Indian Trials and Fair Treatment
One thing that Historians have noticed about the mass execution of the Indians is how differently Lincoln treated the Indian rebels versus the Confederate rebels. In an article from the New York Times in 2014, it mentions how Confederate soldiers were not given the death sentence even though they killed over 400,000 Union soldiers. Whereas the Indians, who only killed 490 white settlers were given the death sentence. The trial against the Indians was very unfair considering the Indians didn't…...
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The Role of the Omnipresent Door in The Trial, a Novel by Franz Kafka
In Franz Kafka's The Trial, K. goes through an omnipresent door which shows K's situation where one side of the door is blurry from the other. Making his way through a convoluted and anarchic city, he is repeatedly going in and out of doors, passageways, and halls. K. says he goes: “through an opening which had no door,” (65) and surely realizes that he is lost. David Foster Wallace said the joke in Kafka's work is "that the horrific struggle…...
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The Injustice in the Trial of Socrates
Socrates and Justice In dialectic with Polus, Socrates argues that committing an injustice is worse than suffering one. This assertion is largely based on Socrates' intuition that by nature, humans shun evil, meaning that because of the damage that the commission of injustice inflicts upon the soul, one would prefer to receive an injustice rather than inflict one. Here, I will argue that despite the eloquent rhetoric Socrates offers in support of his claim, certain situations and individual tendencies can…...
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Absurdity in The Trial, a Novel by Franz Kafka
“The Trial,” the 1925 novel by Franz Kafka, follows the story of Josef K., an influential bank clerk who wakes up one day to find that he is under arrest for a crime which will not be named to him, and which, to the best of his knowledge, he has not committed. The reader is thrown into a whirlwind of court proceedings, romantic conquests, meetings with lawyers, hallucinations, and more, as K. tries to understand and overcome his predicament. “The…...
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A Case Analysis of the Trial of the Century, the Leopold and Loeb Trial of 1924
The murder of Bobby Franks and the Illinois vs. Leopold and Loeb Trial of 1924 shocked the populace of Chicago?. The murder was gruesome. The motive unknown. The murders—crazed. The Leopold and Loeb Trial is undoubtedly worthy of the title "Trial of the Century" because the perplexing crime gripped the imagination of the people and because the trial highlighted captivating, dramatic speeches. To begin, the Leopold and Loeb Trial is worthy of the title "Trial of the Century" because the…...
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