Centuries Argumentative Essays Samples For Students

ABSTRACT

There are many different philosophical ideas about the moral value of equality, such as democracy in which all citizens have equal voting and citizenship rights, or social and economic equality that guarantees a minimal living standard and educational opportunities for all. One notion of equality holds that all persons are entitled to the same universal rights and human dignity regardless of race, religion, ethnicity or social class. From a purely historical viewpoint, there has been a radical expansion of the idea of human equality in the modern era, just as there have been revolutionary changes in science, technology and economic systems. Plato ...

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, ...

Power is a concept that has been historically quite difficult to define. The reason for this is that power is a notion that is very complex. Power is something that can both define and crush political regimes all over the globe. Many scholars have tried to define power and have been unsuccessful. While Dahl has one of the best definitions of power available on the market, there is a superior definition that was ascertained by John Gaventa. John Gaventa is a well established political scholar in the field and has a great deal of clout due to his book ...

There has been historical contradiction on the role Columbus played in the dominance of Europe of the world. Even though textbooks have different accounts of events, the role played by Columbus was a fundamental one. He was the first explorer and sailor to discover America, and the possibilities it presented. Through the discovery, the process of conquering began.
Columbus was crucial to forming history, even though it is hardly recognized in many of the history books after 1482. He was not the first sailor to discover Americas, but he was the last upon whom paths were opened from a world ...

There are many societies all over the world that have created different programs and paths that they set out to follow in the quest for a more peaceful society. The peace that the societies search for may differ from one society to another. However, these societies always have in mind the creation of a perfect place to live in where there are little or no problems where every member of the society lives in unending bliss. Many scholars have named this method of society creation as utopianism. Utopia emphasizes on different aspects of the society as the architects of the type ...

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The death penalty has been used in human societies for centuries to stop crime from spreading. It is regarded as a defense mechanism so that the society can be free from dangerous criminals. According to a recent statistic, there have been 1348 executions of the death penalty since 1976 in the US alone. On average single death penalty, case costs up to $2.4 million.
However, later on this type of punishment was regarded as a crime as well by the humanists around the world. Until this day, ...

Valuing Life at its Beginning

The issue on abortion is a continuous concern of almost every human society across the world. At a certain point of history, people decided to be in absolute opposition to it. However, there is also a point of time when people agreed its practice. Even some medical students and professionals get confused on making their own position regarding this matter. Through the years, men sought answers as to whether aborting a conceived child-to-be is right or wrong. Along with various researchers, ethical advisors, philosophers, and lawmakers, people look at different perspectives – considering many cases and contexts the practice of abortion would be deemed ...

Thesis

Earth is the only known planet with favorable climate conditions to support life. All the living beings on earth heavily rely on its climate, hence any variation in climate conditions may disturb life on earth. Humans started using tools centuries ago and now have developed large industries to produce various tools, equipment, machinery and consumer products etc. These industries produce heavy amount of emissions including Carbon Monoxide, Carbon Dioxide, and various other toxic gases through burning fossil fuels. These gases are mostly directly released in the earth’s atmosphere causing earth’s climate to change in various ways. “Various ...

When Worlds Collided: The Fall of Constantinople and the Byzantine Order

The conquest of Constantinople in 1453 by the Ottoman Turks brought the final curtain down on the Roman epoch, of which the Byzantine Empire was the final, glorious manifestation. When Constantine the Great established the city of Constantinople in 330 A.D., he re-constituted the old Roman order along a new East/West axis. Henceforth, the beleaguered empire would be administered from two capitals, but few could foresee that this arrangement would create a religious and political schism that would make rivals of the two great cities. Gradually, the Byzantines eclipsed Rome by virtue of Constantinople’s mighty walls and the city’s ...

Philosophy

In this paper, we are going to talk about the Leviathan, which is a treatise of an English philosopher Thomas Hobbes who was a younger contemporary of Francis Bacon. Under the influence of ideas of Bacon, Thomas Hobbes began exploring the political and religious issues of his era. Of his many treatises on state structure most important is Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil. In addition, we are going to describe Thomas Hobbes idea of the state of nature. Also, we are going to express its influence on his idea of ‘ ...

Introduction

Exordium
The death penalty is something which has existed for centuries in various countries, but recently it has been coming under increased scrutiny. More people are turning to the view that it is somehow inhumane, or perhaps that it is immoral to say that we who obey and make the law are better than those break and oppose it, while still committing the same acts as they do (presuming that the offenders are murderers, of course).
It could be said that the death penalty was a simple solution for a simpler time. Today, not only do we have the ...

The study of infectious diseases has always been crucial to mankind because of the devastating effects it has had on the human race. The influenza epidemic, for example, occurred repeatedly in the 20 th and 21st century, spreading across large regions and multiple continents. Influenza in 1918 killed an estimated 50 million people world wide. This was higher than the amount of people that died in World War I. About 500,000 fatalities occurred in the US which was approximately 28% of the US population at that time. The number of deaths that took place in 1957 and 1968 ...

Now that technological progress has made it possible to apply medical innovations for saving human lives, there has appeared a measure of dissonance between the advocates and the adversaries of patents. Patenting means a person is granted a monopolistic or exclusive right to scientific achievement, which is purchasable for a certain financial reward that recoups the disclosure. However, patents imply zero availability of medical procedures to both patients and doctors, which places human lives in jeopardy. The point is that there is a need to protect intellectual property and the need for medical technologies to serve ethical purposes of saving human lives.

Is It Ethical to Patent Medical Procedures

Some experts ...

Samuel P. Huntington (1993) propounded theory, ‘clash of civilizations’ suggests that religious identity of people will play the main role in a conflicting world that takes place in the era of post cold world war. This theory is one of the most discussed and disputed theories in the modern world. Edward (2006) said introduced the theory of ‘Orientalism’ that focuses extensively on the cultures other than the western world. This paper intends to discuss both the theories and further tries to find out political motivations of these theories.
There are various aspects of Huntington’s theory. He believes that ...

The ideal and real roles of women depicted in the plays The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare and The Rivals by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Women have been the subject of greater literary interest since times immemorial. They frequently serve as the means to replicate contemporary society. During the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, women were largely portrayed as the victims of a patriarch society. Modern feminism was nonexistent until the 19th century and female voice was completely subdued. “Feminists’ scholars regarded the 18th century author Mary Wollstonecraft as the original harbinger of feminism, a ...

Democracy, Rights, and Empire

Thesis
Europe has seen it all; revolutions, plague, recession, famine, revolts, and invasions, and this was why, when opportunity came knocking at their doors, the few powerful nations of Europe, adventured to expand and control their business interests far from their shores. In order to understand how and why this transpired, one needs to go back in time and understand Europe as it was in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Background

The Rise of Europe between 1500 and 1850 was largely accounted for by the growth of European nations which shared their borders with the Atlantic, and in particular, ...

In as much as we live in a world where we are fully surrounded such tools and machines, we seldom think about these tools, machines and tools that surround us. We are not aware of how they shape us or how we shape them. Consequently, these change our relationship with such tools, neither are we even aware of how they enrich or impoverish us. This trend is talked about by Dave Eggers, in his book The Circle; “ The tools we create, often manufacture extraordinarily extreme social needs. Nobody needs a level of contact you are spreading. It changes nothing.” (p 45) The ...

Literature

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 ...

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English 100
Women on the Frontline
Following the existing debate on whether or not qualified women are equally entitled to be on the frontlines like men, lots of heated debate is generated. In January 2013, the United States military lifted its ban on women in ground combat positions, a policy that according to the information stated in the sources of Fox News (FoxNews.com) had been in effect since 1994. Skaine mentions that the ground combat positions were defined according to the 1994 policy as “engaging the enemy on the ground with individual or crew-served weapons, while being exposed ...

Qualified women are entitled to be in the frontlines too. In January 2013, the United States military lifted its ban on women in ground combat positions, a policy that has been in effect since 1994 (FoxNews.com). The 1994 policy defined ground combat as “engaging the enemy on the ground with individual or crew-served weapons, while being exposed to hostile fire” (Skaine, 7). This paper therefore takes the definition of ground combat as the meaning of the word “frontlines” which was earlier mentioned. The 2013 decision generated many opposing opinions about the issue. Different factors such as physical strength, emotional complications, ...

The Mask of Religion

Throughout human history, religion has been an incredibly influential force across the world. In the name of religions such as Christianity, Judaism and Islam, people both live rich and fulfilled lives. Some individuals even found spiritual insight, understanding and wisdom because of their faith in and love for God and their fellowmen. However, there are those who used religion for their own selfish interest and “filthy lucre gain” (Titus 1:11, KJV). Thus, in the name of religion, fanatics and false religious leaders had committed and continue to commit terrible acts against humanity.
Despite these religions' untarnished doctrines concerning ...

The Westphalian system came about because of the peace treaties of Westphalia and Osnabruck in 1648 that officially marked the end of the 30 years war that destroyed a larger part of Europe between 1618 and 148. It is viewed that the treaties did not only end the war but also triggered the beginning of a new international system considered as the foundation of the present-day nation state system based on sovereignty often referred to as the Westphalian system (Zwierlein, 2013. 38, 1, pp. 65-95)
The Westphalian model and sovereignty have been key debated issues since it is claimed that ...

Reductionism is the application of deductive logic to formal scientific systems that eliminates obsolete or unnecessary theories, while still incorporating older ones that had been verified into the new synthesis. In psychology, for example, a physicalist would reduce the concept of mind to brain and various mental and emotional states to biological processes (Jones 145). Thomas Nagel thought that the earliest examples of reductionism during the Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment of the 17th and 18th Centuries were the most successful. This era of history produced many examples of homogeneous reductionism, such as the ancient theories of bodily humors giving way ...

Introduction

Gaelic is a Celtic language that includes the speech of ancient Ireland and the dialects that have developed from it, especially those usually known as Irish, Manx and Scots Gaelic. Gaelic constitutes the Goidelic subbranch of Celtic (Dictionary.com, 2012). Scottish Gaelic is very similar to Irish and Manx, which are both Celtic languages. Gaelic also resembles some other languages such as Welsh and Breton. The phonetics of Gaelic are said to be more complicated than English but once a person learns Gaelic, it is easier to figure out how a word is spoken, by its spelling. Currently, the language is used by a ...

Moral minima is a concept Lenn Goodman (2010) developed to explain that in society some things are simply wrong and therefore should not be tolerated. Many esteemed thinkers do appreciate his ideology and support him too. However, to say that he is correct or incorrect is to examine the context in which Goodman (2010) expands this theory of moral minima.
In the following pages of this document the writer will offer some personal views concerning Goodman’s (2010) moral minima and show some relationship of his view to relativism, which is a strong theory itself explaining right and wrong issues in ...

Voting on the Internet

Voting on the internet for federal, state and local elections would theoretically see an increase in the number of people turning out to vote. By introducing this new scheme, it would encourage more of the voting public to take an interest in their country’s democracy and the procedure that brings an individual to power – particularly in terms of allowing them to decide who they do or don’t wish to represent their views on the political stage.

1. What is your initial point of view?

Initially, it would seem that introducing and promoting voting on the internet is an excellent idea as it would enable more ...