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Racism does not exist in a vacuum. It does not wield a mind of its own, nor does it act in the absence of human control. Racism is a mindless phenomenon, and people are the vehicles that drive it forward. The future of humanity rests on collective strategies designed to purge the fallacy of racism, a forlorn idea based on simple color differences. What if racial differences became a source of celebration and inclusion? Group differences should highlight man’s grandeur, not its folly. Thus,…

incarceration. Though prison’s sole purpose is to deter crime, it in fact increases it. Sources suggest that first time offenders, and ex-convicts are highly likely to commit another crime after leaving prison, thus depicting the prison system’s failure in deterring crime. Many question whether prison is an effective punishment for criminals because its aftereffect causes ex-convicts to commit more crime. In comparison to other countries, the incarceration rate of the United States…

confession to music doesn 't give you a free pass (Majerol). Mr. Jackson believes that when rappers write about committing a crime, it is a confession, meaning they actually did the crime. There are cases where rap lyrics have been used as evidence to convict a rapper for murder. The jury accepted the prosecutor 's evidence, the rap lyrics, as facts rather than fiction. Also in the prosecutor 's’ argument it states that the "gang members" are hiding their confessions in a string of their hobbies…

the African Americans were very short lived considering the loop hole in the 13th amendment. The 13th amendment abolished slavery but allowed convict leasing which caused a spike in the incarceration rate of predominantly African American males in the United States. This created a stereotype that is undoubtedly false and assisted by the media. Although convict leasing was the predominant form of slave like labor, it was not the only oppressive form of involuntary servitude used to keep African…

seeing or of (feeling in) the heart will be enquired into the day of judgement.” Therefore, if a person committed an offence where the absence of mental element of the accused cannot be proven, it is considered non-offence by the Islamic law. To convict the accused as guilty without proving the mental state would be unjustifiable under the law. This is commanded by Allah SWT to ensure…

Carpenter, this paper attempts to construe how the influence of unwritten law, written law and customs ultimately led a jury panel to convict a man of manslaughter even though there was arguably no concrete evidence of foul play on his…

Egypt and Australia: The Power Behind European Domination Treading along the shore with Jared Diamond, New Guinean local politician Yali casually asks, "Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own?" (Diamond 14) As a response to Yali, Jared Diamond first negates the assumption that the biological differences in humans from different parts of the globe affected the rate of development of their civilizations…

Cain Demumbra Jennifer Wilson English 1010 27 October 2017 A Pleasant Trip to the Cumberland Plateau A plateau is a land area having a relatively level surface considerably raised above adjoining land on at least one side and is often cut by deep canyons. The Cumberland Plateau goes from Wayne County in Kentucky to Scott County in Tennessee. I will be writing primarily about areas in and around Cumberland County. The Cumberland Plateau includes parts of Wayne and McrCreary counties in Kentucky…

effective. On top of that, a prisoner is more likely to attempt an escape from prison if they are sentenced to death rather than lifetime in jail. Others also fight that these executions reduce overcrowding prisons. Allowing the executions of these convicts will save some space but, these executions are so rare they have very little impact on the population of the prison. Instead of choosing execution to reduce the population of these prisons, one can can increase community service requirements,…

that the geographical surroundings aren’t pleasant. Charles Dickens makes a point of this by describing the atmosphere as wet, dark, and gloomy. Pip meets a convict named Magwitch who threatens him and makes him steal. The surroundings in the cemetery and the traits of Magwitch are the same at this point in the novel. Magwitch being a convict, the reader associates him with crime and as a villain, the surroundings in the cemetery confirm the reader’s…