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    Corporal Punishment.

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    teachers discipline them? Students expect good quality education and not a good smack in the face. Corporal Punishment is a popular act in schools which serves as punishment for students that misbehave and cause trouble to the teacher. I believe that Corporal punishment is a practice that should not be used on children whether it is for discipline or personal purposes. Even if Corporal punishment has been banned from public schools all over the Philippines‚ teachers still perform this act‚ physically

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    Capital Punishment

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    121211233005 ”CAPITAL PUNISHMENT” Understandings of justice differ in every culture‚ as cultures are usually dependent upon a shared history‚ mythology‚ and religion. Each culture’s ethics create values which influence the notion of justice. Although there can be found some justice principles that are one and the same in all or most of the cultures. In this topic‚ i won’t tell you about justice in details‚ but i’ll give you an example of justice in laws‚ one of them is “Capital Punishment”. Capital Punishment

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    conflict between law and ethics. Public opinion does not coincide with the state opinion. There are 33 countries‚ which use death penalty as capital punishment. According to Amnesty International Report‚ in 2011‚ China‚ Iran‚ Saudi Arabia‚ Iraq‚ and USA topped the list. According to statistics‚ in USA 33 states use death penalty as capital punishment and other 17 does not. (Amnesty International‚ 2011) Death penalty’s primary goal is to make people think twice before doing crime. The Death penalty

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    Crime and Punishment

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    Punishment is defined as the infliction of a penalty for an offense. The novel Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky took place in St. Petersburg‚ Russia‚ mid 1860s. The main character‚ Raskolnikov‚ committed the murder of a pawn broker and her sister which he became ill with guilt. He is accused as the murderer but denied it until the end where he eventually confessed and was sent to Siberia. In the novel‚ Raskolnikov had an unbearable amount of guilt‚ faced punishment by imprisonment‚ and gave his

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    Guilt and Punishment

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    Guilt and Punishment Creon’s actions and judgment in the play Antigone were questionable‚ but I don’t think he deserved the punishment he received at the conclusion of the play. My philosophy of life probably influenced my decision because I believe that everyone deserves a second chance. Creon was arrogant and did not listen to anyone’s advice‚ including Tiresias‚ a prophet who has never told him a lie. However‚ in the end he realized what had happened and accepted his fate. Creon was just

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    Capital punishment in the state of Texas is legal and unfortunately becoming more common since the death penalty was reenacted in 1976 after a Supreme Court decision. Since this Supreme Court ruling‚ your state has put to death 510 individuals and next week it will be 511 (Texas). During your term as governor you have allowed 310 executions of inmates‚ making that 61% of the total punishments occurring in only 14 years of the 38 total years of the reenactment. Capital punishment is unacceptable

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    Crime and Punishment

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    Crime and Punishment Kenneth Pang 1/4/96 Ever since the beginning of modern society‚ crime and punishment have been linked together. Depend on the seriousness of the crime‚ those who break the laws are punished accordingly. As the amount of homicide increased in the passed several years‚ people are demanding tougher punishments for more murder. Among them‚ the most supported one was the reapplying of execution as a mean of punishment. This notion could help decrease the number of killing

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    Punishment In The Odyssey

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    Not everyone has the same idea in mind about punishment‚ and nor did other countries from other times. The following books: The Iliad‚ The Odyssey‚ and The Hebrew Bible‚ entitling instances of cheating‚ kidnapping and murder‚ insulting and their punishment. Very rarely would you get away with something unseen because the Gods saw everything‚ and they could do just about anything known on earth to mankind or even to each other. Anything was punishable whatever time ear it was‚ and the Gods would cease

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    corporal punishment

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    Corporal punishment means physical torture. It is a very difficult and controversial subject. What is right and what is wrong when discussing how to discipline children is difficult to determine. This has slapped the child and can be beaten‚ which is a form of punishment. These days‚ it creates many parents indiscipline to stop their child still in favour of using physical punishment. This teaching method is good and bad in fact‚ that raises a controversial question. In this article‚ I look at both

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    Purpose of punishment.

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    Introduction Within the English legal system there are four main theories of punishment; retribution‚ deterrence‚ incapacitation and rehabilitation. The retributive theory looks back to the crime and punishes because of the crime. The remaining three all look forward to the consequences of punishment and thereby hope to achieve a reduction in crime. They are therefore often termed consequentialist or utilitarian theories. The boundaries between these theories are far from clear‚ containing sub-categories

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