Part one of term paper
In the course of a lifetime a person will commit a wrong-doing. This act may as trivial as speaking out of turn, or it may be as serious as committing a murder. Following the incident a person is usaully admonished or punished by a person on a higher level. The punishment given can take many forms. In the book The Scarlet Letter, By Nathani ...

Part two of term paper
... of his fellow man. To keep the person from hiding himself from his humiliation, they produced a device that would hold the hands and the head of the culprit in front of everyones view. According to Hawthorne,"There is no outrage more flagrant...than the culprit hiding his face in shame" (p.54). In my opinion this form of punishment has become practicaly extinct in today's society. It makes no difference, to most people, how someone sees them. We are at a time where the only thought that matter ...