It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer. – Blackstone’s Ratio Dark night in a city slum. Three black street gang members, two men and a woman, pull into the parking lot of a housing complex. They exchange words with three members of another gang, all men. The words lead […]
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During my 7th summer, my grandmother Augusta died. This brought the reality of death to me for the first time. That was also the summer rats got in under our back porch, an infestation that drove Mom about crazy with fear and loathing. All that somehow came together to inspire me to imagine my own
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When Americans haven’t been happy with a new law or decision, they’ve chosen various methods of protest to bring about changes to them. However, the old ways of bring forth the winds of change are no longer working. We have marches on Washington larger than anything M.L.K., Jr. ever accomplished, and for equally common sense
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Technology addiction keeps getting worse. The American Psychological Association still recognizes it as a potential behavioral disorder. The problem is evidenced by an individual’s obsession with the interaction or activities gained through an electronic device. Symptoms range from depression to severe anxiety and self-abuse. The growing trend among teenagers is especially troubling. In fact, public
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The murder of meaning is a crime Nelson Algren spent his life trying to get people interested in, and it scarcely ended with his death in 1982. Shortly after that year, in fact, one of the greatest admissions of that crime began appearing on t-shirts nationwide. They said, “The one who dies with the most
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When people think of Will Shakespeare’s Hamlet, they either think of “alas poor Yorick” and some dude with a skull, or Hamlet’s “To be or not to be.” The latter speech is incandescent in the play. But I would argue that the scenes which follow “To be or not to be” would tell you more