Hammurabi's Code: Was It Just?

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Do you know who Marquis de Lafayette is? Well you should know a lot more information about him after you read this essay about him and his life in the American Revolutionary army. “Marquis de Lafayette was born on September sixth, 1757, in Chavaniac, France” (Biography.com 1). Before turned two his father, a general in the Royal Army and was currently serving in the seven years’ war, was killed. When he was twelve his mother died, and a few weeks later his grandpa also died.

In To Kill A Mockingbird Mr.Ewell shows prejudice against a black man named Tom Robinson. Prejudice is frequent in the story and it is used on a innocent man. A poor white girl accuses a black man of raping her, which leads to a trial. The residents of Maycomb think black people don’t matter because of their racial superiority complex which comes from slavery. HARPER LEE Harper Lee wrote this because of prejudice back then when she was little.

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Another example is when Mrs. Dubose was saying mean thing about negroes and Atticus. “ ‘Your father’s no better than the niggers and trash he works for!’” (Lee 135). Although there are more examples of racism, these are just some of them.

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Hammurabi’s Code Wasn’t Just As he slowly walked up to get his hands chopped off, he knew that striking his father was one mistake that would change his life forever. Life back in 1750 BC in most of Mesopotamia, a king named Hammurabi, ruled. In addition, their lives were often restricted or at times, shortened. For the first 30 years Hammurabi ruled, beginning in 1792 BC, he ruled Babylon, which was the capital of Babylonia at that time. He ruled over about 1,000,000 people, consisting mostly of farmers.

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