For those who want to improve society and want their children to behave than public shaming is the answer to misbehaving. Public shaming can be an effective form of penalty. Public shaming is appropriate when teens and children do not obey their parents, law, and authority and it is also appropriate for nonviolent acts offenses. It can teach a valuable lesson to people who have done small offenses. According to Florencio Ramirez the current population reports that there are 70 million children under
first questioning the 8th Amendment to consider if creative sentencing is against the law and decides it is not because justice is still fairly served, then by comparing the shame of creative sentencing to prison and it causes a lot more vivid denunciation, then by highlighting how prison seems more like a retribution rather than justice by using the example of Hester Prynne who was not affected by prison, and finally by contradicting her previous statements, she says that the
In the novel, The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne discusses the issues of guilt, pain, and truth. For many people, it is hard to accept the faults of their own failures. Most do not acknowledge the reality of their lives, and wind up suffering for their mistakes. Guilt and Sin are bad and also cause pain. Hester Prynne endures in agony and pain because of the mistake she made. In the novel, Hester rarely gives up hope. Through her suffering, Hester maintains to keep her dignity. Hester
Not only does Hop-Frog accomplish his revenge by killing the king, during the execution Hop-Frog sought further revenge through the humiliation of the king. Dressed as a primate the king was no better than Hop-Frog. Both revenge and humiliation of the offenders, shares similarities in Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado,” here Montresor seeks revenge by tricking Fortunato to his death. In the short story “The Cask of Amontillado,” Poe again uses the theme of revenge, and through this revenge the murder
from an inadvertent psychological response to situations deemed threating to one’s personal safety, but have evolved into a complex web of often illogical misconceptions which are able to cloud a person’s judgment and result in situations often worse than originally intended. Fears can be hard to quell, but it has been shown the best way to overcome fears is often to face them, as author James Baldwin asserted when he wrote, “To defend oneself against fear is simply to insure that one will, one day
brings ansis to nature. Later, many writers have moved their focus away from political matters and have found a new ways of perceiving aspects known as dark romanticism. Dark romanticism is defined as emphasizing the fatality and proclivity of sin and guilt. This new subgenre explores the conflict between good and evil and later reveals the psychological effects it has on one 's body. Many works of literature have used elements of dark romanticism such as the novel “The Scarlet Letter” written by Nathaniel
What is shame and how different people cope with it. No one knows when shame appeared for a first time. Maybe in ancient times, maybe in 15th century, or perhaps since the dawn of man. The fact, which is known, is that the majority of people experience this feeling at least once in a lifetime. Shame is a strong feeling, which affects not only regular people, but also celebrities. We will see it in the article The Contestant by Daniel Alarcon, where he tells the story of the fame, shame and the loss
Jim Jones The mass suicides, that took place under the influence of Reverend Jim Jones, can be explained from a sociological perspective. By looking at how the group dynamics played into the outcome one gets a better idea of the whys? of the massacre. The sociological explanation is but one way to explain this horrific event. It is , however, the only one explored in this essay for reasons of concision. At one level, the deaths at Jonestown can be viewed as the product of obedience, of
The mass suicides, that took place under the influence of Reverend Jim Jones, can be explained from a sociological perspective. By looking at how the group dynamics played into the outcome one gets a better idea of the whys? of the massacre. The sociological explanation is but one way to explain this horrific event. It is , however, the only one explored in this essay for reasons of concision. At one level, the deaths at Jonestown can be viewed as the product of obedience, of people complying
Loman in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller This literary study will define the tragic heroism of Biff Loman in Arthur Miller’s play The Death of a Salesman. Biff is initially a victim of Willy’s continual harassment to make more money and find a better career. In this family unit, Biff must endure the unrealistic and fantasy-based elusions of his father in his fanatical pursuit of the American Dream. However, Biff soon learns of Willy’s extra-marital betrayal to his mother, which allows him to experience