Examples Of Justice In The Round House

One of the themes used in the book is of racism towards the Natives. An example used in the book is of Edward Sheriff Curtis who was a photographer of 1900s. Curtis was interested in taking pictures of Native people, but not just any Native person. “Curtis was looking for the literary Indian, the dying Indian, the imaginative construct” (King, 2003; pp. 34). He used many accessories to dress up people up “who did not look as the Indian was supposed to look” (King, 2003; pp.34). He judged people based on his own assumptions without any knowledge of the group and their practices. Curtis reduced the identity of the Native Americans to a single iconic quintessential image of what Native meant to white society. The idea related to the image of this group of people during the 1900s consisted of racism in terms of the “real looking Indian”. This is not

Retributive justice” by definition is a set of protocols and/or system designed to provide reward or punishment to the deserving person(s) regardless of consequences. As to whether or not this is the best system, I declare that it is not. Although during early civilization the “eye for an eye” system was used; however, one of the main issues was people of higher classes could buyout of the system. Consequently, only the poor or lower ranked individuals were constrained by this system, which led to a myriad of issues. Going forward, in a more modern time, many issues can be raised making it difficult to follow suit with a retributive justice. For instance, if a man were to rape another man’s wife, would the “mirror-image theory” be applied?

Education —an institution for success, opportunity, and progress — is itself steeped in racism. In Sherman Alexie’s short story “Indian Education” from his book The Longer Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven is set in two places, the Spokane Indian Reservation and a farm town nearby the reservation. The story is written in a list of formative events chronologize Victor’s youth by depicting the most potent moment from each year he is in school. Alexie addresses the issue of racism in education by examining examples of injustice and discrimination over twelve years in a boy’s life. Victor faces his initial injustice in first grade when he is bullied by bigger kids, but his understanding of injustice becomes much more complex in grades two through twelve as he experiences discrimination against his American Indian identity. Familial experiences of a Native woman, Alexie’s style and humor, and Victor’s awareness of discrimination from grade one to twelve all reveal the grim reality of growing up and being schooled on an American Indian reservation.

He does not understand why his own mother would do such a thing to him. During this moment, Joe begins to transition from precociousness to the confrontation stage. After he kills his mother, he is confronted by Shola, who tells him that his mother is good and she is not the devil. Joe arrives at the Church with his mother’s body being carried in his arms. He lays her at the alter and begins to pray for forgiveness and to say his final goodbyes. His father rudely suggests that he removes Nunu’s body from the church. Joe’s will for his mother and his emotions got the best of him when he confronted his father about the truth and him being his child. Joe was intensely outraged and sat the church on fire burning himself and his father. At the moment of Joe’s death, Joe was in the internalization stage of black consciousness. Joe began to have positive attitudes about his mother’s culture and beliefs.

Wayne Dyer, a wise doctor who once said, “The ultimate ignorance is the rejection of something you know nothing about but refuse to investigate.” Ignorance can be defined as an uninformed or uneducated condition. How could one reject something they know nothing about without even acquiring information on the matter? Ignorance is clearly shown in Arthur Miller's play, The Crucible, regarding the judges of the Salem Witch Trials. Inspired by the McCarthy hearings of the 1950’s, The Crucible focuses on the Salem witch trials and the hidden agendas of those involved as well as the lack of accountability of those who were truly responsible. The play takes place in Salem, Massachusetts, in a unforgiving colony. The mass hysteria of the town begins with girls in the forest appearing to be practicing witchcraft. This begins a controversy that has detrimental consequences. Judge Danforth is most responsible for the mass hysteria in Salem because he neglected any thoughts of justice and replaced them with only thoughts of ignorance and power.

Circle justice, does it actually work? Michaela B 9D Is the Canadian justice system failing those that need it the most? The Canadian justice system has been called into question for many years and left everyone wondering if there was is another way to help our youth. Ask almost anyone in Canada what they think about our punishment based justice system chances are they will say that the system can be improved. But how would Canada improve the system?

“How stern the power of Almighty God who crushes sinners with such righteous blows(24.109-110)!” In Dante’s Inferno, Dante Alighieri describes a trip through Hell, visiting the various sinners and circles of Hell. Dante also uses many experiences and beliefs from his real life to enrich his views of Hell and his idea of Divine Punishment. Dante’s perception of Divine Justice includes sinners, whom he places in Hell for committing crimes without regret, they are placed lower in Hell according to the severity of their sins. Dante is not always just in his placement of sinners, his personal grudges and archaic Catholic beliefs get in the way of true Divine Justice.

Justice and Injustice The concept of justice and injustice varies between all beings, some may believe that justice equals equality, for example, an eye for an eye is the thinking of many, but many don't know the full quote, “An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind.(Gandhi)” Also some may believe justice remains in the hands of God and only he may punish the guilty for harming the innocent, in the Bible it states “Do not take revenge, my friends, but leave room for God's wrath, for it is written: “It is mine to avenge; I will repay.” (Bible Romans 12:19).” To many the way to serve justice is to move In The Round House by Louise Erdrich she portrays justice and injustice, through Joe's confused thoughts and actions, the actions of other key characters and the wise words of Father Travis.

Milly maintained that she would be able to free herself and her child from her father, yet her son's story begins with his struggle even with his first breath. When Joe was born he was pure; a light from the heavens, but the transposition of his persona becomes apparent as his life is abridged by the decisions he makes. Joe hung a chair, his murder weapon, over his head. At that moment he lost all innocence, "The course destiny chooses is in a sense superfluous, for we are not dealing with the kind of fatality which manifests itself in a dramatic progression of events, from which we cannot add or subtract a single one without changing its entire passage, for to do so would be like saying that someone has not fulfilled his destiny.” Pouillon tells of the belief that a man finds himself on a path and makes a decision not in order to achieve his destiny or in a pre determined path, but instead Joe bases his choices when they appear in front of him. He kills McEachern and after has to think about his next move. Running away with bobby was no longer an option after she rejected his marriage proposal. He moves towards the road much like in Frost’s poem:

When loyce was arrested and was headed to Hall of Justice because the cops thought Ed was going insane. After a while inside the cop car, Ed said “Now that I understand, there's no need to take me in”. He meant that he was calm and also realized that he was doing something wrong. Then he jump out of the cop car because the officers did not let him go. So, Ed saw an opportunity to jump and escape before he got caught

“God knows you’re welcome to it—so far as it was ever mine,” returned Joe, with a saving remembrance of Mrs. Joe. “We don’t know what you have done, but we wouldn’t have you starved to death for it, poor miserable fellow-creatur. Would us,

Everyone at some point in there has felt they were treated unjust by someone else; its apart of life. Unjust situations can happen any where from any one whether it be someone of higher authority or from a peer. Most of my experiences have been minuscule and the unjust treatment came from peers of mine. I have also seen others being treated unjust this instance I have seen mistreatment from peers and figures of authorities.

To choose between the two for me was very easy, I definitely prefered the trial over the circle justice. I found that the trial wasn't afraid to hurt feelings which got them the answers that they needed, so they could get to the bottom of things and find out who is guilty. With the circle justice I thought that they were too concerned about hurting others feeling which can prevent them from getting all the evidence from the case, also too I thought that the circle justice caused an outcome/ solution where the convict can get away with doing something easy and not actually changing. With a trial the person found guilty will get a punishment based on what they did and how bad of a crime they committed, the punishment will vary and it will be

Justice is about perspective because depending on whose point of view one looks at, the other’s actions may not serve everyone justice. For example, in Tale of Two Cities the poor people of France believe it is justified to murder all the aristocrats that mistreated them or refused to help them for all these years. However, the aristocrats believe that the poor people’s actions are not justified because majority of the aristocrats never physically harmed the citizens the way that the citizens are now harming them. The only aristocrat the readers saw hurt a poor person was the Monseigneur. After running over a child in the streets the Monseigneur exclaimed, “‘It is extraordinary to me,’ said he, ‘that you people cannot take care of yourselves and your children. One or the other of you is for ever in the way. How do I know what injury you

The Balanced and Restorative Justice (BARJ) approach introduced first in 1993 through a grant to Florida Atlantic University (FAU) began as a national initiative of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP). It seeks to serve juvenile offenders with a perspective to achieve restoration or a guaranteed favorable return to reverse their once delinquent behavior. It serves juvenile offenders providing them with a rehabilitation role instead of retribution role.