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    and bark like dogs. Some were beaten to death, some even eaten -- all for the promulgation of Maoism” Many intellectuals killed themselves after many futile attempts at avoiding the Red Guards. Thousands of others were imprisoned, sent to solitary confinement, or relocated to the countryside in order to “purify” themselves through hard labor. These violent actions against Intellectuals, or any other citizen doubting the party caused most citizens to be too terrified to speak against the party.…

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    What is one mistake someone can never come back from? Suicide, it’s irreversible. The book I read is entitled Sad Perfect, a novel created by Stephanie Elliot. In this work of fiction, there is a very good lesson to be learned about suicide and mental illness. Wrote in second person point of view, one can actually feel like it is themselves experiencing the events. Sixteen-year-old Pea tries to act like a normal high school girl, but only very few people know about her eating disorder, which…

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    only carry out for the satisfaction of the victims’ family and friends, the justice system, and the society. There are several other ways to punish a felon that does not involve killing him: the life-sentence without the possibility of parole, solitary confinement should be highly considered as alternatives to death penalty. Capital punishment should be called legal murder instead of death penalty, because taking the life of a human being, deprived him of the right to breath is murder, injustice…

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    Argument Essay The Holocaust is one of the most prominent examples of the fact that when compassion is removed, man is no better than beast, set on destroying each other. Through first hand experiences, not fully perceivable, unless one has lived them, Night by Elie Wiesel, demonstrate why compassion is imperative to survival. One Prime example of this is in the beginning on the first train ride: ““Mrs. Schachter had lost her mind…she had been separated from her family…and… became…

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    Slater describes how people feel when they are in a boring surrounding “Solitary confinement causes extraordinary physic distress in human beings and is likely to be just stressful to other sociable species, therefore to elicit extreme form of coping behaviors such as the use of powerful analgesics and tranquilizer ” (167)…

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    what was said, but hearing only the scream of the car.” (page 43). Various people might maintain that Guy is more desolate in their relationship than she is; nevertheless, Mildred can’t find comfort in Guy, so she locks her emotions away in solitary confinement compelling her to stay by her lonesome. All these…

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    Alcatraz Research Paper

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    Correctional Facility Paper: Alcatraz Elizabeth Phan Introduction to Corrections July 20, 2017 Look out onto the San Francisco Bay and you see a big rock that is approximately 22 acres with some abandoned architecture on it. Well, that there is Alcatraz Island. Before Alcatraz became the tourist attraction that we know of today, it was used differently throughout the course of California history. First, the light house was placed there and it was used to guide people in and out of…

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    A huge controversy that is still up for debate is Should juveniles be prosecuted as adults? Should teens who commit crime be punished like adults or continue to get chances to make things right. Everybody make mistakes nobody’s perfect everyone has done things they wish they could take back. When you’re young you don’t know any better you tend to do things you aren’t aware of. Being young you’re going to make mistakes it’s all apart of growing up. Eighteen is considered the age you’re classified…

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    Question 1: Foucault versus Durkheim According to Durkheim, sociological knowledge discovers the laws of social formations to liberate man into conformity with his social being. Similarly, Foucault, genealogical critique unmasks the limits of knowledge for the purpose of exploring alternative, not- totalizing, ways of being. On the one hand, Durkheim’s cultural criticism anchors in piety. Durkheim believes that the excesses of modern individualism can only subdue within an integrated social…

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    Problem #1: A problem that a school administrator might encounter is to keep students engaged in class. In many ways, the school administrator can use operant conditioning to manage student behavior. In the classroom, positive reinforcement should be the primary way in managing the students’ behaviors. Positive reinforcement in the classroom can come in many forms. Using a behavior chart is an efficient way to make positive reinforcement available to all students. A behavior chart should…

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