Bring Back Flogging This Bring Back Flogging essay seems to hit a real strong point in the fact that prisons are over populated and it costs so much to take care of each and every one of them. The most outstanding question is‚ should we bring back flogging? The answer is so complex and complicated that no one person can come up with the best answer. Some seem to think that flogging should be brought back in some form because we could better control the prison systems and the overpopulation problem
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Bring Back Flogging Every civilized society makes laws that protect its values‚ and society expects from every single person to obey to these laws. Whenever a person from this society breaks one of those laws‚ the rulers of the society punish him or her either by putting the person behind bars‚ whipping him or her‚ or exiling the person. A great debate has been raging since human society started. Some say that depriving a wrongdoer from his or her freedom is the best way to deter him or her from
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Bring Back Flogging This essay by Jeff Jacoby illustrates an authors use of ironic sarcasm otherwise known as satire to defend and illustrate his platform on his position. Jacoby uses in this essay verbal irony (persuasion in the form of ridicule). In the irony of this sort there is a contrast between what is said and what is meant. Jacoby ’s claim in simple is he believes that flogging should be brought back to replace the more standard conventional method of the imprisonment of violent
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“Bring Back Flogging” Response Paper In Jeff Jacoby’s essay‚ “Bring Back Flogging‚” he strongly reveals his opinions and beliefs on corporal punishment. Jacoby illustrates the use of verbal irony and sarcasm. He applies verbal irony and sarcasm in such a way that by reading what is written is easily understood to interpret what he really means. Jacoby describes what flogging is‚ how it was helpful‚ and argues that flogging needs to be brought back to our society. After reading Jacoby’s argument
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receive. However‚ in the novel “Until They Bring the Streetcars Back‚” by Stanley Gordon West‚ Cal Gant demonstrates this principle of giving time and time again. If love is not something you say‚ but something you do‚ then how many acts of loving go unnoticed throughout a day? It seems that the simplest actions‚ such as waving hello to an elderly couple on the street‚ can be the most sentimental. This theme plays out in Until They Bring the Streetcars Back‚ through Cal’s kindness and blind compassion
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Bring Back Flogging by Jeff Jacoby advocates the restoring of the ancient Puritan penalty for crimes to some extent. Via the sentence “Now we practice a more enlightened‚ more humane way of disciplining wrongdoers: We lock them up in cages”‚ the author pointed out the unwise in the application of the all-purposed penalty-imprisonment in an ironic tone. By wording with statistic and citations‚ the author revealed the plight faced by the present imprisonment penalty: imprisonment is an all-purposed
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Beyond bringing back our girls: Is Nigeria sleeping on the rights of our women? ABSTRACT: This article examines the human rights of women in Nigeria in the light of the recent abduction of over 200 schoolgirls from the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok Community in Borno State of Nigeria. It argues that the abduction of the Chibok girls is part of a series of violations of women’s rights in Nigeria. In reality‚ there are thousands of Nigerian women whose rights are being violated on a
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Laurenz Carlo G. Salindong Mr. E.P. Salazar Composition IV 17 August 2012 Bring It Back to the Gold Standard The 2007 global financial crisis considered by many economists to be the worst since the Great Depression in the 1930s caused the downfall of large financial institutions such as drop of interconnected stock markets and the bailing out of major banks. This was triggered by the complex interplay of over-valuated mortgages‚ accumulated malpractice of trading between buyers and sellers
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unique manner for centuries. From this week’s lesson‚ the two songs that would be comparing and contrasting are “Bring the Boys Back”(1971) by Freda Payne and “Fight the Power”(1989) by Public Enemy. Both of the songs illustrate the opposition of conflicts and that everyone should be treated equally. The song “Bring the Boys Back” focused on the idea of families hoping to have their boys back home alive and safe from war. In the tone of the singing and the words that are expressed‚ the message clearly
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In the essay “Bring Back Flogging‚” the author Jeff Jacoby discusses the flaws of imprisonment‚ today’s punishment for criminals. Published in the Boston Globe in 1997‚ the essay’s purpose was not only to address the problems of locking up criminals‚ but also to suggest a hypothetical solution or alternative to a prison sentence. In order to completely understand Jacoby’s essay‚ “Bringing Back Flogging‚” it is essential to analyze his thesis‚ purpose‚ methods or strategies‚ and persona beforehand
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