Miranda Lucas L.A. Per. 2 June 5th‚ 2012 Social Commentary in Literature Characters in pieces of literature are often influenced by the societies that they live in‚ and many authors do this to comment on certain social ideas. The story‚ “The Bass‚ the River and Shelia Mant”‚ the author focuses on how people in society should be able to take pride in who they really are and not feel the pressure to be something they are not. The author of “The Handsomest Drowned Man” wrote this story to show
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psychiatric attention‚ prohibits the establishment of prison gangs‚ and gives the prison officials the opportunity to use solitary confinement as a form of deterrence by intimidating inmates to change their disruptive behaviors. On the contrary‚ Mears notes several negative unanticipated effects of solitary confinement onto the inmates. The basic ideology is that the threat of solitary confinement will lessen an inmate’s disciplinary violations. However‚ while in confinement some inmates suffered from
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Solitary Confinement: A Sentence Worse Than Death A Centuries Old Issue: Solitary confinement is more of an everyday occurrence in the United States as opposed to many other European countries such as the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom places 0.1% of its inmates in confinement whereas the United States places 1.8% of its prison population into confinement (Idalsky). Solitary confinement is a more secure area within a prison. The concept of confinement originated in Philadelphia in 1829 and
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Solitary Confinement Imagine alone in a dark hole for twenty-three hours a day‚ no one to talk to‚ to look at‚ or anything to do and with the exception of food‚ that is what Solitary Confinement entails. Solitary confinement is a controversial form of punishment used in the prison. Prisoners who are placed in Solitary Confinement will spend up to twenty-three hours a day in a cell without human contact except prison staff. Solitary Confinement should not be in the prison system because it drives
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Lanark: Prose Commentary 1 Lanark Prose Commentary Retno Widyanti This extract from Lanark ‚written by Alasdair Gray‚ is a highly evocative piece of narrative prose. Set within a church in Lenzies‚ Glasgow‚ the excerpt illustrates the loss of love and theloss of self-belief which are inextricably intertwined for the character Duncan Thaw. Writtenin a post-modern style‚ it is also representative of the subjectivity of perception and its abilityto change with the passage of time. Duncan is forced
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issue that the government is not addressing. Further‚ within the already complicated prison system‚ there is another issue. Solitary confinement‚ which was originally supposed to be used as a short term punishment within prisons‚ or jails‚ has now become an integrated part of prison life (Edge‚ 2014). Solitary Nation‚ is 2014 documentary highlights the damages that solitary confinement is doing to people (Edge‚ 2014). Individuals whom have not shown any signs of degrading mental health come out of
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The Rewards of Living a Solitary Life By Affifi Hakimi bin Hussen One of solitude paradoxes –that challenges the mind of every man-is how a loner’s perspective remains persistent over time. While May Sarton’s “The Reward of Living a Solitary Life” discusses the virtues of being in the state of solitude‚ it also provides an in-depth view of what and how the person thinks while being alone. Consider the following : how does one experiences the vicissitude of loneliness? Does not one afflicted from
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Commentary Sincerity When we hear the word sincerity‚ what is our first impression of the word? According to dictionaries this word is defined as freedom from deceit‚ hypocrisy‚ or duplicity; probity in intention or in communicating; earnestness. However‚ if we put it in our own simple words‚ the best definition to the term would probably be being true to what you say. It isn’t enough to tell someone what’s pleasing to hear‚ but the truth plays an important factor in sincerity as well. Why
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18 October 2011 The Negative Effects of Solitary Confinement Today‚ there are more than 80‚000 prisoners in the United States that are held in solitary confinement. (Solitary Confinement) The two main reasons persons are put into solitary confinement are because of ones conduct in prison‚ and the severity of ones crimes. They are locked away in an eight by ten cell for twenty three hours a day for years; sometimes decades. They are deprived physical contact with other people; with the exception
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Solitary Confinement There is a lot of controversy surrounding the prison system in the united states. Some of the controversies involve overcrowding‚ excessive costs‚ and the increase of violence. One of the biggest issue is solitary confinement. Although many way that solitary confinement is the only solution to keep and restrain violent inmates‚ because research shows that solitary confinement does more good than bad‚ harms the mental state of prisoners‚ and is more costly than the regular prisons
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