strong and fear its strength, citing it as bad for democracy. Why should one individual carry so much weight and power? Critics of the president’s power express their discontent at the president gaining power at the expense of Congress. Due to the vagueness of the powers outlined in the Constitution, many fear that the president can just run rampant and do as he wishes. When looking at the overall positives versus the negatives, the benefits of a strong presidency, namely unification of a…
connections of Hawthorne directly correlate to not only the meaning of the word sympathy, but also to who Hawthorne persuades the reader to feel sympathetic for. Hawthorne uses the term thirty-five times throughout The Scarlet Letter, and associates a vagueness and an ambivalence with the term. Frequently, it implies a deep, dual meaning, where both sympathy and antipathy are present, at other times it suggests…
pretenses, she did so much good while she stayed. Religious conundrums and debates like this one were common in the medieval world, and caused some troubling ambiguity when it came to the absolution of one's immortal soul. Tuchman discusses this vagueness of sin in her text. She raises questions such as is it a sin to be "tempted by another woman" and sleep with your wife to cool off and is it a sin to sleep with a pregnant or menopausal woman because it was not for procreation purposes?…
The rule of dictator Porfirio Diaz in Mexico has become synonymous with the modern, Positivistic dictatorships of the late nineteenth century. “The stability that Diaz’s long regime provided allowed Mexico at last to enjoy a burst of economic development. Agriculture for commercial export expanded, thousands of miles of railroads linked Mexico to U.S. markets, and a modest industrial complex appeared” (Beezley 55). Nicolas Zuniga y Miranda was known for his scientific inventions and earthquake…
What it means to have Integrity The basic definition of integrity, consists of having strong morals, honesty, and being complete or whole, but what does integrity truly mean? It typically depends on the type of person and their opinions; some might think that being completely honest makes a person have integrity, or that having great ambitions counts. Morals are classified as having strong beliefs, but this greatly depends on the person; someone might think that executing a criminal…
Both the ancient treaties of Kadesh and the Thirty Years Peace succeeded and failed as a result of the same concept. However, not only do these two treaties succeed or fail as a result of the same concept. The outcome of every treaty in history can be traced back to its completion or failure in the following 4 categories: specificity and completeness of the terms, enforcement of the terms, willingness of the participants, agreement over terms. The Egyptian-Hittite peace treaty was successful…
The Katz vs. United States case was a very controversial case due to the vagueness the fourth amendment applied to this particular case. Basically, Katz was convicted of transmitting wagering information over telephone lines in violation of federal law. After reviewing the case brief it is understood that Katz was unaware of the tactics of the government, placing a listening device on top of the phone booth Katz was occupying. The argument for the case was whether or not Katz’s fourth amendment…
throughout the 18th-century gothic literature of Edgar Allen Poe to articulate the horror and pain he experienced. He was emerged in such turmoil, with the death of all the ones he had loved. Poe reciprocated this sadness into his own works. Using the vagueness of the storyteller, he creates ambiguity towards each character’s horror and articulates that adversity is brought upon by a fixation more cavernous than anything one can escape from. Poe reached a mastery of…
regards to the application of the context, clearly provides the foundation that a person’s opinion, beliefs, or words could not be controlled by any law that was then, or would be in the future, put into place by the United States government. The vagueness of the clause suggests that the composers were aware that there would be new beliefs and concepts that would come into play in future generations but the specific use of the words “no law,” provided enough structure to the amendment to make it…
my father, Muslims might be a group that is discriminated against because of the recent historical events and the Anti-terrorism Act, so they will isolate themselves further from the mainstream communities. Opposition to C-51 did argue that the vagueness of the wording can have misleading interpretations (). The interpretations and powers may cause disagreement among the public and police officers, leading to mistrust and…