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From the middle 1950s to the late 60s, after ‘school’ at 4pm, children from the age of six were issued one slice of bread and margarine and then sent into St. Bridget’s classroom to make rosary beads. The classroom did duty as a mini-factory for the manufacture of rosary beads.
On the spot punishment by staff was an everyday event. Children had to stand on a cold landing (sometimes barefoot and wearing only slips) during the night for punishment. They were relentlessly flogged with thick bark from a tree by the nun in charge, if, for example, they had not fulfilled their quota of rosary beads in the factory. Goldenbridge housed on average two hundred children, which included infants and babies; a good percentage of them were infants, babies and toddlers. It was normal for some of them to have slept in their own excrement. imagine the holy people of this island of saints and scholars hadn’t a notion as to what was going on inside the bitter austere inhospitable labour camp called Goldenbridge, as children were imprisoned there and visitors weren’t ever allowed past the porch hall.
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What is discipline? What is punishment? Are they the synonymous or is there a difference? Is it important to understand essence of these words? 
 TERRORISM! Despite recent popularity, it has been around for a long time. At one time, the Banda Islands were the only nutmeg source for the world. As early as the year 1511, the home of the Bandanese people began to become occupied by the Portuguese, the Dutch, the Spanish, and the English merchants and traders, all who were seeking control of this lucrative spice trade. In the year 1621, the militarized Dutch East Indies Company, either killed or forcefully expelled these people from their home and eventually re-settling the islands with imported prisoners, convicts and indentured laborers to work the nutmeg prison farms. An estimated 530 Bandanese people were returned to the prison farms due to their much needed expertise.
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