Barbed wire

to establish privacy did not invalidate the search. The Dunn Court found that the defendant had not established a reasonable expectation of privacy in the area surrounding his barn even though officers had to cross a perimeter fence, multiple barbed wire fences, and a wooden fence in order to reach the barn. Justice Brennan correctly pointed out in his dissent that if Katz’s expectation of privacy test were correctly applied, the Court would have found that the defendant expected a barn thus…

Unfair Discrimination Legal systems are classified as fair and equal to all citizens today, but looking back at past cases such as the dreadful Emmett Till case, and Tom Robinson from “To Kill a Mockingbird” things have really taken a leap from the atrocious treatment against blacks . Legal systems were one of the main bumps in the road when it came to discrimination against blacks. Whether it was a small case, or a huge case things in court always seemed to go in favor of white people. Some…

Identity is a subject that many spend a lifetime searching for. In Michael Ondaatje’s Running in the Family, Michael himself is on a search to discover his father’s identity. However, the constant occurrences of obstacles offset this journey and ultimately allows Michael to realize that his identity is yet to be discovered. The result of these journeys is the book; Running in the Family. The human nature to get discouraged and a certain mindset being thrown off course, are only some complexities…

Has someone important to you passed away and you feel like words were left unspoken, or conflicts were left unresolved? In The Four Things That Matter Most, Dr. Ira Byock teaches us how to practice the following four phrases in our day-to-day lives to avoid that feeling of unrest after losing someone: “Please forgive me,” “I forgive you, “Thank you,” and “I love you”. Dr. Byock is an international leader in palliative care and is a Professor at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. He is a…

The Japanese Americans of the early twentieth century faced hardships in the United States from racial tensions; Americans from European-descent grew angry from the success of Japanese laborers, farmers and businessmen. This widespread hatred for the Japanese was supported with articles from newspapers and the popular radio shows of the time. Prior to entering World War II, the US government developed a list of threatening resident aliens with ties to the Axis powers. With the attack on Pearl…

system. Burn’s establishing shots of the youth correctional facility, where four of the five youths were taken once convicted of the ruthless felony, speculates the treacherous and harsh environment the young boys were forced to grow up in. The barbed wire surrounding the complex, represents…

Is religion losing its grip on social morality in an increasingly secular society? Introduction Morality is a customary set of guidelines which are intended to guide human behaviour towards achieving a 'good ' and 'acceptable ' life (The Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, 2014). This moral law enables society to discern from good and bad according to reason and the law of God (Purdue University, 2012). According to the law or ethics of God, the world religions have an obligation to guide…

In the view of many, Genocide is very terrible thing, but without it the world 's history would be very different. An infamous genocide occurred during World War II when the Nazi’s tried to exterminate the Jews. After the war in 1948, genocide was declared an international crime. Genocide would then be used to describe what happened in Rwanda. Genocide is found in many fictional books like Unwind. The word genocide means “the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial,…

Jews were kicked out of their homes and put into ghettos to live and work in. Hitler issued three types of ghettos: closed ghettos, open ghettos, and destruction ghettos. Closed ghettos are ghettos were closed off by walls or by fences often with barbed wire. German authorities forced Jews living in the surrounding areas to move into the closed ghetto. These ghettos were extremely crowded and were under unsanitary conditions. Starvation, severe winter weather, unheated housing, and the absence…

Where inaccuracies do occur they are mostly understandable given the limitations of cinema and the interest of entertainment. The beach is set up accurately with battery and machine gun emplacements placed on a rise, barbed wire set in place to halt advancement, mines spread out here and there, and hedgehogs made of girders to stop watercraft. When the battle does start there is no attention given to preliminary bombardment, but what bombardment did occur in real life was…