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Shanaz Shakur Ms. Churchill English Honors 2, Period 0 21 September 2016 Essential Motifs in The Once and Future King Other than for the purpose of storytelling and entertainment, people read books to learn life lessons and understand morals and values. People read stories and take into account what the characters learn, and apply those lessons to their own lives. In The Once and Future King, T. H. White teaches us three major themes; that while the justice system gives people a chance of being…

Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, tells of two star-crossed lovers who take their own lives because of the feud between their two families. Within this tragedy lies many characters who influence Romeo and Juliet in various ways. Friar Lawrence is fair Verona’s priest. He has a great impact on the lives of Romeo and Juliet, in a very bad way. In Romeo and Juliet, Friar Lawrence redefines what it means to be a priest. His posthaste making of decisions, bad advice, and selfish and lazy…

justify if the existing laws are just and equitable. Capital punishment is the practice of executing someone as punishment for murder or other heinous crimes after being found guilty after a fair and proper legal trial (BBC, 2014). Queensland’s last execution was in 1913 with Queensland completely abolishing capital punishment as sentencing for heinous crimes in 1922. Queensland abolished capital punishment…

The Salem Witch Trials were “unfair” throughout countless eyes of villagers that lived in Salem village during this ghastly era. These trials were conducted on people that were either “seen” conducting strange activity or exhibiting strange behavior. The villagers called these people who were accused of showing abnormal behavior, witches. These witches are then brought to court and tried against the judges. The judges would then determine whether the witch would be announced innocent or would be…

see it as cruel and the rest see it as the perfect punishment, but if you had a sister that was raped and then decapitated, wouldn’t you find it just to have the person responsible killed? This paper is here to tell you why the death penalty should stay. According to the article, the death penalty “death penalty deters criminals from committing serious offenses.” ("The Pros and Cons of the Death Penalty"). Seeing as how most human beings fear death, the death penalty is good for keeping people…

Gender roles play a very important part in today’s society. Throughout the decades, gender expectations have been created and forced on both men and women. These expectations tell the different genders what their responsibilities are and how they should act according to society. What is expected of men and women has created a massive division between the various existing genders. The roles and expectations of the genders are seen everywhere, especially in the media. The standards that men and…

place during World War II. It was orchestrated by Adolf Hitler and lasted approximately twelve years. During this time, the Nuremberg Laws were created and Kristallnacht took place. Innocent people were taken and deported to either concentration or execution camps, where they were executed or held hostage until the end of the war (“The Holocaust”). In 1935, the Nazis proclaimed new laws, known as the Nuremberg Laws. These laws were formed from the racial theories of the Nazis. The…

has brought about many instances where there have been episodes of mass hysteria. Although history is taught so that we may learn from past mistakes, there is still a tendency for it to repeat itself. Epidemics of false accusations and innocent executions seem all too familiar in the study of humankind. In the late 1600s, several small Massachusetts towns had executed many of their citizens under the false pretense that they had been practicing witchcraft. There was a significant amount of…

their Allies. Being greatly outnumbered by Nazi forces and were defeated on 6 October 1939. Within a month of German occupation Poland began to become heavily segregated. Many Poles were exiled from their homes so that German soldiers had a place to stay. In as early as October Jewish citizens were forced to perform hard labour to repair the damage done during the invasion. Non-Jewish Poles were also eventually subject to forced labour as well. However, the Nazi began identifying the worker…

since being outcasted, had been vandalising the farm at night. Squealer takes advantage of this by telling the animals that Snowball is with other farms who are planning to attack. Squealer does this, of course, to frighten the animals so the pigs may stay a step above. ““...a most terrible thing has been discovered. Snowball has sold himself to Frederick of Pinchfield Farm, who is even now plotting to attack us and take our farm away from us!” ...The animals were stupefied.” (p. 79-80). The…