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The Abolition of Slavery
Introduction
Historians evaluate in several ways the distinctions and similarities of the North and South just before the Civil War. The North’s population was 50 percent more than the South’s. Blacks comprised just over one percent of the North’s population while about 95 percent of Southern blacks were slaves. The North emphasized manufacturing and commercial enterprises while the South focused on agricultural development, mostly with the labor of slaves (Pessen 1121).
This essay discusses topics related to the important issue of slavery ...

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Thesis Statement
Thomas Jefferson’s Query XIV Laws is quite different from Phyllis Wheatley’s Poems, in that, while both of them targeted slavery and its abolishment, Jefferson’s views are expressed by a person from the outside, while Phyllis’ views are personal. While Jefferson makes comparisons to show that slavery in America was not as bad, Phyllis makes a direct appeal to abolish slavery.
President of the United States, President Barak Obama, in one of his speeches said that he thought the need of the hour for all Americans, black or white, was to shun their differences and ...

Thesis: The death penalty in the United States is an antiquated practice that should be abolished. The death penalty fails to deter crime, is riddled with risks for inaccuracy and is unethical in a modern state that value human rights.
Aronson, Jay D. and Simon A. Cole. (2009). Science and the Death Penalty: DNA, Innocence, and the Debate over Capital Punishment in the United States. Law & Social Inquiry. 34 (3), 603-633.
This article argues that even with the advent of technology such as DNA, these sciences are still fundamentally problematic and able to make mistakes. With these mistakes ...

Argumentative Essay

Philosophy is one discipline that has been used pervasively by great thinkers and scholars to pass moral lesson to the society. This field uses parables, fiction, and symbolism to communicate to the society. The three books, Myth of the cave, Abolition of Man and The Inquisitor pursue human various human values. A collection of these literary works gives a comprehensive teaching on human life. Education and enlightenment is the major theme running across the three publications. Moral values, education, religion, and freedom of choice are interwoven to address the dimensions of human life exhaustively. This essay aims at exploring an ...

Introduction

The question, whether art influences life or life influences art has been a much debated. While many state that art is the representation of human life and nature, many others argue that artistic depictions result in trends that have the ability to influence the human mind. It definitely seems as if “art” has influenced the society if popular culture is considered. (D) Popular culture, or as it is otherwise known, “pop” culture, is the body of ideas propounded by the majority of a society through various artistic means, such as television and cinema, and it has a impactful influence on the actions, ...

The revolutionary changes brought about by the rejection of the occupation of the former colonialists, and the American neo-colonialists had a profound effect on the sexual revolution in the Cuban society. Although difficulties were experienced in the previous stages, success was realized in the 70s and the 80s. Previous complications were experienced due to the dominance of the white males in the political leadership who were accustomed to the traditional patriarchal sexual ideology. The leadership soon began adopting the Marxist-Leninist concepts that emphasized on reforms of class relations and factors of production (Hamilton, 2012). The leadership sought to increase ...

Prostitution, where the nature of business is private and about engaging in sexual relations for payment or other benefits has long been called as one of the oldest professions in the world. It is also a space for debate over many issues such as prostitution being labelled as work or exploitation, prostitution as a criminal activity, women’s rights, discrimination and more. Although it is called as one of the oldest professions, it also remains a gray area in many countries with no regulation or any semblance of it being an industry. Prostitution however should be legalized as it would mean more ...

The idea of an armed, righteous revolution to usurp the unjust rulers of a land is something not reserved only for the American War for Revolution; it is the story of how many countries came to be, most certainly during that time period. At that time, a great many countries fought for freedom, using the American precedent to spur themselves to action. The French Revolution, also occurring during the late 1700s, was inspired greatly by the American Revolution, armed leftist groups assaulting the aristocracy in favor of the Enlightenment. One revolution which is often ignored or deemphasized during this time, however, ...

THESIS

The death penalty in the United States has long been a controversial issue – the idea of putting someone to death for their crimes is thought, by some, to be an antiquated idea that went out with the stocks. However, there is still significant public support for the measure as a deterrent. When considering the prison costs and the flaws inherent in the justice system, it becomes somewhat clearer that the death penalty is not a cost-effective or ethical measure. Given the non-unanimous level of support for the death penalty, as well as the possibility of executing innocent citizens who have been wrongfully ...