Summary The main idea of the essay “Condemn the Crime‚ Not the Person” by Jane Tangney is about finding another way to punish someone rather than putting them in jail for life. Tangney argues that putting offenders in jail makes them feel shameful about themselves‚ and that they are a bad person and therefore you can’t do anything to change. Humiliation is associated with disapproval. Shame makes an already bad situation worse. It leads to defensive actions‚ not corrective behaviors‚ whereas
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In “Condemn the Crime‚ Not the Person‚” June Tangney argues that shaming sentences worsen the situation instead of “fostering constructive change.” According to Tangney‚ shaming sentences for nonviolent crimes-supported by judges and social commentators-such as “offenders [parading] around in public carrying signs broadcasting their crimes‚” are cheaper and more effective substitutes to the prison sentences. She explains that in order to understand shaming sentences‚ it is important to know the difference
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Julie Nguyen Kaitlin McClanahan English 97/98 November 20‚ 2014 Summary and Response “Condemn the Crime‚ Not the Person” June Tangney’s short essay‚ “Condemn the Crime‚ Not the Person”‚ is about the difference between two emotions: shame and guilt. There is a problem in the court system when it comes to traditional sentences. There are people who even encourage America to look for shaming as a way to save money rather than taking care of an inmate in jail. However‚ Tangney states that recently‚
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masterpieces is the existence of an external force which brings our principal character to God. In Dante’s Inferno‚ it is Dante’s literary hero‚ Virgil‚ who is tasked with bringing him to God. Virgil brings Dante to God by teaching him to condemn that which God also condemns by imparting on him the importance of cruelty to sinners. Throughout the epic‚ Virgil inflicts upon Dante the fear of condemnation which in turn brings Dante to God. Through the epic‚
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to arrive. 2. What kind of search pattern(s) would investigators be most likely to employ in each of the following situations: Two people searching a small area with well-defined boundaries Several people searching a large area A single person searching a large area 3. Officer Bill Walter arrives at the scene of an apparent murder: a body bearing several gunshot wounds lies on the floor of a small‚ unair-conditioned house in late July. A pungent odor almost overwhelms him when he enters
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2001 and it has become a concerning matter in many parts of the world. The Canadian Government has introduced a non-binding motion known as M-103 to condemn Islamophobia. This motion was introduced by Mississauga Erin Mills MP Iqra Khalid and is supported extremely by the Liberal and NDP Members of Parliament. The motion “Calls on the government to condemn Islamophobia and all forms of systemic racism and religious discrimination‚ asks the government to recognize the need to quell the increasing public
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Write three sentences about these views using the sample below as a model Eg: Rose’s play challenges the audience to examine their own prejudice‚ exposing the dangers of prejudging‚ particularly in the court room. 3. What does Rose value / condemn? Identify three qualities/concepts/ideas that you believe Reginald Rose endorses‚ challenges or leaves unquestioned in ‘Twelve Angry Men’. Justify your response. 2. Setting: Rose’s play is all acted on the same set: Analyse the imagery
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there a heroic code that guides the decisions of the characters in Iliad? Discuss the values of the Homeric Hero with particular reference to Achilles‚ Odysseus‚ and Hector. 9. Epic conventions in Iliad. 10. Does Homer’s Iliad glorify or condemn war? Discuss. 11. Greeks believed that people do not have much
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Fitzgerald not only condemns the American Dream but sets the death and downfall of the American Dream as the primary theme of the novel. Throughout the novel Fitzgerald deliberately makes all characters with money appear to be unhappy‚ dysfunctional‚ snobbish‚ and immoral‚ thus contradicting the stereotyped idea of the American Dream. The American Dream that includes a happy family‚ living together‚ having lots of money and living happily ever after. The unhappiness of the wealthy class is portrayed
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Do you sympathise with Curley’s wife or do you condemn her? Throughout the 1930’s in California‚ where and when the novel "of mice and men" was set‚ women were frequently suppressed and treated as objects. They were put down and often abused. They were forced to do anything their husband says otherwise they were condemned by the family and general public. Several of these issues are reflected in the character of Curley’s wife. This character is portrayed in many different ways in the different
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