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    A well-known philosopher Socrates once said, “The unexamined life is not worth living.” On the basis of that idea, the question “Are humans naturally good or evil?” has been violent controversy by philosophers for many years and a lot of philosophers have printed many articles in its long history on the exact nature of the good or evil. In the current, it is still one of the unanswerable issue. All things considered, according to Thomas Hobbes idea, I strongly argue that human nature is evil. There

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    Spanking A Child

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    The topic of should you spank your child has been a hot button topic recently in the U.S. While many Parents support the idea, some parents on the other hand are against the idea. In this thread, I will be stating my opinion on spanking a child. Why or why not? I will also be state weather or not the U.S should ban spanking, like many European countries have done. To start what is my position on spanking a child? While many parents tend to agree with the idea of spanking, I myself do not agree

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    heavenly Father does cast children unto those flames where they shall not have a drop of water to cool their tongues, for such crimes as these.”(6) This is an example of a punishment for having negative thoughts. This is a strict punishment today but would have been very normal to the Puritans. They had very strict punishments to teach kids early on how to behave.

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    In this experimental investigation, Malloy (2016) the conductor of the experiment, wants to test children’s recantation of adult wrongdoing. Specifically, how often children recant the truth about adult wrongdoings after disclosing and whether children’s age and caregivers supportiveness predict recantation. This study involves two pairs of age group, 6 and 7 year olds vs. 8 and 9 year olds, and two type of caregiver supportiveness: supportive vs. unsupportive. The children participated in an interactive

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    is understandable, but only if the punishment escalates from disciplinary spanking to physical abuse. Within my psychology book the idea of spanking was spoken about as well. To give a summary of what was said spanking can be harmful if done on as a main source of punishment rather than as a back-up plan, because it becomes less about the shock received from the parent actually doing it and the respect they receive by actually following through with the punishment and more along the lines of someone

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    Jane Eyre Research Paper

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    reasons. John Reed, Mrs. Reed's son, was abusive to Jane. One day John physically hurt Jane so much that she reacted in self-defense. Mrs. Reed, in an outrage, locked Jane up, without food, in the red room all night. John was the one who needed punishment. But instead of John getting what he deserved, Jane suffered unjustly. Once again, Jane had every right to do what she did. The last reason why Jane was just in confronting Mrs. Reed was because Mrs. Reed treated her like a burden. Mrs.

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    Spanking is an ineffective method for disciplining children as it both validates violence and creates antisocial behaviour while failing to teach a child why their actions were wrong. As some parents continue to utilize spanking, the children often internalize many negative side effects. They learn to “legitimatize violence”2 thus carrying these issues into other interpersonal relationships. Using their caregivers as models, they are more likely to hit others such as peers & siblings “as means of

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    resort. Personally, I believe in physical punishment but not for every occasion, and it should not be done when one is mad and not be attempting to hurt the child. Additionally, it should not leave a child scared physically and mentally, but only be a gentile reinforcement to improve the child’s behavior if other tactics fail.

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    Today it seems like every public place has at least one kid screaming about something, interrupting other people as they go about their day. There has been a large decrease in the amount of punishing parents do, and most importantly the amount of spankings given. It seems like these days there are many more bratty children than there used to be. Could there be just a small solution to the problem in society? Yes, maybe so. If all parents would spank their children, kids of today’s society would behave

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    1. (Tell the Story of my friend and his son rough housing) 2. Spanking children is an act where the parent and/or governing figure in the child’s immediate circle slap the child, mainly on the buttocks as a punishment. This is very harmful to the physiological and neurological development of children. 3. Based on the many of the online articles and journals from different academic sources like the oxford journal, the Department of Human Development and Family Sciences I have read personally, I am

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