Category: /Literature/Novels
, which gags them with every breath. This punishment may seem a bit extreme for not being friendly to the environment, but by modern Hell standards, it is extremely light.
The next circle is for the substance abusers, such as smokers, alcoholics and drug
Details: Words: 1548 | Pages: 6.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
Category: /History
on neighbouring plantations. Although these forms of intervention shaped the lives of the slaves, there was no more effective measure of interference that a slave owner could adopt than that of punishment.
The most common form of punishment that existed
Details: Words: 601 | Pages: 2.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
Category: /Literature/English
for crime along with different degrees of punishment for particular crimes. An example of a crime that has recently been defined as a crime in the U.S. would be pollution, mainly air and water. As the population grew, and there were more cars on the roads
Details: Words: 662 | Pages: 2.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
Category: /Literature/English
Were I worthy to be quit of it, it would fall away of its own nature, or be transformed into something that should speak a different purport.
Hester Prynne, the main character in The Scarlet Letter, accepts the punishment of the adultery she
Details: Words: 553 | Pages: 2.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
Category: /Literature/Novels
The Scarlet Letter - Individuality within a Puritan Society
Often in society people are criticized, punished and despised for their individual choices and flaws. In the novel, The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the author attempts to show
Details: Words: 1523 | Pages: 6.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
Category: /Literature/Novels
. This was
the Puritan way of treating her as a criminal, for the crime of
adultery ' At the very least, they should have put the brand of a hot iron on Hester Prynne's forehead.' (Pg. 59) This is how some people felt about her punishment. The Puritan treatment continued
Details: Words: 658 | Pages: 2.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
Category: /Recreation & Sports
the brunt of the criticism over its failure to sufficiently punish guilty clubs and countries.
The treatment of Emile Heskey and Ashley Cole during England's game against Slovakia on Saturday merely highlighted what has already been a season tarnished by racist
Details: Words: 518 | Pages: 2.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
Category: /Literature/English
. He does not confess because he is too scared of being shunned as Hester was. Though he never receives a punishment from the government as Hester does, he punishes himself day and night. He is tortured with the knowledge of what he did and carries out
Details: Words: 514 | Pages: 2.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
Category: /History/European History
aristocratic child. In the late 1500s, to ensure perfection in a child, threats of physical punishment which often bordered on and became violent were prevalent within society (Doc 10, 11). However, beginning in the late 1500s and continuing for the next two
Details: Words: 533 | Pages: 2.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
Category: /Literature/European Literature
. The book "Inferno" is a depiction of Dante's journey through hell. His passage through hell symbolizes the connection between love, transgression and punishment. These connections can be best understood through cantos 2,3,5 and 15. As Dante journey's through
Details: Words: 1493 | Pages: 5.0 (approximately 235 words/page)