The main parts of the Star Trek franchise are: 1  Six television series (first shown from 1966 to 2005) and. 2  Thirteen movies (shown in theaters from 1980 to 2016).
corporal punishment noun [U]. âº the âphysical âpunishment of âpeople, âespecially of âchildren, by âhitting them. (Definition of corporal punishment from the Cambridge Advanced Learners Dictionary & Thesaurus Â© Cambridge University Press).
Corporal punishment goes by a variety of names including, but not limited to, beating, hitting, spanking, paddling, swatting, and caning.. Some of these terms are generic, others are specific to the severity of the punishment or the instrument used to inflict it.t has been argued that one advantage that corporal punishment has over other forms of punishment is that it punishes only the guilty.27 Detaining students often places a burden on parents who fetch children from school. They are then required to fetch the detained child at a later time, which may be inconvenient.