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- 1411: Karl Marx 2
- ... is clear that the first step is to raise the proletariat to the ruling class, but how is this done? Marx writes that " we, traced the more or less veiled civil war, raging within existing society, up to the point where that war breaks out into open revolution, and where the violent overthrow of the bourgeoisie lays the foundation for the sway of the proletariat" (Marx, p.66). He speaks directly of ...
- 1412: King Arthur 3
- ... le Fay may be the figure present in the Arthurian saga with the oldest history. The earliest form of her name is found as the Morrigan, an Irish goddess of war appearing to heroes on the battlefields. As Morgan, she is a goddess of healing in the early literature, who rules over the magical island of Avalon, which seems then to ... Le Morte Arthur, Avalon was referred to as a vale. According to the legend, Arthur's nephew or son, Modred, used the exposed affair of Lancelot and Guinevere to begin civil war, and Arthur himself was seriously wounded at the battle of Camlan. He was carried away to Avalon to have his wounds tended. Here can be seen the strongest remaining ...
- 1413: The Issue Of Gun Control
- ... set forth. The second amendment of the Constitution is one of the most important and most frequently called upon that recent history can think of . Since the age of the Civil War, the weapons that we have produced have become increasingly more deadly. We as citizens of this country are watching our children and friends at the hands of these vicious tools ... happens constantly on Capital Hill, this dream would be a very real one. With the interests of political activist groups such as the National Rifle Association (NRA) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Congress has had a tough time passing any legislation that would benefit the public and curtail the sail and manufacture of armor piercing bullets, automatic rifles ...
- 1414: Outlaws In The Frontier
- ... during the colonial era. Frontiers have always attracted misfits, failures, and renegades who hope to profit by being beyond the reach of government. In the years just before the Revolutionary War, gangs of horse thieves in the back country of South Carolina were broken up by organized bands of farmers called Regulators. As frontier settlement expanded rapidly after the Revolution, more ... Rush of 1849 and as prosperity found its way to frontier towns. The first stagecoach robbery was recorded in 1851, and the first train robberies happened in 1866. After the Civil War there was the growth of the cattle kingdom in Texas and neighboring states. Cattle rustling and horse theft turned into significant operations. Range wars bred a great amount of ...
- 1415: Capital Punishment
- ... nature of an ideal spiritual community. Love of this kind abandons the right to kill another in self-defense and will refuse absolutely to kill enemies even in a just war. If made into a social ethic, it requires the poor to sacrifice for the rich, the sick to sacrifice for the healthy, the oppressed to sacrifice for the oppressor. It ... any denial of ones own right to be fully human in every respect. Against the pacifist, ethical love would justify killing in self-defense and killing enemies in a just war when non-lethal alternatives are unavailable. They are necessary and tragic emergency means here and now to stop present and ongoing violence. Capital punishment is opposed since the crime has ... day to day standard for ordinary life even in the family or the church. Can Christian love in the ethical sense be an appropriate norm for a large, secular, pluralistic, civil society? Can unconditional love for the other that regards the welfare of the neighbor equal with ones own be the ideal expected of the citizens of New York or ...
- 1416: The Need for Stricter Gun Laws
- ... set forth. The second amendment of the Constitution is one of the most important and most frequently called upon that recent history can think of . Since the age of the Civil War, the weapons that we have produced have become increasingly more deadly. We as citizens of this country are watching our children and friends at the hands of these vicious tools ... happens constantly on Capital Hill, this dream would be a very real one. With the interests of political activist groups such as the National Rifle Association (NRA) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Congress has had a tough time passing any legislation that would benefit the public and curtail the sail and manufacture of armor piercing bullets, automatic rifles ...
- 1417: Study on Juvenile Psychopaths
- ... whether young people will be criminal in their behavior is moral poverty," Greenberg says. (3) According to the recently published "Body Count: Moral Poverty . . . and How to Win America' s War Against Crime and Drugs," a new generation of "super-predators, " untouched by any moral inclinations, will hit America's streets in the next decade. John DiIulio, the Brookings Institute fellow ... who study drugs and crime are only now beginning to realize the social consequences of raising so many children in abject moral poverty. The need to rebuild and resurrect the civil society (families, churches, community groups) of high-crime, drug-plagued urban neighborhoods is not an intellectual or research hypothesis that requires testing. It's a moral and social imperative that ... than at any time since the 1950s. "This is the calm before the crime storm," says Fox. "So long as we fool ourselves in thinking that we're winning the war against crime, we may be blind sided by this bloodbath of teenage violence that is lurking in the future." Nearly all the factors that contribute to youth crime -single- ...
- 1418: Capital Punishment: For and Against
- ... nature of an ideal spiritual community. Love of this kind abandons the right to kill another in self-defense and will refuse absolutely to kill enemies even in a just war. If made into a social ethic, it requires the poor to sacrifice for the rich, the sick to sacrifice for the healthy, the oppressed to sacrifice for the oppressor. It ... any denial of ones own right to be fully human in every respect. Against the pacifist, ethical love would justify killing in self-defense and killing enemies in a just war when non-lethal alternatives are unavailable. They are necessary and tragic emergency means here and now to stop present and ongoing violence. Capital punishment is opposed since the crime has ... day to day standard for ordinary life even in the family or the church. Can Christian love in the ethical sense be an appropriate norm for a large, secular, pluralistic, civil society? Can unconditional love for the other that regards the welfare of the neighbor equal with ones own be the ideal expected of the citizens of New York or ...
- 1419: Drug Prohibition
- ... and the remaining criminals who commit crimes against people and property. It takes a month to bring a person accused of a crime to trial. It's even slower for civil proceedings. There simply isn't enough judges to handle the ever-increasing caseload. By legalizing drugs, thousands of cases would be wiped off the courts permitting the rest to move ... drugs is nearly as big a business as pushing them." As Gore Bidal so rightly put it. Legalizing drugs would endanger the jobs of police officers, and politicians campaigning on war on drugs. Legalization would threaten thousands of careers that the taxpayers would no longer need to support. About 70 percent of the drug budget is used to reduce drug supplies ... amount of demand by better educating children and adults alike, and also by treating addicts. Governments exist to protect the rights of the people. By prohibiting drug use, American's civil rights are betrayed. How is prohibition protecting American's rights? Prohibition increases crime and corruption. It also wastes billions of dollars in taxpayer's money in the futile effort ...
- 1420: Euthanasia Is Religious, Medically, and Legally Wrong
- ... the world,and Canada is no exception.Euthanasisa must not be accepted for religious,legal and medical reasons,as alternatives to such a dramatic end. To begin,the law,both civil and religious,forbid killing. Individuals are prosecuted in courts of law for committing murder. An example of this is the case of Robert Latimer. Although he claimed to have mercifully ... before the vote revealed strong support for it,the ballot was defeated by fifty-four to forty-six percent,and euthanasia remains illegal in Noth America. In addition to violating civil law,euthanasia also contradicts the laws of many religions of the world. It is God who controlls life and death. Man will take this responsibility if euthanasia is permitted. It ... In addition,euthanasia would wreck the image society has of doctors. Asks Stephen Connor,a Toronto writer and lecturer in medical ethics:"In a word that swirls with death-starvation,war, revolation-society depends on doctors as the steady symbols of life and its power. Are we prepared to forfit that hard-won trust and turn them in to non- ...
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