Discipline and Punish

On October 13th, I shadowed pharmacist, Dr. Diana Tow at a Walmart Super Center in Fort Worth, Texas. My shadowing began early that morning and ended around noon. This was my first time behind the pharmacy viewing a practicing community pharmacist. Many of her tasks for the day included immunizations, reviewing medications orders, counseling patients, and when orders became backed up she aided the pharmacy technician when available. There was an audit that day for immunization from the…

However, we should not use it as a reason to discipline someone with death. Desmond Tutu once said, “To take a life when life has been lost is revenge, not justice.” Raymond Schrith also once quoted, “To kill the person who has killed someone is continuing the cycle of violence which ultimately destroys…

Child Immigrants and the Benefits of the Dream Act “California is home to about 2.67 million undocumented immigrants” (Hill, Hayes). My family left Guatemala due to a broken marriage, when my mother came to the United States, she had difficulty adjusting to her new family; many illegal immigrants came to America as children and are eligible for the Dream Act, the United States should have weaker immigration laws to help these children attain a brighter future. In 1977 my grandmother Maria,…

Voter Participation Voter participation is often reflected by the candidates, the issues, and the economy. There are times however, that voter participation is reflected by a “What’s in it for me?” attitude. For example; in the 2008 presidential election, Barack Obama, running for his second term, promised free cell phones, free welfare, and again…a fundamental change in America. After spending more than $1 billion in his campaign, he was able to clinch his re-election. This brings to question…

Covey broke Douglass’s spirit by giving him the enormous amounts of work and the highly intense amount of discipline. As Douglass said, “we were worked fully up to the point of endurance,” as he had not enough time to take his meals and he always under the Mr. Covey’s surveillance as he described Mr. Covey as a snake and a thief in the night. For example, Mr…

domestic violence? What if this terrible occurrence happened to you one day and there was nothing that could be done about it? Although modern families often romanticized early colonial life, colonists often wrongfully used domestic violence as discipline. In the early 1600’s, in Colonial America, domestic violence was not seen by the colonists in the way that we look at it today. It was a form of punishment for women, children, slaves, and spouses. No one ever said anything about it,…

In Sophocles’s Antigone the central conflict revolves around the question of whether Polyneices should be buried or not. Antigone, Polyneices’s sister, believes in divine law and wants the body to be buried. However, the king, Creon, believes in human law and orders for the body not to be buried. Although Ancient tradition demands that the body to be buried, Creon believes that these customs must be forgone for the good of the state. He transgresses from the domain of the divine, believing he is…

decided that you would go to school and only smart or rich children would go to school. Children that were able to go to school ended up becoming rich. Most children did not like that their teachers were allowed to hit them. Teachers were allowed to punish “badly behaved” children with or without the parents’ permission. Education was highly recommended in the romantic period but it was not free. If you were poor, you could not go to school unless you were really smart. If you were not smart…

dangerously mentally ill” from owning firearms in New York. Under the provisions of the SAFE Act, anyone with a mental health problem is reported to the state. Not every person with a psychiatric problem is going to shoot up Walmart, so why do we have to punish everyone? I am not going to sit here and say that there is not a correlation between psychiatric issues and engaging in violent behavior – but in good conscience I cannot suggest that every person with a psychiatric issue will eventually…

At college campuses, rape reports have become more frequent. But, for how often campus rape occurs it doesn't get reported as much. Universities have done many things to hide it from the general public when someone is sexually assaulted on their campus. One reason for this is because many of the perpetrators are college athletes. A college athlete committing sexual assault can damage the school’s reputation, so they try to hide it. Universities can hide it when their players commit campus rape…