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    Sociologists have many perspectives when it comes to the examination of our laws. Three out of many theories of lawmaking processes are the Rationalistic model, Functionalistic view, and Conflict perspective. Rationalistic models view laws as a rational way of increasing protection for members of society from crimes which are “socially injurious” (Vago 2012). Functionalist view look at where the ideas behind the laws come from and describes laws as “re-institutionalized customs”, where lawmaking

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    Martin Luther King preached the realities of what justice truly is. Nearly 50 years later our world is still having trouble with these ideas. There is no doubt that Martin Luther King was an extremely virtuous man. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, had a Ph.D. in systematic theology, was a baptist minister, and was probably the most recognized person in the civil rights movement. He was assassinated in 1968. The incident as described by Thich Nhat Hanh; "I couldn 't believe it. I thought the

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    than 5000 paintings, and written over 70 children plays and numerous short stories. Among these short stories is “Punishment”; in the story Tagore focuses on the condition of women in India; how women are suppressed living day-to-day and whether justice is served to the righteous. “Punishment” revolves around four main characters: Dukhiram, Chidam, Chandara, and Ramlochan Chakravariti. Dukhiram and Chidam, as the story goes on these characters show us the reality of what how society treats women

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    The Best Kind Of Judge

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    stated there were four qualities that belong to a judge and those were to hear courteously, answer wisely, consider soberly, and to decide impartially. The highest legal court, the Supreme Court has nine justices sworn to always provide the people who come before them with good governance and equal justice under law. The best kind of judge is a qualified and qualitative judge who renders to its community to sharpen a nation despite the complexity of the court’s procedures. A judge who reaches their policy

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    environment, so the observation mechanisms and action historically constituted by administrations, hinders the emergence of this issue, including a deficit approach dynamics of unequal facts and the environment. Different designs of the environment (and justice) defended by the approaches developed abroad on this theme, as well as those deployed by some recent research in

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    citizens are governed by an individual or small group of rulers. On the other hand, the idea of the rule of law is one that proposes that laws should be supreme over each citizen including the ruler(s). In their writings, Plato and Aristotle focused on justice and law, and the reasons they are important in society. Throughout history, many leaders have looked to these writings in hopes of establishing order and discipline in their nation through law. Although Plato and Aristotle ruled in a world ruled by

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    Ethical Dilemmas

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    Ethical Dilemmas  1     Ethical Dilemmas Larry Carter COM 425 May 31, 2010                           Ethical Dilemmas  2 Ethical Dilemmas In today’s world employees face many different challenges in the workplace, challenges which not only bring on difficult choices, but could also bring about unwanted change. One of these challenges is Ethical Dilemmas. When an ethical dilemma arises in the workplace an employee is faced with what to do. How do they

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    In summary of The Republic, Socrates sets out to answer not only what justice is, but also why we should be just. The first book sets up these challenges. The interlocutors engage in the dialectic similar to that found in other Platonic works. While among a group of both “teachers” and “students”, Socrates poses the question, “What is justice?” He proceeds to deny every suggestion offered in his usual fashion, showing how each contains contradictions [331c-337e]. As is also common, Socrates offers

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    Ethical Dilemma

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    every year and that number is increasing with more oil companies coming there has only some cases where the oil companies actually owned up to there mistakes and tried to fix what happened. The oil companies committing crimes also shows distributive justice in this case and they should be held for the cost of the victims suffering. They are destroying these people lives, these people have been there for many years before the oil companies have but they are just coming in and taking over their land and

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    Agamemnon Justice And Vengeance. Justice delivers the just recompense or payment for wrongdoing or transgression of a law. Justice evokes the feeling of equality and fairness. Wrongs done – wrongs rewarded. In so doing we live life as law abiders and not law breakers and have a reasonable expectation of abiding in civility, and not rebellious mayhem. Vengeance, on the other hand, is the emotional response to a perceived wrong without regard for how it stands up against the rule of law. It

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