Should the American Government Bring Back Flogging? In his article “Bring Back Flogging‚” Jeff Jacoby advocates flogging as an excellent means of corporal punishment. Even though flogging has been “out of fashion for at least 150 years” he insists that flogging should be brought back to replace the more conventional method of imprisonment (193). In addition‚ Jacoby is convinced that flogging offenders after their first conviction can deter them from going into a professional criminal career
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In “Bring Back Flogging”‚ Jeff Jacoby addresses the problems within America ’s criminal justice system. He gives many reasons why imprisonment simply does not work‚ and suggests that corporal punishment should be used as an alternative. Published in the Boston Globe‚ a newspaper well known for being liberal‚ Jacoby provides a conservative view and directs his argument towards those who strongly support imprisonment and view corporal punishment to be highly barbaric and inhumane. However‚ in order
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corporal punishment. In this essay "Bring Back Flogging‚" the author Jeff Jacoby argues effectively that flogging can be a successful alternative to the prison that the U.S. uses for every offensive. The author builds his argument using implied thesis statement‚ inductive logic‚ and serious stance toward his readers. During the seventeen century‚ flogging was a common punishment for lawbreakers among Boston’s Puritans. Jacoby draws the attention of his readers to flogging as an efficient punishment
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Do the Mass Media Have a Liberal Bias? Jeff Jacoby argues that the mass media suffers from a left wing slant. He believes the newscasters and talk shows and television shows are all liberals. People who enter into a profession like any of those all have liberal views. Jacoby says few conservative voices cannot hope to overpower the liberal bias that is in the rest of the media. He points that Fox News Channel adds up to about 3 percent of the ABC-CBS-CNN-NBC-PBS news audience. Those who go into
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Jacoby’s Bring Back Flogging Jeff Jacoby’s “Bring Back Flogging” starts off his essay with a clear argument. His tittle itself states clearly what he is trying to persuade his readers. I can see that Jacoby has also strongly stated his thesis statement in his tittle itself. As an author he illustrates the sarcasm tone in his essay to make his point of view clear to the readers. He conveyed his readers in an ironical way‚ where there is a contrast between what he said and what he meant. Jacoby’s
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“Bring Back Flogging” Response Paper In Jeff Jacoby’s essay‚ “Bring Back Flogging‚” he strongly reveals his opinions and beliefs on corporal punishment. Jacoby illustrates the use of verbal irony and sarcasm. He applies verbal irony and sarcasm in such a way that by reading what is written is easily understood to interpret what he really means. Jacoby describes what flogging is‚ how it was helpful‚ and argues that flogging needs to be brought back to our society. After reading Jacoby’s argument
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RWS 200 Professor Fish 4/17/13 Sex and Violence: The Impact on American Culture Sex and violence have continued to be two of the most popular themes to center our media and entertainment around. The television‚ radio‚ and internet all act as communication channels that constantly present content containing graphic acts of sex or violence. As a result our current generation has become accustomed to seeing more and more realistic portrayals of sex and violence‚ numbing them to it in the process
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Plenty of people think that American’s incarceration rate reflects the justice of retribution. Making a valid point Jeff Jacoby in Bring Back Flogging said‚ “Now we practice a more enlightened‚ more humane way of disciplining wrongdoers; we lock them up in cages” (197). To lock someone in a cage is to strip them from liberty. Most of us think this sort of total deprivation
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Dante’ Lipscomb Professor Hinds English 1113 December 7‚ 2010 “We hold these truths to be self-evident‚ that all men are created equal”. This is a precedent that was established centuries ago to tell the people of its time that there is no man lesser than another. It was set and meant to last for a very long time. Thomas Jefferson was the one who made the phrase famous‚ but it was his great friend Philip Mazzei who first used the saying through a letter written to Jefferson called “Joint
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hard at work. Repeat offenders are on the rise and the cost to take care of them is also on the rise. If flogging was administrated into the justice system allowing the punishment to fit the crime then there would be less repeat offenders. Jeff Jacoby states” that if young punks were horsewhipped in public after their first conviction‚ fewer of them would harden into lifelong felons”. This seems to be the way many Americans are thinking today or at least the ones that voice their opinions.
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