Effective law and order requires effective punishment. Do you agree?

I agree that effective law and order requires effective punishment. What will stop a person from committing a crime and not give in to the temptation he has? Neither is it mother’s nagging nor is it moral education. It is punishment.

Punishment has been proven to be the best way to maintain effective law and order throughout the years. Punishment inflicts both physical and mental pain in the criminal, some of which he or she would remember for life. The main reason why ex-offenders did not repeat their mistakes is because they do not want to go through the pain again. One part of the video shows a man not willing to confess that he had stolen his friend’s crops, but when he was to dip his hand into the hot oil (a traditional way of indicating who is guilty), he was so scared that he confessed that he was the one who stole those crops. This shows that generally, man is afraid of pain and punishment. Examples of punishments include: committee services, canning, jailing, public humiliations and death sentence.

Nevertheless, punishment must be differentiated from torture. Torture is the act of inflicting excruciating pain, as punishment or revenge, as a means of getting a confession or information, according to dictionary.com. Acts of torture should never be allowed to be a form of punishment as it clearly violates human rights.

However, punishment does not necessary yields effective law and order. Some criminals got use to the punishments that are inflicted on them and they are thus immune to the pain. No amount of punishments would change them. For these people, what they need most are supports and encouragements from their love ones.

In conclusion, effective law and order requires effective punishments. However, punishments should be justifiable so that it does not become torture. If punishments no longer proves to be useful on someone, its time to use something “soft” on him.

Google Gooses Big Media

I agree with the author that big media (computer form of media) will soon overtake other forms of media in time to come. Movies, music and TV shows, have their value, but they alone have never generated the huge, reliable profits that keep investors happy and pay for midtown-Manhattan skyscrapers. Nowadays, computers are readily available in developing and developed countries. We can get access to information anytime, anywhere we want, unlike television and radios, where we can only get them on specific timeslots.

For small advertisers and publishers, Google’s automated advertising network is a boon: a new, cost-effective way to connect with one another and with customers. But big media companies had already established connections before Google came along, and so far the amounts of money Google offers content producers are paltry compared with what gets thrown around in traditional media.

However, for the time being, computer media is a media firm that produces no content as stated in the article, thus it might not be a good form of source of information after all.

Big Chain Restaurants' New Small Portions

The basic laws of restaurant economics state that meals keep getting bigger because food is cheap and fixed overhead--staff, rent, equipment--is the same no matter how much is piled on your plate. So giant servings are a win-win: you pay a little extra for a lot more food, and the restaurant makes extra profit. Thus it is surprising that a restaurant, Ruby Tuesday, tried to position itself as the healthy chain restaurant by cutting back on serving sizes and printing nutritional info on its menus in 2004. However their customers did not welcome this plan, they hated the smaller portion foods so much that the plan was dropped within five months.

Well, who would like to have a smaller portion of food when ordering the bigger portioned one is just a few bucks more? People nowadays do not care much on keeping a healthy diet. Not even the restaurant’s plan of having a smaller portion for health sake appealed to them. Maybe it is because the benefits of having a smaller diet were not brought across widely, as mentioned in the article. Restaurants can try to educate the public about the importance of a healthy and smaller diet. Also, introducing more incentives would also attract people to buy smaller portions. Examples like cutting the prices or giving a free drink.

Women's Pay: Lagging From the Start

Men have been always known as being the “stronger sex” since the past. However this is proven wrong with as times past by and the world becoming more advance, what men can do, women can also do. Take for example, there are females becoming engineers too.

As the title of the article said, women’s pay had been lagging behind men’s since the very beginning. This is due to discrimination in women that they are not as efficient as men, which is very wrong. Women had proven themselves as they too occupy some of the high-ranking jobs. Other factors includes women having to work shorter hours as they have to take care of their children and the effect of maternity leave on the company.

However, is it really fair that women get lesser pay? Considering the fact that both men and women have the same level of education and are both graduates. I feel that it is really unfair. Since women had proven themselves to be as capable as men, means that they are as efficient. There is really no reason to give them lesser pay.

The article also mentioned the fact that one of the reason women are given lesser pay is that women expect less and negotiate less pay for themselves than to men. Maybe it is not entirely the society’s fault that women’s pay is lesser. However, in the near future, women would then learn negotiation skills right from young. The problem would then be solved.