themselves. One of your pals screws up, you could go down for it too. So you keep an eye out on each other. These Sons of Man guys are trying to do the same thing with the whole Islamic world. Get them to police themselves. You think about it, it's probably the only effective way you could keep tabs on terrorist action. From the inside."
"Decimation." Pasquini looked impressed. "Well, you gotta hand it to the Romans. They didn't dick around. How'd they decide which poor bastards got the ax along with the traitor?"
Keane threw his partner a playful frown as he pocketed his phone. "This is your own people's history, Pasquini, you should know this. It was random, they drew straws."
"Huh." Pasquini popped another Lifesaver into his mouth. "Doesn't sound very fair. Think I'd want to talk to my army recruiter about that one."
"The Romans didn't care about what's fair, they cared about what works. That's how you get to be the Romans, buddy."
Fair. Fair was what bureaucrats and lawyers fought over. Fair was a unicorn. Fair was rules of engagement that went out the damn window the second you saw your buddy's severed arm lying in a ditch next to the burnt out Humvee you'd both just been riding in.
Fair was for civilians. People who were tasked to get things done when lives and empires hung in the balance, the soldiers and Caesars of the world--they didn't have time for luxuries like fair.
And sometimes fair got in the way of just. How many times had Keane seen evil dodge justice because only one side was supposed to play fair?
Keane and Pasquini topped the rise together. Spread out below them and stretching on for seeming miles, thousands upon thousands of flickering lights. Candles, a vigil of sorts. Supporting who? What? The end of the w...
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...this terrible mess.
Keane lay on top of Blue Hoodie now, belly to belly, his gun pressed to the man's temple. He peeled himself up a bit and looked--blood everywhere. Blue Hoodie's face was covered with it.
How much of that is my own blood?
The thought came to him with a weird detachment He felt nothing, and knew that could be the initial shock.
Up on the stage, Bayley finally got a glimpse of what was going on and backpedalled instinctively from the fracas. There was a look of horror on her face now.
A young girl in braids and a Power Puff Girls T-shirt had climbed part way up the back stairs to the stage, trying to see what was going on. The political talk show host apparently smelled danger and was barreling right at her on fat, bandy legs.
"Out of the way, move, move, move!" he said, as he mowed the little girl down in his haste to flee whatever danger was here.
to her knees. Her voice was as harsh as her looks she dressed in a
Our main character Macbeth is very driven by his need for what he believes to be the truth. The play starts out with the quote “Fair is foul, and foul is fair,” (1.1.6) meaning nothing is, as it seems. This quote was from all three witches, who decided they were going to seek out Macbeth who at the time was Thane of Glamis and a prized solider on the battlefield. Macbeth at this time was looking for more in his life. The witches then gave him and his friend Banquo three prophecies. They were that he would become Tha...
immediately. He felt absolutely nothing at all. His face was quite calm” (160). Again this
...for success, he robs his audience of the right to make certain determinations about characters such as Tarquin Superbus and Romulus because of his bias toward the motivation behind their actions. Livy’s The Rise of Rome was a grand effort and an amazing undertaking. Cataloguing the years of Roman history consolidated rumor and legend into fact, creating a model for Rome to follow. Livy’s only error in this vast undertaking was in imprinting his own conception of morality and justice onto his work, an error that pulls the reader away from active thought and engaging debate. In doing so, Livy may have helped solidify a better Rome, but it would have been a Rome with less of a conception of why certain things are just, and more of a flat, basely concluded concept of justice.
3. I often waged war, civil and foreign, on the earth and sea, in the whole wide world, and as victor I spared all the citizens who sought pardon. As for foreign nations, those which I was able to safely forgive, I preferred to preserve than to destroy. About five hundred thousand Roman citizens were sworn to me. I led something more than three hundred thousand of them into colonies and I returned them to their cities, after their stipend had been earned, and I assigned all of them fields or gave them money for their military service. I captured six hundred ships in addition to those smaller than triremes.
Fair is foul, and foul is fair, a phrase that has become synonym with Macbeth. It is also the introduction to one of the most important themes of this tragedy: appearance and reality. Shakespeare uses various characters and situations to emphasize this confusion between the real and the surreal, the authentic and the fake, the act and the sincere. In order to discuss this theme, different characters will be looked at : in the first paragraph, the Witches, in the second, Duncan and in the third, Lady Macbeth.
Some of these may seem unfair but it was the Romans belief in their superiority.
Tacitus tells us in the introduction to his Annales that his intent is to “relate a little about Augustus, Tiberius, et cetera” and to in fact do so “sine ira et studio” -- without bitterness or bias.1 Experience, however, tells us that this aim is rarely executed, and that we must be all the more suspicious when it is stated outright. Throughout the Annales, Tacitus rather gives the impression that his lack of bias is evidenced by his evenhanded application of bitterness to all his subjects. But is this really the case? While Tacitus tends to apply his sarcastic wit universally – to barbarian and Roman alike – this is not necessarily evidence of lack of bias. Taking the destruction of Mona and Boudicca's revolt (roughly 14.28-37) as a case study, it is evident that through epic allusion, deliberate diction, and careful choice of episodes related, Tacitus reveals his opinion that the Roman war machine first makes rebels by unjust governance, and then punishes them.
Many people were treated very unfairly during war. In “Unbroken”, Phil and Zamperini were 2 american soldiers who were captured by the Japanese in war. They were beaten by the soldiers very unfairly there. In Sophia's War, Sophia's brother William was captured in war and also held captive by the British. An d Sophia's dad was try to avoid the british army as he tried to make it home to his family. During war, prisoners and colonists consequences were unfair based on what they had done.
“At the time, Caesar had just completed a ruthless grab for doctoral power by executing hundreds of rival nobles and defeating armies led by his rival Gnaeus Pompey, also executed” (Matthews 69). Although Julius Caesar is known for being the ruler of one of the most refined and robust empires known to man, the reality is quite different. Rome was an empire that was stricken with the disease that cursed many great domains—power. Power was the basis Rome’s mightiest indiscretions. Plagued by hypocritical religious views, inhumane actions, and corrupt government practices, Rome faced an inevitable decline.
This (Brutus' body) was the noblest Roman of them all. All conspirators, save only he did that they did in en...
One of the themes from Macbeth is good versus evil. Macbeth is a good, honorable soldier in the beginning who is loyal to the king. Macbeth does not stay on the good side for very long in the play. At the beginning, the witches say that fair is foul, and foul is fair, foreshadowing what is to come later. The witches’ line that says “fair is foul, and foul is fair” means that what is good is evil and what is evil is good.
The quoted phrase, “fair is foul and foul is fair” is used frequently, the phrase itself is an oxymoron. Early in the play the reader sees Macbeth as the hero because he has saved all of Scotland from the Norwegians. Duncan, honoring Macbeth, says, “More is thy due than more than all can pay.” (Act 1, Scene ) Towards the middle of the play the reader suddenly begins to pity Macbeth, slowly realizing his encroaching insanity for what it is, a downward spiral of death and increased mistakes. Finally, at the end of the play, the reader's opinion of Macbeth moves more towards hate and a feeling that Macbeth is unmistakably evil. As the second witch said:
Marks, Anthony, and Graham Tingay. The Romans. Tulsa, OK, USA: Published in the USA by EDC Pub., 1990. Print.
Of course I looked “justice” up in the dictionary before I started to write this paper and I didn’t find anything of interest except of course a common word in every definition, that being “fair”. This implies that justice would have something to do with being fair. I thought that if one of the things the law and legal system are about is maintaining and promoting justice and a sense of “fairness”, they might not be doing such a spiffy job. An eye for an eye is fair? No, that would be too easy, too black and white. I could cite several examples where I thought a judge’s or jury’s ruling was not fair, but I won’t because frankly, we’ve all seen those.