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- 2021: Sexual Offenders
- ... that the offenders spend a lifetime in jail. Offenders feel it is not their fault and they could still function in society if properly treated. Many groups will take the side of the victims like child protection groups and victims of the crimes. Offender may have doctors on their side saying that the reasons for the crimes are a mental disorder. The outcome to be reached is the need for stricter sanctions and clearly defined laws on sexual abuse. The sanctions should be clearer in the span of one year. The target is too start convicting all newer offenders under the new laws. The result is tougher penalties for the offenders under the new ...
- 2022: Mark Twain 2
- ... concoction of aloe, rhubarb, and a narcotic cost him most of his savings and money soon became tight (Paine 34-35). The family soon grew with the birth of Pamela late in 1827. Their third child,Pleasant Hannibal, did not live past three months, due to illness. In 1830 Margaret was born and the family moved to Pall Mall, a rural county in Tennessee. After Henry s birth in 1832, the ... a successful business with her husband. Clemens was born on November 30, 1835, in the small remote town of Florida, Missouri. Samuel s parents, John Marshall and Jane Lampton Clemens never gave up on their child, who was two months premature with little hope of survival. This was coincidentally the same night as the return of Halley s Comet. The Clemenses were a superstitious family and believed that Halley s Comet ... Innocents Abroad. Young novelist and editor William Deam Howells said the book contained an abundance of pure human nature, such as rarely gets into literature... (qtd. in Lyttle 110). Following the birth of their first child, Langdon Clemens in 1870, Twain set out to write Roughing It, a story recounting his early adventures as a miner and journalist; and The Gilded Age. The Gilded Age was an immediate hit with ...
- 2023: Pros and Cons of Capital Punishment
- ... arms, swallowing razor blades, blinding or castrating themselves- because feeling something, even pain, is better than feeling nothing. People who wind up committing murder are often the survivors of attempted murder themselves, or of a child abuse that is so severe, that if they were not strong, they would not have survived. David Berkowitz was the Son of Sam serial killer. The press at one time asked him why he killed so ...
- 2024: Plato Republic The Noble Lie
- ... the commonwealth as farmers or craftsmen. Socrates, in his typical fashion, covers all possible eventualities by noting that “although your children will generally be like their parents, sometimes a golden parent may have a silver child or a silver parent a golden one, and so on with al the other combinations” (The Republic of Plato X:III-415). Therefore, Socrates asserts, there is nothing as important as the measure and mixture of the metals in the souls of children. He concludes that if a child is born with an strong mixture of iron or brass, it is the responsibility of the parents to assure that he finds aposition and a life that best suits his nature and they are to do so without pity or derision. Naturally, if a child is produced with gold or silver as a part of his nature, it is equally incumbent upon the arents to nurture his leadership qualities and promote him according to his worthiness and value. Socrates, ...
- 2025: Illegal Drugs
- ... freedom and their future all for drugs. Each year drug use is the cause of a large number of accidents at home in the office and on the road. Everybody pays the price of drug abuse: more cops and prisons more hospitols and treatment centers and many lives lost. But drug users hurt themselves more than anybody because they are supporting violent crimes in the drug world. Just by using drugs ... both. If a person is cought selling a drug than they may be sentenced no more than a year and or a fine of 3,000 In 1970, the U.S. congress passed the Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act. this new act created five catagoriess of different drugs depending on how dangerous they were. It also made drug laws tougher than they were in the past. In 1981 the U ... U.S. drug sales were over 100 billion dollars a year. In the past years there have been some signs that anti-drug laws are working. A survey done by the National Institute on Drug Abuse indicates that the number of people using drugs has dropped. But it will take more than just tough laws to stop the drug trade. It will take money to help pay for cops and ...
- 2026: Alcohol
- ... contrast to withdrawal from narcotic drugs such as heroin, which, although distressful, rarely results in death. Recent evidence has shown that heavy and even moderate drinking during pregnancy can cause serious damage to the unborn child: physical or mental retardation or both; a rare but severe expression of this damage is known as fetal alcohol syndrome. Treatment of the illness increasingly recognizes alcoholism itself as the primary problem needing attention, rather ... results. Legally, A person who provides alcohol to a minor (a person under the age of 21), can be held liable and prosecuted against for criminal negligence and misconduct. Not to mention the corruption and abuse of a minor. A person is also liable for their actions for providing alcohol to anyone in there home and residence. And could be found from the same charges as the ones above to murder ...
- 2027: Plot Of Oedipus Rex
- ... sister of Kreon. Oedipus, continuing with the rising action, then questions Iokaste, the widow of Laios, what she knows. She tells him that Laios death was foretold. That he would be killed by his own child. To prevent this, Laios took their three-day-old son, pierced his ankles and left him for dead in the mountains. Iokaste also gives Oedipus the king's description and tells that she heard that ... to the shepherd regarding the baby. The messenger tells that that the baby is Oedipus. The shepherd learning this, does not want to tell about the baby. Oedipus questions him until he reveals that the child, Oedipus, was the child of King Laios and Iokaste. Oedipus realizes that all the prophecies had come true. Oedipus did marry his mother and killed his father. His fate had been fulfilled. This is the climax and the ...
- 2028: Effects Of Advertising
- ... nineties is that of Calvin Klein. Ironically, in contrast to the normal, objectifying advertisements that deface women altogether, Klein focuses on his model's expressions. However, these expressions are similar to those of a scared child. The naked female model in turn looks even more vulnerable than when she was faceless. Here, in this ad Kate Moss is depicted as an innocent scared child. Her fingers touch her lips as if she is not permitted to speak, while her eyes look as if they are bruised. Moss' breast is exposed in this image, but instead of appearing voluptuous, Moss ... nature of his advertisements. Before Calvin Klein's waif image developed, it was thought that concentration on a woman's voluptuous physical features was what intrigued men. But this idea of Moss as a helpless child, with no real feminine curves at all, reiterates the argument that the male attraction to certain ads lies in the sexual power it gives them. Women please men in their nudity, their purity, and ...
- 2029: Portrait Of The Artist As A Yo
- ... an array of transformations, changing throughout the novel much like Stephen himself. The figure woman goes from the mother figure, to that of the whore, and finally to the representation of freedom itself. As a child, the image of the mother figure is strong. It is nurturing and supportive, that of "a woman standing at the half-door of a cottage with a child in her arms . . ." (10) who shelters and protects and makes Stephen afraid to "think of how it was" to be without a mother. As Stephen grows, however, like any child his dependency of him mother begins to dwindle, as does his awe for her. He begins to question his relationship with her and she is suddenly seen as a dirty figure, beginning the transformation ...
- 2030: Aristotle’s Rules For Tragedy
- ... is an “imitation of a noble and complete action, having the proper magnitude”(Aristotle 6). Here we have Lizzie Borden murdering her own parents in a fit of rage. The murders happen after years of abuse and negative attitudes from almost everyone she knows. The act of murdering one’s parents is far from noble. It could however, be seen as noble seeing as the reason Lizzie kills them is to ... s loss of her family ultimately drives her into a life of loneliness and misery. Furthermore, on the subject of pity and fear, Aristotle professes that truly pitiable occurrences take place between close relations. Parent-child relationships are about the closest relationships that there are. There is no choral section. Therefore, there is no episode. The entire play could be referred to as a complete exode, that is, one “complete section ...
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