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    get badly beaten. The warden believed that his prison system was based on discipline and religion. Compare current prison policy in California with those policy used by the states policy in your viewed movie. The prison system will have random cell inspections‚ in the morning and before bedtime‚ the prisoners will have to come out of their cells when they are told to make sure they are present. Prisoners will have to follow the rules of the prison if not followed they will be punished by either

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    Torturing Prisons

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    Torturing Prisoners in the War on Terror Is Never Justified "Torturing Prisoners in the War on Terror Is Never Justified."At Issue: How Should the United States Treat Prisoners in the War on Terror?.  Lauri S. Friedman. San Diego: Greenhaven Press‚ 2005. Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center. Gale.  Kenneth Roth‚ "Time to ’Stop Stress and Duress‚’" Washington Post‚ May 13‚ 2004‚ p. A29. Copyright © 2004 by the Washington Post Book World Service/Washington Post Writers Group. Reproduced by permission

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    Katherine Wallace N00621910 April 25‚ 2011 Beyond The Prison Paradigm James Gilligan relays an enlightening message in his article‚ Beyond the Prison Paradigm: From Provoking Violence to Preventing It by Creating “Anti-Prisons”‚ about the history and sole purpose of jails. Gilligan dates his research about jails all the way back from the first civilization known to man‚ Sumerian‚ to the jails we see and know so well today. At the beginning of time jails literally meant “house of darkness”

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    Nature of Swearing

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    The changed nature of swearing One of the crucial characteristics of language is its constant change‚ its dynamism and development influenced by various factors‚ such as social‚ historical‚ cultural and political. This attribute of the language is clearly reflected in the vocabulary which may result in using some words more frequently‚ with a different connotation or an entirely unrelated meaning. One part of the vocabulary is considered to be a taboo. This is swearing and using curse words

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    Violence In 1640

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    the question that both violence and warfare drove the Island’s history between the years of 1460-1800 because there was a lot of fighting and bloodshed between the native Irish and the English invaders throughout those years. The reign of the Tudors set the violent manner of Irish politics and paved the way for the rebellions and wars which would plague seventeenth century Ireland. In all the years between 1460-1800‚ the years between 1640-1660 were especially full of violence and warfare. This was

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    A Cycle of Violence It is not always easy to right about unpopular topics‚ especially ones that go against not just the grain‚ but the majority of a nation. There are few authors who have been successful about writing from behind the walls of oppression and minority inequalities due to the lack of support they get from the overwhelming public. While many others feared the opposition‚ James Baldwin embraced it with open arms. His writings openly challenged the way people‚ specifically African Americans

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    To what extend do historical sources accurately depict the true nature of world war two? World War 2 was the beginning and end of loyalties‚ it involved more countries than those who fought in World War 1 and influenced the role of women globally. However‚ it was also sadly the cause of 72 million deaths worldwide (axis and allies). During and after the war‚ myriad amounts of primary and secondary sources were written or created in various perspectives. Given the significant number of sources related

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    Extent of Globalisation

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    To what extent have the processes of globalization resulted in a more even distribution of economic activity across the globe? Globalization is currently a very hot topic and many people have an awful lot to say about the matter‚ creating different theories and points of view. A definition of globalization could be‚ ‘The straightforward exchange between core and peripheral areas based upon a broad division of labour‚ is being transformed into a highly complex‚ kaleidoscopic structure involving

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    School To Prison Pipeline

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    4 million persons are in state or federal prisons and jails—a rate of 751 out of every 100‚000. Over 3‚500 of these are awaiting execution; some for Federal crimes‚ most for capital offenses in one of the 36 states that still allows for capital punishment. Another 5 million are under some sort of correctional supervision such as probation or parole (PEW 2008). Even more alarming is a phenomenon known as the Pipeline to Prison‚ or the School to Prison Pipeline. In her dissertation‚ Robinson (2013)

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    Sexual assualt in prison

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    Criminology Dec. 3 2013 Sexual Assault in Prison Around the world people are in poisoned for various crimes including assault and rape. But people do not imagine going to prison and getting sexually assaulted like many people do every year. In 2001 a landmark report to the BJS‚ “ No escape: Male rape in the US prisons‚” Human rights watched documented vicious and brutally violent male rapes in prison as well as other vulnerable people who were targeted. The prisoners who were mainly targeted

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