Paul's efforts to forget his history remain futile as he says "Everything that I try to crabwalk away from, or admit to in relative to the truth, or reveal as if under duress, comes out, after the fact and from guilty conscience " (189). ... The title, Crabwalk, defined by Grass as "scuttling backward to move forward," refers to both the necessary reference to various events, and a more abstract backward glance at history, in order to allow people to move forward. ...

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The early monotheists developed the most structured and defined notions that came to be in the cradle of civilization, the Fertile Crescent. ... They are created when the old ones were no longer applicable or tolerable during a state of duress, such as exile or slavery, or to update when times have changed so much as to render a mitzvoth obsolete. ...

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Within the contract view theory, Velasquez makes a great statement which defines the expectations of the merchant when dealing in a contractual environment with the consumer. "Hence the contractual theory of business' duties to consumers claims that a business has four main moral duties: the basic duty of (a) complying with the terms of the sales contract, and the secondary duties of (b) disclosing the nature of the product, (c) avoiding misrepresentation, and (d) avoiding the use of duress and undue influence. ... Their duty to comply is defined as; the most basic moral duty that a busin...

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Introduction The field of transitional justice was practically nonexistent prior to the end of the Second World War. Mass atrocities had taken place on the world stage with almost no consequences being brought upon the perpetrators, and more importantly the orchestrators or those "most responsible" for these crimes. This would all change after the crimes of the Nazis being brought to light during/after WWII. There was a paradigm shift in the international community in regards to justice being brought upon those who commit these crimes and the common thought or feeling that this coul...

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Cushing Scott states that, Miller has argued for (the) historical truth (of the play), pointed to its contemporary parallels, and defined its transhistorical subject as a social process that includes, but also transcends, the Salem witchcraft trials a the anticommunist investigations of the 1950's (128). ...

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