That's what the reader will be asking as he or she reads Distant Revenge. Why would anyone want to kill four doctors in the prime of their careers? They were all respected members of their communities and had successful practices in ...

Author: Edward G. Briscoe

Publisher: iUniverse

ISBN: 9780595094608

Category: Fiction

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Who’s killing the doctors? That’s what the reader will be asking as he or she reads Distant Revenge. Why would anyone want to kill four doctors in the prime of their careers? They were all respected members of their communities and had successful practices in differing cities. In many ways, they are ordinary people. But was there something unusual about them? This is the kind of question we like to ponder as we read of other’s misfortunes. We all love mysteries and solving them. Distant Revenge is a murder mystery. Its characters are the four doctors, the detectives in four cities who try to solve the crime, and two possible suspects. Two fathers blame the loss of a child on the doctors. One is insane and the other is a madman. Though separated by time and place, they find themselves on the same path to revenge for a perceived wrong.

Rather, our study suggests that, across two quite distant societies, revenge speech has the most powerful effects overall, and references to past atrocities (which are conceptually related to revenge speech) enhance moral justifications ...

Author: Richard Ashby Wilson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 9781108298674

Category: Law

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International and national armed conflicts are usually preceded by a media campaign in which public figures foment ethnic, national, racial or religious hatred, inciting listeners to acts of violence. Incitement on Trial evaluates the efforts of international criminal tribunals to hold such inciters criminally responsible. This is an unsettled area of international criminal law, and prosecutors have often struggled to demonstrate a causal connection between speech acts and subsequent crimes. This book identifies 'revenge speech' as the type of rhetoric with the greatest effects on empathy and tolerance for violence. Wilson argues that inciting speech should be handled under the preventative doctrine of inchoate crimes, but that once international crimes have been committed, then ordering and complicity are the most appropriate forms of criminal liability. Based in extensive original research, this book proposes an evidence-based risk assessment model for monitoring political speech.

... the idea of revenge had gentlemanly courtesy in his dealings with his become almost a religion ; she clung to and wor- company , that her heart began insensibly to shipped the faint hope of distant revenge , and recognize the ...

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ISBN: OXFORD:555032789

Category: Fashion

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... the idea of revenge had gentlemanly courtesy in his dealings with his become almost a religion ; she clung to and wor- company , that her heart began insensibly to shipped the faint hope of distant revenge , and recognize the ...

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ISBN: OXFORD:555031715

Category: Fashion

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REVENGE . Distance in truth produces in idea the same effect as in real perspective : objects are softened We are ... to conceal what is less pleasing in distant but offend the law ; but the revenge of that objects ; and there are happy ...

Author: Samuel Austin Allibone

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ISBN: MINN:31951001157585F

Category: Quotations, English

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The Revenge had left Berwick behind in the distance, but she was closing on the French ship. At five o'clock on what was now 1 March on the ship (at sea the day changed at midday, not midnight) came the first distant gunfire: 'we saw ...

Author: Tim Clayton

Publisher: Hachette UK

ISBN: 9781848948396

Category: History

Page: 300

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Tars is a gripping firsthand account of life in the Royal Navy during the Seven Years War, from which Britain emerged as the world's major power. Through the lives of the main protagonists - a small band of sailors from across the ranks - Trafalgar author Tim Clayton paints a vivid picture of the navy and the era at its bloodiest and most tempestuous phase, beginning in 1758. From close-quarter battles and roistering on the streets of London to the political decisions that built up and knocked down empires. In this death-or-glory era the navy became the main weapon of an aggressive and power-hungry government, and fighting at sea was carried out at ever-closer quarters and with ever-increasing amounts of firepower. Using never-before published first-person sources, Tars takes us through these men's daily struggles as Britain navigated her course on the political map.

with no sign of state intervention to those in which blood revenge is only a distant memory. For example, on page 245, under the heading “Malays. Beduins.” are descriptions of different Malay systems of blood revenge such as in Java, ...

Author: Kaius Tuori

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781317815983

Category: History

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Legal primitivism was a complex phenomenon that combined the study of early European legal traditions with studies of the legal customs of indigenous peoples. Lawyers and Savages: Ancient History and Legal Realism in the Making of Legal Anthropology explores the rise and fall of legal primitivism, and its connection to the colonial encounter. Through examples such as blood feuds, communalism, ordeals, ritual formalism and polygamy, this book traces the intellectual revolution of legal anthropology and demonstrates how this scholarship had a clear impact in legitimating the colonial experience. Detailing how legal realism drew on anthropology in order to help counter the hypothetical constructs of legal formalism, this book also shows how, despite their explicit rejection, the central themes of primitive law continue to influence current ideas – about indigenous legal systems, but also of the place and role of law in development. Written in an engaging style and rich in examples from history and literature, this book will be invaluable to those with interests in legal realism, legal history or legal anthropology.

... and his former comrades had to resign their military calling , or to seek a distant revenge for the humiliation of the electorate by offering their services in the German Legion which England took the occasion to raise .

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ISBN: STANFORD:36105008378155

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He co-authored Distant Revenge, a mystery novel, with his wife Agatha and Delores R. Johnson. Dr. Briscoe is a Navy trained physician. He was born in New Jersey. He and his wife, Agatha, have lived in Hawaii and the Caribbean.

Author: Edward G. Briscoe

Publisher: iUniverse

ISBN: 9780595003242

Category: Fiction

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Dr. Henry Clark is hired as a surgeon by a community hospital in the Poconos of Pennsylvania in the 1960's. He establishes himself in the community, tackling the apprehensions of certain community members at having a Black doctor through his intelligence, charm, and great medical ability. He meets and falls in love with Monica, an airline stewardess from Montana who happens to be White. As the town learns of his relationship, its liberal veneer fades. The obstacles the couple faces comes in the forms of housing discrimination, social and professional snubs, an a drop in Hank's medical practice. He loses an important hospital position at the instigation of a White bigot. They also feel the barbs from the Black community. Hank feels torn between his mentor in the Pennsylvania town, the desire to stay and fight adversity, and the feeling that he should return to Harlem to serve his community. Monica, who has never faced such adversity, struggles to make sense of the chaos and ignorance around her. They are part of a marble cake–an incomplete mixing of dark and light batters. Only the support of friends and family and their love for each other help them endure the strain.

... and his former comrades had to resign their military calling , or to seek a distant revenge for the humiliation of the electorate by offering their services in the German Legion which England took the occasion to raise .

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ISBN: BSB:BSB11183582

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