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    Rehabilitation in Prison

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    Rehabilitation in Prison By Christopher Hall CJA 23 November 11‚ 2011 Instructor: William Dudley Prison rehabilitation

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    Friedrich Nietzsche and Karl Marx were intellectuals with vastly different world views and opinions on how things should be run but the one matter in which they would both agree leaves a bad taste in their mouths is Christianity. Nietzsche see Christianity as a blight upon humans‚ something holding us back from our fullest potential. Karl Marx does not necessarily see Christianity as the great evil that Nietzsche makes it out to be‚ but he would agree that complicated monolith that is Christianity

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    The Milgram Experiment

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    The Milgram Experiment Stanley Milgram‚ a famous social psychologist‚ and student of Solomon Asch‚ conducted a controversial experiment in 1961‚ investigating obedience to authority (1974). The experiment was held to see if a subject would do something an authority figure tells them‚ even if it conflicts with their personal beliefs and morals. He even once said‚ "The social psychology of this century reveals a major lesson: often it is not so much the kind of person a man is as the kind of situation

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    About eight decades ago‚ the most cruel and infamous prison in United States history was officially opened‚ Alcatraz. It was built on a deserted island 2.4 kilometers from San Francisco with cold‚ shark-infested waters in between. The building itself consisted of 336 jail cells housing approximately 200 to 350 prisoners at once‚ and had a cafeteria and recreation yard. The guards treated the convicts horribly‚ making their experience far worse than expected. Their overall goal was to isolate the

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    Does technology make our lives better? Agree Disagree Makes things easier Lazy/obesity Easier to find information False information Medical treatment/save lives Not 100% successful/causes illness/addiction Detects natural disasters False

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    Are morals based on emotion? For moral statements to be pure emotion is an emotive view of ethics. Emotivists believe that moral decisions or statement should be made based on emotion. A philosopher who believed very strongly in the emotivist theory was G.E Moore. Moore states that when people use the term ’right’ or ’wrong’ they are stating there feelings towards the action issued. However since different persons have different feelings. The conclusion of moral decision cannot be either ’right’

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    A Challenge

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    emerged victorious. In third grade at my Annual School Concert I gave my very first stage performance where I was placed in the first row by my teacher‚ compelling me to come out of my comfort zone. This meant that I was in complete view of the audience and any mistake I made was clearly visible. My first reaction was to back out from the performance but my mother stopped me from doing so. She told me that the only way to overcome my stage freight was to face it and it didn’t matter

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    Prison and Jails

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    Jails and Prisons Tammy Johnson CRJ303: Corrections Professor Jeffrey Cudworth January 7‚ 2013 Jails and Prisons Jails and prisons are both types of sanctions that are used for convicted offenders that have committed crimes‚ but there are many differences in the two. “Jails are locally operated short- term confinement facilities originally built to hold suspects following arrest and pending trail. Today’s jails also serve these purposes: * They receive individuals pending arraignment

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    statement by illustrating the use of force the prison. The inmates have to get used to the idea of the low life‚ otherwise‚ they will be led to death. Analyzing the mind of the prisoners‚ we can unravel how discourse may control people’s minds in prison. In this way the social and episodic memory of each of the inmates will be subjectively crafted by the authorities in the ways they prefer it to be. Being a low life for every con is a socially instructed view about themselves. Red posits this fact by

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    PREJUDICE DOES EXIST IN OUR MODERN-DAY WORLD By Ercilia Chapman March 12‚ 2013 According to Wikipedia the definition of prejudice is: “making a decision before becoming aware of the relevant facts of a case”. Now that I’ve living in U.S.A prejudice seems to be all over the world. In our modern world people prejudge others for many things. People don’t respect others. They assume that being different is bad. People prejudge other because of their sexual orientation‚ gender‚ race‚ ethnicity‚ language

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