Punitive damages

symbolized as outcasts and low social status groups. In the article by Lucille M. Ponte and Jennifer L. Gillian, both indicate, “As a sign of resistance, many prisoners remade the tattoos into their own designs, thereby reclaiming individual control over punitive marking of their body. The popularity of tattoos still remains amongst prisoners today who voluntarily brand themselves to indicate gang affiliations or signify their contempt for the prison experience,” (Ponte and Gillian 328-329).…

rates. Adoptive children are less likely to suffer child abuse than is the norm in the general population of children raised by their biological parents. Based on all measures of human well-being that social scientists have devised, reveal no damage suffered by virtue of transferring children from their biological parents to adoptive parents. What does help this study is that children are placed in appropriate homes as soon as possible. But a problem is that adoption doesn’t always…

spot of tea, when in actuality he has informed the secret police of Lucy’s presence. He readily adheres to the power of higher authorities out of fear. Tumnus tries to rectify his actions by allowing Lucy to escape back through the closet but the damage is already done. Jadis is now aware of the “daughter of Eve” in Narnia, and now seeks further action by imprisoning Mr. Tumnus and laying a trap for when Lucy…

Homelessness is one of those terms people say in hushed tones. In a country like America it’s difficult to believe that homelessness exists. America boasts economic opportunity, is a world power and a champion for human rights. How can homelessness exist in a country that has so many assets on hand that we can continually give billions of dollars yearly to other countries? If we have such great amounts of disposable income then surely we don’t have any pressing social problems to deal with…

Eric Cassell argues that physicians have misunderstood the nature of suffering. This is owing largely to the mind-body dualism first introduced by the philosopher Rene Descartes. Physicians focus on the restoration of the body at the complete neglect of the non-body make-up of the human. Cassell argues that this has led to medical treatment actually increasing a patient’s suffering. Opposed to the generally accepted four goals of medicine; prevention, relief, care of ill and avoidance of…

Mencius is in the privileged position of providing political advice to King Xuan of Qi. Mencius offers a clear political philosophy rooted in ethical principles. The core ethical principles are humanitarian in nature, based on Mencius’s core belief in the essential goodness of human nature. Mencius’s political philosophy is grounded in just and humane leadership. There are several core tenets of Mencius’s political philosophy, and he advises the king accordingly. The first primary tenet is that…

data about hate crimes. In 1994, the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act allowed the Hate Crime Statistics Act to enhance the penalties for bias motivated crimes. Next, the Church Arson Prevention Act was passed in 1996, which prohibit any damage to be done to religious property or attempts to prevent someone from exercising their personal beliefs. In 1997, the Campus Hate Crimes Right To Know Act was enacted, stating school campuses are required to collect and report all hate crime…

became the major power in the unipolar order world because of their democratic and capitalistic dominance over the Soviet Union. Today ,multipolar orders that obtain nuclear proliferation become blank but fear using them because it could have critical damage on the world's overall economy. Powers are also able to establish sanctions or embargos as a threat of economic power. For this reason, it is important to seek avenues for economic reform and nuclear disarmament that way lives can prosper…

proven to be the fact that the plan is too restrictive and does not allow states the freedom necessary in order to properly accommodate their students ' individual needs. The teachers that were held under its legislation said that its laws were "too punitive and too prescriptive."(1) This sort of environment is not conducive to productive education and has to be changed in order to allow for teachers to reach their maximum potential. Terrell Bell, a past United States Secretary of Education,…

my mind I have small-scaled governments envisioned. In small-scaled governments, citizens would be free to live their own lives. The other kind of government as laid out in the Constitution would entail taxes, drafts, offices, and wars that would damage human dignity and thus, be fatal to self-government. Large power governments are not to be trusted. Liberty could only be protected in small republics. A large nation would be best be governed with local governments having the most control.…