While assuming JIB to be true, Shelton wages war on the government and by extension those who support it. He views this as a last resort, since he watched all the other non-violent options fail him. Thus this war can be justified. Shelton is justified in his actions because he is redressing a wrong suffered, and his intentions are to rid the corruptness from the judicial system. The people that Shelton killed are considered combatants because they support they governmental system and work with it.
Being the son of a top ranking admiral in the Navy, his case became highly publicized. While obviously being against torture, he also believes it is morally wrong for the torturer. In his work, he gives three main points to support his war on torture: the issue of the reliability intelligence gained (423), other country’s following in our footsteps regarding torture (424), and the mental harm inflicted in the process (424). In war, the soldiers strategically use intelligence in order to gain an upper hand over the enemy. But what good is intelligence if it’s not accurate (423)?
Introduction: The All American Serial Killer When a young child has their world flipped upside down and ends up feeling abandoned and unwanted, what makes of this child in the future? You come up with a man who enjoys rape, torture and the dismembering of other human beings. The individual in question, happens to be a man who became one of America’s most notorious serial killer; Jeffrey Dahmer. On May 21st, 1960, Lionel and Joyce Dahmer gave birth to a beautiful baby boy named Jeffrey (truTV, A Happy Little Boy, 2008). Joyce had a difficult labor, but despite it all, the baby was born healthy.
She will be the man here” (519). This quote explains Kreon’s irritation on Antigone. The very moment Antigone buries her be loving brother’s body Kreon wants to take action with killing her because she disobeyed his law also Antigone’s sister, Ismene, because Kreon believes she was part of it too. Kreon believes if he does not kill Antigone he will no longer be one of the best rulers that people will look up too. This quote is important because it explains how Kreon begins to commit hubris.
Flint Marko was driven by desperation to save his daughter extend of jealousy or hatred such as everyone else, before leaving the his house after seeing his daughter Flint said “Im not a badperson just had bad luck” . Flint was convicted of the murder of peter’s uncle Uncles Ben. After accepting an offer from Eddie (Venom) Flint “Sells his soul to the devil” and agrees to get rid of Spiderman to be able to do what he needs to save his
She tempted a negro” (pg 217) When she broke this code, she realized that she needed to get rid of the evidence. Tom Robinson was the evidence and he became the scapegoat for her guilt and regret. “Cheating a colored man is ten times worse then cheating a white man’ (pg 201) He was used as a scapegoat because they would win. He was black, they were white, and the one that looses the battle is always the darker skinned. He was a scapegoat that was for sure to loose.
Fitz kills Verna, because he didn’t want to lose his presidency, and since she has already tried to assassinate he knows she is a threat alive. Another important piece of information is that with both scenarios, the wives had no part on influencing these murders. These situations are the first times they make bad decisions on their own, which shows them both heading down the wrong path. Macbeth states that he is just so far in that there is no turning back, which is similar to why Fitz because he was in the presidency so deep. If the scandal were to come out the affect it would have on him and the people around him would be exponential, and he just couldn’t risk
The story Marriage is a Private Affair by Chinua Achebe has a villain named Okeke. His stolid look on things made it hard for him to keep an amicable relationship with his son. Harrison Bergeron’s, by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., villain would be The H-G men. They go to extreme actions to provide equality. The Judges in The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe are considered villains because of how they torture innocent civilians.
John Proctor tried to keep his affair with Abigail from the court as long as possible until he pretty much had to break down and confess it. But instead of Abigail and the witch trials being exposed as a lie, Proctor is called a liar and then accused of witchcraft by the court. His sins being exposed destroyed him. THE CRUCIBLE is an excellent play that combines three basic ingredients for chaos. There wouldn't be any chaos without ideological insecurity, economic self-interest, and personal indiscretion throughout the characters.
“At the moment, there is a myth in circulation, a fable that goes something like this: Radical terrorists will take advantage of our fussy legality, so we may have to suspend it to beat them. Radical terrorists mock our namby-pamby prisons, so we must make them tougher. Radical terrorists are nasty, so to defeat them we have to be nastier.” (Applebaum). This is the story being used for validating of torture. There is no proof that this story has any truth.