... the law means. By the letter of the law, the scarlet "A" is meant to denote a criminal, and nothing more than that. Until this point, it has successfully done that. However, in this chapter we see that "the scarlet letter had not done its office" (Hawthorne 114). Hester's actions which lead to the change in the interpretation of the scarlet "A" show a clear indication of her rejection of the moral implication of the letter. She clearly accepts the punishment for ... her crime (otherwise, she would simply have never worn the letter), but her reinterpretation of the letter raises the ques...

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... , that social group will view that authority as "one of them" and therefore that authority will have legitimacy of that social community. A study was done in Chicago that focused on why people obey the laws. First of all, it found that legitimacy does influence compliance to laws. The study found "that normative concerns are an important determinant of law-abiding behavior, in contrast to ... literature on compliance (493)." Basically, people obey laws because breaking laws is morally wrong. Also, people feel the need to obey legal authorities because it is right to do so. Even though th...

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... on legal usage of alcohol and illegal usage of drugs. What he's trying to say is if we make all the illegal drugs legal and just put some restriction just like we have on our alcohol usage maybe that would lower the percentage of using illegal drugs such as marijana, coke etc. and if drugs ever are legalized they will be dispensed ... is legal, and that coke addicts will number somewhere between 8.5 million (if regular usage doubles and 70 percent become addicted) and 42 million.). The number of people abusing legalized drugs will come close to those hooked on alcohol. A pessimist would...

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... , tar, and carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, ammonia, hydrogen cyanide, arsenic, DDT and many other unlisted drugs and toxins. Notice the differences between the two commonly used products, not only is the list of marijuana ingredients much shorter, it is all natural. Cigarette smoke contains over 4,000 man-made chemicals, 43 of ... which are known to cause cancer. Marijuana smoke contains THC and CDC, which are not linked to any kind of precancerous changes in the human body. With this being said, it is safer to smoke marijuana than cigarettes because you are at a much lower risk of develo...

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... it takes away a person's right to live. What I mean when I say that the death penalty is a risky punishment is that the judgement made could be wrong, therefore killing an innocent person. There are many "precautions" made to make sure this does not happen, but the jury is only human. Because the jury is human, they rely highly on their emotions to make their judgments ... . The lawyers, who know this, may play up to certain emotions which may sway the members of the jury in one way or the other. I am not saying human emotion is a bad thing, just stating ... human right to live. Althoug...

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... condemned King's actions, calling them "unwise and untimely." Dr. King, however, proves in his letter from a Birmingham jail cell that he acted neither unwise, nor untimely, but in a most appropriate, timely manner. Dr. King opens his appeal with the line "My Dear Fellow Clergymen." Dr. King does this for two reasons. First of all, King himself is an avid preacher as well as ... Christian. When King refers to these men as "Fellow Clergymen," he starts his letter with the principle that, as a clergyman (i.e. somebody who works for God), he stands on equal ground with them ... . This, in ...

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... be a good and democratic leader. He wanted them to make laws so that they could live in a civilized way. Jack on the other hand was like a dictator. He forced the children to obey him by violence and threats. In the begining the children followed Ralph but gradually they turned against him and joined Jack. They became wilder and wilder. They painted their faces and ... hunted boars. They engaged in primitive rituals like dancing around a head of a boar. The children obeyed Jack in everything without questioning. They even killed two of their friends. Ralph was desperate. He was chased b...

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... present time New York. The level of civility, the amount of individual freedom, the laws, the loyalty and friendship between the people made a big difference in how the story was performed and how it ended. In the movie Westside story the party was planned by the owner of the gym. Both gangs the Sharks and the Jets came to the party. In the play written by William Shakespeare, the Capulets planned the party and only three ... people from the Montague's family came ... ...

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... by the Negro church and that he is grateful to god for that. In paragraph four page six, we know that he was gratefully disappointed with the white church. We know also that he loved the church, he was nurtured in its bosom, would remain true to it, and that he was the son, grandson, and the great-grandson of preachers. At the end of the letter, in the second ... paragraph in the last page, King tells ... . He also built common ground with people from his audience who believed in the most sacred values in the Judaeo-Christian heritage in the following sentence: "they were in reality sta...

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Martin Luther King JR. strived for racial equality. In the United States Birmingham, Alabama was the one of the most segregated and prejudice cities, and there had been numerous acts of destruction done to Negroes there. King decided that a non-violent direct contact campaign was necessary to help educate ... was an injustice among blacks. King was incarcerated in Birmingham and was charged with parading without a permit for his participation the civil rights act. During that time he wrote a letter justifying the breaking of some laws. Martian Luther felt there were two types of laws, the ju...

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... like that this would be their ticket to getting a second chance at getting their sentence either commuted to a life sentence without the possibility of parole or even being exonerated totally. When this legislation first became a law, death row inmates that felt they ... the prosecutor ended up picking a Caucasian male that had a criminal record for being a marijuana dealer. The ironic thing is that in the prosecutors' notes for this juror they wrote that he was a "fine guy. " The only fine thing about him was the fact that he was Caucasian. The study done by the ... Michigan State Univ...

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... truly difficult to put into words exactly how much unjust treatment was received by African-Americans, but the use of imagery throughout the letter was heart wrenching. In a section of the letter, he talks about how African-Americans waited more than 340 years for their constitutional and God-given rights. Most of the time, they were told to "wait," but King tries to describe to ... fighting a degenerating sense of 'nobodiness.'" Another key point of this letter is the usage of religion and leadership in the context of the situations going on around America. Comparing himself to a ...

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... thought dialogue and pacific demonstrations. They simply didn't want to loose the city to black people. As reader Dr. King shows that he is a good man and that he is able of leading a non violent campaign for the civil rights of black people not only in Alabama but in all the United States. The Letter from Birmingham Jail by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is one ... of the best ways to show the position of an individual in a conflict. Just as Dr. King did, for example the reader is able to visualize and understand what was ... the conflict and the elements around it. This is achieved throu...

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... audience. King starts his letter by saying "While confined here in the Birmingham city jail." This is important because King is making a strong point right away in his letter. He is saying they threw me in jail for what I believe and I am okay with that because I am standing up for what I believe in. He is also saying I am making a sacrifice for the cause of human rights and ... yet you are disputing my purpose for being here in Birmingham. King does a great job bringing his ... to his audience of Clergymen who the letter was intended to be written to. Although the majority of the lett...

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... those of the average person. King compares the fight that he was waging, to that of the Apostle Paul from the Bible. This is due to the fact that the readers cannot argue the virtue of Paul's mission nor the goal of King. At one point, King asks "Was not Paul an extremist for the Christian gospel: "I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus"" (150). All the way through the letter, King ... refers to influential icons from the past to show that his ... fight was just as correct as those he cites. For example, Dr. King makes reference to St. Thomas Aquinas. Aquinas, in his views of .....

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... it appeared that Catherine's view of liberty and equality was forced upon the people. Despite Catherine indicating that the citizens should have a mind of their own; not being abused and enslaved by the landowner, she herself was doing the same. While reading the letter written by Baron de Breteuil I was able to contrast the similarities and difference that were reflected in Catherine's Proposal of a New ... there were slight differences. He was able to capture her ambition to remain the single authority of Russia. She was a very strong and attempted to uplift the citizens of Russia. S...

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... and Martin Luther King's Letter From A Birmingham Jail. In Civil Disobedience Thoreau clarifies that following an unjust law is a violation of ones conscience. Also, if a person is faced with an unjust law they should not only disobey it but also strive to somehow change it. In King's Letter From a Birmingham Jail he outlines the reasons for the need of the demonstrations in Birmingham. ... King notes that civil disobedience is necessary for the case of the city of Birmingham. The most obvious influence on King from Thoreau's writing is King's unwillingness to stand back and watch injust...

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... a conscious and/or subconscious component of the human psyche. It is the unconscious portion that contains energies that are known as archetypes. In order to be classified as an archetype, the unconscious energies must be common to mankind, timeless and numinous. King's A Letter From Birmingham Jail has become a classic and for good reason. King highly valued the fact that all mankind should be deemed ... the same rights, was deeply influence by his spirituality and his timeless viewpoints were much ... like those of wise individuals throughout history. King captured the power of an ar...

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... E. Roush, is a reference point. It's an idea that guides people in the military to operate ethically, and clarify good from bad. There are four principals that must be used sequentially. The constitutional paradigm would be used when there are two conflicting moral issues that might both either be a win win or be a lose lose situation. The paradigm is a hierarchal system that places where your ... using this paradigm properly could lead to serious long term effect either physically like getting jail time or emotionally by doing something that at a later time you regret. The constitution...

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... a phony. He truly believed in what he argued for. He was incarcerated for doing what he believed was right. Dr. King was locked up for protesting (nonviolently) to the government that he felt was unjust. Martin Luther King Jr. decided to spend his time in jail writing his letter to the clergymen for support. The fact that he was prison showed the men that a fellow clergyman did in fact ... need help in Birmingham, Alabama. Dr. King and Henry David Thoreau both also referred to the Bible or God in ... their writing. King compared the injustice of the situation in Birmingham to a similar...

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... a phony. He truly believed in what he argued for. He was incarcerated for doing what he believed was right. Dr. King was locked up for protesting (nonviolently) to the government that he felt was unjust. Martin Luther King Jr. decided to spend his time in jail writing his letter to the clergymen for support. The fact that he was prison showed the men that a fellow clergyman did in fact ... need help in Birmingham, Alabama. Dr. King and Henry David Thoreau both also referred to the Bible or God in ... their writing. King compared the injustice of the situation in Birmingham to a similar...

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... would, in summary, tell the Jews to not judge the Gentiles for not following the law, and the Gentiles not to judge the Jews for following it. Everyone under the faith has different personal beliefs that may make them stand out from others of the faith, but since God does not judge others, they should not judge each other. Paul's letter to the Romans, however specific and detailed ... with regards to the problems he sees, has an interesting ending which creates a question about it in the mind of the reader. This question revolves around the Doxology at the end, and its strange form. The...

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... Birmingham Jail" Martin Luther King Jr. was an extremely important figure in the African-American fight for civil rights. He was an advocate of peaceful protest and firm believer that all people should have the same rights. King was a very active protestor; some even called him an extremist. King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail" was written from inside a cell in Birmingham Jail. King was arrested ... for one of his protests in that city and thrown in jail. The letter is to King's fellow Clergymen who wrongly called his recent ... activities "unwise and untimely". If it were not for peop...

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... in what was later published as the essay, Letter from Birmingham Jail (Wexler 164). The 6500 word letter went on to explain and make clear to the clergy and to the world why the struggle against racism must not be deferred (Wexler 164). King's main claim in this letter is that no matter what the circumstances are it is far beyond time for the black community to stand up and fight ... for what is rightfully theirs, the same rights and freedoms accorded to the white community. King effectively accomplishes this ... task through the structure of the essay and in his use of pathos, ethos, ...

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... other restrictions, this natural state of existence would govern its behavior. Fortunately, there are restrictions, and they are laws. Laws are made up to maintain order, monitor actions, and work for the best interest of society as a whole. If there were no laws chaos and anarchy would be widespread. This is why society has set up governments, to maintain order and to ... Hungary was "illegal"." (King) King went on in his letter to say that it would be against man made law to help a Jew in Nazi Germany. What King said in his letter has to make a person think that not all laws are good ...

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