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Fahad Alhossian Dr. Tim Conrad English 2010 11/05/2013   ** “Ambiguities Between Us” ** What do you know about me? And what I know about you? All over the world there are many people we do not know anything about, or we only know the names of their countries. The continents, distances and language separate us from each other, and this is what makes us afraid and worried. All of these people are different from each other in various aspects of their lives, such as religions, culture and social life. These we consider the most things that we disagree on. It is not necessary that we concur with each other, but we should still get to know each other. We need to understand how we think, how we manage our lives, and how we feel in terms of each other. This helps us to feel comfortable and trusting, and respectful of each other, and encourages us to open a dialogue. We try to judge negative and individual behaviors that come from a few people who are sick, and we impose it on a religion or country. This is injustice and shallow thinking. First, religion is one of the biggest differences between the peoples of the world, as we know that all religions come from one God, but they differ in the times of the prophets and some of the details of every religion. Some people think their religion is right and other religions are wrong. And some people believe there is just one religion and the other religions are fake. Michael Michalis, a professor at La Trobe University, has written an important study about law and society. In his book, //Contemporary Readings in Law & Society//, he says, “By examining the experience of an innovative and ambitious initiative in the evolution of the interfaith movement in Australia, this article analyses three contested themes: (1) how to connect religion more closely with culture, thereby placing interfaith relations within the context of intercultural awareness; (2) how to develop a regional initiative which, informed by Australia's urban history and sociology, would complement and dovetail with pre-existing interfaith and intercultural activities; and, (3) how to translate the general principles of dialogue into the operational environments of local communities. By analyzing the insertion of dialogue into the modalities of "everyday" life.” In my opinion, yes there are many religions, but they are similar in many of the basics, such as a belief in God. For example, I met with one of my colleagues and spoke with him about religion. My religion is Islam and his religion is Mormon. I asked him about the most important fundamentals of his religion and what must be followed. He told me there are four important things: first you must believe there is one God, second sometimes they fast, third give to the poor people and help them, fourthly, you must pray and be considered God's friend. After listening to him, he asked me the same question, and I told him it's the same, but we have one more rule, which is the pilgrimage to the house of God. After we finished talking about religion, we found we share in most of the basics of religion, but we differ in some details, such as prayer times, duration of fasting and the pilgrimage to the house of God. This made both of us understand each other's religion and removed the questions among us. We have certain contradictions in the details, for example, prayer in Islam involves five prayers and fasting a full month. This made me feel a great difference between us in the convergence in the fundamentals of religion. However I respect his religion. Second, culture is one of the most important differences between the people in the world. Sometimes we find different culture inside culture in the same country, this can cause problems, this can be ever worse with culture from another country. We should know about other culture to understand why they have their beliefs. There are many of people think the cultures has strange things and some of people see this difference are comes from religion. Jassim Hakami has written an important study about the Sociology; Cultural Studies in the King Faisal University. And he says that, “Since we live in a multilingual and multicultural world, people having diverse cultural backgrounds are beginning to interact with each other more than ever. Therefore, in the study, the notions of cultural diversity, cultural awareness, intercultural competence and cultural dimension have been introduced. According to these concepts, people see and interpret things around themselves in different ways. What may be considered an appropriate act in a culture may not be considered so in another because when two or more people from diverse cultures try to communicate with each other, problems may arise due to their differing personal and social lives, customs and traditions, world views and so on.” Cultures, book. I consider this difference is education and knowledge more than just differ. For example, when I was taking with my colleague, he asked me why some Muslim women covering their faces and some of them don’t. I told him this is due to the religious reason. I told him because they don't believe in covering their faces and they see that is came from culture. Then I asked him about marriage in his religion and culture. He said concur they go to the church to complete the marriage; also it not allowed to have children before marriage. But in Islam marriages are made with communication between the parents, but we still see each other and after we accept one another we make the marriage date. We do not agree on women covering their faces and marriage mode, he considers this strange and illogical, but I consider it an order from God and we must implemental it as much as possible. Thirdly social life has many differences in terms of living and relationships between people from country to country. I asked my colleague about social life in Mormon ism he said we meet in the church every Sunday and we ask about each other and help the needy in the U.S us. Also I asked him, if you have some problems and you want some solutions, what do you do? He said we go to church and ask the cleric, if he could not help me I go to the Basho people who were before, the prophet and if they could not help me I can see prophet Thomas, and he definitely will help. I asked him about the consideration of his religion and society fro young marriage and having children early. He said its very normal, prevalent and we encourage it. Then he asked me, do you compel a girl to marry a man ever if she does not want to, I told him that this is not true, this was a long time ago in some nomadic tribes, the man was marry and his uncle daughter forcibly. Now all this has disappeared, and if the father forced his daughter to marry a man who she does not want he will be tried. I disagree with him completely, because in Islam we believe that the prophets died and some of them are with God and there is no prophet in the world. This is what we read in the Qur'an   Finally, after I spoke with my colleague I learned so much from him. About his religions, culture and social life. I was strange about him and I didn’t know how to express my point of view, because I didn’t know much about his thinking, his life, and his religion. But after we talked and brainstormed questions ambiguities progressively faded away. We corrected some misconceptions among us and this opened the conversation between us. When you know about person that is different from your religion, culture, language and social life, and understand it you can allow an open discussion with hem comfortably. Now I know so much about my colleague, and I was surprised that they’re many things, that we share. For example, early marriage, having children early and some fundamentals of religion, we still disagree in many things especially in religious, but at least we understand each other. Also we corrected some of misconceptions and misinformation. In order to succeed in communicating with people you have to respect their beliefs even if you are not convinced, you should know about them to understand their thinking.

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Fahad Alhossian Dr. Tim Conrad E, 2010 10/04/2013  CapitalPunishment

The world would be free of killing, if we had fair laws and strong rules. Killing is considered one of the ugliest crimes killing has spread significantly and the reason for this is due to beliefs of some people about the penalty of the killer. Some people think the human life is important, and we should not kill the killer and lose another life. This makes the criminal underestimate the value of people’s lives, because the killer knows if they kill any person they will just go to the prison. The prisoner in prison can eat, drink, and sleep. Also he can study in prison, then he has chance to escape from prison. I think this is not equal and not enough to stop killing. And it’s wrong. If we want to save the lives we should apply tougher penalties on those who belittle the lives of people. According to PHILLIPS, SCOTT. “Death penalty opponents charge that wealthy defendants who can hire legal counsel are exempt from capital punishment, but that indigent defendants who receive court-appointed counsel are frequently condemned to death. The critique is based on sensational stories, but anecdotes cannot establish a causal relationship. To explore the issue systematically, the current research examines the impact of legal counsel on the District Attorney's decisions to seek the death penalty and juries' decisions to impose death sentences against adult defendants indicted for capital murder in Harris County (Houston), Texas from 1992 to 1999 (n=504).”(par3). This means disregard the people lives and not to apply the law or penalty of death for the killer especially on people who have power leads to indifference to people lives and the spread murders. But if we apply the death penalty to the murderer, without exception, will makes any person who wants to kill somebody stop and think many times before does anything, also he will certainly go back on his plan because he would be killed. In some countries they apply a law that allows killing the killer. This makes the crimes of killing few or limited. This proved that the law of killing the killer is the solution to stop crimes. There are some important points I will review. It’s must kill the killer, the victim family feeling and accept the law against killing in our community.

First, the killing is very hard and many people think it is not fair, that it is for god. We can imprison the killer and take advantage of him. But I’m against this idea and all the alternatives are not enough to stop killing. According to Johnson, David T “argues that American capital punishment is functional, meaningful, and effective, especially in the cultural.” We need to stop the killing through the law. According to Stanton, Edward C. “the capital punishment should be retained in the U.S. He supports capital punishment. After years of experience in dealing with all kinds of criminals and with all phases of crime, it is the author's firm conviction that death penalty must be retained as the punishment for premeditated murder. It is unfortunately true that a large part of what has been said and written on capital punishment has been the utterances of theorists and sentimentalists, people undoubtedly of high ideals and good intentions, but nevertheless people who are not qualified to write anything of value on crime, criminals, prisons, prisoners, or reformation. Such statements are nevertheless far more harmful in their effect upon society than merely to be misleading.” The is the basic idea of law, not to give the killer chance and some alternatives to live, I know this life is without freedom or kind of life, because he is imprison, but he is still alive. And we should understand the people who kill e people for stealing, or racism, and who attack the children must be killed because they and criminals who are dangerous to the people. These people are sick. We must clear these people off the face of the earth, because they are not normal and spread terror and instability. There are many countries they stopped the progress of crime to enforcing the law that kills the killer such as, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Texas in the United States. This proved the law that enforcing kill the killer imposes safety.

Second, the victim’s family feels sad and angry because of the death. Some of us think killing the killer is not the solution for this issue, because they imagine the victim’s family if they see the killer in the prison this is enough and the issue it is finish. In my opinion, it’s not enough, for example if someone killed your son, wife, or raped one of your family members, then the police arrested him and imprison. Do you think this is enough for you? Family of victim feels sad and anger more than what we imagine and they will not forgive the killer. According to Aspenson, Steve. “In this paper I show that justice as fairness calls for capital punishment because the continued existence of murderers increases unfairness between themselves and their victims, increasing the harm to murdered persons. Rescuing murdered persons from increasing harm is prima facie morally required, and so capital punishment is a prima facie duty of society and sentencing judges” show that justice as fairness in any communities is with implementation capital punishment, many of crimes makes killing to continue because some victims family want to vengeance from the killer and they kill someone of the members of his families want make them feel the same way they felt, because the family believes this is not equal and they want more than imprisonment. If there were a law enforcing killing the killer these issues could be closed.

Third, accept the law of killing in our community; we need to educate the community in the benefits of killing the killer, because many of them think the killing is hard. We should give the killer chance and should forgive the killer if he regrets what he did. But I think this causes a lot of problems, such as, dissatisfaction members of the victim's family, a lot of murder, and undermine law the people should know that killing the killer is meant to end the case, and feel the victim's family in satisfaction. According to Michael Landauer. “Jeffrey’s murder was such a horrible crime that it sparked an outcry in the state of Massachusetts to reinstate the death penalty. At that time, Massachusetts was one of 12 states that did not have the death penalty at all. I knew that if we did get the death penalty reinstated in Massachusetts, it wouldn’t apply to the men who killed Jeffrey, but I thought maybe if we had the death penalty, people would think twice before doing this kind of thing". If the punishment of the killer is not strong this is makes frequent murder. If the murder spread in the community this means that the law is weak and there is no safety. We should accept the law of killing the killer for general interest.

Finally, human lives have a high value. According to Phil Lowry. “Society need to send a powerful message that it will not tolerate certain violent acts.”(par7). This means we must be protected, to making strong law because it is the basis of safety for our community, and we must have law applied to kill the killer because this law sends a message to anyone who thinks to kill he will be killed. The victim’s family, we should understand kill the killer will end the issue and make the satisfaction for the victim's family. And accept the law of killing in our community because this imposes the safety and peace in any community. Murder leaves a lot of problems. We must be controlled by the presence strict law. And give them a chance to live is dangerous for us and injustice to a victim.