The article “Big Day for Evil” from NBC News tells the story of Ruby Franke and the numerous ways she abused her children, found in her own journal. This woman was a mother of six and she even had a YouTube channel called “8 Passengers” documenting this abuse of clout. In one journal entry, she described how she pushed one of her sons into water and covered his nose and mouth with her hand and even claimed he was possessed by a demon. In her mind, she believed that she was helping her son. In another instance of abusing her son, Ruby described how she forced him to stand in the shade and when he would try to stand in the shade, she poked him in the back and neck with a cactus poker. After one of her sons had escaped from her partner, Jodi Hildebrandt’s house, he was …show more content…
Ruby Franke inflicted all this abuse because she was a religious extremist and believed that she was helping her children. However, she and Jodi apologized to the children during their sentencing, saying that they “believed dark was light and right was wrong” and they hoped they could all heal from this. One technique Ruby Franke used to control her children is called operant conditioning, and more specifically punishment. Operant conditioning is a type of associative learning in which people or animals begin associating a behavior to its consequence. This means when someone receives a reward for something, they are more likely to repeat that action again and when someone is punished, they are less likely to repeat that action. Operational conditioning can be used in four different ways. One is positive reinforcement, which means something is added to encourage behavior. Negative reinforcement is when something is removed to encourage behavior. Positive and negative punishment is where something is added or removed, respectively, to decrease the likelihood of a
guys’ butts’ on the big screen. It seems movies these days always have the same overarching theme though good vs. evil. Even those super girly princess movies have aspects of good and evil. Take The Little Mermaid, for example, there is the protagonist, Ariel, and the antagonist, Ursula, and just like in all of the other movies, the good guy always wins. Although, the theme of good vs. evil is not only found in movies; it can also be found in history, literature, and day-to-day lives. Though the battle
The Most Dangerous Game shows that every one is capable of good and evil and it is just a matter of perspective and The Child by Tiger exemplifies that everyone is a product of both good and evil. In The Most Dangerous game, General Zaroff is presented as a “most thoughtful and affable host”. He provides Rainsford with an imported meal, cocktails, and a room. Zaroff operates at a
very little freedom, grow up? That girl's name is Anita de la Torre, the main character from the novel by Julia Alvarez. Anita lives in a big compound along with all of her relatives. They live together with all their cousins and have fun at the pond or the gate of the compound. In the story, her father and uncle are involved in a plot to overthrow the evil dictator, El Jefe. By the end of the novel, Anita grows up from being a young wide eyed kid to becoming a grown up adult because of all the
Rings: fellowship of the Ring is the first part of the trilogy of Lord of the Rings. When it first saw the light of day it was made as a book by J.R.R Tolkien on July 29th 1954 and gained massive popularity due to the wonderful detail and passion put into the book, not to mention that the book was also massive and that is why there are three movies and only one book because it was so big that if they put it into one movie it would be about 20 hours long. After the huge popularity of the book, on December
A. Summary The novel begins with a nameless couple traveling throughout Europe and living hotel to hotel, constantly reminiscing on their previous residence, the Manderley, which was burnt to the ground. The story then features a flashback about a young girl traveling with an older woman named Mrs. Van Hopper. They are staying in Monte Carlo when her employers came across an old friend, Maxim de Winters, and they have tea. After treating the narrator rudely, he makes up for it by insisting to have
received a patent in 1904 for “The Landlord’s Game,” a game that included most of the features we all associate with Monopoly now, such as the railroads, the rent collections, and the jail space. The original intent of the game was to bring light to the evils that occur within a capitalist economic system, with monopolizing tycoons like Rockefeller and Carnegie prominent around Magie’s time. It was intended to promote the single-tax philosophy of Henry George, and show the danger of a capitalist economy
This paper is an argumentative essay about how villains in Shakespearean literature become evil through the circumstances around them. They are not born evil. This essay talks about Macbeth, Othello, and Romeo and Juliet, which are used to reference examples of Shakespeare’s view on the subject. Macbeth is about a man who is blinded by power and kills anything and everything that tries to take the crown from him. He is persuaded to do these things by his wife and the three witches. Othello is about
have various focus. In Three stages of American automobile consciousness written by Flink, it divides the auto history into three stages and mainly argues about the history or the development of automobile industry in America, which is written in a big picture. On the other hand, Kine and Pinch tend to discuss the connection between rural area and automobile, also how gender get involved in the social construction after cars are brought to the America. In Three stages of American automobile consciousness
o 7) Ecclesiastes 1:2-18, 2:1-24, 3, 9:2-12, 12:1-9 Summary: Throughout Ecclesiastes, a “Teacher” is introduced. The Teacher insists everything is “meaningless.” The Teacher goes into detail using almost analogies to say that everything is meaningless. The Teacher also says that wisdom, pleasures, wisdom and folly, and toil are meaningless. The Teacher also says that we should live while we can under God and says we live similar lives to animals in that we live and we die and how we choose to
following the sun and the demand from the seasonal goods while working around a hundred and thirty-six days earning and average of nine hundred dollars a year. After this short but powerful preface, the documentary continues with two shocking interviews made by David Lowe to two under-educated women who are the heads of their families; Ms. Dobey, wh... ... middle of paper ... ... to exist in our days, needs to be changed more if we ever want to achieve a true progression in our economy and society
Orwell" by which he would become famous. For his first novel he used his recent experience with poverty as inspiration and wrote Down and Out in Paris and London (1933). While teaching in a private school he published his second major work, Burmese Days (1934). Two years later Orwell married Eileen O'Shaugnessy. During the1930s Orwell had adopted the views of a socialist and traveled to Spain 1937 to report on their civil war. He took the side of the United Workers Marxist Party militia and fought
Oceania’s language, Newspeak. The powerful Inner Party controls the country using omnipresent surveillance, and manipulation. Every part of life is regimented and controlled, but the only crime is ‘thoughtcrime’: independent thinking and individualism. Big Brother is the figurehead of the Inner Party, and throughout the book, it is heavily implied that he may not really exist. The people Since the rise of totalitarianism in Europe and Asia was the cause of World War II (Perry, 2002), naturally many people
It’s a good cause and a big image of standing up against a demagogue. But sometimes that such “hero” is either successful or faces consequences that can put his life in danger. Even in today's life we deal with demagogues. For an example The Election almost everyone this year didn’t want to vote for these ridiculous candidates running for presidency but you are forced to vote. Adolf Hitler is another one. Making fake posters and rumors about how evil jews are fooling the germans. And made
claims to love him. Before Winston can fully comprehend this development, Parsons interrupts him with talk about his preparations for Hate Week. The note from the dark-haired girl makes Winston feel a sudden, powerful desire to live. After several days of nervous tension during which he does not speak to her, Winston manages to sit at the same lunchroom table as the girl. They look down as they converse to avoid being noticed, and plan a meeting in Victory Square where they will be able to hide from
1920. Organizations came about for the sole purpose of an alcohol free America. In 1833, an estimated one million Americans belonged to some type of temperance association (Behr 12). Many believed the absence of alcohol would help the poor as well as big business. Lower class people would put more money into savings accounts and productivity would increase among workers (Hanson 27). More importantly the “noble experiment”—was undertaken to reduce crime and corruption, solve social problems, and improve