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inhumane act is dehumanizing the people who are supporting it. He states “such a tendency has the slave trade to debauch men’s minds, and harden them to every feeling of humanity!” Equanio comes off as though he’s never seen such an extent of cruelty to whip and lash on another for no particular reason. Demoralizing their very being. What’s expressed in this quote in my opinion is that Equiano is trying to point out an ongoing chain of hate toward his kind. He mentions “I will not suppose that…

secret is that he is Pearl’s father. This also means that he is Hester’s accomplice in adultery. This secret eats away at him and causes him to start self-punishment. The first thing he does is he scourges, or in other words he beats himself with a whip that has nails in it. Dimmesdale also brands himself with the letter A on his chest. He fasts and holds all night vigils. The fasting causes him to become sick, and the all night vigils with fasting causes him to hallucinate. Chillingworth…

problem climbing tall trees and breaking into beehives for it. Their thick skin protects them from beestings. It prevents the stingers from piercing them too deeply. The most amazing thing about them is how bold and courageous they are. They can whip around in an instant to stand off against lions, scaring and startling them. Honey badgers may have the word “honey” in their name, but they are not sweet. They are…

The U.S government has three branches, the legislative, executive, and judicial. All three branches have their own powers and responsibilities. Each branch has to work with each other to make sure that the peoples’ rights are protected and the government is functional. The House and Senate make up the legislative branch and together they make up the Congress. The legislative branch creates all laws, controls foreign commerce and interstate, taxing and spending policies, and declares war. The…

Essay On Bring Back Flogging Bringing back flogging will better imprisonment rates and help diminish our debt due to the increasing rate at which we incarcerate criminals in the U.S. Some view flogging as this inhumane form of punishment for crimes, but to me this is a concept which I could see implemented in today’s society. As a form of retribution for the actions committed by the criminals. Jeff Jacoby states that no matter what crime you commit, the penalty of choice is incarceration.…

of what happens to a lame young women “Master would keep this lacerated young women tied up in this horrid situation four or five hours at a time … I have even known him to tie her up early in the morning, and whip her before breakfast; leave her, go to his store … return at dinner, and whip her again...” (52). this mistreatment of human life would lead many believing it to be false but so evil it must be true. This simple truth I enough to leave a reader agape in the fact that anything was…

The place was very large. I assumed the man who took us was rich. He was rich enough to allow us to sleep and eat at his home. I wish that was the case. He was rich, but he did not care for us. We reached a small cabin compared to the large home he lives in. He unlocked the chain of our shackles. He flashed his gun to assure any of us that trying to run away will cause harm. I looked over his movements carefully, just to be safe. I sighed looking around me. The man walked over to a field that…

Some types of physical punishment are floggings (a short whip made of 9 strands used to whip the subject), the treadmill (the convicts had to walk up revolving steps which turned the mill, grinding grain into flour) and leg irons (shackles are placed around the convicts ankles to cause pain and discomfort). However, these physical…

SALT by Maurice Gee is a very unique and aberrant novel, as it is set in the future where the dictatorship, called ‘Company’, rules the land leaving most of the population to live in poverty. While the poor have nothing, the rich, white ruling families of the Company live in a gated community with maids and nannies and lavish lifestyles. SALT follows the two completely opposite characters, Pearl and Hari. Pearl is the beautiful daughter of Bowles, a ruling family. Whereas Hari is a dark skinned…

Fredrick Douglass was taught to read by his mistress. She taught him the alphabet and how to read. This was very uncommon for a slave to read. She wanted Fredrick to at least be able to read the bible. Mr. Hugh warned his wife about teaching a slave to read. He saw it as the first step in a slave realizing the magnitude and how horrible slavery really was. He claims that learning will spoil the best slave. A slave that is able to read and write will try to stand up to slavery, while a slave who…