Joan Of Arc Chapter Summaries

From Chapter One of our text book the first thing that caught my eye and that I found very interesting was the passage where Gardner and Anderson wrote about evidence of Witchcraft being permitted in court cases. An example that they gave was Joan of Arc, how she was convicted in France for being a witch and they burned her at the stake on May 30th, 1431. She was only 19 when she died and after her death in 1456 Pope Callixtus III ordered that her case be examined once more. He later freed her from the charges and allegation’s, he pronounced her innocent but it was just too late. Joan of Arc remains a popular figure of the Catholic league and a lot has been written about her in literature and paintings. In those times it is said that the

One of the goals was to discourage and deter people from committing crimes and every day in the news we see a different shooting or robbery. Everywhere that we go now you see police officers walking, driving around making sure nothing is happening and actually trying to protect our communities. The sad part of it all is that they who try to help us, today are becoming targets for people who stereotype all officers as racist and bad. We as people understand that the law changes every day and that new things happen all the time. People are arrested and charged for their crimes but how many times have we seen on the news cases for people killing and raping their own children or someone robbing from an old woman and killing her? Plenty and when the cases are in the papers and on television we see that some of these criminals receive 5 or 10 year sentences and do we think that is enough of a punishment? No, sometimes we see things that are incredibly disturbing happening around us and it’s a joke when we see that these people only get such a short sentencing or plead