The Plight

most important the FDIC ( Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) which insured bank deposits of $5000 and indemnified the restoring of banks and the increasing of the peoples’ confidence. This direct involvment of the goverenment to fix the dire plights of the people and country is needed and without a strong and established goveremnet we would not have a balanced economy. It is proven that the diregard of Laissez-Fair economics at this time didn’t show a favoring of socialism but…

Since February 1994, Jeff Jacoby has been an op-ed columnist for The Boston Globe, where the essay, “Bring Back Flogging,” was published on February 20, 1997(Jacoby 196). In this essay, Jacoby claims the argument that prison time is so inhumane and he also shows that there are many flaws of imprisonment. Therefore, he wants to persuade his audience that flogging is an effective method of punishing criminals. In order to completely understand Jeff Jacoby’s argument, I will show how he convinces…

for a new haven. It is estimated that half of refugees could not made their ways, and ocean was their graves. In 2008, Director Duc Nguyen released his documentary film Bolinao 52, a movie about Vietnamese refugees on a fatal boat, which reveals the plight of boat people and the ordeals they had to fight for their survival. “Bolinao 52” is the name of a group of 110 refugees who set out their voyages on a small boat in 1988. On this crowded boat, only…

Steinbeck wrote extensively on the plight and the struggles of the migrant worker, using both fiction and nonfiction to expose the horrific treatment and the horrific conditions of those affected. In Harvest Gypsies, a series of editorial articles covering the migrant workers, Steinbeck describes…

WITNESS PROCTION IN INDIA- NEED FOR LEGISLATION - Pranjali P Devurkar & Reddy Pawan Kumar INTRODUCTION A witness is an indispensable part of a justice delivery system playing a pivotal role in determining the final outcome of a case. According to Bentham, witnesses are “eyes and ears of justice”. Often these “very” witnesses turn hostile, become untraceable or simply eliminated. In…

John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men” is a book that tells the story of Candy, a swamper who has aged and become disabled, symbolizing the plight of the vulnerable amidst an uncaring environment in pursuit of the American dream during the Great Depression. Even if he is old and handicapped, Candy himself shows what life is like for those on society's fringes, where success equals productivity and personal strength. Steinbeck brings to light contemporary suffering in both social and physical forms…

ways for films, literature, and other arts to allow us to experience these so called dystopian societies. Animal Farm,by George Orwell, is a typical anti-utopia because the animals of the book overrun the humans to form a “perfect world” yet their plight results in a society worse than the one they tried to escape. Interstellar, although also a dystopian society example, is not the average dystopia in the sense that the environment…

To be an American can be taken one of two ways: you can wave your flag and shoot your fireworks, or you can realize that America was a land that was built on the genocide of a people and on the slavery or another. You could be ignorant and cry "Lady Liberty," which seems to be the more popular choice. Or, you can recognize the inconceivable injustice that runs rampant in our streets. We are American citizens and we are taught from birth what a man is and what a woman is, but we are never taught…

world are able to relate to Dickens’s contemporary writing and depictions of social inequality. Dickens also expresses how he feels about the corruption of the governmental administration in the eighteenth century. He brings forth awareness to the plight of the poor by emphasizing the shamelessness and greediness of elites who possess large political power. He also writes that people rebel against their status as…

acquire a plebeian girl, Virgina. plebeians and patricians weren't allowed by law to have relations or marry. Due to this, her father decided to kill poor Virgina to save her honor. This was reportedly the final straw. Between Virginia’s unfortunate plight and the tyrannical rule of the Decemvirate, the plebeians had enough. Having little protection from the Decemvirate and few personal rights, they decided to revolt and left once again for the Sacred Mount(Morey,…