Execution by Hunger
Miron Dolot. Execution By Hunger: New York: W.W. Norton & Company
Inc., 1985
Miron Dolot’s book, EXECUTION BY HUNGER, is a detailed account as seen
through the eyes of a true survivor during the reign of Stalin and the
Soviet Union between 1929-1933. In his accounts, he portrays
atrocities against human civilization while documenting his real life
experiences and those of his fellow Ukrainian village farmers. He
portrays them as victims of their own time period. Victims of a new
wave of political beliefs, namely collectivization were enforced by
Stalin and his followers in the name of Communism.
Dolot convinces the reader that powerful forces of government made it
clear to village farmers there was no option for them. They had no
choice but to join the collective farm. It was a do or die situation;
a matter of survival with the consequences of rebellion meant arrest,
execution, concentration camps, or starvation. Do...
Food depravation is a method that people use to affect the human spirit in a negative way. In the story Maus by Art Spiegelman, food is used to make the prisoners weak. For example, at the concentration camp Art’s dad is talking to his fellow prisoner Mandelbaum “I spilled most of my soup too. When I asked for more, they BEAT me" (Spiegelman pg. 29). This affects the human spirit because when people typically ask for more food, they don't get beaten. Food is also used as a currency in the camps. In this scene, Art’s dad is talking to the gestapo and the gestapo wants Vladek to fix his boot; “Can you fix this? I’ll give you a day’s ration of bread. For a day’s ration of bread I can fix anything! Next day I had the boot ready for this gestapo….Hmm. He left the boot and went without one word. And he came back with a whole sausage. You did a good job” (Spiegelman pg. 61). Food is used as currency because in this case Vladek had a skill of fixing boots and his reward for doing a good job was a whole sausage. This shows how valuable food is in the concentration camps. In the story Farewell to Manzanar, food is also used to destroy the human spirit. Jeanne, the author, is being fed by the staff at the camp and her meal was ".... scoops of canned Vienna sausage, canned string beans, steamed rice that had been cooked too long, and on top of the rice a serving of canned apricots. The Caucasian servers were thinking that...
A guillotin is an apparatus designed for efficiently carrying out executions by beheading. The device consists of a tall, upright frame in which a weighted and angled blade is raised to the top and suspended. Guilliotin was a faster way of death than a axe, the axe took to many try's to behead someone. So the guilliotin was built to make the beheading someone faster. Over some 200 years of use, the guillotine claimed the heads of tens of thousands of victims. The guilliotin had a name killing machine, “Saint Guillotine” served as a symbol of the French Revolution. The name “guillotine” dates to the 1790s and the French Revolution, but similar execution machines had already been in existence for centuries. A beheading device called the “planke” was used in Germany and Flanders during the Middle Ages, and the English had a sliding axe known as the Halifax Gibbet, which may have been lopping off heads all the way back to antiquity. The French guillotine was likely inspired by two earlier machines: the Renaissance-era “mannaia” from Italy, and the notorious “Scottish Maiden,” which claimed the lives of some 120 people between the 16th and 18th centuries.During the Reign of Terror of the mid-1790s, thousands
Murder, a common occurrence in American society, is thought of as a horrible, reprehensible atrocity. Why then, is it thought of differently when the state government arranges and executes a human being, the very definition of premeditated murder? Capital punishment has been reviewed and studied for many years, exposing several inequities and weaknesses, showing the need for the death penalty to be abolished.
Capital punishment is punishment for a crime by death, which is frequently referred to as the death penalty. Today, most countries have abolished the death penalty. America is one of the few countries that has kept this form cruel and inhumane form of punishment. In American history, the death penalty was abolished, but it was brought back not long afterwards. Not only is capital punishment inhumane and pricey but it also voids our rights as a citizen and is unconstitutional. Capital punishment is an improper form of punishment that needs to be abolished in all states.
Food is an incredibly critical part of any living being’s life and for most people, it is a very enjoyable part. However, though the prisoners of the Gulag were lucky enough to eat a meal, they were only offered it two times a day and were fed food in low quality. The prisoners were offered kasha, a vegetable stew with its content “depend[ing] on the kind of vegetable it provided” that season (Solzhenitsyn, p. 10); magara, a
The guillotine was one of the fastest and most painless ways to kill people. Before that though there were a lot more painful and torturous ways to execute people. For example, they used to hang people but they would also torture them, to make their death even more painful. During the Enlightment, people favored human rights and their well being, so they didn’t torture people as bad as before. During the Enlightment, people got more rights so they couldn’t be tortured as much like former executions. The guillotine made execution a lot better. The guillotine was an enlightened way to execute people.
The literal definition of the word hunger plays a rather large role in the book as well as the figurative definition. The prisoners were not being cared for properly by the prison guards. In addition, the prisoners were separated by physical appearance and age. The ones too old to work were sent to be killed in the gas chambers. The people who were fit to work were sent to be enslaved and work under Natzi rule. They were often so malnourished that they became ill, unable to work, and shot because of their inability to work. For example, during the liberation of Buchenwald, the children were fed nothing over the six day liberation. The poor, desperate children had to eat garbage from the kitchen and grass. They ate grass like common animals. There was a large need for sustainable hunger during the Holocaust.
Imagine being wrongly accused of a crime. It is a truly nerve wrecking feeling. Better yet, imagine being wrongly accused of a capital crime in which a guilty verdict would result in the loss of life. Although certain crimes merit the punishment of death, Congress should still put an end to all forms of capital punishment throughout the United States since it is an unfair, irrevocable, and costly practice. When someone is convicted of a capital crime their life depends on their ability to defend their innocence, an ability which can be altered based on unfair factors such as wealth, class, or level of education. Capital punishment is a very risky practice since the punishment of death is irrevocable, once someone is put to death there is no
While obtaining food seemed to be the entire purpose of life for the people imprisoned in the camps, it often killed more people than it saved. Though focusing on food seemed like a logical thing to do when you are being starved, it was not always very effective in helping people survive. There are many situations in the book illustrating how living for the sole purpose of acquiring food—under any condition—could turn out to be lethal.
man from killing again then so be it. I don't know if it is immoral
Euthanasia should be legalized for terminally ill individuals on a voluntary basis to reduce medical costs, prevent prolonged physical pain and unnecessary suffering, and to preserve the dignity of the dying person. Terminally ill patients often accumulate massive amounts of medical expenses. In addition to costs, terminally ill patients are subject to excruciating pain and discomfort due to the disease and/or treatments involved, given only to prolong the inevitable. When a person is dying, he or she may have very little or no say in what goes on in one’s own home, finances, or other aspects of that person’s life, but one reserves the right to die with dignity intact.
In 1997, 80% of Americans favored the death penalty. A recent national poll found that, that number has significantly dropped to an all time low of 63%percent. In addition, those favoring the death penalty dropped to fifty percent when those polled were asked to assume that the alternative to the death penalty was life in prison with no chance of parole. And, the amount of death sentences imposed in the United States during the recent years has dropped to the lowest level since capital punishment was reinstated. Hence, it would seem that our society’s attitude toward capital punishment is changing as well. What was once ordinary is now abnormal, and what was once essentially unquestioned is now questioned.The debate over the legitimacy or morality of the death penalty may be almost as old as the death penalty itself and, in the view of the increasing trend towards its complete abolition, perhaps as outdated. Capital punishment is horribly flawed, ineffective at deterring crime, completely unethical, outrageously expensive, and has no place in a civilized society.
...evolt and, in real life, it is estimated that somewhere between 4 and 10 million Ukrainian peasants were starved to death by Stalin. In the book, the hens smashed their own eggs to protest Napoleon’s action; in real life, the Ukrainian farmers slaughtered their own livestock before joining a collective as a form of protest. The problem got so out of hand that Stalin eventually executed any farmer found guilty of engaging in the practice.
At the began as we know the capital punishment is the most popular problem in our world in these days .Meaning of capital punishment is killing someone who killed another one Regardless of whatever reasons, moreover in our life there are several reasons which push killer to do this mistakes .Now in many countries and stasis use this the penalty for justice, on the other hand there are some countries do not use capital punishment for many reasons .For example , they said we have to respect human rights due to put the killer in jail forever ,in additionin some other parts in our world use this Punishment to get a justice as Saudi Arabia ,Iran ,China and USA. Some of the religions tell us to do this Punishment because God's law of the land as Islam, overtime some religion do not use this punishment as Buddhism."The death penalty has been part of human society for millennia, understood to be the ultimate punishment for the most serious crimes". At this point we understand the capital punishment is the biggest mistake and the most serious that cannot be forgiven. The death penalty represents a controversial issue in some cultures.The argument of the supporters of the death penalty in that it deters crime.
The death penalty has been present, in one way or another, for virtually as long as human civilization has existed. The reasons why are apparent; it is intrinsically logical to human beings that a person who takes the life of another should also be killed. This philosophy is exemplified in the famous Biblical passage, "An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth." However, in light of recent research into ethics, criminology and the justice system, the time has come for us to re-examine our ageless paradigm of revenge.