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Crimes like rape, torture, kidnapping, robbery, murder, and others are all on a pivot point where the accused may either be punished by prison or punished by death. The belief that the death penalty is immoral is merely based on faith and opinion, not fact. The death penalty treats the accused as human beings with free will, instead of as animals who can be penned up.

People may say that the death penalty is a cruel, inhumane way of punishment where the accused will suffer unbearable pain. However, the accused only feels pain when the death penalty is not properly performed. In reality, the death penalty can be more humane than regular means of punishment.

The death penalty is the most efficient way to deter crime. Death is a permanent punishment, and there is nothing that people fear more than death itself. No other means of punishment produces 100% effective results- if someone is sent to prison, then they may defect back to crime after they are released.

The Hazards of Technology

Instant access to information at the click of a button or a tap of the finger can be life saving for a student who is scrambling to finish an assignment for school. While this capability is convenient and theoretically useful, research has shown that it has its disadvantages.

Technology used in school has “fried” the minds of many students, leaving them with shorter attention spans and minds conditioned to find quick answers instead of analyzing and coming to conclusions of their own. In a school setting meant to challenge the minds of the future leaders of our nation and cause them to make discoveries that could potentially change the world, technology is definitely a setback in producing the kind of thinking strategies that will bring the young generation to an intelligent and fruitful future. While the internet is thought of as having all the answers, it will never have the capacity to have revelations of its own.

With that being said, when students limit themselves to the knowledge of what has already been discovered, they are preventing new discoveries that could be found by reading and thinking for themselves. Instead, they obtain instant answers via technology. Although it is the easier route, technology should not be used in school settings for the sake of the mind and the future of the world.

A Tech-Savvy Education

Marc Prensky, an American education writer, states that “Our students have changed radically. Today’s students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach.” This is especially true when students are faced with today’s evolving technology. Technology allows students to learn with so much more success than ever before. Whether it connects different schools together through ITV or allows a student to learn something new when researching the country of Ukraine, technology definitely has a place in schools today.

  Here’s the situation: a teacher assigns a student a research project on racial bias in the media. What does he or she do? Will the student spend endless amounts of time searching the archives of a library for appropriate news articles, or will he or she elect to search a few key terms on Google? The answer is obvious- use the much more convenient search engine on the internet. As of 2006, seven years ago, nearly 100% of all schools were connected to the internet.

  Technology is not only good for research purposes; it can also be utilized in cases where children with special needs require alternative methods of education. Technology helps these children get the help they need. If a student needs to learn at their own pace, technology allows them to do so. If a student needs extra help to comprehend a topic, technology will give them the help they need.