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Heavier Sentence Than X Sentence Than X Prisoners
818 wordsOne of the most famous and most thoroughly studied examples of game theory is the Prisoners Dilemma. In this situation, the police have caught two people and charged them with a crime. The police separate the prisoners into different rooms and give them the option of confessing. The police tell the two prisoners that they have enough evidence of the crime to send them to jail for X amount of years. However, if one prisoner confesses fully to the crime and testifies against the other but the othe...
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Rest Of His Life Hester Prynne
896 wordsRevenge is the act of retaliating in order to get even with someone for the wrongs they have done. In the novel The Scarlet Letter, the author, Nathaniel Hawthorne, uses Roger Chillingworth to reap revenge on Arthur Dimmesdale for his affair with his wife, Hester Prynne. Chillingworth becomes so devoted to revenge that is all his life revolves around. Chillingworth then devotes the rest of his life to taking revenge on Dimmesdale. As the novel progressed, Chillingworth fits the profile of vengea...
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Reverend Hale False Confession
687 wordsThroughout history, and Arthur Miller's The Crucible, the name by which one is called, is more than just a name. Your name represents your actions, your reputation, and your beliefs. Your name can carry on after your life as a proud example of hero, or conversely, as an example of a liar. Just as important as one's name, is the signature that it represents. By signing something, one shows that they recognize what is written and wishes to show support for what it represents. A signature is as uni...
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Good Versus Evil Battle Between Good
1,254 wordsAccording to the Websters Dictionary, a crucible is a vessel in which metal is heated to a high temperature and melted for the purposes of casting. It can also be referred to a situation in which a person has to make a decision that can be critical to his morals and principles. There are many interpretations of the word crucible as there is for the theme of Arthur Millers, The Crucible. Closely related to the word crucifixion, The Crucible is about a man put in a crucible situation, who is force...
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Eye For An Eye Death Penalty
1,158 wordsThe most severe of all sentences is in fact the death penalty. Also known as capital punishment, it's the most severe form of corporal punishment as it requires law enforcement officers to kill the offender. It has been banned in many countries, in the United States, an earlier move to eliminate capital punishment has now been reversed and more and more states are resorting to capital punishment for serious offenses such as murder. Like they say: An Eye for and eye, or a life for a life as it ap...
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Chinese Culture Martial Arts
951 wordsEveryone has experienced losing face. I can remember as a kid, being caught in a lie and trying desperately to weasel my way out without looking stupid. There were times as an adult, I would deny having problems at my job, too worried of loosing creditability. In Mark Salzman's book Iron and Silk, he shows the Chinese culture and how important it is to keep face in front of a foreigner. Early in the book, Mark is introduced to Pan a marital arts expert. During he first encounter the reader can s...
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Mumia Abu Jamal Fair Trial
1,254 wordsOn December 9, 1981, Wesley Cook, a. k. a. Mumia Abu-Jamal, was driving his taxi in Philadelphia when he saw that police had pulled his brother over. Jamal stopped to see why his brother was being pulled over. An altercation followed leaving Officer Daniel Faulkner dead and Jamal critically wounded. Jamal is currently on Death Row awaiting execution. Jamal's trial was held in 1981 and since then there has been much controversy about whether the trial was fair or not. Much evidence has recently b...
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Made Sexual Advances Gacy Had Told Police
1,774 words... y showed no sexual interest in her that hurt Carole, but also what pained her even more was when she began to find magazines with naked men and boys in her house. She knew that Gacy was reading them and he acted nonchalantly about his new choice of reading material. In fact, Gacy had told Carole that he preferred boys to women. Naturally, Carole was distressed and she soon filed for divorce. The couples divorce became final on March 2, 1976. Although Gacy was having marital problems, he refu...
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Ministers Black Veil Nathaniel Hawthorne
856 wordsValuable Lessons Learned through the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne Throughout his works, Nathaniel Hawthorne utilizes symbolism to present a certain theme that pertains to human nature and life. In his works, The Scarlet Letter and The Ministers Black Veil, Hawthorne uses symbolism to present a common theme pertaining to religion: Though manifested sin will ostracize one from society, un confessed sin will destroy the soul. However, in his short story, The Birthmark, the author uses symbolism to ...
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H M S Suggested That Species
1,809 wordsCharles Darwin and the Development and impact of the Theory of Evolution by Natural and Sexual Selection It is commonly thought today that the theory of evolution originated from Darwin in the nineteenth century. However, the idea that species mutate over time has been around for a long time in one form or another. Therefore, by Darwin's time the idea that species change from one type into another was by no means new, but was rejected by most because the proponents of evolution could not come up...
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Death Row Inmates Sentenced To Death
1,284 words... ate with McVeigh's fingerprint, and the rented Ryder truck used for the bombing. Other examples of criminals who have suffered capital punishment include Rolando Cruz and another Chicago man. They were both sentenced to death in 1985 for the abduction, death, and murder of a ten-year-old little girl named Jeanine Nicarico. Because the prosecution had based its case on a vision statement, the conviction was overturned. There was another man who had actually confessed to the murder, however, h...
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The Witch Trials Of 1692
1,146 wordsDuring the winter of 1692, in the small village of Salem, Massachusetts, something terrible happened. Salem Massachusetts became the center of a horrible tragedy, which changed the life of many people. It was a time of fear, because of bad crops, Indian raids, and diseases. The people of Salem Village had to blame something, or someone. The people of Salem Village accused people, and called them witches. They were accused of all those terrible things and more. Salem Village was a small, farming ...
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Causes Of The Salem Witch Craft Trials
1,111 words... Hanson was certain that the girls were not possessed, but clinically insane (x). And that, he explained, may have been the result of witchcraft which, contrary to popular belief, is psychogenic, rather than occult. That means that the girls may have experienced their hysterical symptoms as a result of their fear. Regardless, the girls were insane, Hanson contended, long before any clergyman got to them. Another possible explanation for the girls insanity was ergot poisoning, a common problem...
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Losing His Reputation Greater Than The Pain Sin
826 wordsGod does not like the sin of adultery. He does not like lying. He does not like hypocrisy. There are two roads that one can choose. In the end, what may seem like the easy way may have far greater consequences than the hard way. Arthur Dimmesdale chose the easy path and learned that the pain of guilt is far greater than the pain of shame. From the start, Dimmesdale did not want to live with the consequence of his sin. To begin with, he must of told Hester not to tell anyone about his sin, becaus...
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Hester And Dimmesdale Scarlet Letter
1,171 wordsThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a novel that shows the Puritanical way of life. Society does not accept the fact that Hester has committed the sin of adultery so they cast her out by making her wear a scarlet letter A across her chest. Pearl is the product of Hester's sin, the scarlet letter is the product of society. This idea shows that Pearl is the scarlet letter and the scarlet letter is Pearl. There are many ways in which Pearl is shown to be as the scarlet letter because she i...
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Young Gentleman Satis House
1,128 words... rst time, with great dread, if we should come upon them, would my particular suppose that it was I who had brought the soldiers there?" (p. 34). When the convict is found, Pip tries to send him the message that he did not turn against him: "I had been waiting for him to see me, that I might try to assure him of my innocence. " (p. 38). The convict's loyalty towards Pip is obvious when he takes the blame for stealing the food and does not release Pip's name to the police: "I took some witches...
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Extraordinary Man Theory Crime And Punishment
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Year Old Girl Side Of The Road
2,078 wordsThe Dusseldorf Vampire Peter Kurten was born the 26 th of May 1883, in Cologne-Mulheim Germany. The eldest of 13 children, he was born into extreme poverty. Having to live in a small one-room apartment, he was witness to the violent outbursts of a drunken father. On his father? s side of the family there was a history of alcoholism and mental problems. Not only was Kurten subjected to the drunken violent assaults by his father, but was also witness to the forced rape of his mother on a continual...
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Bill Of Rights Communist Spies
1,547 wordsMcCarthyism not only destroyed the lives and careers of many Americans but also the innocent image of the country. Senator Joe McCarthy from Wisconsin was the same as any man. But when he cried Communism the world seemed to listen. Following the Cold War between Russia and the United States there came many hardships, such as unemployment and high inflation. These hardships produced a restless society. The society then looked for something or someone to blame (Fried, 39). They found someone to bl...
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Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale Hester And Pearl
1,253 wordsIn most stories with very few characters there are one or two good characters and several evil characters as well. Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter is a novel with no clear knight in shining armor and witch of the forest. Hawthorne makes a much more subtle conflict between characters. He plays with the individuals judgment and moral standards. If the story is analyzed however, it can be discovered that the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale is accountable for much of the suffering that occurs in...
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