YOU WILL NOT EXPRESS AN OPINION IN THIS ESSAY. ... NB (Note Well): Even though you are writing about the opinions of others, you will not express your own opinion(s) or take a stance on the topic. ... Those who support Capital punishment as payment for murder, the deliberate taking of a human life by another, argue that the death penalty is just and moral, provides retribution or vengeance as a sense of closure to the victim's loved ones and to society, acts as a deterrent to the crime of murder, and is an economical alternative to lifelong or long-term imprisonment. ... Essay Structure ...

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A derangement of the protagonist of "The Cask of Amontillado" causes him to exaggerate an insult and his irrational anger also leads to a needless murder. In, "The Tell-Tale Heart," it is the madness of the man which brings him to murder his employer and at the end of this particular story, the madness – or the acuteness of senses as it is frequently described by Poe – serves also as the man's punishment since the unbearable sound of the beating of his own guilty heart forced him to confess. ... That brings up the question about biography-oriented reasons f...

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Hammett's contemporary, Raymond Chandler, comments on Hammett's contribution to the genre by saying: Hammett was one of a group () who wrote or tried to write realistic mystery fiction () took murder out of the Venetian vase and dropped it into the alley . . . gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it for reasons () He put these people down on paper as they were, and he made them talk in the language they customarily used for these purposes (Angel 66). ... It also expresses the detective's obsessive nature with his work, as well as his subconscious realization th...

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The policy of multiculturalism in Canada began in 1988 after the Canadian Multiculturalism Act was passed. This was new law was in keeping with the Canadian constitution that recognizes and provides for the right of every Canadian to be protected. The Act envisioned establishing a multicultural society that would define the diversity of Canada to the world and the future generations. The policy allowed Canadians from different ethnic communities, races, origins etc. to take part in shaping the future of Canada. This was to eliminate the existing and apparent barriers that excluded minority cul...

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