Condemnation

reflects Existentialist thought that life is beyond human rationality. Accordingly, he describes a post apocalyptic environment in his play as it was explained with examples before. Moreover, with a Biblical reference, he uses nature as a means for condemnation to the characters. Finally, Beckett’s tragic tone acts as a tool for questioning life, death, beginnings, endings, and their…

that the criminals that participated in fraud, often try to shift blame, which corresponds directly to the denial of responsibility in the Techniques of Neutralization, and they show prosecutors as having their own agenda, which corresponds to the condemnation of condemners in the Techniques of…

Hawthorne’s novel, Reverend Dimmesdale, represents the fall that might be expected by one who breaks the laws of God and man in early American Puritan society. Through Dimmesdale, Hawthorne illustrates his theme: The average man fears judgement and condemnation by his peers more than he desires to do the right thing. However, such a being condemns himself to a life…

rehabilitative services rather than punishment model would improve the outcome and reduce recidivism. A stigma is a powerfully negative label that changes the person’s self-concept and societal identity. Society uses stigmatic labeling to justify its condemnation of the deviant actor. Once stigmatized the individual internalizes the concept and may adopt the label as part of their own identify. The labeling promotes the deviant behavior and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Edwin…

Elizabeth, I do concede that Dripps model of the contingent exclusionary rule is fascinating; yet, it is my opinion that there are pros and cons. It is without doubt that the present exclusionary rule is controversial. I also concede that there isn’t a need to completely re-invent the wheel. Conversely, Dripps argues in regards of the contingent suppression order in which prosecutors would have to choose between accepting exclusion of evidence obtained through infractions of the Fourth…

Frankenstein: A Feminist Critique of Science by Anne K. Mellor argues Mary Shelley’s 18th century story of Frankenstein is a feminist critique of science. As the basis of her argument, Mellor establishes Shelley’s credibility in the field of science. She does so by pointing to Shelley’s knowledge of various scientists of the time, especially Galvani. Galvani’s experiments with running electricity through the dead, causing the corpses to move, was the basis for Frankenstein. In addition, Shelley…

“The concept of a heart of stone would have been associations with ancient Egypt. First of all, Egyptians believed that it was the heart that was weighed in judgement to determine whether or not the afterlife could be attained. If it was weighed down with guilt and sin, the result could be disastrous. The heart would also be associate with the mummification process, the heart was removed from the mummy and placed in a canopic jar. This was done because the Egyptians believed that the heart might…

Marjane Satrapi writes her autobiography, Persepolis with an omnipotent style. Every once and a while she lets it be known that she is both the author and the main character with quips and commentary on a situation. She especially takes advantage of this in foreshadowing how her relationship with Reza. One of the times she does this really stands out to me, “Apparently, her best friend wanted to go out with Reza… Unfortunately, we don’t always get what we want” (Satrapi 278). In this short…

identity. In the book, Wallace describes the archetype of the strong black woman. In fear of embodying this archetype, Wallace begins to stifle her own strength and negate her own agency. For her and myself, a condemnation of the strong black woman archetype was obscured with a condemnation of authentic personal strength. Much like Wallace I had kept quiet when I had something to say and been passive when I had wanted to be active. Though by the time I read Wallace’s work I had already begun to…

The American Dream, once perceived as a positive promise, is actually an implication of natural selection identified in the concept of Social Darwinism. F. Scott Fitzgerald examines this survival-of-the-richest disarray in his novel The Great Gatsby through exposing the extremist nature of the wealthy. He presents the morality behind the monetary-driven American Dream as the unchanging and everlasting struggle to survive in the human condition. In the context of the novel, however, the primary…