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    The Caning of Charles Sumner Response In 1856 a Senator from Massachusetts named Charles Sumner wanted change for the country of the United States. Specifically change and equal rights to all human being. He sought to free slaves and bring out new opportunity with our country. Sumner was a leading voice in Congress on the Anti-Slavery movement. He wanted to liberate the slaves in the south. Specifically the slaves in Kansas. Kansas had become so violent and bloody that it had been named

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    Summer Caning The Summer Caning happened 1856, in Washington D.C. Only three main people were involved in this event, Charles Sumner, Preston Brooks, and Andrew Butler. What started the caning was Charles Sumner’s speech on, “Crime Against Kansas” In his speech he also insulted Andrew Butler by comparing prostitutes to slavery. The prostitute being Andrew Butler’s wife. many people told Sumner not to, but he did anyway. Since he did this Andrew Butler's cousin goes to the Senate and beats Sumner

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    Caning is not good for children development as it will affect the children’s mental and behaviour, the children’s relationship with others and children’s learning process will be affected badly. BODY PARAGRAPH 1) In long term, caning will affect the children’s mental and behaviour of children. According to neuroimaging evidence, corporal punishment could disturb the brain part that involved emotion and stress handling. Research with 35,000 participation that being carried out by University of Manibota

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    Spanking has a positive effect on children For many years parents have been disciplining their children in various ways. Discipline is required to train a child in doing what is right and staying away from what is wrong and dangerous. Discipline has always been used in order for the child not to grow up spoiled and choosy. Giving children what they want always is never a good thing, while teaching them that they cannot have everything teaches them patience. Discipline is very critical in

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    society? This idea of physical reinforcement is also known as corporal punishment and is still present today in southern American states including some Texas school systems. Corporal Punishment is defined as a “punishment of a physical nature, such as caning, flogging, or beating” however this fails to include the psychological implications of corporal punishment in schools (corporal punishment). The benefits of corporal punishment in the short-run are outweighed by the negative effects the punishment

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    society? This idea of physical reinforcement is also known as corporal punishment and is still present today in the southern American states, including some Texas school systems. Corporal punishment defined as “punishment of a physical nature, such as caning, flogging, or beating” (Corporal punishment). Some administers believe benefits include fewer student outbursts and a quiet environment; however, this logic fails to include the psychological implications of corporal punishment on students. Negative

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    indicted by a jury with reckless injury of a child (Goessling). This incident sparked controversy on the topic of where the line is drawn between discipline and abuse. Oxford dictionary defines corporal punishment as: “physical punishment, such as caning or flogging.” On one hand, many parents argue that spanking or other corporal punishments are not abusive because it teaches respect and consequences for bad behavior. However, on the other hand, others maintain that spanking and other corporal punishments

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    Spanking Young Children

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    About 60% of parents in the United States use spanking as a method to discipline their young children. In most cases parents believe that spanking is the only effective way to discipline their children. According to the “International Encyclopedia of Marriage and Family”, spanking is often referred as; “one or two flat-handed swats on a child's wrist or buttocks, but would not include a beating with a whip or a belt, for others, spanking also includes slaps and pinches to the leg, arm, back, or even

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    Spanking: Parents Must Decide

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    Have you ever been spanked? Maybe smacked? We all have our own stories of how our parents disciplined us, we take them as funny stories and even joke about them. If you were born in the 90s, 80s, 70s, 60s, you already know what I’m talking about and I bet many stories already ran through your mind right now. But as we grew up and time passed by, there has been this dilemma about this method of parenting. [2] “Parents feel mixed-up and uncomfortable about disciplining their children”. Few parents

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    Spanking a Child and Child Abuse

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    Spanking a child is not against the law in most places. However, parents who use it in their homes are being accused of child abuse. The Chicago Tribune published an article that urged readers to report child abuse when they become aware of it. In the article “Child abuse in plain View” the author describes spanking as a type of abuse that happens behind closed doors (“Child abuse in plain View”). Like most critics of corporal punishment, the author is trying to link spanking to abuse. The author`s

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