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In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the magistrates of the Boston colony penalize Hester Prynne by forcing her to wear a letter A on her breast, intending to isolate her from society and call attention to her sin. I feel that the letter did exactly what they anticipated. First of all, the letter did isolate her. It made Hester an outcast in almost every aspect and life for her was difficult. Second, she was looked down upon, and known to everyone as a sinner and nothing more. Strangers and visitors to the colony would stare at the woman and the scarlet letter on her bosom. In the end, she was never fully accepted by the people but was tolerated and at times, sought after for advice from other women in the colony. To some, the letter no longer stood for “Adulterer,” but “Able,” because of her generosity towards the sick and needy and also to the same people who treated her poorly in the beginning.

After being released from prison, Hester moves to a small cottage on the outskirts of town to escape from society. She had the option of leaving the colony, but decided she should stay and carry out her punishment in the same place she committed her sin. The residents of the settlement even tried to take Pearl away from Hester, calling her an unfit mother. They believed she was not teaching her child Christian virtues and argued that Pearl was an obstacle in her mother’s path to redemption. She fought to keep Pearl, the living proof of her ignominy, as if the letter itself wasn’t enough of a constant reminder of her sin.

Even after years of wearing the scarlet A, Hester still received looks of inferiority and repulsion from strangers who visit the town. No matter how long she carried the burden of it, every look made the letter burn into her heart just as much as the first time she put it on for everyone to see. But Hester continued to wear the letter proudly, dealing with its affliction. However, when Pearl continually asked questions regarding it, Hester, for the first time, lies about the mark on her chest. Even though Pearl is ignorant of the letter’s true meaning, she still sees the letter as a part of her mother, just like the rest of society.

The closest Hester ever got to acceptance was at the end of her life. After she returned to the settlement, people brought to her all their sorrows and problems for advice. Women, most especially, came to her when feeling wounded, wronged, and unloved. Hester comforted and counseled them as best she could. After many years of helping the very people who treated her appallingly in the beginning, she was buried next to the Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale. They shared a tombstone with only one marking: a red letter A on a simple black slate.

Even after Hester Prynne’s life ended, she was still branded as a sinner. The magistrates wanted to fill her life with sorrow and misery, and that is exactly what it did to her. She was an exile to the people who were once her neighbors, and was treated like she was inferior to everyone else. Through all this, Hester still held her head high. She proved her generosity and warm-heartedness by always helping those seeking aid, and never asked for anything in return.

By: Tori K

What do you think about her 200 hours community service according to ;
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By: fikret59331

Clearly Jesus kept the Sabbath in the New Testament. The Sabbath is God’s Holy Day and is never called the Jewish Sabbath in the Bible. The Sabbath was instituted forever way before there were Jews on the earth.
Clear records show that the catholic church (constantine in particular) changed the Sabbath from Friday night to Sat. night to Sunday

According to history Constantine tried to change Sabbath to Sunday so the Christians can worship with the pagans in honor of Sun Worship. ….In 321, Constantine decreed, “On the venerable day of the Sun let the magistrates and people residing in cities rest, and let all workshops be closed” (Codex Justinianus lib. 3, tit. 12, 3; trans. in Philip Schaff, History of the Christian Church, Vol. 3, p. 380, note 1.)

Some say Jesus rose on Sunday morning. Wrong! You can’t have Jesus crucified on Friday and rise on Sunday and get 3 days in there. If you actually studies the Jewish Passover traditions you would see that He died on Wednesday and rose on Saturday. Exactly THREE days in the earth like Jesus said. Let us NOT call God a liar. Mary came to the burial site on Sunday and then saw that He had risen. If she didn’t show up until that Tuesday she would have seen that He was risen. Understand?
People say the commandments were nailed to the cross. Indeed they were but not the TEN commandments. The law of Moses was nailed to the cross. The physical ordinances of Moses. The only way that the Ten commandments ( the ONLY law given from God) was “nailed” to the cross was in that thru Jesus we now have the power and grace to follow them ourselves.

So you please tell me where it is that lowly man has the right or permission from God to change His ways.
I read for myself and I study and ask a lot of questions. I am not too heavily influenced by man’s traditions which the bible says makes the Word of God to none effect.

By: elite mobile n

Here’s a break down of my situation. I’ve been dating a single mother with shared custody of her son with the child’s father, for over a year now. At this time the child’s father has developed a violent attitude about my relationship with his ex girlfriend and their son. He has a history of violence from a situation similar to this one, and has now begone to threaten me with violence. I’ve contacted my local police department and they sent me to the magistrates office. The magistrates office told me that they don’t handle cases like this. So at this point I’m not sure as to what I need to do to protect myself. If it makes a difference I live in Asheville, North Carolina.

By: martinstmartin

Judge Trigger launched into a tirade as he sentenced a teenager who smashed a woman over the head with an iron bar while he was out on bail for a knife attack.

“It is the fault of politicians that bail is so readily granted, rather than judges or magistrates.

“Parliament and its woeful and indeed dreadful concentration on rights forgets duties and responsibilities. It has meant people like you have the right to bail in these circumstances.

“We are living in a society which is bedevilled by wild feral youths such as you.

Before we plunge into even greater violence at the hands of lawless and irresponsible youths it is time for us to address the problem.”

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=508877&in_page_id=1770&in_page_id=1770

Yes, it is from the Mail- but unlike the ginger-beer Socialists and HR toe-rags- I read the FT too

And yes- the FT has a dim view of our toe-rag youth too.

‘Bout time, wouldn’t you say?
PS he also sad:
“And it is time for Left-wing intellectuals and well-meaning do-gooders to abandon their obsession and concentrate on the obligations and responsibilities which we all owe each other.
Tony- sorry- I agree with the judge.

By: Hammerer of Nancies

Yeah, so he called me up last night at like 3 in the morning, and told me that he had gotten caught with marijuana and a gun in his car. He’s not like a criminal or anything, him and his dad had gone gun shooting that afternoon and he didn’t take the gun out thinking he wouldn’t have gotten pulled over.

Anyways, he’s not in like “the big” jail, he’s in our magistrates office. I looked it up on the internet and his name is in their intake list, it says that he’s being charged with a Misdeameanor A and B. Today is his birthday and his family is expecting to go out to eat to dinner with him and I know he wouldn’t have called them, so I think they’re going to call me. What should I tell them!?!? And how long do you think he’ll be in jail for? He told me he assumed he’d be out this morning.

By: amygwen

The woman in this case stabbed her partner with a pair of scissors, killing him, and was jailed for a mere 2 years:

http://www.blackpoolcitizen.co.uk/news/3795449.Blackpool_woman_jailed_for_manslaughter_of_ex_partner/

The above case comes in the same week a woman walked free after admitting cruelty, failing to feed her child properly, and letting over 40 injuries go untreated, culminating in her partner murdering the child.

The Home Office’s own research clearly states women are treated more leniently than men:

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs/hors170.pdf

Their own commissioned research says that male shoplifters are more likely to go to jail, and more likely to be fined. Women guilty of second or subsequent violent offences are less likely to be jailed than men.

Women guilty of a first drugs related offence are less likely to be jailed than men. In all cases women are more likely to be given a discharge on conviction, ie no punishment at all.

Magistrates interviewed for the survey admitted women defendants attract sympathy in theft cases where the stolen items were foodstuff, whereas men did not attract a similar level of sympathy in comparable cases.

Their figures show in indictable offence cases, convicted women are twice as likely to get a conditional or absolute discharge, and half as likely to go to jail.

For violent offences, a man is 2.5 times more likely to go to jail.

Why does this absurd situation exist?

By: Emasculated Britain

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By: SEEMADAGA

The English word stripes originated from the same French word as strips. In the Bible, in referring to flogging, the word is used to translate a number of different Hebrew words of the Old Testament which variously mean a blow, a wound, to strike and to bruise, and a Greek word of the New Testament meaning a stroke or a wound. The various meanings of the English word stripes, or strips, provide a multifaceted view of what was involved i.e. the person being flogged was usually stripped of clothing, the person being flogged often had his flesh stripped (cut and shredded) or striped (narrow welts, whip marks) and the device was itself often made of strips of leather, sometimes with pieces of metal or animal bone fastened along the length of the thongs to make it far more painful and damaging. Christ’s beating and stripes as inflicted by the Roman troops were particularly horrendous i.e. “His visage was so marred more than any man” (Isaiah 52:14 KJV)
“He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed”

Stripes were included in the famous “eye for an eye” verses:

“And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.” (Exodus 21:23-25 KJV)
Among the people of Israel, no offender was to be given more than forty stripes:

“And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number. Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.” (Deuteronomy 25:2-3 KJV)
The Lord used stripes (mostly) in a figurative way for the house of King David, the royal line (see Israelite Dynasties) of imperfect men that would eventually produce the perfect Messiah.

“He shall build an house for My Name, and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever. I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men: But my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before thee.” (2 Samuel 7:13-15 KJV)
The Messiah later used stripes in His lesson of how those with the knowledge of the truth have a responsibility to the truth and to God who gave it to them.

“The lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers. And that servant, which knew his lord’s will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.” (Luke 12:46-48 KJV)
Like many witnesses (see Martyrs) of the Gospel, Paul and Silas knew beatings and imprisonment for the “crime” (in Satan’s world; see Who Still Rules The World Today?) of speaking the Truth.

“And the multitude rose up together against them: and the magistrates rent off their clothes, and commanded to beat them. And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely: Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks. And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them.” (Acts 16:22-25 KJV)
Paul later spoke of those “trials” (see Trials and Tribulations):

“But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings; By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true; As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.” (2 Corinthians 6:4-10 KJV)
Fact Finder: What will the stripes that Jesus Christ endured do for those who repent (The Christian Passover is about Christ’s sacrifice; The Christian Feast Of Unleavened Bread is about repentance to make Christ’s sacrifice take effect i.e. Christ didn’t die for sinners, Christ died for repentant sinners - those who refuse to repent are headed for the lake of fire)? Were the stripes that Christ endured a fulfilment of a prophecy found in the Old Testament?
1 Peter 2:24, Isaiah 53:5

By: spenderalla34

What reasons can be given to the MAGISTRATES’ COURTS in HongKong, if you unintensionally crossed the road, when red light signal was on?
Is no income a reason that is acceptable?
what about it’s my first chance and i didn’t notice the light.

yeah being in hurry is a good answer as well, actually that’s what i said to them.

Alien hhahaha, that’s funny. I should see you using that when u r @ bad luck.
yeah being in hurry is a good answer as well, actually that’s what i said to them.

Alien hhahaha, that’s funny. I should see you using that when u r @ bad luck.

By: Afsah F