluctant Welfare State

the challenge of numerous social problems throughout its history (Jansson, 2000). During the colonial period, indentured servants ...

What is Plato's Republic Really About?

is great interest. Plato looks at all of these things in his book The Republic. In Book I, justice is discussed and it is deemed ...

Elements in Plato's Republic

fundamental importance in the Republic of the metaphor of descent and its connection to the two great themes of birth and death, a...

The Juvenile Justice System

behavior. Letting them go, or sanctioning them with only community service, may be too lenient. Even so, some small gestures will ...

Justice and the Wife of Bath

was a knight, he was essentially required to meet challenges and learn how to be chivalrous, often through mistakes. As such the Q...

A Comparison of Juvenile and Adult Courts

that a ten year old can be prosecuted for murder. In contemplating this issue, it pays to take a look at the juvenile justice syst...

Something is Rotten in Hondo; An Ethical Case Study

in that area, only fifteen miles down the road, accepting that level of emission as long as the plant is staffed only by Mexican w...

The Juvenile Justice System Literature Review

the prison system. This is something that has concerned the public and the same problem is found in juvenile detention centers as ...

A Civil Action by Jonathan Herr and Lessons Learned

after hearing of the deaths of the children and the illness in the community (Trevino, 2000). Today it has been proven that there ...

Women as Viewed by Plato

society exist without democracy? Many theorists today would think not, and while many enlightened individuals could argue that mer...

Thomas Aquinas and Plato on Justice

virtue, i.e., justice, but it is also included under Aquinas discussion of love, specifically under love of ones neighbor, for Go...

Successful Mediatioin Case Study and Chris Paul

differed so that the young offender will have time to make amends. Other forms of mediation are found within the prisons themselve...

Living Constitution and the Opinions of US Justices

seems perfect in its design. Of course, nothing is perfect, and one criticism of it is that it is old. It is no longer applicable ...

Sustainable Development Objective of Social Justice

are fair, and just-and that in turn suggests that when things are unjust in society, the entire interlocking mechanism of sustaina...

Kelo v. New London

before the New London Superior Court, asserting that the "taking of their properties would violate the public use restriction in t...

Critique of Dworkin's Striking Down of Legislation

key to the way that Dworkin is criticising it. To look at this we need to put the ideas of Dworkin into a broader context. Some, ...

Margulies/Guantanamo

al Qahtani was held in intense isolation for months on end, to the point where he began to hallucinate; strip searched and made to...

Reforming Juvenile Justice

as well. Nielsen and Perry (2000) state that we "must recognize that we are united in our diversity" (p. 4). This has...

Death Penalty Arguments Both For and Against

on executions so that the society can take time to figure out why the system is broken (2002). Then, possibly, it is alluded that ...

William Shakespeare's King Lear, Measure for Measure, and Justice

Angelo. However, in his efforts to restore law and order, Angelo resurrects an old law that punishes any man who lives with a wom...

Global Justice and its Relevance

justice systems are a significant first line of defense, but they have been seen as problematic ("Challenges," 1998). In a perfec...

Declaration of Independence's Unfulfilled Promises

Thurgood Marshall, for example, minced no words about his feelings about the Declaration and the Constitution in his 1987 work, "A...

Race and Justice

are the teen is going to be viewed as more of a rebel and therefore treated with more disregard. There are so many examples of in...

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 ...

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...

Limited Liability and Justifying It Philosophically

Rawlsian justice is concerned with the idea of justice being fair and good, and it has a hope that social institutions do not give...

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...