The Fifth Discipline

wants and has the ability to cheat and lie. In the fourth stanza, the lover is depicted as having acknowledged his power over the speaker in that he knows he is the cause of the speaker’s wailing, yet triumphs in it. At the end of the poem in the fifth stanza, the speaker has realized that directly seeking out love will only end up harming one’s…

A lot of parents in the world lack certain traits good parents have because their own parents may have inflicted poor parenting skills upon them throughout their own childhood, such as emotional, verbal, and physical abuse, which are all things that can be avoided and improved upon to make the relationship between parents and their children better. Have you ever made an opinion about something to your parents and they responded in a way that degraded you? This is just the bare minimum of what a…

In my culture family discipline is basketball are the top 2 enforced in my culture. I remember when I was little (7 years old) that I walked into a store and I stole a CD. when I got to the car I showed my mom I was excited but she was disappointed , she made me return it and said “ I was a criminal” she punished me and told me every day that what I did was bad and thanks to her I learned not to steal any more from that day on. Basketball: I grew up in a family that makes soccer a big part of…

In our culture today, more Americans are coming to the belief that physical discipline of kids such as spanking is wrong. Scientists have been more recently carrying out studies on the negative effects of physical discipline, and some parents are concurring that it is the wrong way to handle misbehaving kids. With this change of heart comes more judgement upon public figures who use physical discipline with their kids. One example is with NFL running back Adrian Peterson, who disciplined his son…

is controlling their relations, and the second is separating them out of their dangerous mixtures. This was done by supervision and discipline. Discipline is described as an effective agent of change, such as increasing power, and broadening the fronts of attacks with out reducing strength. Discipline is what brings power into play. Foucault believes, "the disciplines function increasingly as techniques for making useful individuals." The abuse of power in our society is shown through the whole…

Should We Pay Children for Getting Good Grades? Timmy Hodgeon was a very kind and respectful child, and he was known as “Generous Timmy” by his neighborhood’s people. Every day, Timmy would help his mother do house chores and volunteer in cleaning the neighborhood for the community. He would always think about others before even thinking about himself, and he would always think about giving rather than receiving. Timmy was the ideal child in the eyes of the people, but he had one problem. He…

Performance appraisals and the underlying disciplinary power it exercises in the UK education system Epigraph Disciplinary power is exercised through its invisibility; at the same time, it imposes on those it subjects a compulsory visibility. In discipline, it is the subjects who have to be seen. Their visibility assures the hold of the power that is exercised over them. It is the fact of being constantly seen that maintains the disciplined individual in his subjection (Foucault, 1979, p.…

years, spanking and use of physical discipline towards a child has not only been a hotly debated issue in parenting but in Canadian politics and law as well. For centuries physical acts such as spanking, slapping and grabbing have been popular ways to discipline children, but does that mean such abuse should be justified? Amidst numerous recognition of the rights of children by advocates and the government to monumental societal changes regarding parental discipline, correctional violence…

First, how will the discipline affect the employee? Will it encourage them to change their behavior in a positive way, or will it cause an already troubled employee to become disgruntled? Second, how will the discipline affect the surrounding employees? Will they think it was fair, while giving the employee an opportunity to improve, or will they think it was unfair…

later years. In her paper, “Parental Discipline reactions to Child Noncompliance and Compliance,” Christina Rodriguez states: “Spanking is inherently confrontational in nature, and enough studies of spanking during childhood attribute the practice to poor social skills and trust development issues.” Basically Rodriguez is claiming that due to present evidence, spanking can be said to be the cause of social problems for many children. I agree that physical discipline can lead to defects in social…