... Treatment Strategies Professor Keven Pellant Castration: A Proposed Treatment Strategy for Sex Offenders Castration by some is considered to be cruel and unusual punishment. Others view it as a way for a convicted sex offender to obtain a reduced sentence, and yet there are some whom believe it may be the only cure. Many questions arise concerning several issues, methods, and results. Are we as ... Americans allowing the judicial system to toy with our bodily integrity? Castration first began in Europe in Denmark in 1929 and continued to spread through the 1930's into Norway, Iceland, S...

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... being culturally bound and oriented. Negotiating these differences between students and their teachers and also among themselves put forth a practical challenge both for teachers and students. The current study that follows has actually grown out of my personal observations and interactions with my students inside and ... solid ground of logic, I negotiated and hence included some stories from the regions in questions, ramifications of which was very rewarding. Another confrontation I faced with my students was the selection of topics for term final papers. Once again, as is the case with...

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... a homogeneous or totalising process but one in which economic, socio-political and cultural dynamics (both historical and immediate) and sub national, national, international and super-regional processes are all at work. It should be seen as a systematically interactive set of processes in which the direction of causality is two way and contingent. In such a context part of the ... be correct, but it does not solve the political problem. It might be good economic theory but it is poor political theory. While some objections to liberalisation are indeed 'protectionism' by another name, no...

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... themselves successfully. This has been a slow process, due to the difficulty in finding the right formula. The paradox remains, for many Green parties in Europe, on how to align themselves politically, so that their ideological core is not threatened by the concessions made to major parties in a coalition government, which they are part of. Inevitably this questions the legitimacy of such parties in government, are ... other policies that they would normally otherwise oppose. This compromising of principles is unavoidable in a coalition government where concessions are made by all partie...

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... autonomy, education and science. And constitutions are ideal areas for many questions − both, fundamentally philosophical and quite practical questions. So I chose a constitutional question for my lecture this evening here (in a prestigious institution of higher/may be élite education). I submitted my topic to a question: Do we really want a European Constitution? − a question which, as we all know, may well be divided into many but still ... we", when it comes to a European Constitution? How free at all are we to design new constitutions"? Do constitutions matter at all: What can ...

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... of institutions, Luther continued his argument that scripture alone had authority, opening the door for individuals to conceive of their beliefs as being as viable as those of any institution (if not more so). This paved the way for all types of divergent beliefs to openly develop into institutions of their own, whether expressing their divergence relatively peacefully (as ... revolution depended on. Rising spontaneously from populations of students and teachers, the speculative thinking and intellectual freedom encourage by these schools of reason allowed scholars the protection to voi...

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... Posaunenberg. In their anger, the planters had incited their Reform clergyman to question some of the slaves that the Moravians had been ministering to. The converts refused to answer clergyman Borm's questions. In turn, Borm went to the Common Council to petition for the Governor to prohibit the Moravians from baptizing their converts. The Governor refused to be drawn into this plot, so false charges of robbery were raised ... convictions. They were subsequently imprisoned. When Count Zinzendorf arrived in St Thomas in January of 1739 to find all of his Brethren imprisoned, he immediat...

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... their goals; the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), United Nations Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) to name a few. These agencies work all over the world, usually in a very direct manner, helping the people who need aid in poverty-stricken countries and refugees ... , the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia twice yearly meetings were also to be held on the subjects of justice and home matters such as terrorism and human rights, and fo...

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... typical witch was usually described in this way: "women which be commonly old, lame, bleare-eied, pale, fowle, and full of wrinkles- and "[like] a bitch far more hideous to look at than all the others- (p.16). A comparative analysis of a society, the Nupe of Northern Nigeria, and examples of witch-hunts throughout Europe during early European history, will show difference in time-line ... up with a witch or two. Who more likely than the outcast Pappenheimers?- (Barstow, 1994 p.106). The Pappenheimer family was held, tortured and battered with questions and, "Anna finally confessed to fly...

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... of time moved westbound, to the USA, the considerable vote based system, one once accepted, in light of the standard of law. The USA was perceived as the protector and bastion of freedom. This, then again, is a hazy area. One has questions about what truly happened. Regardless ... , neither before the destruction of the positive American picture, nor after, has the American thought ever been the European thought. For the American thought tosses over the edge the heart of the ... the death penalty in Christian America, militarism, the utilization of America's poor as gun grain in Iraq a...

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... for answers because of that fact, not only that but because he was a philosopher who dealt with the conflict of God and Evilness. Even though he may not have been the best person to go to, people went to him and people like him because they had no where else to go. The people of the Middle Ages feared witchcraft and this was true all throughout ... Europe. People were turning to popes and other reformers to take care of the problem. Witchcraft was seen as a problem that would harm established society. Thomas Aquinas later explains that there is far too much power in a demon for man to b...

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... 1, 2002. On that date individual countries' currencies will cease to be used and the Euro will be the legal tender for all monetary transactions (Keegan 2). Denominations for the new Euro currency will be issued in amounts of 1,2,5,10,50 for coins and 5,10,20,50,100,and 500 for bank notes (Peterson). For the countries that have decided to participate in the use of the Euro, its use ... currency for Europe (or at least most of it) will eventually lead to a unified economic and political outlook. As other European countries join this new union (as they are expected to) the Euro as well as...

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... on the development of international refugee regime but rather to use the existing literatures on the topic to proffer answers to the questions posed. Consequently but unless otherwise stated, this essay would make extensive use but not limited to the works of Gil Loescher. Other authors and scholars would be made reference to where necessary. Setting the Scene As suggested by scholars ... of Refugees together with its principle administering agency "the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Together with other hybrid of international agencies, national governments and voluntary i...

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... of the capabilities of workplace culture which inhibit organizations from benefiting from telecommuting, rather than any intrinsic business need to cram all workers into one place for the same 8 hours every day. Benefits for the workforce Access to work is a problem for many people, for example those with disabilities, with caring responsibilities and people on lower incomes, especially in rural areas. Teleworking brings ... telework programs and employees are reluctant to give up traditional work structures. Part of this reluctance can be described in terms of ethics and evolving behavi...

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... of the capabilities of workplace culture which inhibit organizations from benefiting from telecommuting, rather than any intrinsic business need to cram all workers into one place for the same 8 hours every day. Benefits for the workforce Access to work is a problem for many people, for example those with disabilities, with caring responsibilities and people on lower incomes, especially in rural areas. Teleworking brings ... telework programs and employees are reluctant to give up traditional work structures. Part of this reluctance can be described in terms of ethics and evolving behavi...

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... and where, even when it had existed, slavery had never been confined to one group of people? To pose the question differently, why slavery, and why were the slaves carried across the Atlantic exclusively African? The short answer to the first of these two questions is that European expansion to the Americas was to mainly tropical and semi-tropical areas. Several products that were either unknown ... to Europeans (like tobacco), or occupied a luxury niche in pre-expansion European tastes (like gold or sugar), now ... northern wheel largely shaped the north European slave trade and was ...

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... is shown between the posters, the former merely being straightforward recruitment posters, while the latter may be seen to provide external reason for hostilities, due to the massive damage committed by the somewhat deranged gorilla. 3) Once mobilisation begun, the recruiting offices were swamped, ... the individual officers" conscience in many cases prevented them from interfering in what was, after all, private mail. The failure of censorship in some cases led to difficult circumstances, for example, Wilfred Owen wrote a piece on the conditions in the trenches and his feelings about .....

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