Vigilante

act would not be worth the pain of the punishment. When crimes are repeated and lives of the victims are affected, people take matters into their own hands. Although society does have the right to bear arms and to protect, a conservator such as a vigilante could cause more harm than good due to the potential of bias views clouding their judgement. The criminal justice system plays an important part…

devised new ways of doing things, it has always raised eyebrows and created resistance. While technology empowers people to act on and treat the information, Alang writes that “the legal system has to deal with the dissemination of information for vigilante purposes “and that it will involve the “tricky process of the law considering intent and context” (Para. 7). Just as much as the law and order empowers people to do the right thing and expect justice otherwise, I feel that information digging…

Born and raised in the east end of London, the Cobblepot family was one that lived a life of immense power and riches. Oswald, one of four children, was the youngest. Arthur Cobblepot, the patriarch of the family, lead an expansive monopoly on the London shops, but, was almost rooted out by the police by the time Cobblepot turned ten. Moving to Gotham City in the following winter, it didn’t take long for Arthur to begin a new monopoly on the harbors and eventually climbed his way into the upper…

A True Story, portrays an event that impacted ten year old Timothy Tyson in Oxford, North Carolina. During the 1970’s the Civil Rights Movement was in action and along with it came a lot of disagreements with civilians to an extent that a common vigilante group was created; The Ku Klux Klan. Although the Ku Klux Klan became nationwide, it was widely accepted more in North Carolina deterring the African American race in the memoir. In the memoir Blood Done Sign My Name, Timothy Tyson, son of a…

Hardy to Hardly: A Comparative Reflection of Current Events to their Respective Histories 1. “The Internet Still Thinks I’m Pregnant” by Amy Pittman (Sept. 2nd, 2016) 2. “New York Can’t Block Late-Term Abortion in Certain Cases, Schneiderman Says” by Vivian Yee (Sept. 7th, 2016) 3. “Passing My Disability On to My Children” by Sheila Black (Sept. 7th, 2016) 4. “America’s Shocking Maternal Deaths” by The Editorial Board (Sept. 3rd, 2016) With women using apps on their smartphones to track their…

noted in Wadkins’ Origin and Progress Before Emancipation, officials accused Sumner of writing and sending letters that aided the efforts of those trying to escape the institution of enslavement. Accused of his assisting enslaved runaways, white vigilantes practically lashed Sumner to death, compelling him to flee Tennessee.…

sure that the accused in the same person who committed the crime, that person takes matters into their own hands and attempts to kill the accused. This type of vigilantism is certainly not appreciated. No one likes a vigilante who kills because a vigilante who kills is not a vigilante people look up like Batman (Agent,…

Concealed Weapons on Campus The Second Amendment, the right to bear Arms, has recently been in the spotlight due to the ongoing elections and the candidate’s opinions on it but also because concealed weapons have recently been permitted to be on campus at universities. The act went in effect for Texas 4-year colleges and universities on August 1, 2016 and for Texas 2-year and junior colleges on August 1, 2017 (“Laws Concerning Carrying Concealed Firearms on Campus in Texas”). What many people do…

The Horrors of the Ku Klux Klan during the Reconstruction Era During the Reconstruction era, politics was a catalyst for widespread racism and hatred that former slaves experienced throughout the South. The Ku Klux Klan (KKK), founded by a Confederate general in 1866, became known as the “invisible empire of the South” in which members represented the ghosts of the Confederate dead returning to terrorize, suppress, and victimize African Americans and Radical Republicans (white reformers) (Gale…

warden of the jail had the intent on killing him, but a medical experiment gone wrong left Luke with superhuman strength and impenetrable skin. After the death Pops, the man who took him in, Luke then unintentionally and reluctantly becomes the vigilante or “superhero” for the city of Harlem. During this time, social and political topics are addressed head on or in a passive form. As we watch him through his journey, he both interacts or works side by side with several strong alpha females of…