Condemnation

In the excerpt from “Letter From Birmingham Jail”, Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) discusses the injustice that people of color are facing and more specifically, responds to the condemnation MLK is experiencing by 8 white religious leaders. MLK uses rhetoric to develop the central idea that you should fight for what you believe is right and against the unjust ways of society. MLK first develops the idea that fighting against injustice and for what you believe is right through rhetorical devices in…

sometimes petty, and rather normal teenage girl, comes to an abrupt and silent end. Otto Frank is the family's sole survivor, and he recovers Anne's diary from Miep.He decides to fulfill the Anne's wishes by publishing the diary. Anne’s diary becomes a condemnation of the unimaginable horror of the Holocaust, and one of the few accounts that describe it from a young person's…

Secretary General of the Communist Party was Nikita Khrushchev. Between 1956 and 1964 there were significant changes in the USSR, although the essence of the organization of Soviet power remained. The destalinization initiated by Nikita Khrushchev in condemnation of the wave of terror imposed by the government of former leader and in recognition of the mistakes of the government in economic matters, gave way to the beginning of a new era in the Soviet Union. He tried to implement peaceful…

Amelia Opie’s prose fiction, or as she termed it “simple moral tales”, engaged with many of the political discourses of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, notably touching upon those “concerned with women’s education and rights in marriage” (Hill, 2015: 748). In Adeline Mowbray the core of the novel is constructed precisely upon the contrasting ideology of the “pure” and the “fallen” woman, yet due to philosophical as well as social reasons she neither upholds nor openly attacks…

citizens, distance from the event allowed inherited ideas to be challenged, and in turn, created social conditions in which revisionism could flourish. One of the largest active voices toward revisionism was political economist Gar Alperovitz. His condemnation of the Orthodox perception came to popularised observation in 1965 following the release of his book ‘Atomic Diplomacy: Hiroshima and Potsdam’ reference in which he continues Blackett’s initial argument, observing that the bomb “was not…

Wilfred Owen’s poem “Dulce et Decorum Est” is a scathing condemnation of war that uses vivid and visceral imagery to contradict the idea that battle is glorious. The title of the poem ironically refers to the Latin maxim promoting the sweetness and nobility of war, while the first stanza contradicts this in its depiction of the harsh conditions of the battlefield and the traumatizing aftermath of war. This jarring juxtaposition between the idealism of society and the reality of the soldier’s…

The economic differences between the patricians and the plebian classes were, the patricians were one with the plebian people. At the beginning, they were not allies, their goals in Rome were to get rid of the kings in power. When this happened, The patricians inherited the wealth and the plebian people were impoverished. The Plebian class lived in the rural areas while the patricians lived in developing areas like the city of Rome. The plebian people politically could still vote but not be a…

The Techniques of Neutralization comes from the neutralization theory, which appeared in an article published by Sykes & Matza titled “Techniques of Neutralization: A Theory of Delinquency” (BROWN, ESBENSEN, & GEIS, 2015, p. 325). Published in 1957, this article ranked top ten in the most cited article in the American Sociological Review. One of the interesting features of this theory is the vast span of nonconforming behavior that has been used. Further the assertion of this type of behavior…

nature of his deeds, Macbeth’s introduction as a paragon of manliness and nobility serves to portray innate goodness in Macbeth’s character, and this morality, combined with his repentance of his reprobate crimes, makes it hard to justify complete condemnation of Macbeth’s actions. Moreover, whilst the ultimate responsibility for his actions lies with Macbeth, his wife and the three witches also have a large influence on his decisions. Whilst Macbeth’s abominable actions warrant utter hatred,…

contrapasso, “An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth” correlates with Dante’s perspective of consequences (ESV, Exodus 21:4). Contrapasso is the principle of reckoning for sins both on earth and in the afterlife. Even though Dante’s punishments view on condemnation and afterlife differ drastically, scripture shows that God evaluates some sins as inferior and pass as a greater guilt than others, as does Dante. In Social Construction of Crime, Chevigny asserts “Blameworthiness, in turn, depends in…