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    Civil Rights 1965-1970

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    “What new issues emerged for the civil rights movement in the period 1965-1970? How did black leaders respond to those issues in different ways?” During the period 1965-1970‚ new issues had emerged for the civil rights movement‚ such as the question of whether Martin Luther King’s philosophy of non-violent tactics were too moderate and limited‚ poverty and voting rights. During 1965 to 1970‚ black leaders responded to these issues in a number of ways. Responses to these issues included the forming

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    Crime and Punishment

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    The Power of Repentance Crime and Punishment‚ the classic Russian novel of guilt and repentance‚ explores crime in both a psychological and social sense. Through the deterioration of a murderer’s mind and through the lives of both criminals and non-criminals‚ author Fyodor Dostoevsky relates a worldview born from radical nihilism and his experience in a Siberian labor camp. Dostoevsky argues that “crime” is not civil but instead moral disobedience. His prison experience provides a unique perspective

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    Young Offenders Act (YCJA)

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    In 1982‚ the Young Offenders Act [YOA] was established. It replaced the Juvenile Delinquents Act [JDA] of 1908 and its main objective was to guarantee the rights and freedoms of Canadian Youth were being met. Many revisions and opportunities arose with the passing of the YOA. With the passing of the YOA‚ it provided the young offenders of Canada with extended rights‚ chances for rehabilitation‚ and also therapy institutions. The YOA takes into concern such elements of age‚ maturity‚ reasonableness

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    Treatment Plan

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    Running head: JUNGIAN Jungian’s Interpretation of June’s Dream Lynn Rainey Missouri Baptist University Abstract The treatment plan for June using the Jungian Theory based on dream interpretation and assessing two of the important relationships in June’s life: June and her daughter and June and her mother. Using the Jungian Theory can help bring June’s unconscious thoughts into consciousness and can help her achieve individuation and come to terms with the underlying cause of her dreams

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    The 1970s were times of chaotic events held over from the chaos of the 1960s. The 70s brought Americans an end to the Vietnam War and a change in the political and social perspectives‚ another presidency term with Richard M. Nixon‚ and his policies of engagement‚ and the Watergate scandal‚ leading to the first resignation of an American President. The end of the Vietnam War led to political and social fallout around the globe‚ especially in America. All of the chaos of the 1970s also led Americans

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    proper punishment to you? Can you guess what topic I am to present? Ok‚ today I would like to talk about the crime and punishment in Hong Kong. Whenever you read newspaper or watch the news on TV‚ you can notice that the increasing number of crime but behind the fact of the crime. Do you think the punishment given to the offenders is appropriate? To me‚ I discovered that some of the offenders are too heavily punishment while some of them are not effectively deterred by the punishment. Just give

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    Cruel Punishment Just like defining “Law‚” cruel punishment has no universally expected definition. The existing legal systems define cruel punishment in terms that best suit the applicability of their legal system as well as considering the expected morals in a particular society. The complexity surrounding definition of cruel and unusual punishment has been made possible by the elasticity of society and therefore flexibility of morals. What is moral in one society is definitely not moral in

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    thought or identified with politics and politicians concerning themselves or their cliques. Whereas before the 1960’s the general consensus was to vote accordingly as to what was for the good of the nation as a whole. The reason historians blame the 1970’s for this type of self-centeredness is that there was not a fundamental common ground for the entire American population to focus on to bring it together. This type of thinking became known as identity politics because of the divisions that were created

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    Marinere shows love to those around him through his continued “punishment.” He travels lands and retells his tale to someone at an unknown time. He cannot anticipate where‚ when‚ or who it will be with (VII. 615-625). He feels the need to share his knowledge to keep others from from making the same mistake. A learn from my story not from your mistake‚ type of mentality. He does this not because of some divine force or outside punishment‚ but because he has not fully forgiven himself and still carries

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    Capital Punishment is a complex topic taking someone else’s life to benefit the others they have stolen beginning a cycle that nobody can really end. The costs and effects could be grave to the system and everyone in and around it without some sound advice and reasoning to make sense of why it is done. I chose to look at three viewpoints that define and pick apart the justifications and oppositions of capital punishment. The first view is coming from a duty point of view; the second a consequences

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