A young boy about six years old in the supermarket is screaming, crying, and pulling on his mothers leg to purchase a piece of candy. His mother simply tells him "stop it, stop it, stop it or you will have to go into time out," but this has no effect on the little boy's fierce tantrum. ...
All the gun control laws are not about preventing crime. ... How many times have you read about someone walking into a public place and opening fire? ... FBI data for 1990 show that criminals used firearms in about 258,000 violent offenses or about 16 percent of the 1.6 million crimes reported to the police. ... In conclusion, it is estimated that firearms are used in about 12 percent of violent crimes. ... The battle over gun control Is not about controlling inanimate objects; it is about controlling people. ...
In Manteca, California, two young boys murdered a disabled man by violently kicking, stabbing, beating and finally choking him. When being questioned by the police as to why the boys poured salt in the dying mans wounds, one of the boys responded, "Oh I don't know. I just seen it on TV- (Levine, 199...
Abstract In the past couple of decades, public schools in the United States have enforced increasingly punitive methods of discipline. In response to perceived elevation in juvenile crime and school violence, the Clinton Administration signed into law the Gun-Free Schools act of 1994. The act required American schools to enforce mandatory expulsions for any student found in the possession of a firearm on school property. This type of regulation, requiring a mandatory consequence for a predetermined act, is known in the educational realm as a zero tolerance policy. Since 1994, schools throughou...
There is a lot to talk about when it comes to effects of war on children. ... Some of the areas I will be talking about in this paper as effects of war on children are: death, injury, disability, illness, rape and prostitution, psychological suffering, social and culture loss and child soldier. ...
If we take the director's word, then there is no question about it since he has given a very clear answer: "It's really a straight, simple story, almost linear, of a guy attaining something and losing everything, and then redeeming himself. ... But before asking about Jake's redemption, we need to ascertain what redemption is in a Catholic context. ... Freedom is also the starting point of guilt, since it only makes sense to feel guilty about something we could have done differently. ... It only makes sense to feel guilty about what has already been done and thus when we fe...
