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The Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal
1,254 wordsIn early October 1945, the four powers victorious after the Second World War issued an indictment against 24 men and six organizations. Fifty years ago the Prosecutions opening statement was read by Associate United States Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson. Just eight months prior to that reading, the very building in which the historical trial took place was "an enemy fortress in the hands of German troops" The Nuremberg Trials are historically significant because they represent the first ti...
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Telling The Truth Immanuel Kant
5,428 words... ngs. Three of the executives written testimonies discuss the proposed settlement the companies negotiated with the states' attorneys general. The details of this settlement are provided in the section that follows; however the principle issue in this posture is that it is strikingly different than the one used in the 1994 testimonies. Mr. Bible was the first chief executive called in the case, during the sixth week of testimony in the Warren E. Burger Federal Building. The following excerpts...
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Defined To Include Freedom Of Speech
2,566 wordsResolved: That colleges and universities have a moral obligation to prohibit the public expression of hate speech on their campuses. Alexander, Larry. BANNING HATE SPEECH AND THE STICKS AND STONES DEFENSE. Constitutional Commentary. Spring, 1996 In addressing this issue, I, like most of the scholars, shall take "hate speech" to mean epithets conventionally understood to be insulting references to characteristics such as race, gender, nationality, ethnicity, religion, and sexual preference. First...
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Cognitive Psychology Freud Theory
1,006 wordsSome would argue that all slips of the tongue are Freudian slips. Indeed Freud and his avid following of psychoanalysts would insist that all slips of the tongue reveal the presence of suppressed impulses or intentions. However, much evidence has been found to refute this psychoanalytical view; and it can be convincingly asserted that all slips of the tongue are not Freudian, and that there are other cognitive reasons to explain these verbal slips. In Dr. Freud's own words, "a suppression of a p...
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Parts Of The World Natural Processes
1,452 words... example is evolution. The etiological account of natural selection deals both with the genetic mechanisms of transfer involved and with the selection mechanisms. The latter bestow upon the organism with the feature to be explained a better chance of reproducing (than the one possessed by the featureless specimen). But in all this discussion, it would seem that a goal necessarily implies the existence of an intent aimed at achieving it. A lack of intent leaves only one course of action availa...
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European History York Times
2,192 words... along out the word nicht which means not, Abraham transforms a negative position to a positive one. Reach had actually written that he did not wish to create a point of crystallization between the bourgeois right and the NSDAP. Did errors like these prove intent, and thereby justify Feldman's accusations of fraud? Lawrence Stone, Dodge Professor of History at Princeton, disagrees with Feldman's belief that good historians do not make mistakes: When you work in the archives, youre far from ho...
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U S Armed Forces U S Army
1,693 wordsWhat It Means To Be AWOL and How It Affects the Readiness of the Armed Forces Introduction AWOL, the abbreviation for Absent Without Official Leave, is very important issue. Under the U. S. Uniform Code of Military Justice, the person can be accused of AWOL, in case he (or she) is absent from their post or place of duty for no valid reason, pass or leave. The negative impact of AWOL should not be underestimated, as it negatively influences the readiness of the Armed Forces, being conductive to t...
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Florida Supreme Court Supreme Court Justices
1,976 wordsDecisions are often made in the united states by the U. S. Supreme Court that impact the country greatly. Sometimes the decision of the case is extremely controversial, leaving the Court and the country split. One Such recent case was Bush V. Gore. There were many events and certain criteria behind this case which made it a rarity, for the Supreme Court. Though just barley a month old, after the initial event, its journey to the Supreme Court was a very complicated one. (7) Many factors played i...
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Oklahoma City Bombing Definition Of Evil
515 wordsSince the beginning of time, evil has existed and evolved. There are many questions and theories about what evil is and where it comes from. There are three meanings of evil in particular: my definition of evil, the real life situation? s definition of evil, and Wiesel? s meaning of evil. My definition of evil is having the intent to do harm. An example of intending to do harm to others would be the Oklahoma City Bombing, or the mass murders of Charles Manson. They both killed many, many people,...
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Immanuel Kant Philip Morris
10,056 wordsHere is the tobacco case study for the marketing ethics discussion: LYING AND TOBACCO Senior Executives Caught in the Ethical Cross Hairs: Shareholder Loyalty or Social Responsibility? Case Development: Shelton S. Bridges, IV &# 038; Stephen M. Mounts You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. The Ninth Commandment Exodus 20: 16 INTRODUCTION For at least 3, 400 years? and probably much longer? scholars, philosophers, theologians, and others have pondered the question of truth. What ...
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Prima Facie Racial Identity
1,439 wordsAs children, most of us were given a playground definition of racism. Racism meant assuming bad things about someone just because of the color of his / her skin. Think about this definition. Its apparent simplicity actually contains three separate components. First, a racist has bad intent. Second, a racist makes prima facie assumptions. And third, a racist targets an immutable characteristic; in other words, something we cannot change and which we did not choose. Lets begin with the notion of r...
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