Capital accumulation

An Eye for an Eye Did you know the famous saying “an eye for an eye” is actually 4,000 years old! Approximately 4 millennia ago, a great king known as Hammurabi conquered the land of Mesopotamia. He then established a very famous set of laws to run his newly-formed empire. However, these laws had extremely harsh and cruel punishments for many criminal acts, such as dismemberment and death. Hammurabi’s code was mostly an unjust system, but he did create some revolutionary new laws.…

The Traditional Rituals In the story "The Lottery" Michelle Jackson provides readers with detailed descriptions of how people can follow ritual traditions so blindly without even thinking about how much sense it really makes to follow such traditions, or how it affects them or their loved ones. The name of the title makes you think that this story is about drawing numbers and winning a prize, but to my surprise it is about how small villages take part in a tradition, ritual every year to be…

Texas has 125 records of wrongful convictions since 1989. Unlawfully charging someone with a crime they did not commit, barely looking at the evidence, wrongly convicting someone so they are sentenced to life in prison was the case for both Randolph Arledge and Kennedy Brewer . Randolph Arledge was convicted for the murder of Carolyn Armstrong and Kennedy Brewer for the slaying of Christina Jackson. Both Brewer and Arledge have what they were charged for, evidence behind the story, why they were…

committed by minors who were tried, convicted, and deserving of a fitting punishment. However, in this analogy between the primary and secondary analogue, the argument of Roper v. Simmons is if a minor under the age of 18 should be sentenced to Capital Punishment, and if doing so is a direct violation of the Eighth Amendment citing cruel and unusual punishment (Roper v. Simmons, 2005). The Supreme Court ruled in the case of Thompson v. Oklahoma, “that executing persons for crimes committed at…

Embedded Assessment 1 The dystopian society in the novels "Fahrenheit 451" and "The Giver" is similar and different to our modern-day society in many ways. For example, it is similar because there are things that you are and aren't allowed to do, such as reading books in Fahrenheit 451, and keeping their memories in The Giver. Whereas, in our society, child abuse is strictly prohibited. It is different because the society in Fahrenheit 451 is very strict with certain rules and consequences,…

One of the most controversial event that is known under the bystander effect is the murder of Kitty Genovese. On 13 March 1964, Kitty Genovese was stabbed and sexually assaulted in Kew Gardens, New York, in three separated attacks. It was reported that the incident was witnessed by 38 people, but none of them did anything to help her (Manning, Levine, & Collins, 2007). In recent years, it is found that there are many flaws in this news report when it first came out. Again according to Manning,…

Upon being asked by The American Scholar, essayist Joan Didion discusses her views of morality in her “On Morality”, where she interprets the origins of morality. Didion reasons a point that the ying yang of morality was created by humans blindly passing on their own ideas of wrong and right to others. She develops this perspective by describing anecdotes with a cool absurdity and imagery, causing readers to understand, using personal connection, how we as humans create the ideas of good and bad…

In September of 1991 a 5,300 year old mummy was found on the Ötztal Alps of the Austrian and Italian border. The evidence found on Otzi's body has lead to the belief that he had been trespassing on tribal land of another clan when he was attacked and shot in the back. His personal belongings, body, and Dna has lead to crucial evidence about his culture and the mystery of his death. Researcher Dr. Eduard Egarter Vigl, Head of Conservation of the Iceman, and his team extensively researched the…

On December 3, Ki- Suck Han was pushed onto subway tracks. He begged for help while people did nothing and they took pictures of him. According to Bystander Effect in a Subway Tragedy, people had 22 seconds to try to help him. He died as a result. How would you feel if someone you cared about was injured or about to die and people just stood over them without helping? Bystanders are the people who see a person in an emergency and don’t do anything about it. There should…

The day was march 20th 1970 i had just got off of work and i turned the news on and it said a farmer was just killed in his own home. No one knows why the crime was committed no one knows who did it so i turned the tv off and i head down to the station and i was put on the case and i never rested till i found the person who did this. I had started the crime and i went to the farm house and i looked at the door their was forced entry to the door the chain was broke and the hinges wear broke of…