Tag: English Essays
Should Punishment Be Retributive or Reformatory? Up to quite modern times, the legal punishment of crime was purely retributive (avenging), and deterrent. That is, the criminal was punished, and …
Is Profit Sharing The Cure For Labour Troubles? “Profit-sharing” is a general term covering various ways of giving the workmen in a business a share in its profits. It …
Should Competitive Examinations Abolished? In a sense, all examinations are competitive; for the candidates compete with one another for the highest places in the results. But “competitive examinations” proper …
Is True Education A Mental Training? Or A Preparation For Special Pursuits? There is, no doubt, much to be said for vocational training, or technical education, in schools. Hitherto …
Are Betting and Gambling National Evils? Moralists denounce betting and gambling as immoral. Yet it is not easy to show in what way they are wrong. Surely there is …
Instinct and Reason Instinct is, properly, the innate and inherited impulse which drives animals to do certain things which seem to be quite rational, without any conscious design. More …
Are Trade Unions On The Whole Mischievous or Beneficial In Their Effect? To understand the work of Trade Unions we must know something of why and how they were …
Human Hand – The Most Wonderful Tool The most wonderful tool in the world is the human hand. Man is called “a tool-using animal” because no other animal in …
Should Capital Punishment Be Abolished? The history of criminal law in modern times is the story of the gradual softening of the severity of old penal codes and the …
Gandhism — the philosophy of non-violence Mahatma Gandhi like Swami Vivekanand was deeply influenced by the ‘Advaita’ Philosophy of the Vedanta School of India thought and to the …