A red line is the difference written in blood between two groups. A blue line is the difference based on authority. A black line is the difference based on words, that is, law. A white line is the difference based on death.
Constantinople: The door was chalked with a heap of chalk; around the house stretched a thin white line, indicating that the house contained plague. This is an unpleasant image, on which I will not dwell. A strange, contemporary thought: almost every property in London has had Death in it; very few houses can be said to be clean of Death. A City of bodies...
The bustle of Modern Day London highlighted the travel of the Queen. She was moving in her horse drawn carriage, and the horses and their liveried riders were immaculately groomed. Long live the Queen! Everyone loves the Queen – especially those who do not. The carriage was beautiful. London had been a Danish city? The gold and black of the carriage symbolises power, and the words of the law.
Gouverneur Morris' neat penmanship controlled the lives of about three hundred million people directly, and influenced sometimes strongly, the lives of the rest of the world. A few black lines, written on a few pieces of paper, and called the Law – in capitals – by many Americans. Of course, they have completely eviscerated the Constitution of its original meaning. New York ruled in its stead with its old World Trade Center, and the new World Trade Center to be.
One can also consider the Law of the Torah, approximately followed by Christians, Jews and Muslims (alphabetical), which directly controls the lives of a few billion believers, and indirectly the rest of the world.
Laws are not made for the benefit of those over whom it is made; if one is...
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...ears. Great Britain has about one every two to three years, before the 1900s. The United states only has recent conflicts, so I am not going to count them. Additionally, these numbers are not exact, since everyone's definition of a conflict is different. According to some, the only war the USA has won was the Civil War, since there are no winners in war – well done United State, for you have my vote. These are only empires still easily visible today, and does not include for example, Mongolia, Persia, Ottoman Empire, and so on. Can we not just go swimming and leave the wars for somebody else, anybody?
For it is the red that bleeds, not the blue; it is the white that dies not the black. Perhaps one should get rid of all the lines; but then, who knows any better?
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“Please Sir, may I have some more?” is quoted from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens.
The book, The Ghost Map, tells the story of the cholera outbreak that took place in England during the medieval era. During this time, London became popular, causing it to become one of the most populous urban cities in England. However, it suffered from overcrowding, a large lower class, and little health regulations. As a result, living conditions and water supply were not the cleanest, and many died from the disease cholera. Though this epidemic led to many deaths/illnesses during it’s time, it has proven to be helpful and important to public health today. Some public health advancements that have occurred as a result include healthier, cleaner, and longer lives lived.
passengersâ€like a city in a nightmare. The street shone out in contrast to its dingy neighbourhood, like a fire in a forest and with its freshly painted shutters, well polished. brass and general cleanliness and gaiety of noteâ€'. The diversity between these two quotes shows how the higher and lower classes differed which reflect the Victorian way of life. However, if you look at the story in more depth, the reader begins to see a deeper meaning hidden in the words of the novella.
over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to
Barker (2014, p.1) suggests that the law may be defined as a rule of human conduct, imposed upon and enforced among the members of society in which laws are inaugurated to ensure that social order continues. As a result, laws ensure that members of society may live and work together in an orderly manner by following the same rules. However, laws have different affects on individual members in society and from this point of view, this essay will focus on how laws in society affect individuals in minority and disadvantaged groups.
Aberth’s comprehensive analysis regards the reactions of a diverse variety of people during the era of the Black Plague. The geographical documents contribute to the overall non-discriminatory sense of The Black Death by unmistakably agreeing that the plague consumed every country, town, and home within its grasp. Whether it was a large town or a small community of homes, the plague could disturb any area. While different professionals have varying ideas of where the plague originated, it is collectively agreed upon between the geographical contributors that the plague, at its peak, had extended to every region. This understanding suggests that even those who chose to leave their homes in an attempt to escape the plague would probably not be spared. One writer in particular represents the overall non-discriminatory sense by proclaiming, “How amazingly does it [the plague] pursue the people of each house,” (18).
The Thin Red Line portrays war as a filthy, horrible, and emotionally destructive thing. The film seeks to show that we, as humans, have managed to create something that not only is physically destructive, but is mentally destructive to those who take part in it. James Morrison, in his review of the film in Film Quarterly, writes that: The Thin Red Line is an anti-war film, but unlike other anti-war films that it superficially resemb...
Laws are structured and implemented to benefit the masses. Unfortunately this objective is not always achieved. The constitution of the states is considered the best work of law yet it is unable to save the life of a child. Clearly the problem of violence is turning more into a socio-cultural and psychological problem than a legal one. However laws still need to be implemented justly in order to preserve the freedom and rights of me...
Are we morally obliged to obey even unjust laws? Think about what this means. This means that laws, regardless of how unfair, unjust, or immoral they may be, must be followed with no better reason that they are the law. To the thesis that we are obliged to obey even unjust laws, I will argue that the standard objections to Civil Disobedience, given by Singer, are incorrect
Graveyards were full, medicine failed, parents abandoned ill children and in just six months, millions had died. It was the beginning of the Black Death. It was a deadly plague that spread through Europe and Asia from the mid 1330’s -50’s. The cause of death for twenty million people, the survivors thought it was God’s anger at something they had done and, therefore, the end of the world. In Venice, ninety thousand died and in Florence, half the population. There were three types of the plague. The Bubonic plague was the most common, the Pneumonic Plague was less common and the Septicaemic Plague was the most deadly and rarest of them all.
In order to understand the entire concept of changing such a monumental law one must look at it from both sides. One can
This book follows an esteemed doctor and a local clergyman who, together, are the heart of an investigation to solve the mystery of the cholera epidemic. In 1854 London was ravaged by a terrible outbreak of cholera, where within the span of mere weeks over five hundred people in the Soho district died. London, at the time, was a city of around two and a half million people, all crammed into a small area with no system for sewage removal. With overflowing cesspools, improper drainage of all the human and animal waste, and no system for guaranteed clean water, the people of London were in a bad state. They were essentially dumping all of their feces into their drinking water supply, a perfect environment for cholera to thrive.
laws made by others in our society, and decide whether or not the laws we make
The spreading of belief allows the prophet to gain followers and eventually establish traditions which surround religion, whether it be holidays, ceremonies, or even the manner of death in some extreme cases. Based off the traditions established by these religions, societies soon formed and grew while strictly following the word of god, which, in modern days, has been collected into a single collective book. Three books exist between the religions. The Torah for Judaism, the Bible for Christianity, and the Qur’an for Islam. These books detail a certain creed or code through the use of anecdotes and parables, but are generally boiled down to a list which can vary in size from Christianity’s Ten Commandments to Judaism’s 613 laws, regardless of the rhetoric displayed in the enormous amount of pages written throughout the three texts. These laws are generally simplistic and followable without much thought, unless of course if one is a philosopher, in which case there is always room for questioning. However, Judaism in particular, having 613 separate laws, becomes very specific in their laws which range from what to eat when all the way up to what kind of punishment a man should receive if he has been caught committing a crime. Some of the harsher laws have been repealed or amended, but ascetic courts still exist in closed Jewish society, with some places still following Jewish law to a T (however this practice is rare outside of middle eastern communities where Judaism rules.) And since the topic of Judaism is fresh on the mind, it shall be the first detailed separately from the others.
Scattered allover the land fitting with a friend or maybe someone they have just met and never saw before. The line they never saw before is the line between them and whom they were fighting. They couldn’t see this line but they new it was there and what was needed to be done to cross this line.
The world is wrought with dueling philosophies and principles. From political parties to legal ideologies, the world seems destined to be divided into some type of dichotomy. The legal philosophies of Positive and Natural law are no different. Many of us notice these differences, as most of the time they are quite obvious, but most of us do not, however, take the time to ponder and mull over in our minds just why these distinctions are important. It is not enough to say that two things are different or are simply opposed. Rather, the ability to truly understand the philosophical and jurisprudential underpinnings of each school of legal thought, one must engage why this distinction must be made in the first place and what effect this has on our legal understanding. It is my intent to show in this paper, on top of explicating the basal differences between the two ideologies, why making the distinction between the two is important. Various pieces of legal literature will be used in order to convey this point, such as pieces by Lon Fuller including the infamous debate between himself and H.L.A. Hart. To better understand the background of these jurisprudential philosophies, we will first explore their histories and explicate the details of their respective precepts. When one first thinks of natural law, the first word that often pops up in the mind is morality. The concept can be delineated all the way back to Aristotle, who stressed that just because something was seen as being just in the eyes of the law did not mean that it was necessarily just in the eyes of nature. Indeed, natural law can be seen as a body of moral principles that are said to help guide human conduct. These laws are said to derive from nature it...