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generally perceived as a human rights violation (Grant 1998). During the last decade, however, there has been a growing internatio...

and unusual punishment for the general population), it can be argued that it can in fact be applied to juvenile offender populatio...

(Henry and Lanier 2). The field itself is a branch of social science, in which criminologists endeavor to better understand crime...

During the 1970s, the case of Furman vs. Georgia pretty much wiped out the constitutionality of capital punishment when the Suprem...

fact very risky; that risk is one reason why many pension funds no longer invest in trusts, or keep that investment to a minimum (...

study. However, the researchers predicted that children would "evaluate the punishments differently for the moral and conventiona...

isnt. It means that an aversive situation is taken away, which reinforces the person to perform whatever act is necessary (Boeree,...

This research paper presents an example paper of how a student might relate personal experience to the issues of just school pol...

In five pages authority regarding criminal behavior punishment is considered within the contexts of philosophers Jean Jacques Rous...

In an essay consisting of five pages the three decades' long debate regarding corporal punishment is examined from both sides with...

souls of "the violent against themselves" (1194). To arrive at their destination, Dante and Virgil must travel across a "river of...

core of humanitys lack of individualism and blind willingness to be part of what he referred to as "the herd." In Nietzsches opini...

The bright-eyed Mariner"(Coleridge, 2002). The sailor (or Mariner) says that though they started on calm enough seas, the wind p...

later. In each, she focuses on what she regards as the two most significant values that must be preserved if social justice is to...

of the most important philosophers when talking about knowledge and where it comes from. His explanation suggests that there is a ...

In five pages this paper examines The Matrix and Blade Runner films in a discussion of how the philosophical concepts of Berkeley ...

can one know what is beautiful or what is ugly? There must be some sort of shared experience. Plato uses a cave allegory--somethi...

Indeed, it seems that within the context of philosophy, there is a wrestling with religious thought, because it is from the rejec...

one may see it as quasi-scientific determinism. Yet, from a Western point of view, Buddhism is considered to be indeterministic (A...

the public quite often. Yet, behind some of these more popular concepts are theoretical models that could prove important as well....

It is not the awareness, however, which overrides the ignorance, it is the cognition (Mohanty, 2001). Knowledge in this regard ca...

the demand cross. The stock market is the prime example of this. Where there is a demand that exceeds supply then the process will...

an auto company." One can see that an approach that prompts professionals to look at their organization for the purposes of recrui...

who will eventually hold office and decide what to pursue in respect to issues like abortion, stem cell research and capital punis...

importance and children were to be guarded from superfluous information to come from for example poetry and literature. Rather, th...

exceeds any individual persons comprehension. Transcendence then exceeds all human capacity. This concept is not foreign to the re...

obviously see elements of the man who wrote the story, for Kafka is often considered to be an individual who deeply examined his w...

steeled and a heart trans- formed into brass, so as to bear the weight of such responsibility" (Nietzsche, p.129). One can see tha...

of science there are two branches which are epistemology and metaphysics (Honderich, 1995). Science makes up an important part of ...

steady growth but the organisation failed to change so that it would be able to adapt. The planners were frustrated and their goal...