Essays Tagged: "confinement"

Forms of Imprisonment. This deals with the mind of criminals and how they phsyically are in a prison but also how normal indivduals with mental disorder are in a state of imprisonment.

h the effort to protect society from guilty criminals. The word prison can mean: 1. A place for the confinement of persons in lawful detention, especially those convicted of crimes. 2. A place or cond ...

(3 pages) 188 5 4.7 Apr/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

Discipline in Education, 'Discipline in the Classroom: Past and Present'

country a short time ago.Corporal punishment in general can be defined as the infliction ofpain or confinement as a penalty for an offense committed by a student.During the time that corporal punishm ...

(6 pages) 241 0 3.0 Dec/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper. a commentary on the male oppression of women in a patriarchal society

y itself presents an interesting look at one woman's struggle to deal with both physical and mental confinement. This theme is particularly thought-provoking when read in today's context where individ ... on two primary issues: 1) the many vivid images Gilman uses to illustrate the physical and symbolic confinement the narrator endures during her illness; and 2) the overall effect of, and her reaction ...

(5 pages) 237 0 3.0 Jan/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

This essay explains how Arthurian legends and current movies, like Spiderman, all use the motif of Concealing Identities.

tities is the freedom it allows. The freedom from responsibility of a normal life; the freedom from confinement that some are bound to by birth; the freedom from the monotony of everyday life; these a ...

(3 pages) 51 0 4.2 Dec/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Women's starvation in the early 20th century.

enth century. In a male-dominated society, men subjugated the women, who were forced into a life of confinement and limitation. Nora from Henrik Ibsen's play A Doll's House and the narrator from Charl ... all other women forced to suffocate her self-expression. Nora and "Charlotte" yearn to be free from confinement in the house that is not their own and from their husbands' oppression.Nora and "Charlot ...

(6 pages) 121 3 4.8 Feb/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

Manifest Destiny and its negative effect on the Native American populations, esp. CA Indians (Cupenos and Nez Perce) and their placement upon reservations.

path of Manifest Destiny across the West would highlight mass destruction of tribal organizations, confinement of Indians to reservations, and full blown genocide. The dark side of Manifest Destiny r ...

(4 pages) 78 0 2.6 May/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Presidents

Logical and emotional thoughts of life using examples of the 25th movie.

ourThe movie "25th Hour" recounts the 24-hour period immediately prior to the start of a seven-year confinement for a convicted drug dealer of the Russian mob, Monty Brogan played by Edward Norton. Wr ... ompanion. This care exhibited for the animal extends to include making one of his final acts before confinement delivering the dog to one of his best friends from his early childhood to assure a conti ...

(14 pages) 54 0 4.3 Jun/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Should parole release be abolished? Why or why not?

convicted of crime as a condition of release from imprisonment before the expiration of the term of confinement. The word parole is also broadly used to denote such a conditional release or period of ...

(10 pages) 247 1 4.0 Sep/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

Reducing Racial Disparities in Juvenile Confinement in Massachusetts

IntroductionConcerns about the overrepresentation of minority youth in secure confinement have long been noted, and much research has been devoted to this issue. It is only withi ... attention has been directed to the impact of race on juvenile justice decision-making in regards to confinement. In the 1998 amendments to the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 ( ... tts, which was participating in the Formula Grants Programs, determine if disproportionate minority confinement exists and, if so, demonstrate efforts to reduce it or risk losing future funding eligib ...

(21 pages) 344 1 3.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Black Awareness & Racism

THE YELLOW WALLPAPER: A literary analysis of Charlotte Perkins Gillman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" from a feminist perspective.

story "The Yellow Wallpaper," Charlotte Perkins Gilman symbolically portrays women's treatment and confinement by men in the nineteenth century. Gilman wrote the account more than one hundred years a ...

(3 pages) 391 2 4.9 Dec/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Prison and the Alternatives: Is Incarceration the Answer to Crime?

itual punishment was adopted and the belief that if inmates were forced to examine their conduct in confinement, repentance and religious conversion could occur. David Cayley, a reporter for the CBS s ... r Services, and Alternatives to Pretrial Detention. House Arrest with electronic monitoring imposes confinement in the offender's home as opposed to the County Prison. An electronic ankle bracelet pro ...

(8 pages) 377 0 4.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

Controversial Issues Regarding Juvenile Death Penalty

1996, Justice Fortas stated some of these special rights which include; Protection from publicity, confinement only to twenty-one years of age, no confinement with adults, and protection against the ...

(8 pages) 243 2 4.1 Apr/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues

Research Paper that explains child abuse, and the effects of it on the victim

ders. This may include parents/caretakers using extreme and/or bizarre forms of punishment, such as confinement in a closet or dark room, or being tied to a chair for long periods of time, or threaten ...

(4 pages) 208 2 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community > Children and Youngsters > Child Abuse

"The Schoolboy" from Songs of Innocence and Byron's Don Juan, stanzas 37-48.

atural speech pattern, loose tetrameter and trimeter, representing the child's struggle against the confinement of school. The schoolboy is the speaker of the first three stanzas, but the voice then c ...

(7 pages) 205 4 4.5 Jun/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature

Sub--Chaucer art of characterization as found in prologue of Canterbury by marufa sultana.

o does human nature follow a seasonal pattern, which causes people to want to break out of winter's confinement and go traveling in the spring.Thus the stage is set for Chaucer, who is the Narrator of ...

(12 pages) 47 0 5.0 Jun/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

On the black hill

t the ethologists have designated 'aggression' is simply an angered response to the frustrations of confinement" (PP 219). This examines some of the characters in the novel On the Black Hill such as M ...

(5 pages) 20 0 0.0 Jul/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Comparing Prison and University.

's Collegiate Dictionary, prison is defined as an institution (as one under state jurisdiction) for confinement of persons convicted of serious crimes. As it may not seem to us today, the use of insti ... nvicted of serious crimes. As it may not seem to us today, the use of institutions for the extended confinement of offenders, as the method of punishment, is a relatively recent idea. Not until the la ...

(5 pages) 32 0 4.3 Sep/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in "As Good as it Gets"

It Gets"--Plot Summary--Melvin Udall is a homophobic, bitter, lonely man. He spends his days in the confinement of his own apartment, writing novels. Each morning he follows a routine, from sitting in ...

(5 pages) 113 0 5.0 Nov/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Common Disorders

19th Century Settlement about most of the happenings with...

whom Thomson Bay is named, took up residence on the Island in 1837.The notion to use Rottnest as a confinement place for Aboriginal prisoners, was suggested by James Stirling. In August 1838 Constabl ...

(3 pages) 16 1 5.0 Mar/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers

What is child abuse and how it can affect you?

his can include parents and or caretakers using extreme and or bizarre forms of punishment, such as confinement in a closet or a dark room or even being tied to a chair for long periods of time. Threa ...

(7 pages) 94 1 5.0 Nov/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community > Children and Youngsters > Child Abuse