Wolf Lies Down Essay

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According to Karl N. Llewellyn and E. Adamson Hoebel, making new laws in our societies helps us to become more discipline and safe and it also prevents us from crimes such as rape, sexual assault or harassment, violent crime fraud, robbery, murder etc due to a larger society which Hoebel called “heterogeneous”. Many people in the modern society can not make their own decisions without hearing or listening to the people in power such as the government (legislatures), police, lawyers/ judges. Just like the “Cheyenne community”, the community they come to together to solve conflicts between individuals by involving individuals or the community as a whole for the protection of themselves.

In the case of the “Wolf Lies Down”, it illustrates a situation between him and his friend. A friend who left his bow and arrow as a sign that he has taken Wolf’s horse, however, a year later, Wolf expect the horse to be back to him, unfortunately, his friend did not show up. So Wolf decided to visit the Elk soldier chief to explain what happened. The Elk soldier chiefs in his society decided to send someone to fetch wolf’s friend. Although Wolf’s friend was aware of the course, he went to the fourth chiefs of the community and the situation between the two was solved. After the conflict was …show more content…

By using these laws, individuals can be preserved from harms and

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