The Prisoner

Personal bonds between individuals are some of the most important things people have and cherish in life. These bonds hold people together in times of strength and of weakness. Some of the most important bonds are of those between family members. In the short story, the Red Convertible, by Louise Erdrich, there is a brotherly bond between two Native American brothers. This story is meant to show the reader how tight bonds really are and how different objects and events can symbolize the bond.…

The majority of prisoners in jails are pretrial detainees. These individuals have not been convicted and awaiting his or her due process clause. Therefore, under the due process clause, they are still afford the same rights and privileges as prison inmates. If there is any consolidation, inmates in jails have less restriction than those in prisons. For example, if a person post his or her bail, they are able to leave the jails. While, inmates in prisons are required to fulfill their sentencing…

Very commonly in today’s society people tend to gain judgments and opinions based off of a person’s physical or facial features. In the Prisoner of Zenda, written by Anthony Hope, the reader follows the main character Rudolph Rassendyll on his adventure to Ruratania. The whole purpose of Rudolph’s journey is for him to meet the King of Ruratania, who is traced back to Rudolph in the family tree. This journey seems to be fairly painless at first, but as the novel begins to ramp up unexpected…

was morning and somehow it was still cold. A guard was yanking on my clothes and yelling at me in a foreign language, which I know was Russian. During a failed defence at the Alaskan front during the Russian-American war, thousands of POW’s or “ Prisoners of War”, were captured and not just soldiers, civilians were captured as POWs also. I was a soldier that was fighting on the Anchorage front line defensive. We were forced to surrender after they launched a huge artillery and airstrike…

The three-time U.S. track and field Olympian, Gail Devers once stated, “Sometimes we fall, sometimes we stumble, but we can’t stay down. We can’t allow life to beat us down. Everything happens for a reason, and it builds character in us, and it tells us what we are about and how strong we really are when we didn’t think we could be that strong.” In the nonfiction book Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, the courageous Louis Zamperini emulated with Devers words when, even in times of hopelessness…

A prisoner is a person who commits crimes and detained in prison as a punishment. A jail or a prison is a place where prisoners are held after they commit crimes against laws. A prison helps to prevent people from having a chance to break the law again, and it makes people afraid of doing something wrong. In 2015, the overall prison population in Thailand was 318,910 which were the third highest prisoners in Asia after China and India (Prison population, 2015). Therefore, there are many types of…

expanded utilization of long determinate sentences are key factors behind the increasing number of prisoner in last two decades. Prisoner overcrowding is one of the key contributing components to poor jail conditions in state(Gottschalk, 2010) . It is likely to be the greatest single issue confronting prison systems and its results can even under the least favorable conditions for any person or prisoner to live in, the best case scenario is to detainment facilities from satisfying their…

The major mythical aspect of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban not surprisingly violates the fundamental principles of science. This novel incorporates several ideas that do not have a scientific basis, for example the concept of “transfiguration”, the ability of humans to transform into animals. However, from the standpoint of evolutionary biology, Azkaban provides examples of evolution in practice, including gene expression and hybrid species. It also includes characters…

Amnesty International defines prisoners of conscience as people who have not used violence but have been imprisoned because of their political or religious beliefs, ethnicity, gender, race, sexual orientation, or any other aspect of their personal being (“Prisoners of Conscience”). There are prisoners of conscience held all over the world, even in the United States. Many are imprisoned without a fair trial or formal charges and some are tortured. Often these prisoners are arrested for speaking…

and Europe. POW camps were camps that held prisoners of war. These POW camps were supposed to follow the international laws of the Geneva Convention, but a lot of the time the camp officials did not follow these regulations. Laura Hillenbrand’s biography Unbroken, describes the life of Louis Zamperini who was an American POW that was captured and lived in several Japanese POW camps. In these POW camps that did not follow the international law the prisoners were treated extremely poorly. While…