Life of the Puritans (Complete this for each member of your group.)
1. List any similarities you see between a Puritan family and your family.
Some similarities between a Puritan family and mine is that each member of my family has a job. For example, I clean the bathroom, my sister unloads the dishwasher, my mom- and sometimes dad- makes dinner, and my dad takes out the trash.
2. List any differences that you see between a Puritan family and your …show more content…
A person who has committed a crime will not be humiliated into redemption, if anything it would make them hateful and isolated in their own home. Looking for forgiveness and understanding yet only to find a life of humiliation and loneliness. Causing multiple other crimes to be committed as an act of revenge on the people who simply stood there and watched. Taken by the fangs of a beast, it will return far more monstrous than the beast that took its known life. On the other hand, giving one a second chance at life can give them the passion to get it right the second time around but shunning them the second they get it will do the complete opposite. Once they have served their time in prison, they deserve a life, not their own personal cell. The life of a former prisoner is already very difficult when it comes to finding a job. If you add the self hatred they will have and the hatred of their community towards them to trying to make a living, you might as well have never let them out in the first place. In search for escape they will be addicted to drugs or even dealing them as their only way to pay for rent. If we publicly shame our criminals we won't be punishing them for the better, we would be inevitably sentencing them to a lifetime in …show more content…
Public shaming will lead to a globe of continents who hold the state's captive from the outside world that lie above the bodies of water which are still and brushed by the equators rope. Therefore, is public shaming a form of punishment or simply a fancy phrase for bullying?
TASK 3
Nathaniel Hawthorne
About Hawthorne:
1. Where was Hawthorne born?
Hawthorne was born in Salem, Massachusetts. 2. Who was his great-great grandfather and what did he do?
Hawthorne's great-great grandfather was a judge in the Salem witch trials. He was the one responsible for some of the executions of the accused witches. This caused a great burden of guilt on Hawthorne due to his past Puritan ancestors actions.
3. Where did Hawthorne work (but lost this job in 1848)?
Hawthorne worked in the Salem custom house, until he lost his job in 1848. 4. What tragedy occurred after he lost his job?
After Hawthorne lost his job, his mother died. After this occurred he wrote the scarlet letter. 5. Would you describe Hawthorne as an introvert or an extrovert? (If you don’t know these words, look them up!)
Hawthorne was an introvert. This is an observation made due to his characteristics of being shy, not making eye contact with people, and his fear of talking to another