Slavery Argumentative Essays Samples For Students

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Benevolent despot refers to an authoritarian rule which is characterized by kindness and generosity. It also refers to enlightened absolutism which is a situation when rulers are influenced by enlightenment. Enlightened monarchs tended to allow religious toleration, freedom of speech and the press and right to hold private property. Most of them fostered arts, sciences and education.

Fredrick II, The Great had ideas of the French enlightenment in his youth and maintained the ideas throughout his life. Fredrick declined to endorse the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713. This was an idea which was very common with the enlightened monarchs and absolutists ...

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Dana, a modern black woman, was celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with Kevin, her husband, when she was snatched abruptly from her home in Altadena, Los Angeles, California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, a young white boy, was drowning, and Dana jumped into the lake and rescued him. It was as though Dana had been summoned to rescue the boy. Dana was repeatedly drawn back to the early nineteenth century, to the slave quarters, where her stay grew longer and longer with each transit. Each visit grew longer, more arduous and equally dangerous for her. This continued, until, it became ...

Many of us grew up watching dolphin and shark shows and have good memories of watching these shows. However, there is the realization today that placing these gentle animals in captivity does not help their cause, and is perhaps also dangerous for humans as well. The main thesis of this short paper, therefore is that the captivity of cetaceans such as dolphins and killer whales is unethical because this does more harm than good on both the animals and on humans.
Inhumane Treatment of Animals Results in Dangerous Behavior The animals are treated inhumanely, especially before a show. According ...

The evolution of Frederick Douglass from a slave to a man is evident in “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.” As a documentation of slavery in Antebellum America, mainly in the south, thoughts of freedom appear as the redeeming feature for the blacks. Born into slavery, Douglass gives his readers insight into how slaves lived under the rule of the whites as his owners send him from one farm to another courtesy of his masters’ whims. However, unlike most of the slaves, Douglass portrays his need to be free throughout the book by questioning the perceptions of the white Americans and ...

David walker was an African-American author and activist born on 28th of September, 1785, North Carolina, United States. He inherited free slave status from his mother who was free slavery, but she died while David was still young. Although he was free of slavery, he witnesses misery the slaves were experiencing on a daily basis. It is believed it is this mistreatment of slaves and slavery institution as a whole that forced him to leave North Carolina for Boston where he engaged in second-hand clothes business. In Boston, he engaged in charitable initiative by helping the poor and the runaway slaves. ...

Introduction

The history of American Revolution; that is how the original colonies fought for freedom and broke ranks with the Britain and formed a new nation called the United States of America is well documented and widely known. However, what the African American thought and felt about it is less known. Moreover, their role in the revolution is even lesser known or at least ignored. This paper seeks to establish the blacks’ as well as the whites’ perception of the Revolution, the reality in relation to the ideas and ideals of freedom and to raise a case based on the revolution against ...

Overview of Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed

This paper reviews Paulo Freire’s ideas expressed in his book The Pedagogy of the Oppressed, it presents an argumentative position on the lack of factual reasoning in Freire’s thoughts. The ideology or school of thought that is advanced by Freire is such that education system as it is, is a prison for the student rather than a means to impart knowledge. In this regard Freire contends that the teacher-student relationship is one in which the teacher forces down knowledge to the student. The student on the other hand has no choice but to take in what is taught. He ...

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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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In his essay, ‘Discourse on the Origin of Inequality,’ Rousseau considers how man seeks freedom in the discourse and the social contract. However, the realization of liberty is hindered by supremacy of inequality and property, characteristic of capitalism as expressed by Karl Marx in the Communist Manifesto. The freedom expressed by Rousseau is not entirely political but also freedom from the need and psychological. In the novel, Their Eyes were Watching God, by Zara, the character Janie is in the journey to achieve freedom from male domination, true love and self-independence in a world of racism and female subordination. The ...

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Mary Conde’s book ‘I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem’ uses the Salem Witchcraft Trials as a background for the political implications of a post slavery scenario where the political implications are great. There are also some ironies which can be observed since the Puritans who ended up as abolitionists entertained the worst excesses as regards cleansing and purifying the nation of witches and Conde plays on that notion with subtle irony. The sense of catastrophe is also imminently felt especially in the analogous dynamics of the novel. Tituba is imbued with fantastic and wild notions of witchcraft which also impart ...

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In early 1550s, Portuguese arrived at the coast of West Africa where they used ships to sail. Their aim was to maneuver in between the Muslim in Northern Africa so that they can be able to bypass their virtual monopoly on the trade. Sub-Saharan trade involves species, gold among other commodities that were in demand in Europe. There was need for advancing in shipbuilding since they were needed to navigate easily in Atlantic. However, the Portuguese came to add another commodity in their ship which was all about slaves and they involved men and women (Falola, Toyin, and Kevin, ...

This paper argues about the shutdown of SeaWorld; SeaWorld is a mammal theme park, located in the United States. Sea World is a theme park dedicated to the underwater world. Unlike other parks, Sea World is not divided into zones. Here each attraction has its own name and theme. SeaWorld Parks and Entertainment maintains one of the largest collections of marine animals in the United States. It provides care to as many as 67,000 animals including marine and terrestrial. In the wild, marine animals live in large social groups and swim up to 100 miles a day. However, at SeaWorld, Orcas ...

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After the American Civil War of 1861 to1865, Americans were faced with the issue of reviving themselves from the changes brought about by the war. This is especially so with regard to the Southern and Northern states that had formed the opposing sides in the battle. Finding basis on the issue of slavery, the North had been anti-slavery while the South had been pro-slavery. These different opinions later erupted to full-blown war that tore America into half and in turn saw previous patriotic citizens kill each other. With regard to the ...

In the fictional text, AphraBehn portrays the colonial views in the negative, majorly opposing the existing vice among many of the nations. The author depicts Surinam as living in perfect peace yet the colonial extension spread throughout the land. In some way, the colonial masters and the slaves justified colonialism by making people believe that they lived in peace and understanding. However, the author notes that slavery was the most unfavorable idea among most of the people including the slaves and the masters. However, the text is not fully antislavery as the author gives a good account of Oroonoko in ...

People have a unique quality of destroying everything that is precious to them. The most precious things that they have are nature and inimitable species that inhabit it. Unlike animals people are used to killing not only for purposes of nourishment, but also for the sake of entertainment. If not killed, animals get caught only for them to be placed in cramped cages well beyond their natural habitat. Thousands of species end up being exterminated for jewelry, souvenirs or being kept in captivity for life in places, such as amusement and theme parks, private and public zoos. Human authoritarian regime ...

According to Howard (1), the majority of the European colonial economies in America from the sixteenth all the way to the nineteenth century were reliant on the African slaves for the supply of labor in favor of their continued existence. In the United States, throughout the colonial period, tobacco was the leading slave-manufactured product. Concentrated in Maryland and Virginia, the tobacco plantations made use of the biggest percentage of Africans slaves brought into the United States before the American Revolution.
During the pre-Civil War in the United States, a stronger argument can be made that slavery played a vital role ...

Social and Religious Equality

Introduction
America was discovered in the last decades of 16th century. During the early part of 16th century America was still an unknown land for many. At present, America is a land of social, religious and political equality but it was a different scenario in America during the 17th century. Religious equality was not there in the 17th century America. Most of the early people who settled in the country were Puritans. After the first colony was established in Cape Cod, Massachusetts in 1620, it became a trend for colonial rules in America (Varon, 2001). America in the 17th century had ...

Harriet Ann Jacob and Fredrick Douglas

The martyr of the Christians, The Holocaust, and slavery are testimonies to the magnitude of human cruelty. In their autobiography Douglass and Jacobs use graphic details to accentuate the dehumanized effects of slavery.
Even in this civilized era of America, there are still people who would enjoy practicing enslavement if it were legal. Douglass and Jacobs were born in slavery and they experienced their masters’ disregard to the sanctity of marriage and family Marriages were not acknowledged and often wives and husbands were sold to separate owners. Children were taken from their mothers as soon as it was ...

Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence with of aim of establishing the revolution that the colonists were planning and enforcing on America. A famous line from the declaration reads, “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” With this line, Jefferson meant that all men are equal and they deserved equality in life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness (Amitarge 145). This line is not an absolute. This is because in our society, there is evidence that some people have more rights than others while other people are oppressed. There are many forms of oppressions that prove this statement ...

Human Dignity and Conscience in the Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and Maya Angelou

At first glance, it seems like a very difficult task to find any real connection between the writings of Maya Angelou on the one hand and Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson on the other. After all, Emerson and Thoreau were Northern white men of the 19th Century who had never personally experienced the oppression of slavery of the type of segregation and inequality that Angelou grew up with in Stamps, Arkansas in the 1940s. Even though they both opposed slavery, and Thoreau was willing to defy the law and go to jail to uphold his principles, in the ...

Introduction

Racism has been in existent for a very long time in the history of human interaction. Race is often equated to skin color which implies that one can be categorized into certain dimensions because of being black, white or of mixed blood. A writer creates works that are closely connected with his or her life and which reflect some aspects of reality. A comparative analysis of the works of Phillis Wheatly (before 1865) and Kate Chopin’s Desiree’s Baby (after 1865) will reveal that despite the difference in the time and the races of the two authors, there was ...

Fredrick Douglas, born in the state of Maryland, grew up without the knowledge of his age and father, which was a common thing about slaves (Frederick 1). He was taken from the care of his mother at a tender age, and the mother sold to a neighboring farm. The mother would visit at night and leave early in the morning making him not to develop any relationship with her (Frederick 2). He experienced the whipping of her Aunt by the slave master, which was the bloodiest thing for a young man. The separation from the mother at the young age meant that he ...

Having dark skin does not necessarily mean that a person is from Africa or even that they consider themselves ‘black’ at all, and in fact the entire question of what ‘dark’, ‘black’, ‘brown’ or ‘white’ really means has varied a great deal throughout history and different societies. None of the Aborigines of Australia of the Maori of New Zealand were considered Africans, although they were certainly treated as second-class citizens, much as the Native Americans were. In India, the dark-skinned people of the Deccan Plateau and the Untouchables and Dalit were not Africans, although they also suffered considerable discrimination. In Brazil ...

Frederick Douglass' The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro

In Frederick Douglass' speech "The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro," the noted abolitionist and speaker called for an end to slavery using several different strategies of oratory and persuasion. By humbling himself before his audience, comparing the plight of slavery to the British rule they had only recently escaped, and placing a moral imperative on the ending of slavery, Douglass makes an effective and strong appeal for his cause on July 5, 1852.

Douglass' opening and closing strategies involve qualifying himself personally as an orator - he humbles himself ...

The Peloponnesian war between Athens and Sparta took place over several decades and can be segregated into three main wars: a) 460 to 445 BC, b) 431 to 421 BC, and c) 415 to 404 BC. Each of these wars were fought between Athens and its empire and Sparta with its Peloponnesian league allies. Considering the large number of states involved, there were several influencing factors that added to the build up to the beginning of the war. I believe that the main cause for the war was the insecurity and power struggle between Athens and Sparta to gain political and ...

Middle Passage

In the literary world, literary work can serve various purposes. It can be written in order to entertain the audience, or it can serve as means of description of the reality contemporary to the author. On the other hand, it can be a means of communication between the author and the audience. In this context, the author would aim at using various literary means for sending that message and make it comprehensible for the audience. This message can be sent in various ways. They can be expressed through tone, plot, characterisation, point of view, irony, figurative language, setting and attention ...

Slavery has existed for a long time, with many people regarding it as the most astonishing phenomena. Slavery is exceedingly unnatural occurrence that provokes mixed feelings from the heart of every individual. Many people are descendants of those who used to be slaves several years ago. It is surprising that some still face slavery in the contemporary times. By definition, slavery is a societal institution-based dominance, ownership, and exploitation of an individual by another1. Other scholars also define slavery as owning another person unlawfully, with the sole purpose of exploiting the labor of the person for enjoyment or gain of the ...

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, ...

Arguably, Lenn Goodman asserts that some things in life that are just wrong. In “some Moral Minima”, I believe Goodman Lenn has some truth when he says that certain things in the globe are simply wrong. Perhaps, based on human nature, Goodman is absolutely right when he terms some things as simply wrong, these include terrorism, genocide, murder, slavery, rape, incest as well as polygamy. As a matter of fact, this issues go against the freedom and rights of human beings. Killing in by itself wrong, either on moral or legal grounds. There are things in life that does not ...

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 ...

Mary Rowlandson’s View of Her Indian Captors

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Mary Rowlandson’s View of Her Indian Captors

Mary Rowlandson was a Puritan wife and mother who, in 1676, was captured and taken from her home in Lancaster, Massachusetts by a raiding band of Narragansett Indians (Canada n.p.). She related the story of her eleven months of captivity in her book, Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, a best-seller in the popular captivity-narrative genre of the era. The combination of her Puritan faith and the brutality of the incidents she witnessed during her capture and captivity led Rowlandson to view her Indian captors as less ...

Any historical event has numerous interpretations and judgments of a certain time. American history is not an exception; it is full of important events which were definitely changing the country and nation. There is probably no more important and arguable event in the American history than the Civil War as a result of colonial societies’ existence for a century of common history. In this context, of particular importance are origins of the war and how each epoch interpreted them. In the previous times, the main reason for the war was definitely slavery as a symbol of social inequality and an obstacle for the ...

Kate Chopin’s short story ‘Désirée’s Baby’ gives the reader a highly negative analysis of the social conventions regarding race and gender of the South before the Civil War. Walker exposes the dishonest and duplicitous hypocrisy of the South’s attitudes to gender and to race and, furthermore, it is a story that is superbly constructed with the genuine truth about the central male character in the story cleverly delayed by Chopin until the final word of the story which shows us the truth about Armand’s own genetic background.
Chopin through her plot and choice of ...

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Recently, the Antiquities Chief of Egypt, Zahi Hawass, has been asking that several prominent museums return several of the biggest and most well-known artifacts of that country back to Egypt. Among them is the Zodiac of Dendera, which is located in the Louvre, as well as the Rosetta Stone, which has been displayed in the British Museum for two centuries. Already, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has promised to return nineteen items that were found in the excavation of King Tut, and were fixtures of the museum for tens of years. Hawass plans to use these ...

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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 ...

The need for the Reconstruction Amendments after the American Civil War act as a reflection of the repression and injustices that black Americans had to contend with at the time.
The thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the U.S Constitution are commonly referred to as the Reconstruction Amendments. They were drafted and passed by the U.S Congress. They were enacted after the American Civil War and were mainly targeted towards imposing civil liberties to all. The amendments were mainly targeted at the slaves and freed men who were predominantly black.
The need for amendments to the constitution was necessitated ...

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Labor is one of the most crucial elements of any organization. Labor is usually provided by the workers who have employed by a firm. It is often said that human resource is the most important asset of any organization and consequently, this asset must be treated with great respect and dignity. Employees who make up the human resource element of the organization play a great role in assisting a company to achieve its goal and its objectives. Through the provision of labor, the running of company’s operations is, therefore, made possible. When it comes to goals and objectives, the ultimate and ...

Captive narratives form an important aspect of the history of colonial American literature as the writers are able to present stories that are rich in the suffering, thrill danger and adventure of relating real life experiences that are associated with Colonial America. The story of Hannah Emerson Duston brings the readers to a world where a woman as abducted from her home and faced the trauma of having to endure time with the Native Americans. Being from Massachusetts, Duston actions are surprising. She kills two women, two men and six children in their sleep so that she could escape ...

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The novel Kindred has written by Octavia Butler in 1979. This is a science fiction novel which contains high literature. The novel has different themes, one of them is ‘obsessive love.' In the novel, obsessive love can be found commonly in various characters. All the characters’ obsessive love is depicted from their acts. The author shows in the novel a direct comparison of Rufus slave owning behavior with his mother who plays an eminent role to spoil him. The ending of the novel is the true depiction that an individual who is on the right path never gets pain ...

The collection of stories called “Distant View of a Minaret” that was written by an Egyptian female author Alifa Rifaat had a huge impact on the understanding of sexuality in the contemporary Middle East. It’s been known the questions of gender and sex are often ignored in that part of the world. Due to a long history and a deeply rooted faith, people of this area lack democracy. Their societies have been built on conservatism, traditions and ethics that are very often unfair to certain groups of people of those societies. Those people usually include females, slaves and ...

Many scholars admit that the study of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an exploration of the American society. The book revolves at the very heart of the American physical geography, political beliefs, and moral consciousness. In addition, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn probes readers to redefine the meaning of the conventionally held perceptions about civilization, freedom and the concept of right and wrong. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was published in 1885 and documents the stories of a pre-civil war society and the controversy over slavery. The central conflict is the permeable idea of freedom is questioned in relation ...

Same-Sex Marriage and Discrimination

Battles over civil rights have been fought for centuries in the United States. Slavery, the vote for women, and equal rights for blacks are just a few examples of civil rights issues that citizens fought for and won. One of the big battles being fought state by state today is the conflict over same-sex marriage. While some states have made same-sex marriage legal, other states have outlawed it. People for and against it provide many reasons why it should or should not be legal. In addition to listening to the reasoning of both sides on the issue of same-sex marriage, ...

A critical re-examination of Plato's Phaedo argument reveals that learning involves a recollection of prenatal knowledge. Plato`s thoughts on the knowledge that rests upon recollection is brought out through Socrates, his speaker. Socrates gives too much attention to the case of equal stones and sticks which are in most of the occasions viewed as existing without complete success that resembles a Form. Plato takes two different approaches in handling the theory of knowledge. In both the Phaedo and Meno, he presents this theory of knowledge as a recollection (Sedley, 1992, p 312). Plato presents his theory as a more or less incidental part ...

Zombies have long been thought of as creatures of myth and lore. The fear of death is common in most all cultures and zombies play right into that fear making them a source for legends, movies, and popular culture. Despite Hollywood style zombies we now think of, zombies actually have a rich history stemming from religions such as Voodoo. By looking at the origins of zombie legends one can better understand their cultural meaning. I propose that there is scientific evidence supporting that it is possible for zombies to exist, just not in the traditional Hollywood means. By looking at both ...

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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, ...

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Leadership is defined as the art and science of moving people from one point to another. This means that leadership refers to a situation where a person prepares the minds of his or her followers in order to work to attain a certain set of goals as a team or group. Leading brings people together for the attainment of results and the conduct of active work. Leadership might be construed as a process “by which one individual consistently exerts more impact than others on the nature and direction of group activity”.
Leading in the context of businesses and companies ...

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It was a unique time in history; slavery had been abolished, Jim Crow las were in effect but the civil rights movement had not yet begun. Voices like Langston Hughes spoke out against the racial oppression. Hughes himself wrote many short stories, poems and plays in his time. One of the themes that repeats itself in the works of Hughes is the word “mulatto”. “Mulatto”, a word used to describe a person of mixed black and white heritage, elicits a negative feeling or response from most people given the prejudiced nature of the word. Due to the negative nature ...

Relativism is the idealistic situation that all positions of analysis are equally legitimate and that all truth is relative to an entity. Moral relativism sums to stating that all moralities are similarly good and right. In our civilization today, relativism is increasingly becoming more appreciated. With the surmounting denunciation of God especially through rejection of Christianity, the once known absolute truth is being deserted. Today, the social order is trying to shun the thought that there is actually a right and wrong deed. As bad it may look, from a normal perspective of generation to generation, there is soundness to some ...

David L. Smith states that Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is the story of slavery and freedom, death and rebirth (to escape from his father, Huck cleverly faked his own death) has not only specific, but also a symbolic meaning. This novel is not only about the legalized slavery of black Americans, but also about the lack of freedom of the white man, enslaved by social conventions and prejudices of the environment, not only about the "revival" of the hero after his supposed death, but also about the actual birth of his personality, which gained emotional breadth. Huck’s and ...

Discovery of Americas and its Impact on Commerce, Navigation, and Industrialization

Introduction
The European exploration efforts and the subsequent discovery of the Americans was in the simplest terms, a capitalistic venture. Of course, it was accidental, but its primary goal had been to find a new sea route to the orient. The European desire to make more profits by cutting out the Arabs and Turkish nations from the trade is typical of any capitalistic venture. In addition, the idealistic desire to expand the horizons of the European reach coupled with the optimistic search for a completely new way of reaching the Orient was demonstrated in the efforts of Columbus and ...

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Ancient Greek philosophers had very different concepts of happiness and pleasure from the more materialistic and hedonistic ideas of the modern world. For this reason, many contemporary students read their books without really being able to comprehend their main message, which really viewed philosophy as a kind of religion. Indeed, Plato’s followers did start their own religion, which lasted for centuries and was incorporated into Stoicism and early Christianity. All of them rejected the idea that happiness came from money, material success, sex or physical pleasure, which are the basis for the modern mass consumption economy. That simply did ...

Should Prostitution Be Legalized

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Prostitution refers to the act of having sexual intercourse or other sexual acts for monetary compensation. For Prostitution is one of the oldest profession with records showing that it began in the ancient Samaria (now Iraq) where maidens made sexual favors in the temples as offerings to gratify the gods. It was later transformed from a sacrament to business in the ancient Greece and this gave women an opportunity to gain status and power. Currently, prostitution takes two forms; prostitution in the streets and prostitution in the brothels. The legalization of prostitution is a controversial subject that creates a great ...

“Mulatto” is a play written by Langston Hughes in the thirties of the previous century. The play explores the issues of the race such as lynching and miscegenation as well as the tragedy of family relationships between father and son during a difficult and controversial period in the social relations in America. The author received the national reputation of a dramatist due to the performance of “Mulatto” in 1935 by Martin Jones on Broadway. The play appealed to the public of Broadway because it examined the theme of tragic mulatto that symbolized the failure of the myth of egalitarianism. ...

1. Where do you find that Machiavelli and Hobbes coincide, and where do you find that they differ, in their accounts of human nature?

Hobbes’ and Machiavelli’s views often overlap on their understanding of human nature. One relevant fact to that is this essay questions inquires about the differences of the two thinkers. Both of them had views of human nature that agreed on some points but disagreed on others. Hobbes had one many characterize as a negative view on human nature, that the natural state of affairs for a person is “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.” In comparison, Machiavelli was perhaps advocating for such an individual in order to ursurp political power.

Hobbe’s Leviathan is named after a sea monster in ...

Henry David Thoreau is the founding father of American Liberation Thought. He is among the most influential and beloved writers of the 19th century. His writings have influenced and inspired millions of people across the world for over 150 years. It is for this reason and many others that he should be studied in high school. This paper will determine profound reasons why Thoreau should be taught in high school.
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(Gruenewald 14) according to Gruenewald, Thoreau made great contribution with his encapsulate environment stewardship. He was always awake to his surroundings, he saw things in ...

The two pieces of work, ‘The Road Not Taken’ by Robert Frost, and ‘A worn Path’ by Eudora Welty both describe two separate journeys by two characters. The two journeys, though in separate worlds, are loaded with symbolism in the characters, elements of the journey and the emerging themes. The poem ‘The Road Not Taken’ brings out the choices made in terms of what course to take in life while the short story ‘A Worn Path’, shows the undying determination of a traveler to finish the course of her journey.

Symbolism of the journey

Though appearing simple and subtle, the story ‘A Worn Down ...

Legalize Drugs

Legalization of drugs is a topic that continues to be hotly debated as a possible solution to reduce crime and save tax payer dollars that are tied up in drug enforcement agencies. Drug-related crime is one of the most expensive things facing the United States citizens; from the perspective of those who are involved in drug use and sales, to the tax payers whose money is given to the agencies that exist to deal with all drug-related criminal offenses. Nevertheless, there are some for legalizing all drugs; however, there are those who believe this would be a disaster for ...

Legalization of drugs is a topic that continues to be hotly debated as a possible solution to reduce crime and save tax payer dollars that are tied up in drug enforcement agencies. Drugs related crime is one of the most expensive obstacles facing the United States citizens; from the perspective of those who are involved in drug use and sales, to the tax payers whose money is allocated to the agencies that exist to deal with all drug-related criminal offenses. A possible solution to curtail the social and financial problems that exist as a result of drug sales, use, ...

Andrew Jackson, the 7th President of the USA, was a legendary figure in the American history, because a large number of fundamental reforms were initiated by him in order to build a stronger republican state. Nevertheless, his methods and ideas were very controversial and thus there are many reasons to believe that Jacksonian democracy was sometimes autocratic and far from the democratic principles. His decisions concerning the Native Americans and the slaves, the patronage system and the new election system were aimed at the redistribution and concentration of power. However, such decisions contributed to the buildup of the political ...

Abraham Lincoln delivered the second inaugural address on March 4, 1865. At this time, the country was torn by years of devastating war, however the forces of the North were nearing the victory over the Confederates. Lincoln had to take into account these circumstances when addressing the nation. And he certainly did that, as a detailed analysis of his speech suggests. Lincoln’s second inaugural address involves the effective use of rhetorical appeals and rhetorical devices as well as addresses the specifics of the audience, place, and time, which makes it an efficient political speech.
The audience of this ...