grief during the witch hunts‚ they were justified in doing this because they were acting in accordance to their laws against a perceived threat that they thought could have seriously and severely
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were made smarter. Smaller drones were developed which could fly into unsafe areas like war zones and were able to drop bombs in a military strike (pacans).The question arises that‚ ‘what caused U.S to start the drone attacks in various countries?’It was after the September 11‚ 2001 attack on World Trade center when the Bush administration initiated drone strikes against suspected members of Al-Qaeda and the other armed groups. The CIA carried out its first targeted drone killing in 2002 in Afghanistan
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Racism cannot be justified‚ because not only can we all relate to each other because we are all humans. But racism is also unloving‚ and in the end that in what is important not our ethnicity. Native american were treated badly during the colonization of the new world‚ and to this day continue to be treated poorly. Initially they were treated well by the settlers‚ but as time went on they began to be manipulated. When the Spanish came to the Americas with an unquenchable thirst for gold
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Jay Gatsby‚ born James Gatz‚ the son of poor farmers‚ “sprang from his platonic conception of himself” (Fitzgerald 98). Thanks to a job on millionaire Dan Cody’s yacht‚ Jay was inspired to change his way of life. Despite his mysterious past‚ including rumours that he killed a man‚ Gatsby was in every way a tragic hero. After meeting a beautiful girl named Daisy in Louisville‚ Gatsby spent his whole life fighting to be with her. He was too poor to ever be seen with her‚ so he got in deep with some
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Today I will talk about how Jay Gatsby and Hamlet are alike? I will also show you how they are different from each other. Both of them are tragic heroes in a way‚ but their tragic flaws are different. Jay Gatsby’s tragic flaw is that he is trying to make his dream turn into reality. Hamlets tragic flaw is that he has an inability to balance reason and passion. Hamlet said “O‚ what a rogue and peasant slave am I! Is it not monstrous that this player here‚ But in a fiction‚ in a dream of passion‚
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whether or not CEOs deserve their multimillion dollar salaries. According to Kevin J Murphy (professor of finance and business economics)‚ CEO compensation is justified because CEOs increase stock prices which‚ in turn‚ increases shareholder wealth. In contrast‚ Lisa H Newton (professor of philosophy) argues that CEO compensation is not justified due to the large disparity between CEO salaries and the salary of an average worker. She also argues that high CEO salaries "bad stewardship of resources."
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The world changed in 1945 when the atomic bomb was dropped on Japan‚ many people have debated whether or not this was necessary. The United States atomic bombing of Japan was justified. The Japanese would not have given up if the United States had not dropped the two atomic bombs. The Japanese code to encrypt messages was called the Purple Code‚ by this time in the war the United States had long broken the Purple Code and in their “Secret” messages. They said that they were not going to surrender
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is the act of killing or executing a person who was found guilty of a serious crime‚ by the government. Capital punishment became widespread during the Middle Ages and was applied throughout Western Europe for more than two thousand years. Although‚ the call to abolish it started in the 18th century‚ some of the first countries being Venezuela in 1863‚ San Marino in 1865‚ and Costa Rica in 1877. Great Britain abolished the death penalty in 1965 and was permanently outlawed in 1969. By 2004‚ eighty-one
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Examine the extent to which expenditure on arms and the armed forces is justifiable in the modern world. ! ! With all its wars‚ terrorist attacks and genocides‚ history might suggest that the armed forces has a critical and unquestionable role in any nation-state. However‚ as Steven Pinker puts it “We believe our world is riddled with terror and war‚ but we may be living in the most peaceable era in human existence’. Since the peak of the cold war in the 1970s and 80s‚ organised conflicts of all
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Are constructivist criticisms on realism justified? Introduction In this essay‚ I will argue that constructivist criticisms on realism are justified‚ provided that the alternative procedural decision making process that constructivists offer seems plausible. I will argue for this by showing that not only arguments derived from is/ought problem‚ but also practical problems justify the criticisms constructivist have towards realism. First of all‚ one viewpoint that realists and constructivists
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