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and on individuals, particularly young individuals, who are incarcerated. Asante utilizes an informal tone and jargon the way in which the penal and justice systems dehumanizes those it is meant to reform. Asante’s informal approach and use of jargon turns the issue of mass incarceration into a conversation that engages readers. His feelings about the penal system and justice system are spelled out in the form of a narrative, thus making it easier for the reader to remain engaged. Brian Stevenson

For this unit, I decided to read Kafka’s “In the Penal Colony.” The author, Franz Kafka, was an early 20th century middle-class Jew who lived in Prague and wrote mostly in German. The present short story, published in 1919, refers to an unnamed penal colony somewhere in the tropics and focuses on four characters: the commander of the camp, an invited foreign dignitary, a guard, and a victim. The story revolves a twisted idea of justice, where the punishment does not fit the crime, and the condemned

Are Prisons Obsolete? “Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.” - Angela Davis The prison is thought to be a permanent aspect of society, it is designed to incarcerate criminals to make way for a cleaner society. Because it is considered a necessity to keep societal order, many people find it hard to envision a life without it. A reason for this is the tainted reality that a

unequal.Law in literature has now become an established discipline for its gives a picture of what is happening in a society. This paper makes an attempt to study law and its portrayal in the literature by bringing in Franz Kafka’s short story “In the Penal Colony” in the context. Kafka’s short story can be studied as a depiction of a colonial state and its people being deprived of a proper judicial system and thus are facing injustice and inequality. Keywords: Law, authority, literature, Franz

Mary Reibey becoming a convict made a huge impact on her life because she wouldn’t have had the same experiences and opportunities that she would have had if she lived in England than if she hadn’t had been transported to Australia when she was so young. If she didn’t become an convict she wouldn’t have become of on Australia’s most successful business women and would have made a big impact of the trade industry in Australia either. Mary Haydock was born on the 12th of May 1777 in Bury, UK. She

Mary Reibey was impacted throughout the convict experience. In Mary’s situation she was impacted in mostly a positive way, but also in some negative. While she was convicted and transported to Australia for stealing at horse at the age of thirteen, this strong and determined woman went on to become Australia’s first successful businesswoman. As a very private person, her actions spoke for her during a male dominant period. As an enterprising and determined person with a strong personality, Reibey

Convicts have shaped a huge part of Australia’s history and identity, short and in the long term effects of convicts on the development of Australia. Both shedding negative and positive light. The transportation of convicts from Great Britain to Australia which lasted for 80 years leaving a significant mark on Australia’s history. A promenade long term effect of the convicts in Australia in our history are the buildings built by convicts some not even as long as 200 years ago. Still until this

In the Penal Colony - Franz Kafka Short Story, Fiction In the Penal Colony portrays a main protagonist who is referred to as the Explorer. The Explorer observes the negative impact totalitarianism takes on humanity, as he observes an island community run purely off justice enforced by a single torture apparatus. I believe the main idea revolving around this text is the issue of totalitarianism in third-world countries and how it can be avoided. An underlying example of how this can be stopped

The Act The eighth of July of 2011, Abukar Osman Beyle and Shani Nurani Shiekh Abrar pleaded not guilty with multiple life sentences of twenty-six counts for the capture and murdering of four American citizens. On the eighteenth of February of 2011, Beyle and Abrar were two of the nineteen pirates that had boarded the Quest and held the citizens hostage just off the Somalian coast. Once their mission was done the pirates attempted to flee back to Somalia, but found their escape impeded by the

being a death penalty state. The states that decided to remain as a death penalty state were those who crime and murder rates are continually increasing over the years; however, the states that decided to opt out have low crimes rates and sees imprisonment as deterrence rather than death. The state of Kentucky is one of the states within the United States who still support the death penalty. On January 1, 1975 the death penalty was reinstated within the state of Kentucky. However, issues on whether