Discipline and Punish

There are 13 countries in the Middle East that criminalize homosexuality. The definition of homosexuality is a romantic attraction, sexual attraction or sexual behavior between members of the same sex or gender. The definition of a crime, however, is an action or activity that is considered to be evil, shameful, or wrong. Many countries in the Middle East find homosexuality an act that is so evil and wrong that the persons accused of such act should be killed. The Middle East must end cruel…

washing the clothes. She grabbed the clothes prop and said ‘you pull those weeds or else’ and he said ‘I will not’. For every weed that he pulled she hit him on the rear-end with the wooden stick. He pulled weeds, alright. He did! I mean you didn’t discipline your parents or talk back to them. You respected them and if they didn’t, they would teach you how to respect. But they were always there for us. Even the most recent generations of my family have experienced punishment through pain. Nanny…

Brutality, a word that can very widely be used and applied to a plethora of situations. Kids use it to describe a parents way of discipline, and adults use it as a way to describe the governments form of discipline. So what is Brutality? The answer to this question can change solely based upon opinion. Why is it that people accuse the police of brutality against them? There is evidence that supports the arguments of both sides; however, it is overwhelmingly in the majority for the fact that…

Sofia Paiva de Araujo LTAM 6251 Dr. Erika Edwards November 6th, 2017 Book review Uribe-Uran, Victor. Fatal Love: Spousal Killers, Law, and Punishment in the Late Colonial Spanish Atlantic. Stanford University Press, 2015. Stanford Scholarship Online, 2016. doi: 10.11126/stanford/9780804794633.001.0001. This study investigates spousal murders in Spain and two of its colonies in the Atlantic, New Spain and New Granada, during the late colonial period (1740s-1820s). It explores how these…

For 15 years Germany has lived in utter humiliation. After the end of World War I Germany was left in a deeply fathomless pit weighed down by their tremendous debt and blame for the war with no purpose. Every single person in Germany was left feeling powerless, shameful and grim. Then came the worldwide economic depression which hit Germany hard and established an even greater distrust for the German government. When I came to Germany I couldn't help but understand how their perfect state of…

environments in workplaces (see the pages linked to at this site for more information on the subject). But even when those restrictions have been upheld, they have been justified precisely on the rationale that they do not criminalize speech (or otherwise punish it) in society at large, but only apply to particular contexts, such as workplaces. None of them represent a “hate speech” exception, nor have they been defined in terms of “hate speech.” For this very reason, “hate speech” also doesn’t…

It is under popular belief that our criminal justice system today is designed to keep the poor, poor, and the rich, rich. The criminal justice system practically targets the disadvantaged communities of the nation, specifically the African American communities which have the highest incarceration rate out of any other race by a landslide. How do they actually target these communities? Well it all began practically with the Reagan era and the “War on Drugs” which swept the nation, enforcing…

and executive directors disapprove making statements such as “research-based practices that could really help communities of all communities, like early childhood and whole-child initiatives, continue to be ignored while we double down on test-and-punish practices” (Strauss) State testing is scaring children by giving them the indication that the test is the only thing that is going to determine if they pass or fail…

Is General Zaroff guilty in the name of the law? General Zaroff: a skillful, innocent hunter, or a deranged, guilty murderer. In “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, General Zaroff descends from a family of aristocrat Cossacks described as nothing short of savages. Savages are violent and uncontrollable, similar to Zaroff when he is hunting his most precious prey, humans. He is a man who expresses levity on the value of human life and views them as items used to relieve his boredom…

could not be avoided or changed, and he will have to pay the consequences despite his regret. In modern society, we now recognize that this way of thinking is not the truth, and through free will one determines one’s fate. Dimmesdale exercises some discipline over his own free will (his affair with Hester is the result of this), but he does not want to fully take charge of his free will. In a conversation between Hester and Dimmesdale in the woods, Dimmesdale expresses that rather he does not…