Like, what? No. In the Caribbean, there was also corporal punishment. Define corporal punishment, for people who don't know corporal punishment. You get beat.
And the reason they had the battle plan was when the sergeant in the platoon was injured or killed, the corporal had to take over. And if the corporal were injured or killed, a private had to take over. They had to be able to take responsibility.
July 17th 1959. 44 years old, nobody knew who she was." "An unaccounted victim of the United States torture policy, Is a young army corporal from New Jersey. Name withheld. She witnessed the violent interrogation of Iraqi prisoners and was deeply troubled.
Enslaved until she was 19, at which time she was freed by the Emancipation Proclamation. Mary George who was a corporal in the Louisiana State Colored Troops, fighting on the side of the North in the civil war, together over time, they brought into the world 13 children in their home in St. James Parish.
And so the women were doing calculations for early missiles. They were working on the Corporal , the Sargent missile. And at the lab the feeling was that they didn't want to work on weaponry, but they had to to pay the bills.
And so I ended up taking, pardon-- I ended up taking command of the squad at that moment. And I received a promotion to corporal . And I led that squad then for the next seven months.
And he was very alienated by the way kids were learning in school and how they were treated. At the time, corporal punishment was very, very widespread in British schools. And so A.S. Neill in 1921, he started a school called Summerhill.
The world is on your side. Yeah, I do. My family was corporal punishment.
I didn't mention this. I mean, unfortunately, corporeal punishment or corporal punishment was a standard.
Like, what? What do you mean you can-- some of you in here are going, what do you mean you can't curse at the teacher? Like, what? No. In the Caribbean, there was also corporal punishment. Define corporal punishment, for people who don't know corporal punishment.
But they were independent thinkers. And the reason they had the battle plan was when the sergeant in the platoon was injured or killed, the corporal had to take over. And if the corporal were injured or killed, a private had to take over.
However, you would be really hard-pressed to find many German educators or parents would advocate for a strict, controlling way of dealing with kids. And some evidence to that fact is, around 2000, they banned corporal punishment, which means, it is illegal to spank your child in Germany. And when you think about it, that's perhaps the most authoritarian thing you can do to a child is your physical power over them to try to force
And it was a tough tour. My second week in, I was actually a young fire team leader, a lance corporal . My squad got hit.
one of many strange moves, in retrospect, made by Hitler-- the Japanese didn't reciprocate. So in recent times people have been writing about, say, the strategic corporal because say you're a young platoon commander and you're in the middle of a not very friendly city
such as breaking on the wheel, burning at the stake clawing, sawing in half, and impalement. But in a process that's been called the humanitarian revolution, these brutal, sadistic forms of corporal punishment were abolished. They were abolished within a fairly narrow window centered in the second half of the 18th century. Here we have a time line from 1650 to 1850 showing a number of major states in the era that abolished cruel physical punishments
have the rate of murder of female victims, partners and male partners. You can see that actually the decline is steeper for male victims even than female victims. The women's movement has been very, very good for husbands. The children's rights movement has seen a steady decline in the number of American states that allow paddling or corporal punishment in schools. Every opinion poll has shown a decrease in the percentage of people in western societies that approve of spanking. The rate of child abuse both physical and sexual has