Download or read book What Torture Taught Me written by William F. Schulz and published by Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations. This book was released on 2013 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of four essays by the former head of Amnesty International USA, based on his public addresses.
Download or read book Torture and Eucharist written by William T. Cavanaugh and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1998-12-07 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this engrossing analysis, Cavanaugh contends that the Eucharist is the Church's response to the use of torture as a social discipline.
Download or read book Torture and Impunity written by Alfred W. McCoy and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2012-08-24 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many Americans have condemned the “enhanced interrogation” techniques used in the War on Terror as a transgression of human rights. But the United States has done almost nothing to prosecute past abuses or prevent future violations. Tracing this knotty contradiction from the 1950s to the present, historian Alfred W. McCoy probes the political and cultural dynamics that have made impunity for torture a bipartisan policy of the U.S. government. During the Cold War, McCoy argues, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency covertly funded psychological experiments designed to weaken a subject’s resistance to interrogation. After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the CIA revived these harsh methods, while U.S. media was flooded with seductive images that normalized torture for many Americans. Ten years later, the U.S. had failed to punish the perpetrators or the powerful who commanded them, and continued to exploit intelligence extracted under torture by surrogates from Somalia to Afghanistan. Although Washington has publicly distanced itself from torture, disturbing images from the prisons at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo are seared into human memory, doing lasting damage to America’s moral authority as a world leader.
Download or read book Lessons Life Taught Me Unknowingly written by Anupam Kher and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary, riveting and no-holds-barred saga studded with fascinating behind-the-scenes revelations, anecdotes and rare nuggets of lessons Anupam Kher’s life story is nothing short of a grand masala box office hit. It has drama, comedy, romance and even action! Who knew that a small-town Shimla boy would one day become one of the most recognised actors in the world and go on to win various national and international awards for his contribution in the field of cinema and arts? A powerhouse of talent with over 530 films (and counting) in his repertoire, Anupam Kher stands out not only because of his iconic bald head, but also for his forthright views and opinions, however controversial they may be. He has always been distinct and offbeat. His autobiography is, too . . . for it is not just another chronological account of his life. It is, in fact, also peppered with incredible life lessons that are bound to resonate with every aspiring artiste and, most of all, the common man. Here is a kaleidoscopic peep into the life and times of a true genius and forever entertainer.
Download or read book What Scotland Taught Me written by Molly Ringle and published by Central Avenue Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fresh out of high school, Eva Sonneborn is headed to Scotland with her best friends: scholarly, sarcastic Laurence; gorgeous, ghost-seeing Amber; and responsible, sweet Shannon. They plan to spend the next six months in Edinburgh, enjoying an adventure-filled work-abroad journey before parting ways for college. But when Eva meets Gil, a local bartender, she figures a little innocent flirting won't hurt her relationship with Tony, her ever-faithful boyfriend back home. But just when things turn less innocent with Gil, the trip starts throwing curveballs at not only her but her friends too. By the end of the trip, they've all fallen in love, sometimes with the wrong people - and with consequences that may tear their friendship apart forever... Molly Ringle's growing list of other successful titles include: The Chrysomelia Stories 1. Persephone's Orchard 2. Underworld's Daughter 3. Immortal's Spring The Goblins of Bellwater All the Better Part of Me Lava Red Feather Blue Sage and King
Download or read book The Torture Letters written by Laurence Ralph and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-01-15 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Torture is an open secret in Chicago. Nobody in power wants to acknowledge this grim reality, but everyone knows it happens—and that the torturers are the police. Three to five new claims are submitted to the Torture Inquiry and Relief Commission of Illinois each week. Four hundred cases are currently pending investigation. Between 1972 and 1991, at least 125 black suspects were tortured by Chicago police officers working under former Police Commander Jon Burge. As the more recent revelations from the Homan Square “black site” show, that brutal period is far from a historical anomaly. For more than fifty years, police officers who took an oath to protect and serve have instead beaten, electrocuted, suffocated, and raped hundreds—perhaps thousands—of Chicago residents. In The Torture Letters, Laurence Ralph chronicles the history of torture in Chicago, the burgeoning activist movement against police violence, and the American public’s complicity in perpetuating torture at home and abroad. Engaging with a long tradition of epistolary meditations on racism in the United States, from James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time to Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me, Ralph offers in this book a collection of open letters written to protesters, victims, students, and others. Through these moving, questing, enraged letters, Ralph bears witness to police violence that began in Burge’s Area Two and follows the city’s networks of torture to the global War on Terror. From Vietnam to Geneva to Guantanamo Bay—Ralph’s story extends as far as the legacy of American imperialism. Combining insights from fourteen years of research on torture with testimonies of victims of police violence, retired officers, lawyers, and protesters, this is a powerful indictment of police violence and a fierce challenge to all Americans to demand an end to the systems that support it. With compassion and careful skill, Ralph uncovers the tangled connections among law enforcement, the political machine, and the courts in Chicago, amplifying the voices of torture victims who are still with us—and lending a voice to those long deceased.
Download or read book She Taught Me written by MS. L. Bond and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She Taught Me is gut wrenching, powerfully raw, and brilliantly infused with rich insights for every woman whose identity, passion, and spirit have been compromised. Lylas journey will facilitate your own transformational process of embracing pain to discover the true essence of your freedom. Teri Sica, LICSW Psychotherapist, WATD-FM Radio Show Host Based on true events, Lylas saga is provocative and revealing, captivating and demanding of empathy. A woman so twisted beyond her authentic self from violation and clandestine sex, she doesnt notice her soul slip away. Self reproach leads her choices into a life trajectory of circumstances plagued by undeserving crisis, as witnessed in her daughters tragic disabling injury. When her soul screams to return, only by embracing fortitude can she validate her pain and grasp the freedom that lay beyond. But the alchemy required to disrobe the cloak of shame shes enmeshed herself with thwarts her healing with its toxic visceral side effects. So many mirrors reflect the self loathing and secrets still hidden in the shadows and her strangled silence longs to be given a voice. Lyla seeks traditional and alternative methods to reinvent herself, eventually proving the indomitable courage of our spirit illuminates the path towards healing where one can create a future where potential becomes promise. Lylas poignant journey resolves giving you inspiration as she shows us how trauma can be turned into treasure.
Download or read book A Diary of Torture written by Mark Schubert and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-08-06 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Visions in the Shadows, comes an exploration into one man's troubled past, the Doctor who struggles to deal with it all, and a gruesome future that is meticulously planned out: Dr. Abraham knew from the beginning this strange man would require patience. He also recognized many tell-tale signs that provided clues to the underlying psychological issues, only he was not prepared for the horror of the man's past, and the anguish the Doctor felt each hour with him.
Download or read book Mindless Short Stories written by J.N-Turner and published by America Star Books. This book was released on 2010-12-20 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hangman loose from the 1800's is still murdering people, that's how the story goes-what if it's true? A man falls into a coma, yet thinks he is still living his life. An antique dealer meets with a strange collector who has a very rare collection. A woman falls for another man; her husband is a mad scientist! The wrong man gets murdered, jealousy drives a person to have a deep hunger, a boy becomes worse than a serial killer and the list goes on.
Download or read book What the Dying Have Taught Me about Living written by Grewe Fred and published by The Pilgrim Press. This book was released on 2014-08-08 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grewe states he was afraid of dying, so he became a hospice chaplain. He figured if he made friends with Death at a safe distance he would get used to the idea. For the past nine years he's had the privilege to journey with more than a thousand folks who have gone on to the other side. He shares their stories here, in The Awful Grace of God: What the Dying Have Taught Me About Living.
Download or read book Tortured Logic written by Joseph K. Young and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experts in the intelligence community say that torture is ineffective. Yet much of the public appears unconvinced: surveys show that nearly half of Americans think that torture can be acceptable for counterterrorism purposes. Why do people persist in supporting torture—and can they be persuaded to change their minds? In Tortured Logic, Erin M. Kearns and Joseph K. Young draw upon a novel series of group experiments to understand how and why the average citizen might come to support the use of torture techniques. They find evidence that when torture is depicted as effective in the media, people are more likely to approve of it. Their analysis weighs variables such as the ethnicity of the interrogator and the suspect; the salience of one’s own mortality; and framing by experts. Kearns and Young also examine who changes their opinions about torture and how, demonstrating that only some individuals have fixed views while others have more malleable beliefs. They argue that efforts to reduce support for torture should focus on convincing those with fluid views that torture is ineffective. The book features interviews with experienced interrogators and professionals working in the field to contextualize its findings. Bringing empirical rigor to a fraught topic, Tortured Logic has important implications for understanding public perceptions of counterterrorism strategy.
Download or read book A Question of Torture written by Alfred McCoy and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-01-10 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents: 1. Two thousand years of torture, 2. Mind control, 3. Propagating torture, 4. War on terror, 5. Impunity in America, 6. The question of torture. Afterword: Legalizing torture. Includes bibliography and index.
Download or read book Rendition to Torture written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights, and Oversight and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mastering Fear written by Rikke Schubart and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-07-12 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mastering Fear analyzes horror as play and examines what functions horror has and why it is adaptive and beneficial for audiences. It takes a biocultural approach, and focusing on emotions, gender, and play, it argues we play with fiction horror. In horror we engage not only with the negative emotions of fear and disgust, but with a wide range of emotions, both positive and negative. The book lays out a new theory of horror and analyzes female protagonists in contemporary horror from child to teen, adult, middle age, and old age. Since the turn of the millennium, we have seen a new generation of female protagonists in horror. There are feisty teens in The Vampire Diaries (2009–2017), troubled mothers in The Babadook (2014), and struggling women in the New French extremity with Martyrs (2008) and Inside (2007). At the fuzzy edges of the genre are dramas like Pan's Labyrinth (2006) and Black Swan (2010), and middle-age women are now protagonists with Carol in The Walking Dead (2010–) and Jessica Lange's characters in American Horror Story (2011–). Horror is not just for men, but also for women, and not just for the young, but for audiences of all ages.
Download or read book Records of the English Province of the Society of Jesus written by Henry Foley and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Doctors and Torture written by Wanda Teays and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-07-22 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings into sharp relief the extent to which the medical profession has enabled or participated in actions that are at moral crossroads. Physical and psychological abuse and violations of medical codes have already been brought to light by concerned bioethicists responding to ethical lapses of the “war on terror.” This book goes to the next level by looking at three areas that also merit our attention and call us to speak out against abuses. These are (1) dehumanization (such as forced nudity, hooding, sensory deprivation, exploitation of phobias, waterboarding, and environmental manipulation), (2) non-consensual forced-feeding, and (3) solitary confinement. Each area raises important questions for the medical profession. Author Wanda Teays calls upon doctors and nurses to reflect on the role they play in the unethical treatment of prisoners and detainees by crossing moral boundaries around each of these areas. In the process, we are reminded that bioethics is global, not local — and the concerns of the discipline encompass issues with a wider scope.
Download or read book Violence Torture and Memory in Sri Lanka written by Dhana Hughes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-31 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on original ethnographic field-research conducted primarily with former guerrilla insurgents in southern and central Sri Lanka, this book analyses the memories and narratives of people who have perpetrated political violence. It explores how violence is negotiated and lived with in the aftermath, and its implications for the self and social relationships from the perspectives of those who have inflicted it. The book sheds ethnographic light on a largely overlooked and little-understood conflict that took place within the majority Sinhala community in the late 1980s, known locally as the Terror (Bheeshanaya). It illuminates the ways in which the ethical charge carried by violence seeps into the fabric of life in the aftermath, and discusses that for those who have perpetrated violence, the mediation of its memory is ethically tendentious and steeped in the moral, carrying important implications for notions of the self and for the negotiation of sociality in the present. Providing an important understanding of the motivations, meanings, and consequences of violence, the book is of interest to students and scholars of South Asia, Political Science, Trauma Studies and War Studies.
