Killing For Life

Author : Carol Mason
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781501724671

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Killing for Life by Carol Mason Pdf

How can those who seek to protect the "right to life" defend assassination in the name of saving lives? Carol Mason investigates this seeming paradox by examining pro-life literature—both archival material and writings from the front lines of the conflict. Her analysis reveals the apocalyptic thread that is the ideological link between established anti-abortion organizations and the more shadowy pro-life terrorists who subject clinic workers to anthrax scares, bombs, and bullets.The portrayal of abortion as "America's Armageddon" began in the 1960s. In the 1970s, Mason says, Christian politics and the post-Vietnam paramilitary culture popularized the idea that legal abortion is a harbinger of apocalypse. By the 1990s, Mason asserts, even the movement's mainstream had taken up the call, narrating abortion as an apocalyptic battle between so-called Christian and anti-Christian forces. "Pro-life violence of the 1990s signaled a move away from protest and toward retribution," she writes. "Pro-life retribution is seen as a way to restore the order of God. In this light, the phenomenon of killing for 'life' is revealed not as an oxymoron, but as a logical consistency and a political manifestation of religious retribution."Mason's scrutiny of primary sources (direct mail, internal memoranda, personal letters, underground manuals, and pro-life films, magazines, and novels) draws attention to elements of pro-life millennialism. Killing for Life is a powerful indictment of pro-life ideology as a coherent, mass-produced narrative that does not merely condone violence, but anticipates it as part of "God's plan."

Author : Karel Innemée
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9464260572

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The Value of a Human Life by Karel Innemée Pdf

Experts from different disciplines present new insights into the subject of ritual homicide in various regions of the ancient world.

Author : Ian Cobain
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781846276415

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Anatomy of a Killing by Ian Cobain Pdf

“A concise and gripping history of the Troubles, revealing the people behind the pain and violence” from the award-winning investigative journalist (Vice). On the morning of Saturday 22nd April 1978, members of an Active Service Unit of the IRA hijacked a car and crossed the countryside to the town of Lisburn. Within an hour, they had killed an off-duty policeman in front of his young son. In Anatomy of a Killing, award-winning journalist Ian Cobain documents the hours leading up to the killing, and the months and years of violence, attrition and rebellion surrounding it. Drawing on interviews with those most closely involved, as well as court files, police notes, military intelligence reports, IRA strategy papers, memoirs and government records, this is a unique perspective on the Troubles, and a revelatory work of investigative journalism. “As gripping as a thriller, except that this isn’t fiction but cold, spine-tingling reality.” —Daily Mail “A remarkable piece of forensic journalism.” —Ed Moloney, author of Voices from the Grave “Reads like a work of fiction . . . True and harrowing.” —Irish Sunday Independent (Books of the Year)

Author : Gayle Salamon
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781479810529

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The Life and Death of Latisha King by Gayle Salamon Pdf

What can the killing of a transgender teen teach us about the violence of misreading gender identity as sexual identity? The Life and Death of Latisha King examines a single incident, the shooting of 15-year-old Latisha King by 14-year-old Brandon McInerney in their junior high school classroom in Oxnard, California in 2008. The press coverage of the shooting, as well as the criminal trial that followed, referred to Latisha, assigned male at birth, as Larry. Unpacking the consequences of representing the victim as Larry, a gay boy, instead of Latisha, a trans girl, Gayle Salamon draws on the resources of feminist phenomenology to analyze what happened in the school and at the trial that followed. In building on the phenomenological concepts of anonymity and comportment, Salamon considers how gender functions in the social world and the dangers of being denied anonymity as both a particularizing and dehumanizing act. Salamon offers close readings of the court transcript and the bodily gestures of the participants in the courtroom to illuminate the ways gender and race were both evoked in and expunged from the narrative of the killing. Across court documents and media coverage, Salamon sheds light on the relation between the speakable and unspeakable in the workings of the transphobic imaginary. Interdisciplinary in both scope and method, the book considers the violences visited upon gender-nonconforming bodies that are surveilled and othered, and the contemporary resonances of the Latisha King killing.

Author : Jeff McMahan
Publisher : Oxford Ethics Series
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0195169824

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The Ethics of Killing by Jeff McMahan Pdf

Drawing on philosophical notions of personal identity and the immorality of killing, Jeff McMahan looks at various issues, including abortion, infanticide, the killing of animals, assisted suicide, and euthanasia.

Author : Chuck Klosterman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006-06-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780743264464

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Killing Yourself to Live by Chuck Klosterman Pdf

The author recounts his more than 6,500-mile journey across America, during which he visited the sites of famous rock star deaths and experienced philosophical changes of perspective.

Author : Jane Jacobs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Central business districts
ISBN : OCLC:317765785

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The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs Pdf

Author : Lopez Lomong,Mark A. Tabb
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781595555151

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Running for My Life by Lopez Lomong,Mark A. Tabb Pdf

Offers the true story of a Sudanese boy who, through unyielding faith, overcame a wartorn nation to become an American citizen and an Olympic contender.

Author : Todd Bridges
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781439155899

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Killing Willis by Todd Bridges Pdf

The former child star—best known as Willis Jackson on Diff’rent Strokes—shares the shocking but inspirational details of his struggles with addiction, brushes with the law, and fierce fight to carve a path through the darkness and find his true identity. For Todd Bridges early stardom was no protection from painful childhood events that paved the road to his own personal hell. One of the first African-American child actors on shows like Little House on the Prairie, The Waltons, and Roots, Bridges burst to the national forefront on the hit sitcom Diff’rent Strokes as the subject of the popular catchphrase, "What’chu Talkin About Willis?" When the show ended, Bridges was overwhelmed by the off-camera traumas he had faced. Turning to drugs as an escape, he soon lost control. Now, for the first time, Bridges opens up about his life before and after Diff’rent Strokes: the incredible reversals of fortune brought on by fame and the precipitous—and very public—descent that followed; the persecution from police; the drug addiction that nearly consumed him; the criminal charges that almost earned him a life sentence; and his successful legal defense led by Johnnie Cochran. Through it all, Bridges never relented in his quest to fight his way back from the abyss, establish his own identity—separate from Willis Jackson—and offer his ordeal as a positive example for those struggling to overcome similar challenges. His triumphant story of recovery and redemption is recounted here as well. Todd Bridges has lived a life of remarkable twists and turns—from the greatest heights to the lowest lows imaginable. In this shocking but ultimately hopeful memoir, he proves that what he was really talking about was survival.

Author : Andy Andrews
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780849949906

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How Do You Kill 11 Million People? by Andy Andrews Pdf

How do you get away with the murder of 11 million people? The answer is simple—and disturbing. You lie to them. Learn how you can become an informed, passionate citizen who demands honesty and integrity from your leaders. In this nonpartisan New York Times bestselling book, Andy Andrews emphasizes that seeking and discerning the truth is of critical importance, and that believing lies is the most dangerous thing you can do. You’ll be challenged to become a more careful student of the past, seeking accurate, factual accounts of events that illuminate choices our world faces now. By considering how the Nazi German regime was able to carry out over eleven million institutional killings between 1933 and 1945, Andrews advocates for an informed population that demands honesty and integrity from its leaders and from each other. This short, thought-provoking book poses questions like: What happens to a society in which truth is absent? How are we supposed to tell the difference between the “good guys" and the “bad guys”? How does the answer to this question affect our country, families, faith, and values? Does it matter that millions of ordinary citizens aren't participating in the decisions that shape the future of our country? Which is more dangerous: politicians with ill intent, or the too-trusting population that allows such people to lead them? This is a wake-up call: we must become informed, passionate citizens or suffer the consequences of our own ignorance and apathy. We can no longer measure a leader’s worth by the yardsticks provided by the left or the right. Instead, we must use an unchanging standard: the pure, unvarnished truth.

Author : Diarmuid Griffin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319726670

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Killing Time by Diarmuid Griffin Pdf

Little is known about life imprisonment and the process of releasing offenders back into the community in Ireland. Addressing this scarcity of information, Griffin’s empirical study examines the legal and policy framework surrounding life imprisonment and parole. Through an analysis of the rationales expressed by parole decision-makers in the exercise of their discretionary power of release, it is revealed that decision-makers view public protection as central to the process. However, the risk of reoffending features amidst an array of other factors that also influence parole outcomes including personal interpretations of the purposes of punishment, public opinion and the political landscape within which parole operates. The findings of this study are employed to provide a rationale for the upward trend in time served by life sentence prisoners prior to release in recent times. With reform of parole now on the political agenda, will a more formal process of release operate to constrain the increase in time served witnessed over the last number of decades or will the upward trajectory continue unabated?

Author : Torbjörn Tännsjö
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190225582

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Taking Life by Torbjörn Tännsjö Pdf

When and why is it right to kill? When and why is it wrong? Torbjörn Tännsjö examines three theories on the ethics of killing in this book: deontology, a libertarian moral rights theory, and utilitarianism. The implications of each theory are worked out for different kinds of killing: trolley-cases, murder, capital punishment, suicide, assisted death, abortion, killing in war, and the killing of animals. These implications are confronted with our intuitions in relation to them, and our moral intuitions are examined in turn. Only those intuitions that survive an understanding of how we have come to hold them are seen as 'considered' intuitions. The idea is that the theory that can best explain the content of our considered intuitions gains inductive support from them. We must transcend our narrow cultural horizons and avoid certain cognitive mistakes in order to hold considered intuitions. In this volume, suitable for courses in ethics and applied ethics, Tännsjö argues that in the final analysis utilitarianism can best account for, and explain, our considered intuitions about all these kinds of killing.

Author : Garrett B. Gunderson,Stephen Palmer
Publisher : Greenleaf Book Group
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781929774517

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Killing Sacred Cows by Garrett B. Gunderson,Stephen Palmer Pdf

Our culture is riddled with destructive myths about money and prosperity that are severely limiting our power, creativity, and financial potential. In "Killing Sacred Cows", Garrett B Gunderson boldly exposes ingrained fallacies and misguided traditions in the world of per-sonal finance. He presents a revolutionary perspective that can create unprecedented opportu-nity and wealth for individuals. Our financial lives are intimately connected to our societal contributions, and we must be financially free in order to achieve our fullest potential. Yet most people are held captive in their financial lives by misinformation, propaganda, and lack of knowledge. Through well-reasoned arguments and pitiless logic, Gunderson attacks these sacred cows with revelatory insights, such as: High returns without high risk; "Security" without a corporate job; Debt that increases your financial productivity; Enjoying your money instead of waiting for retirement. "Killing Sacred Cows" is a must-read for brave individuals willing to question common assumptions and teachings, overcome the herd mentality, break through financial myths, and live a purpose-ful, passionate, and prosperous life. Investors seeking financial advice in The Little Book That Makes You Rich will find this to be a must-read for anyone who wants to achieve their financial potential today.

Author : John SYM (Minister of Leigh.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1637
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0020680837

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Lifes Preservative against self-killing: or, an useful treatise concerning life and self-murder, etc by John SYM (Minister of Leigh.) Pdf

Author : William Clarke
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781646105953

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Help! My Life Is Killing Me by William Clarke Pdf

Help! My Life Is Killing Me By: William Clarke Help! My Life Is Killing Me is the true story of William Clarke’s youth, growing up in a neglectful, abusive, poor family, and how that impacted his adult life. Written from his own personal memory, as well as from information told to him by his mother and some of his siblings as he was growing up, he now shares with you his tale and hopes you may gain some insight into your own history.