Comparing Korede And Ayoola

In contrast, the eleven year old girl is describing how she is the enemy. The parental figures in her life were manipulative in ways that subject them to abiding by the society when it comes to the rules in the women gender.

The narrator, a young girl named Nea, starts the story in the middle of action. She told that she stabbed a man with knife at eleven years old in order to release her older sister, Sourdi, from the man. “I charged and stabbed the man in the sleeve” (9). This situation is not only a introduction of this story to the readers, but the further explanation of the events explains each of the characters involved in this story. The main character of this story is Ma, who willing to sacrifice Sourdi’s happiness in order to please the man in the society. Next, Sourdi is another main character in this story. She has beautiful face that attracted the attention from admirers throughout this story. Then, Nea is also main character in this story. She is impulsive young girl who reacts in rash to protect her sister from the men that can threaten their relationship.

In the novel, Just Mercy, by Bryan Stevenson, the author depicts his experiences with cases that dealt with racial inequality and unfair convictions. The most prominent case in the novel is about a man named Walter McMillian who was unjustly convicted of a murder charge and sentenced to death row. Throughout the story, it is apparent that McMillian’s case was more complicated than just racial profiling because it was entangled with deception. The unlawful behavior executed by law officials: judges, lawyers, police officers, to indict Walter McMillian counteracts the basis of the system of which judicial officials should abide by. To elaborate, judicial officials should be protecting the public by representing them with the use of the law. However, they occasionally ignore or withhold evidence that would alter an outcome that they did not support. Despite the fact that judicial officers incriminate citizens through their own racial biases such as racial profiling to benefit themselves in some aspect, the pressure derived from society is another factor that ultimately plays a significant role in the outcome or punishment of convicted criminals.

In Whale Rider, Antigone, and The Long Walk Home, the authors of these tales laid the foundation for their stories with flawed characters who must make ethical choices with the knowledge they are given. The authors show the consequences of the characters’ decisions and how having social equality for all creates (or, would have created) a more suitable scenario for all the characters. Each of the stories has a disadvantaged character who resists rules to create impartiality and manages to succeed (even though it might result in their death). Although they all have justice brought forward at their ends, the stories have slightly different mindsets on how justice should be achieved. Collaboratively, the stories suggest that people should try to understand each others’ points of view in order to provide justice, which in turn allows for freedom.

Justice is neither automatic nor inevitable; the attainment of justice typically entails the sacrifice and suffering of those attempting to achieve it. In essence justice is an ideal, which the majority of individuals universally attempt to realize or uphold, however due to the avarice or agendas, which serve the interests of minorities, this ideal is sometimes subverted. Those performing the miscarriage of justice can become unscrupulous in their methods of maintaining this standard of injustice in efforts of self-preservation. This often results in the suffering of those carrying out their quest for justice. This idea, and the concept that the miscarriage of justice can have long lasting and far reaching effects which can never be fully

According to Quotes About Injustice (n.d.), “In the beginning there was only a small amount of injustice abroad in the world, but everyone who came afterwards added their portion, always thinking it was very small and unimportant, and look where we have ended up today” (Quotes About Injustice, n.d.). In this paper I will be talking about the injustices in the criminal justice system and the criminal justice procedures. Injustices in the Criminal Justice System According to Meadows (2001, pg.

Part 1: This reading makes me question whether or not the Justice System is actually getting justice fairly because based on this book, there seems to be a lot of wrongful accusations based on races and what people believed that people of that race could do. The author mentions that our real character is shown through how we treat the poor, the accused, the incarcerated and other people who aren’t of high standing. The Justice System does not seem to be doing this based on the cases in this book and the encounter that the lawyer had with the police outside of his house!

Injustice has been an issue that has plagued our country for decades in many ways. Whether it was injustice against African Americans in the 1960’s or injustice within the court’s judicial system in the 1990’s, injustice has continued to exist within our nation. In Letters from a Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King Jr. describes the various injustices against citizens of African American descent, and describes the need for actions to be taken against them. Similarly, in Trial by Fire, David Grann describes the injustices within the judicial system about falsely incriminating inmates and convicting innocent people of the death penalty. Both authors use various types of rhetoric including telos, kairos, pathos, logos, and ethos, to help

As stated in the beginning of this paper, I have always been aware of the “favoritism” in the justice system but this has help me develop a more logical understanding of it. I have also come to realize that my brother was apart of that favoritism because he is white. While writing this paper, I’ve experienced many emotions. Those emotions ranged from sadness to confusion to anger.

Prior to this realization the author found himself as being a head strong, young, ambitious, and up and coming prosecutor. He felt that ninety-nine percent of the defendants were guilty and that his only job was to put bad people behind bars. It seemed that he didn’t look at the people he prosecuted as people but as “others” that needed to be reprimanded for committing crimes. To add, he was also aware that the system was unfair, acknowledging that he was aware that during trial ninety-nine percent of police officers lied under oath. Despite all of these things it seemed that his desire for justice outweighed the fact that sometimes justice entails not strictly following the law especially where there is evidence that the law isn’t being adhered to by all

Justice is a very important element in today’s society as well as in the past. However, injustice is something that is becoming more and more common in several countries around the world. Yet, a lack of justice often resolves by an unfair or undeserved outcome. This theme is shown through Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, William Shakespeares’s The Merchant of Venice and Bob Dylan’s poem Blowin’

Justice, in the eyes of modern society creates many mixed emotions. However, Sandel tackles the issue by providing the reader with many applications of justice in terms of the government. One will discover that, as he is presents unbiased opinions of the subject, it is up to the individual citizen to have justice in their own life.

The conventional accounts of Justice normally begin by stating a fundamental rule of Aristotle – Justice is to treat equals equally and unequals unequally, and that unequal treatment should be in proportion to the inequality. In everyday life though, justice is seen as an attribute of law, while all laws are not necessarily just. Many great socio- political movements of the world have focused from time to time on unjust laws eg Apartheid laws in South Africa and Caste laws in India. Impartiality and fairness are understood to be the two aspects of justice. But it would be misleading to suggest that Justice refers solely to the fair application of a rule.

Justice is an arduous concept to conceive. It’s arduous in a sense that each individual has their own independent perception of what justice truly is. Furthermore, individuals have distinctive definitions of justice through the influence of their social class and identity. These individuals’ classes and identities are defined by systems within society. These systems segregate groups of people and often times lead to disparities within the group.

The resentment within the young girl’s family is essential to the novel because one can understand the young girl better as she makes her decision.