Justice and revenge are often seen as very separate ideas. Justice being the concept that things are right and fair. Revenge spins the other way, following the eye-for-an-eye thought process. Both justice and revenge are overbearing themes in countless works however it is less often that we see these themes coexist and propel one another. In The Round House thirteen year old Joe attempts to find the man who raped and tried to murder his mother.…
The book, Neighbors: the Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland, is written by Jan Tomasz Gross. The book takes place in a small town in Poland called Jedwabne where the Jews were humiliated, tortured, and murdered. On July 10th, 1941, 1,600 of the remaining Jews were burned alive, including women and children. Jan’s compelling book explores the atrocities on how such ordinary men, Polish neighbors, terrorized the Jewish community. He reconstructs the events that led up to the Polish citizens being more than willing to kill their Jewish neighbors without being forced to by the German Units.…
Precious Effiong Dr. Mathison ENGL 1123 P32 12 October 2015 Rhetorical Analysis: Black Deaths Matter Based on research about the website, it is established that Motherjones is a very effective medium for conveying information of various issues. It features investigative and breaking news on categories found on the website including politics, environment human rights and culture. It also entertains photo essays and blogs. Considering the articles published on the website, it is observed that they are usually on provocative topics.…
“The closest friendships often involve intense rivalry.” The quote above is one of the many main themes in A Separate Peace. Rivalry and jealousy become two very important words in the novel. Gene and Finny become jealous of each other’s qualities. Gene strives to be class valedictorian and constantly worries about his studies, but wishes he could excel in sports like Finny.…
While referencing the terror inflicted on the people of the Dominican Republic under the reign of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, the author Robert Crassweiler once said: The extent to which violence, both open and covert, is a constant factor in the life of the region may cause surprise. The incongruous and rather unreal quality of many events, whether fanciful or farcical in appearance, may also prove unexpected. Understanding the Dominican Republic’s cultural atmosphere without discussing the lasting effects of the notoriously violent Trujillato is impossible. In The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, our main characters continue to be influenced by the tumultuous Trujillo regime more than twenty years after its fall.…
Book Review I chose to analyze and review the book Freedom is a Constant Struggle Ferguson, Palestine, and The Foundation of a Movement by Angela Davis. Throughout this book are essays, interviews, and speeches that Angela uses to identify the connection between state violence and oppression that has happened in the past and that’s still happening today. She reflects the importance of black feminize, intersectionality and prison abolition throughout the United States. Davis was a new assistant professor of philosophy, who was soon looked at as a threat and stripped of her position and shortly after incarcerated.…
‘The Banality of “Ethnic War”’ aims to debate the all against all theory of ethnic conflict. Within this piece, Mueller argues that ethnic war, in the sense of the Hobbesian theory, does not exist, and this generalized theory represents non-ethnic conflict (p.42). Mueller’s article provided several strengths, which makes the piece of literature a thorough yet interesting analysis of ethnic conflict. Mueller uses the cases of Yugoslavia and Rwanda to explore how ethnicity mobilizing device, played a role in the construction of the appropriate conditions, needed to conduct this particular form of violence (p.43). First, Mueller highlights another perspective by another analyst, Robert Kaplan.…
An example of this is when all those people that weren’t even involved in the death of King Hamlet died. This is similar to when Ophelia turned crazy because Hamlet broke her heart and killed her father so she drowned herself in a pond. This can be relatable to people all around the world. We all had a moment where we wanted to take revenge. Whether it was a small thing like your husband cheating on you to one of your family members getting killed.…
Conflicts as property is an initially perplexing notion. Published in a 1977 issue of The British Journal of Criminology, “Conflicts as Property” is an article criticising industrialised legal criminal systems and proposing a new, reformed system. Nils Christie suggests that conflicts are entities that are taken from their rightful owners. He later describes a hypothetical legal system where “professional thievery” of conflicts is nonexistent. By use of an analogy and several sub-ideas he deconstructs the concept.…
There were several “characters” which I found interesting, however the stories told by Michael Zinzun, Theresa Allison, and Gil Garcetti stood out to me. These passages were a few of the most provocative, thought invoking, and emotionally impacting descriptions of police brutality from the reading. It additionally causes the reader to think of the image of the police officers instilled in their minds. “When I Finally Got My Vision/Nightclothes”, the passage spoken by Michael Zinzun, stood out to me by providing an example of the exceedingly violent force used by police officers when making an arrest, and their response to being caught when using said force. It shocked me to see the result of the extent the officers went to hide their abuse such as the speaker’s loss of vision from a stomp that “caught [him] right in [his] eye” (pg.19).…
Imprisonment within Revenge As humans, we have emotions that sometimes get the best of us. People tend to seek revenge in the heat of the moment or with a well carried out plan. The revenge, however, doesn't always bring that closure that is expected. Committing an act of revenge is deemed morally wrong. In “Clean” by Edward J. Delaney, the unnamed protagonist murders a peer out of jealousy in drunken rage, spur-of-moment decision.…
In the world today, persecution is an ongoing fear of many religious and ethnic groups around the world. Fortunately for those in richer countries, they usually do not have to worry about this issue as there are resources in place to avoid mass persecutions, wars, and genocides. One of the most widespread and recent persecutions occurred about 20 years ago in the Yugoslavic region. In 1991, the country of Yugoslavia began to break up between the different ethnicities. When the republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina declared independence in 1992from Yugoslavia, war immediately sprang into action.…
Culturally distinct groups resisted being added to a state and tried to break away. Greeks broke free from the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Empire ruled by the Turks controlled many ethnic groups such as Greeks, Arabs, Bulgarians, Armenians and Slavs. These different ethnic groups were underrepresented, where deprived from basic civil rights, and were oppressed.…
Tajae Hinds Of Crimes and Punishments Essay Cesare Beccaria’s critiques of criminology in Old Regime Europe were, as some may say, ahead of his time. The Old Regime was predominantly built on a tradition of absolutism in government and its legislature. That being so, Beccaria’s critiques of these institutionalized traditions spoke volumes about what needed to be fixed, and posed solutions to said problems. In his treatise Of Crimes and Punishments, the criminologist mentions the obscurity of laws, as well as the interpretation of laws. To this day, remnants of Beccaria’s philosophies and its principles are still relevant, echoing throughout the judicial and legislative models in nations around the world.…
Graphic 1 Activity 1 Theme: Revenge Activity 2 Revenge takes over every man it touches. Its thirst cannot be quenched until the last man standing has fallen Activity 3 In the amazing Spiderman we saw when peter uncle got shot at the shop peter wanted to get revenge on the person who shot his uncle. As we see in graphic 1 the girl expression and body language shows that she is going out to get revenge on someone. The girl face expression shows that she is angry and her body language tells us that she is ready to fight with someone.…