Caning

Is war real necessary to have, if so how does it cause have an impact on a child’s life? The effect of war on children is a big deal for children whose parents are in the army. Therefore children back then had a bigger threat and a bigger problem. Because back then when war happened the children did not anywhere else to go, when their parent was caught in the war and was killed. Most children would either loss one parent and would have grown in a one parent home which was somewhat alright. Other…

paper, where the teacher lost it but still gives him an “A” and goes farther into it when one of the prefects confiscates his necklace of teeth symbolizing the loss or confiscation of his vocal powers. Not to mention his illustrated punishment of caning that is by no means a coincidence that they way that he is prostated resembles that of Jesus being…

This philosophy on corrections is very different to that of the 19th century which had a heavy focus on corporal and capital punishment. Corporal punishment is defined by Oxford dictionary as “physical punishment, such as caning or flogging.” On the other hand, capital punishment is defined as “the legally authorised killing of someone as punishment for a crime.” 4.1 Origins of Confinement In the 16th and 17th century, there were no prisons as they are known today. Instead…

The conflicts in Kansas were examples of the immediate causes of the Civil War. The acquisition of land in the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, the annexation of Texas in 1845, and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848) increased tensions between the North and the South and revived the sectional debate of slavery and its extension, for instance, the Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854. Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois found it necessary to expand westward to create a railroad that linked Chicago and…

Which American president was the most innocent? Abraham Lincoln, he was in a cent (innocent). The Civil War was the bloodiest sectional conflict which opposed the Union against the Confederate states, resulting in casualties of more than 600,000 Northern and Southern soldiers. Since the beginning, the North and South had been divided and several acts were passed to preserve the delicate balance. These resolutions included the Northwest Ordinance, high protective tariffs, and most importantly,…

Kathy McCurry Kathy McCurry is a recent polymer convert. Her journey started a couple of years ago when a job loss left her with some free time as she gathered and researched other opportunities. As it happened, she had relocated for the job she lost, so she was alone in a strange town. She did, however, have a long-forgotten box of beads. In that box were some glass pendants she purchased while in China. Those pendants got her interested in making jewelry, which sent her onto a hunt on the…

Who was John Brown and if he was a man of faith, how could he have been a leader in the taking of innocent lives? This is a question that has baffled the minds of many scholars and historians since that October day in Harpers Ferry in 1859. Was what John Brown organized and executed right or wrong? These are difficult questions to answer about a man who felt so strongly about his convictions about slavery and the God whom he served. John Brown was committed to the abolition of slavery at a young…

mainly through force and torture. It is highly believed that the slaves used not to be treated as normal human beings since they would be tortured extremely. The inhumanities conducted towards these slaves included; curtail to freedom of movement, caning, killing and curtail to freedom of worship and the right to…

The House of the Scorpion is a fantasy novel about many different ideas that could concern parents such as cloning, abuse and questioning authority.. These topics may seem as though they are not meant for 11 year olds which in most cases is true however, in The House of the Scorpion there is a moral transformation in the main character, Matt. Matt moves through his journey which includes cloning, abuse and questioning authority but through this meaningful journey he learns that everyone has…

D’Mello, the tyrannical disciplinarian, is a votary of the iron-handedness of Mrs. Gandhi and practises similar ruthlessness in disciplining his boys. It escapes his notice that not even a single pupil is refined for the better by his exhortations and canings. A similar lack of self-respect is shared by many characters in the pre-liberalised India of Between the Assassinations including Gururaj Kamath, the Sub Editor of the Dawn Herald, in “Day Three: Angel Talkies,” Murali – the failed Naxalite…