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Behind closed door deals, bribes, scandal, trades, mass corporations, sounds like the next top crime show, but this is no show. This is the Oil Reserves Scandal also known as the Teapot Dome Scandal. The Teapot Dome Scandal took place in the early 1920s. It was the secret leasing of federal oils by the Secretary of Interior, Albert Fall. After President Harding switched the oil reserve lands from the Navy to the Department of Interior in 1921, Albert Fall secretly gave Harry F. Sinclair from…

Allie Durbin AP Language and Composition Mrs. Smith August 18, 2016 The Grapes of Wrath Comparison Ethics vs Laws "I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other"(Harriet Tubman). Harriet Tubman was known for breaking the law for all the right reasons, simply to save the lives of the innocent. In the novels The Adventures of Huck Finn written by Mark Twain, and The Grapes of Wrath written by…

unfair when the British is up here killing tons of colonists and the British, don't get punished for it but the Colonist do. If anyone of the Colonist or the British or anyone commit a murder you should not get hung but, the death sentence should be Gun to the head meaning instant death. What the British did should be punished and be hung. The Colonist do not need to be punished. Punishing anyone by taking away their abilities to ship stuff across seas isn't a good enough punishment for murder.…

(Brockway 74-97). Dorothea Dix appeared in front of The Massachusetts Legislature and told the Congressman that she had invested years going by detainment facilities and that the conditions were shocking. Dix upheld for change and by the time of her death, clinics have been made for the wiped out and the crazy in her honor…

type of crime that a civilian commit will determine the type of consequence the civilian will have to pay. Most of the consequences here in the United States are tolerable, either by being punished in prison, pay a fine, or the worst one being the death penalty. Now if we take it back to the Babylon King Hammurabi era, they perceived justice in a different way from todays laws and criminal procedures. A phrase mentioned in the code of Hammurabi states, “If a man has destroyed the eye of another…

I really enjoyed watching this documentary in class. A few years ago I watched a documentary Oprah produced called Serving Life. The story followed prisoners inside Louisiana’s maximum-security prison Angola, where the average sentence is more than 90 years. In the prison they have a hospice program where inmates get to take care of other dying inmates. The movie is moving and shows the personalities and human side of the men serving their time. Much like the documentary I just mentioned, I…

A convicted felon is a person who has been convicted of a felony, which is a crime punishable by death or a term in state or federal prison. So the United States have restrictions for convicted felons to vote. But it is up to your state which restrictions they want to put on convicted felons. So there are five things that your state can do for convicted felons to vote. One is that your state can pick that some felons may vote depending on the state, crime committed, time elapsed since…

Do batman have to kill the joker? For many of us think that joker have to be killed and for others not. According to “should batman kill the joker?” article that written by Mark White a professor in several majors in Collage of Staten Island of the city University of New York and Robert Arp a specialist in biomedical ethics and philosophy, mention a several point about this topic in The Dark Knight of the Soul (2008). The main idea of the article is to figure our how the pop culture helps us in…

Mountain Terrorist Problem The Mountain Terrorist Scenario is a complicated one , as the choices are limited and extremely controversial . As we further and further delve into The situation , we can recongnize that there’s no ideal solution but in reality , what’s a perfect Solution ? As everyone has their own ethical code and beliefs that they will use to make their decision . I picked choice number 1 which is to take the gun , select a villager , kill him or her . Either…

Understanding the basics and the foundation behind Sharia law is not such a difficult task. Accepting it as a reasonable alternative to democracy is a bit more of a stretch for those who have only experienced democratic systems of crime and punishment. Crimes against a religious book are nothing new to Christians and those of any faith. The laws in a modern society of a nation that observes Sharia law seems archaic. Even more difficult to accept are the punishments handed out in accordance with…