Essays on Caging

How to overcome racism if our own justice system is racial? We know that our nation has struggled a lot of unjust racial cases. For example, in the period of pre-civil war, the southern part of the United States was covered with slavery. The life of Black-African American groups was horrible as they were slaves and were treated as slaves also. They were a property that white people could buy and sell, had no rights, and were not protected by the legislature. In 1865, Abraham Lincoln abolished slavery, and the modern days are known for the public fight with ...

A society can’t live without law because it imposes rules that make people in order. If somebody breaks a law, then there is a place that is intended for him or her – jail. America is renowned as the land of the free because of its laws that govern people in order. However, justice and mercy are sometimes not working in harmony. Some captive prisoners are actually innocent and some people of lesser assaults are still on the streets because of the use of money. However, the numbers of prisoners in the United States still reach in million. Government is allocating ...

In Jeff Jacoby’s essay “Bring Back Flogging”, the author suggests that prisoners’ sanctions were humiliating and painful, but quick and cheap. In the essay, Jacoby uses emotional appeals, trying to persuade the audience that bringing flogging back is not a bad idea; in fact, it is more humane than cages. For example, he mentions that, “now we practice a more enlightened, more humane way of disciplining wrongdoers: we lock them up in cages,” which encourages readers to fell that prisoners are caged like animals without mercy. To illustrate, Jacoby emphasizes that prison is becoming an all- purpose punishment. For instance, ...

In the area of Portland, Oregon, there is a sculpture entitled Big Pipe Portal and it is an installation, positioned on the banks of the Willamette River and is a product of conceptual art focused on the idea of the man-made and natural worlds co-existing. It was created by an architecture and design company known as ‘Rhiza A+D’ and its context was its placement amongst Portland’s man-made home of industry, Swan Island, and it represents the coming together of natural and man-made materials. It appears to be emerging from the ground and the bottom section that would make it a ...