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- 941: Ethical Values and The Classroom
- ... to be confined to high security areas like airports to guard against terrorists. Now they are installed in our schools to guard against terrorists; the students. Many of California's schools have become institutions of violence, intimidation, and fear instead of institutions of higher learning. Have our schools lost control of their purpose of educating young people to become knowledgeable, productive, conscientious adults? The classrooms have become overcrowded, the students ethical ... learned outside the school. Today families are broken and dysfunctional by divorce, drugs, abuse, and single parent syndrome. Fewer families are joining churches, and there is a reduced feeling of community as increased mobility and violence have transformed our once tight-knit neighborhoods. Our children are not learning the values necessary to maintain high social standards. In a recent interview in The Orange County Register, Gene Bedley, a retired educator, states ...
- 942: Response to Susan Horton's Article "Mothers, Sons, and The Gangs"
- ... thing, the gangs. The story of Gayle Thomas Kary may be the saddest one because the she tried everything and when she finally thought she succeeded her son, Jamee, died as a result of gang violence. Kary did more than all the other mothers we talked of, she not only disciplined her son with rules she took action. When she caught her son cutting up soap to look like cocaine she ... to turn her son Jamee around. She finally made him understand and she can say that his death was an accident. He was not just a number or a statistic of children lost to gang violence. He made a difference because his mothers actions made a difference. She could not help the factors that made her son join the gang but she did everything she could to get him out. It ...
- 943: The History Of Greek Theater
- ... the miracles supplied by it were replace by the sudden appearance of a rich uncle, the discovery or new wills, or of infants changed at birth. Many proprieties of the Greek plays were attached to violence. Therefore, it was a rule that acts of violence must take place off stage. This carried through to the Elizabethan theater which avoided the horrors of men being flayed alive or Glousters eyes being put out in full view of an audience (King ...
- 944: Against Capital Punishment
- ... state cannot better society when it is taking part in such a savage and irreversible act as capital punishment. The death penalty becomes a degrading act when used. State sanctioned executions expose more of the violence and injustice that are in everyone. It is dehumanizing and brings more injury to society than to the victim (Bender& Leone, 1986, p. 74). These true accounts tell how capital punishment degrades all of society ... penitentiary in Florida. With them was a coffin perched atop a Winnebago. The people around it chanting Go Sparky go! Some were wearing T-shirts with the saying, 1down 131 to go. This shows the violence and dehumanizing actions that are brought out of society with the use of capital punishment (Bedau, 1999, November 10). In addition, on October 12, 1984, across the street from the Virginia prison in Richmond, a ...
- 945: Prayer In Schools
- ... for something that our nation desperately needs. Our nation's lack of prayer has hurt us greatly. The Tampa Tribune expressed, "Our prayerlessness has promoted our growing secularism.. and the decay of our society into violence, lawlessness and moral poverty"(NP). Crimes and moral values in society have lowered as a result of no prayer in schools (Kramer 1). Students had a greater respect for their teachers, their lives, and other ... yet settles for the minority. During a moment of silence, noise is overdone, which ruins the whole purpose of even possessing the time. It's only a half of a minute; it can't curb violence, or make the world better (Hancock 48). If a non-required prayer was made, it would give students a chance to take part in something that that majority wants, and the minority would not feel ...
- 946: People Should Not Marry At An
- ... to does not mean that physical abuse does no hurt a person, but even that too inflicts a certain amount of mental pain. The evidence is all around, even in the news the percentage of violence is on the rise. So why would someone one to take that chance to get into what is supposed to be lifetime relationship with someone, and not know the person? Domestic violence is now being spoken of and the people who suffer from this are sometimes people who have rushed into a marriage. Even though the community is greatly aware that early marriages may not necessarily be ...
- 947: Mao Zedong
- ... an idea of political revolution that would be prevalent during the twentieth century until it suprisingly disappeared 90 years later. Mao decidedly drew both from Marx and Lenin (Schram 1994). While Marx assuredly promoted revolutionary violence. He might be thought of less a political thinker than an economist and sociologist. Lenin, on the other hand, was an overall extremely skilled in the application of political power to control the pace of ... Mao. China Quarterly. Mar. 1996. Online. Galileo. Internet. 15. Jan. 1997. McHenry, Robert. "Mao Zedong." The New Encyclopedia Brittanica. The University of Chicago. 1992. Vol. 23. 468-72. Pool, Teresa. Maos frenzy of mass violence. World Press Review. Aug. 1996. Online. Galileo. Internet. 15. Jan. 1997. Schram, Stuart R. Mao Zedong a hundred years on: The legacy of a ruler. China quarterly. Mar. 1994. Online. Galileo. Internet. 15. Jan. 1997 ...
- 948: Things Fall Apart 4
- ... was well known throughout the villages. His fame rested on personal achievements, he gained fame as the greatest wrestler when he was young, twenty years earlier. Okonkwo s habitual ways of acting is dominated by violence and anger. He rules his compound with heavy hand; his wives and children feared his fiery temper. Most villagers have great respect for him, but they are annoyed by his brusqueness in dealing with less ... fears, uncontrollable anger, and unwillingness to adapt to a changing society caused by colonialism, led him to his destruction. His ways of acting prevented him to accomplish what he wanted. His life was ruled by violence, anger, and fear of himself. His behavior was dominated by the shadow of his father s failures. By taking his own life, Okonkwo s soul deep inside somehow was weak as his father s.
- 949: The Apology Of Socrates: A Closer Examination
- ... example of this can be seen in South Africa. Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for promoting the ending of the segregation. While he was imprisoned several other factions fought against the white oppression, often resulting in violence. Yet after Nelson Mandela was released, the segregation came to a peaceful ending. Instead of the extreme violence that had been predicted, segregation calmly ended. Finally, in previous times in his life Socrates had stood alone and taken the moral road. He brings references to this to demonstrate that while he may be ...
- 950: Revenge Vs Justice(macbath)
- ... to Fortinbras as Denmark s new king. But I do prophesy the election lights / On Fortinbras; he has my dying voice . (IV, ii, 348-349). Fortinbras regains his father s land, without the use of violence, or death to himself. And becomes King of Denmark. In the end of the play all the royal family gets killed in the revenge of Hamlet and Laertes. If Hamlet wants justice, he would be ... an act of great injustice. After the death of Hamlet, Fortinbras becomes the king of Denmark, which shows that Fortinbras is the real conquer in the play who achieves everything what he wants without using violence and revenge. Fortinbras uses his intelligence and patient in a right manner to get what he wants. Hamlet s and Laertes acts of emotion lead to the downfall of them, and cause the rise to ...
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