Word: angers
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Studies in child psychology have repeatedly shown that paddling and other such corporal punishments cause more anger and embarrassment than guilt or remorse. It establishes a behavioral pattern based on fear and the primitive aversion to pain rather than a rational understanding of the child's actions and its consequences, Supporters claim that, for whatever reason, corporal punishment works in halting negative behavior. While this utilitarian perspective may have a certain puritan appeal, it hardly seems like reason enough to teach children we don't have to work out problems with other people, especially if they are weaker than...
...going to hurt me more than it's going to hurt you" probably rings a bell, one wonders how often hands are raised in a calm and rational decision that this is the only way to keep a child from developing bad attitudes. It is more likely that anger and personal frustration are the prime motivations...
...lives, left 600,000 homeless and deeply undermined the public's confidence in both its politicians and its military leadership. With the new hostage crisis came television images of frightened, exhausted women and children peering from the shattered windows of rebel buses, all of which stoked Russians' anger about the war--and Yeltsin's inability to end it. The main point of his televised scolding of the generals was to deflect that discontent toward the uniformed military leaders. "The power structures, the ministries, the government and the Security Council have drawn few lessons from previous events," Yeltsin told them. That...
...Russian ties. It appears possible that this may be a prelude to a general conflagration in the Caucasus in reaction to Moscow's brutality. Russia looks with annoyance at Turkey's current play for the ethnically Turkic former Soviet Republics in Central Asian. Moscow makes no bones about its anger about Turkey's wooing of these countries, which it interprets as vying with Russia for influence in the region...
...democracy movement materialized, in part, because of the anger some Chinese felt over the rampant corruption at all levels of the Party. Through interviews with workers, students, writers and teachers, the film powerfully conveys its 'subjects' increasingly vehement mistrust of the Party...