Caning

rules about certain things like getting within the top ten of our class for every exam, not talking back, paying attention in class, keeping our rooms clean and finishing our homework on time. She leans towards negative social control method such as caning and punishments like taking away our…

“Juice Avocado. Juice orange!” she squawked to draw the attention of the passersby. There were few other carts, next to them, hawking tasty ethnic foods, and they all had an unspoken, stiff competition among themselves to attract the customers, in spite of having excellent camaraderie – survival of the fittest. “Avocado Juice– Jus aplokat,” Yanti hawked in high pitch drawing the notice of the shoppers who looked at her smilingly but didn’t buy as they’re going to the market and might try…

Artist as individuals have the ability to create exciting things using everyday objects. Marcel Duchamp a French member of the dada movement, Rosalie Gascoigne a contemporary Australian (died in1999), El Anatsui a contemporary West African, and Fiona Hall a contemporary Australian, they are all artists who work with mundane materials to create phenomenal pieces of work. Artist create their works within the agencies of the world, their audience and artworks through their practice.We can interpret…

Leading up to the late 19th century, the United States was experiencing a boom in expansion. The idea of manifest destiny encouraged Americans to expand all the way to the Pacific coast, and the overwhelming populations of people who began to settle in present-day Texas and Oregon led to their annexations from Mexico and Great Britain. By the 1850s, America had tripled in size from the original 13 colonies. However, the acquisition of so much land brought up conflicts between the North and the…

Roald Dahl’s Likes and Dislikes As a young boy, Roald Dahl loved to eat candy. When he was nine years old, he and his four friends would walk from school together, straight to the sweet-shop. Every day they would come in and buy as much candy as they had money to spend, even though the owner, Mrs Pratchett, had a vile attitude and grimy hands that grabbed the candy out of the jars. They didn’t even mind that one of the kids heard from his dad that the licorice Bootlaces were made from squashed…

I’m not kidding. Every morning I cycled a forty-minute journey to school and showered in the empty girls’ bathroom near our squash court. On that fateful September morning, after showering, I went out to fill in my water bottle. Something unusual happened the moment I came back. As I stepped into the bathroom, my peripheral vision detected an unknown figure scurried off from the locker area into one of the shower cubicles and slammed the door shut. The next minute I noticed that my sport bra,…

controlling the actions of their population. In a popular historical incident involving an American and crimes in Singapore. The America was convicted of vandalizing personal property and was caned by Singapore police (The New York Times, 1994). Caning is an authorized form of corporal punishment utilized by the country for a sentence of over thirty crimes (blay442, 2009). Though I do not agree with the use of corporal punishment, there are positives to the use. It would solve over…

. Although theses three modern styles varied, the works involved all occupied a new and more complex space. Mel Gooding explains this as a ‘trend in modern art away from the representation of recognisable objects in pictorial space and towards presentation of a painting or sculpture as a real object in real space.’ Up until this time the pictorial space created in the art work aimed to create the illusion of a real pictorial space for the spectator. The technique of one point perspective which…

Prior to 1860, secession had not been viewed by many as a feasible option for America’s future; however, the precedent set in 1820 by the Missouri Compromise, that the country should engage in an endless political balancing act to perpetuate peace, became difficult to maintain long-term. Compelling sectional fears and differences, intensified by the increased popularity of the abolition movement in the 1850s, expedited the arrival of a rupture that, in retrospect, seemed almost inevitable.…

When the delegates to the Constitutional Convention gathered in Philadelphia in 1787, it was already understood that slavery was an issue with the potential to tear the new republic apart. At the convention, with the three-fifths compromise a precedent of compromise was established. Over the next half century, every time the nation was faced with controversy over the “peculiar institution” the proverbial can was kicked down the road by Congressional compromises between the northern states where…