Word: confrontative
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While restorative justice has roots in Christianity, its payoff is political and psychological. The conferences give victims the chance to confront criminals with the heartbreak they caused. The meetings' end goals, however, are rehabilitation and social engineering: they rehearse the prospect of a whole community once the prisoner is released back into society. Forgiveness is not a conference "agenda item," says Bruce Kittle, a Wisconsin pastor and clinical professor who consults on the state's restorative justice programs, but "we talk about it with victims beforehand. Particularly in violent cases, it sometimes has a more direct role." Says Walter Dickey...
...learned about the Boston Tea Party. It was the one thing you actually found entertaining about American history--a bunch of stuffy New England wig-wearers disguised as Indians, recklessly destroying property. This spring break, confront that repressed wish to reenact the scene. The Boston Tea Party Museum has a full-size replica of the Beaver II anchored in the exact spot the Party occurred; visitors get to throw a full bale of tea overboard themselves (this time attached to a rope) and will be rewarded with a complimentary cup of tea afterward. The museum also has multi-media displays...
Wols, the founder of the Informel movement, was almost exclusively known as a painter. Applying paint with fingers or knives, or directly from the tube, Wols created oils that confront the viewer head-on with their explosive colors and textured surfaces...
Wols, the founder of the Informal movement, was almost exclusively known as a painter. Applying paint with fingers or knives, or directly from the tube, Wols created oils that confront the viewer head-on with their explosive colors and textured surfaces...
Wols, the founder of the Informel movement, was almost exclusively known as a painter. Applying paint with fingers or knives, or directly from the tube, Wols created oils that confront the viewer head-on with their explosive colors and textured surfaces...