Essays on Torture

Introduction The term ‘privacy’ refers to an individual’s ability to seclude themselves thereby expressing themselves selectively. It, therefore, means that something is sensitive or simply special to a person. Privacy also limits who accesses the places, things or body of another person, hence making it about an individual’s control and security to things like their bank details and medical records. Privacy is thus important to human dignity in all societies as it is a human right of every individual. However, technology is turning out to be a threat to privacy due to its integration to human lives ...

While Machiavelli wrote many different works, ranging from plays and biographies to histories, and was deeply involved in Florentine politics, he is certainly best known for his greatest work, The Prince. In fact, it is from this work and this author that we get the term "Machiavelli and," which describes a person or situation that is cunning, deceitful and (most of all) expedient. This essay will examine the relationship between the concepts expressed in The Prince and the character of Tony Soprano in television's The Sopranos. It will be demonstrated below that on some occasions Tony Soprano (as a ...

Christianity, after the resurrection of Jesus went through a lot of phases before it was transmitted from Ancient Israel to Europe as the main religion. This period is generally viewed as the era of “early Christianity”. In this period, Christianity was viewed by most Romans as a sect of Judaism as such, it was criminalized with severe sanctions like torture and death for practitioners. Due to this, Christianity was practiced secretly in the underground and many women were involved in it. The purpose of this paper is to critically analyze the role of women in early Christianity. During the ...

In his book called the Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli deals with a wide spectrum of issues, including the interaction of government and authority, military affairs, qualities that should be prescribed to true rulers, historical perspectives of Italy's development, the issues of politics and morale, etc. All the author's reflections, arguments and conclusions constitute a unified logical sequence representing coherent stages of the construction of a durable and powerful state. With that, the state should be headed by a wise and brave ruler - a prince. In his book, Niccolo created a collective image of a ruler. In the author's opinion, ...

“The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson

“The Lottery” is considered to be the best Jackson`s short story which unites sarcasm, horror, humor and philosophy – all rolled into one. This story was written in June 26, 1948. The author of the story describes the American village of that period of time and the ritual which is observed in almost every city. This ritual is called “The Lottery” and Shirley Jackson makes a reader immersed into details and peculiarities of it. This is a story with an extremely unpredictable ending, which makes the reader somehow confused and shocked. But it is the true reality, which Jackson ...

Abstract

Child abuse is a despicable crime as it directed at the most young and unprotected segment of the population. Each year, there are almost three million children that are reported abused or neglected. The vast range of psychological diseases is reported to be connected with early childhood trauma, this is why this problem is very serious in United states. The paper explains the main reasons of child abuse as well as some ideas about the ways of preventing it. Also, the work includes the types of child abuse and the short description of each of them. The conclusion highlights ...

Charlie Chaplin’s performance in The Great Dictator (1940) In the history of soundless cinema, The Great Dictator still stands unbeaten as a marvel among all of the Charlie Chaplin’s greatest works. The unique element of surprise in this movie comes from the fact that the movie exerts a satirical comedy over perhaps the cruelest historical figure, Adolf Hitler at times when he was on peak of his action plan coming into reality. This essay is intended to analyze the various aspects of Charlie Chaplin’s character and role play in this movie to understand what elements made ...

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Protecting animal rights is one of the major advocacies in contemporary society and such fervor can be attributed to animal rights advocates with the likes of Tom Regan. In his article ‘The Case for Animal Rights,’ Regan took an absolutism stand in support animal rights and established the theoretical framework of absolutism or Kantianism as the most plausible moral and ethical foundation why humans should protect animal rights at all cost. Regan approached his topic by examining ethical theories that serves as the common basis of human morality. According to Regan, it is fundamentally wrong for humans ...

The short story “Desiree’s Baby” was published in 1893, in “Vogue”. Its first title was “The Father of Desiree’s baby” to focus on Armand’s identity and origin. The story touches important issues that plagued the South of that time such as racism, the position of women, gender inequality. “Desiree’s Baby” is one of only two major stories Chopin set in antebellum Louisiana, portraying woman character whose life is ruined by a cruel and deeply-seated racism, but intellectual readers of the day would have been aware of the complex cultural history in the background of the ...

No legal topic remains as controversial as the death penalty. The continued use of the death penalty divides the nation on some of the most fundamental moral and political debates. While the death penalty is a form of punishment that has been around since he dawn of time, many people question whether the use of the death penalty is compatible with modern society. The death penalty also raises some interesting constitutional concerns. There is widespread belief that the death penalty is not administered in a fair and impartial manner, which would mean that some groups of people are disproportionately ...

The Documentary, "Taxi to the Dark Side" was created by the BBC World Service and produces by the Discovery Channel. The directory and the writer Alex Gibney takes an investigative journey to show the disturbing details concerning how the United States' military were working with their subjects during the period of War in the Afghanistan. The documentary focuses on the detention center called Bagram that is located in the southern Afghanistan. The paper would show why I view this movie as an excellent documentary. Over the years since the "war on terror" began hundreds of prisoners, who have been ...

Slavery did not end in America following President Abraham Lincoln’s Proclamation of Emancipation more than 150 years ago. In fact, even after the civil war that was meant for freeing the Black Americans ended, the African Americans were treated as forced laborers, particularly in the southern states, until the beginning of the Second World War. Sadly, the lives of the human beings who had to undergo torture and worst treatment in the hands of the White Americans were in all respects equal to that of their torturers; their valuable and complex lives were torn apart by the injustice ...

[Client’s name] [Institutional affiliations]Introduction The concept of love is ​​one of the few words that express almost absolute abstraction (along with the truth, god, and others). The fact that in the concept of love people put a different meaning is doubtless. However, the individual love has a right to exist, as the right to life and have a variety of psychophysical substance called man. There is hardly a man in years, claiming that he had never loved or even fall in love. Many want to love and to be loved themselves. In the course of a lifetime ...

The Documentary, "Taxi to the Dark Side" was commissioned and broadcasted by the BBC World Service and produces by the Discovery Channel. The directory and the writer Alex Gibney takes an investigative journey to expose the disturbing details concerning how the United States' military torture and interrogates their subjects during the period of War in the Afghanistan. The documentary focuses on the detention center called Bagram that is located in the southern Afghanistan. With this light, this paper utilizes various criteria to determine why I view this documentary as an excellent and distinctive documentary. I enjoyed the suspenseful, creative ...

What role should the government play when regulating food production/consumption?

Sustainability is a matter of choice that is determined by necessity, and according to Michael Pollan's article (An Animal's Place), for the earth to realize sustainability, one life has to be lost to serve as food for the others to survive. The author is disappointed that although it is justifiable that man should eat, it is not morally right to kill animals for food (Pollan, 2002). The purpose of the study is to understand the responsibility of the government concerning food production and consumption and how the practice is regulated.

Introduction

Pollan argues that the superiority of the human race ...

BODY SYSTEMS AND DISEASES GRID

INSTITUTUIONAL AFFILIATION The purpose of this paper is to identify the major systems of the human body which, include the Nervous System, the Cardiovascular System, the Endocrine System, the Respiratory System, the Musculoskeletal System, and the Lymphatic System. The organs for each specific system will be identified, a brief explanation of each bodily function will be provided, and major diseases afflicting the system will be discussed.

Taylor (n.d.) clarifies that the sensory system comprises of the cerebrum, spinal line, tangible organs, and the majority of the nerves that associate these organs with whatever remains of the body. Together, these ...

In considering sentencing guidelines and mandatory minimum sentencing, there are similarities and differences. The nuances of each, when comparing one to another, can be confusing. The inherent intent of both is to ensure fair and justified sentencing when considering certain offenses. Among others, three significant purposes to both are that the punishment does not exceed the extent of the crime; that if the crime warrants, a mandatory minimum penalty should be assessed; and that given the offense, punishment is fair to all who commit a similar offense. Sentencing guidelines for federal offenses (addressed here as opposed to individual state ...

The Disney version of Cinderella has some significant differences from the original version by Charles Perrault. The general plot is similar but several episodes in the film differ a lot from the book story. First of all, Disney Cinderella meets the Prince in the forest for the first time, while in the book they only meet first time at the ball. In the first story Cinderella did not know who her new acquaintance was. In Perrault’s story Cinderella met the Prince twice, while in the film she only visited one ball. There is a color difference in the ...

prisons model According to Smith, et al (2014), the purpose of therapeutic prison is to deliver rehabilitative interventions for the inmates. It was revealed that the therapeutic prison must have three key documents including a clear mandate, definite goals that are shared by the key administrators and frontline members, and finally, a documented code of ethics (Smith, et al., 2014). By having a clear mandate will determine the specific goals of the institution and to ensure that the mission and vision statement is realized. When the mission statement has been made clear to the administrators and the members, there ...

What makes a human? Is it supreme power above all other creatures of the Earth or the highest compassion and responsibility? Which of them is genuine to human nature and our attitude to the world we live in? The documentary Earthlings is dedicated to finding the right answers to these questions. It tells about the way we manage our relationships with nature and its inhabitants. It tells about and shows unpleasant things most of us not only did not know about but moreover would not like to hear about or see. The way we behave with animals be wild ...

Law and Ethics in Intelligence

1. An element of the National Security Act of 1947 stated: ‘No United States intelligence information may be provided to the United Nations or any organisation affiliated with the United Nations.’ Briefly defend this position from an ethical position. There are many concerns about the United States sharing intelligence information with the United Nations as a lot of the information is highly confidential. Other countries have failed to commit themselves to protecting the information that the United States contributes, which makes intelligence sharing highly problematic from an ethical perspective due to the sensitivity of the information. Instead, the United ...

Introduction

There has always been a debate over the constitutionality of the death penalty and questions if the punishment is against the Eighth and Fourteenth amendments of the Bill of Rights. Many criticize the punishment for being against the Eighth and the Fourteenth amendments as it can be categorized as a cruel and unusual punishment. The Congress or legislature of any state can prescribe the use of the death penalty, for criminal activities such as murder and other capital criminal activities. The Supreme Court has already decided that the death penalty does not violate the 14th and 8th amendments. But, ...

International Business

International managers need to understand variation in unit labor costs (ULC) in various countries so that they can be able to form solid decision during internationalization. Unit labor costs weigh the mean cost of labor per unit output. Managers must understand unit labor costs in operation in the countries they are targeting to start a business (Dustmann et al., 170). United States Bureau of Labor Statistics has documented data that implied ULCs differs in various countries. Understanding variations in ULCs will enable managers to initiate business only to countries with a lower unit labor costs and refrain from countries ...

Endless pain is a noteworthy general wellbeing issue in the United States. One in four Americans, or 116 million individuals, have some type of determined agony. Perpetual agony causes gigantic human languishing over its casualties, their families, and society overall. The Institute of Medicine's report evaluated that expenses of giving restorative care and lost profitability because of agony are $560 to $625 billion dollars every year (National Academies Press, 2011). This dollar sum surpassed the joined expenses of coronary illness, diabetes, and disease.The part of the Occupational Therapist (OT) is to offer patients some assistance with improving or keep ...

The movie “Ma vie en rose” raises serious enough issue of modern society. Ticklish story of gender identity of the child is shown through the prism of funny stories, which often raise a smile, but not leave aside seriousness of the problem of lack of society`s understanding of people who are not like others. This movie through a story of a seven-year boy, who did not do anything bad to anyone and wants to be a girl, but faces the cruelty of the world, shows one of the most critical issues of genderization. This film is a stunningly ...

1. Why does Quail want to go to Mars? The unknown world of another planet attracted him very much. Douglass was obsessed with the idea of trudging among its valleys again because he had already visited the planet as a secret Interplan agent. 2. Why does Quali’s wife always try to discourage his interest in Mars? Douglas himself stated that it was a wife’s job to bring him down to Earth. In fact, Kirsten knew about his previous trip to Mars. 3. How does REKAL, INC. provide trips to Mars? They incorporate extra-factual memory implant and provide ...

Racism is so strongly built in society today that it feels like a natural phenomenon. Children from a very young age when their minds are in the developmental phase are exposed to such racism; therefore, they are conditioned in a way that this behavior extends to future life as well. School books and stories describe how the Afro-American is always the culprit and the American or “white guy” is the hero of most stories. If not directly, but somewhere this element of racism gets transferred to the child’s subconscious memory and determines his actions and reactions. As a ...

The juvenile justice system was created to treat and rehabilitate juvenile offenders. As a result, policies and court decisions tend to reflect this goal. In this essay, three of the most important court cases regarding the juvenile justice system will be discussed. The first examines when a juvenile can be tried as an adult, and what steps must first be taken in the juvenile court. The second court case looks at what mitigating factors must be considered when sentencing a 16 or 17-year-old offender to capital punishment. The third case will look into whether 16 or 17-year-old offenders receiving ...

‘Call to Arms’ book is excellent collection of short stories, written by Chinese author Lu Xun. The author, through his stories, tries to describe the cruel realities of traditional Chinese society. ‘Call to Arms’ stories were originally written during 1920s by Lu Xun in Chinese language. All stories of ‘Call to Arms’ were translated by Y. Hasien-yi and G. Yang and were published in year 1960 for the first time. The stories introduce readers to social, health care and other problems, existing in the China. The author tries to act as a social critic by depicting social problems of ...

Introduction

“Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.” These words by Stephen King illustrate the concept of the modern literature: what is treated as an imagery shall become a fixed figure of the culture. The effect of the mass culture provoked a big irreversible changes of the European culture into the mass one. For example, a vampire no longer rises from his grave and turns into bat to fly from place to place. Skinner Sweet, an anti-hero born from the comic book series by Stephen King and Scott Snyder, is the first American ...

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novels can be perceived as significant and resilient records of the contemporary Puritan society, disclosing the social and religious order prevalent at that time. His novels portray the clash between the individual and moral values and virtues and social goodness and ethical codes. Laurence Sargent Hall says: “The moral problem to be found wherever the individual’s mal- adjustment to society culminates in sin furnished Hawthorne with his major tragic themes. In the main this problem is worked out through some resolution by the individual of his mal- adjustment, an expiation of sin, by coming to ...

Torture today is subject to diverse universal moral legal condemnation. Along with other vices like genocide and slavery, torture has been established to violate the primary customs of human rights. In both war and peace, most states have affirmed that torture is fundamentally illegal and wrong as it violates general principles of human dignity. However, this has not been the scenario in different countries based on security measures put in place. The story surrounding torture is one that involves the change of norms, practices and law of different countries and in this case the United States of America (Ackerman, ...

“The Boat,” by Nam Le is a collection of stories based on the perspectives of children from around the world. They range from children growing up in poverty in Columbia, to a sinking South Chinese ship. The stories are Le’s successful attempt to show what it means to be human, as well as what it means to be a child around the world, showing the different ways in which people develop and grow, sometimes shirking childhood entirely. “The Boat,” argues that while children all have different perspectives based on cultural upbringings, when a violent cultural pattern exists, children ...

Introduction

Schindler’s List is a 1993 historical drama film produced and directed by Hollywood heavyweight Steven Spielberg. Considered as one of the best films of the 20th Century, the film revolves around German business named Oskar Schindler who saved many Jewish refugees during the infamous Holocaust by giving them jobs in his many factories. The character of Schindler is played by Liam Neeson. One of the most prominent themes of this film is the theme of denial. The theme of denial is exhibited in the fact that the Jews are in denial of the severity and the absolute the horror ...

Introduction

Dilawar, a taxi driver and an Afghan citizen, was considered as a kind and honest man by the villagers. As such, when the U.S. military detained him, after he had picked up three customers, denizens could not understand why. Picking the innocent taxi driver and hold him in prison without trial remained questionable. Five days after his arrest, his mysterious death in Bagram prison cell followed. Death of Dilawar came just a week after another mysterious death of an Afghan at Bagram. The documentary indicated that, the taxi driver and the other detainee died from injuries sustained at the prison. Injuries inflicted ...

Violence Against Women

Bad acts committed towards women because of their gender are referred to as violence against women. Violence against women is a clear manifestation of the unequal power relations between men and women. The acts range from physical abuse to psychological torture. Women are viewed to be of a lesser importance in comparison to men. Sexual harassment is one of the major crimes committed against women. Cases of marital rape, harassment at work places and suggestive language used towards women suggest that they are sex symbols. This behavior seems to have been accepted by the society since nothing is being done about. ...

According to a new regulation, drivers in China are required to stop at the yellow light, just like the red light regardless of the the speed at which one is driving or the distance between the vehicle and the traffic light. In china accumulation of 6 point in a single year leads to giving up of once license until one completes one week course and pass the onerous test. Even though the prohibition of mobile phone usage and smoking while driving also accompanied the yellow light regulation, it is the yellow light traffic rules amendment the evoked a state of tumultuousness. Just ...

Introduction

Historically philosophers religious people, atheists and other interested parties have developed numerous argument about the existence of God, basing their arguments on ideologies and presuppositions. However, the argument is presumed to majorly between religious people who believe in the existence of God and atheists who believe there is no God. For contemporary atheists, their justifications for non-existence of God is based on lack of evidence for his existence. Although there is no evidence for the existence of God according to atheists, there are numerous proofs of existence of a supernatural being (Gutting, 2012). This has been due to lack of ...

Tony Robbins is a world-renowned speaker on behavioral modification. His books, tapes, videos, and seminars have affected the lives of thousands of people. Although Robbins does not hold a college degree, he has incorporated the work of multiple therapists and continues to evolve his theories on self-directions of behaviors. Robbins’ promotions involve psychology dealing with family, self, and organization; he states he helps people “find breakthrough strategies and solutions for overcoming the problems that confront us all.” (Robbins, 2015). He employs the use of neuro-associative conditioning, a technique similar to neuro-linguistic programming. By consciously addressing preferred representational systems and submodalities, an individual ...

In Robert D. Kaplan’s “Defense of Empire,” the author makes his position in the defense of empires clear early. He writes, “Throughout history, governance and relative safety have most often been provided by empires, Western or Eastern.” He argues that in between the times of imperial rule, chaos has ensued. While noting that the British Empire had its troubles, he notes its strengths, mainly that it brought stability and infrastructure that the regions had not known prior. He argues similar to Nail Ferguson that many of these empires such as those in India and China ...

Slide No. 1

Public safety department is the umbrella organization of the government of the United States of America. Public safety department provides technical, economic and administrative services. Public safety departments are state and local. State public safety department act within states. Every state has a public safety department. Local public safety department are acting within cities and towns. There are not many of them, because in small towns they are substituted by local police offices. However, in some states police offices are only divisions of the public safety department. Hence, we see that the interactions between law enforcement agencies and public safety ...

The death penalty was introduced in America through the common law brought by the British (Garland et. al., 2011). Indeed the British carried out the death penalty in America during the colonial era. When America gained independence, the death penalty was transplanted to the laws of the independent America. Though it was not expressly provided for, they were arguments that since the Eighth Amendment only prohibits unusual and cruel punishments, it does not disallow death penalty. Accordingly, there were several instances of death penalties imposed.

The Supreme Court considered the constitutionality of the death sentence in the case ...

White, Deborah. “Pros and Cons of the Death Penalty” Retrieved from http://deathpenalty.procon.org/view.answers.reader-comments.php?questionID=1324

Deborah White in her article “Pros and Cons of the Death Penalty” said in her research that in 1972, the United States Supreme Court effectively nullified the death penalty converting the death sentences of hundreds of death row inmates to life in prison. But in 1976, another Supreme Court ruling found capital punishment to be constitutional and since then up to June of 2009, 1,167 persons were executed. Amnesty International spoke out against the death penalty stating that it is the ultimate denial of human ...

Introduction

This dissertations main porpoise and focus will be to address if the British armed forces will have any role in future international conflict. It will address the beginning of the British Empire all the way to the empire that we know today. After this we will look at concerns and threats that the British might face as well as the rest of the world and how this could have an impact on the British role in any future conflict. After having discussed all of the concerns we will look at the ability through advances in technology for any involvement ...

Nowadays, technologies are developing rapidly and already take a huge part of our everyday life. Modern world is one step behind of creating a machine that looks and acts mostly like a human.

The first questions that may arise are why we need an artificial humanoid, while we have more than enough real humans on this planet, moreover, how these machines would act and develop? It is believed that robots will think and feel only those things we tell them to know and feel. However, the main danger of artificial intelligence implementation into our everyday life is that people might have more ...

The article “A Homemade Education” in “Malcolm X and His View on Education” by Malcolm X is published on cantonlocal.org. In this article Malcolm X explains the contrast between the tough street life and experiencing the life in prison. Through its contrasting streets and prison, Malcolm x describes the difficulties faced while educating in the field of literature, and how the prison studies helped him to be self-empowered. He was an African American convict who served prison sentence. In this article, Malcolm X uses many different types of approaches to represent his argument to the many different types of ...

“In case you never get a second chance: don't be afraid!" "And what if you do get a second chance?" "You take it!” ~ (Anonymous, 2014)

Literature and other disciplines in Humanities fosters a sense of understanding regarding realities that discusses human experiences. From the definition of humanities and coining it from its root word “human”, it means can only originate from an aspect that entirely focuses on the aspect concerning human endeavors. True enough, humanities are a field of study that is involved in the pursuit of gaining understanding of concepts, principles and ideologies relating to human culture ( ...

Discussion on which medium – the movie or the book on Twelve Years a Slave can better transform political sensibilities Twelve Years a Slave, a memoir penned by Solomon Northup, is a poignant and extremely touching piece of literature, on the plights of an American slave. It is the autographical journey of the writer himself, and the twelve years he spent in bondage. Born as a free negro in New York, Solomon was tricked into slavery, and beaten black and blue to when he tried to regain freedom. He worked as a cotton picker, a carpenter, a mill-worker, and faced severe cruelty. His final reunion with his family after twelve years of sheer torture and loneliness makes for an emotional read, and an eye opener ...

Notes

- Accept different definitions of what it means for human rights to be described as universal. - Be on the lookout for varying perspectives. - Establish the authority that the doctrines of human rights have acquired. - Debate on whether such authority is deserved. - Delve into whether an universally acceptable package of human rights can be developed ...

The article titled “U.S. military doctors abetted prisoner abuse, study says” was written by Jane Sutton in the Chicago Tribune newspaper on November 04 2013. In the article, Sutton reports the findings of a study by the Task Force on Preserving Medical Professionalism in National Security Detention Centers which studied the conduct of US military doctors in the interrogation of detainees after the September 11 attacks.

The reporter states that military doctors violated medical ethics by collaborating with interrogators to harm prisoners after the September 11 attacks in a bid to force ...

The year is 1549, a Portuguese catholic priest, Francis Xavier arrives in Japan with the aim of introducing Christianity. He plans to establish a church in the Nagasaki area with his three Japanese Catholic converts. The local people are friendly at the initial stages. They actually embrace the new religion and some of them convert into Catholics. The authorities, under Oda Nobunaga, are also friendly to Xavier and his people. They are allowed to conduct their religious activities without any sanctions being placed on them. They also do not encounter any hostility from the leadership. There is a mistaken belief that ...

INTRODUCTION

The paper evaluates the various contexts within which the audience can read the play by Shakespeare and watch the film produced in this modern day, about a decade ago. Given that the two vary in the period of production, it is inevitable to have differences in the intrinsic and extrinsic contexts of the literary works. Some applications in the play could not be included in the film because of the technicalities involved in the production of films. At the same time, there may be some modifications to enable the audience receive the content of literary work in a better ...

Ancient humans are speaking animals according to Aristotle. In the 19th century intellectual ethical, g century people define themselves in terms of ability to communicate with each other. The intellectual, ethical, and political implication of the revisionary change is not sufficient. Once there was a critique in the dream of communication as a mutual communion of souls, genealogy of sources and scenes of pervasive sense that communication will breaks down. The aim of this essay is to trace the sources of modern ideas of communication to avoid the moral privilege and pathos of breakdown.

Deluze Mediators asserts that philosophers are ...

Friedlander, R. A., Levie, H. S., Musch, D. J., Alexander, Y., & Lovelace, D. C. (1979).Terrorism: Documents of international and local control. Dobbs Ferry, N.Y: Oceana Publications.

The main argument or topic in this source is the local and international control of terrorism. The author elaborates various ways in which terrorism can be controlled both at the domestic and international levels. The current strategies used to curb terrorism both at the local and international levels are well elaborated by the author. The authors develop their argument by linking their arguments and ideas on how various countries in various ...

Terrorism is one of the biggest Global threats. Terrorists are born out of communal discord, financial instability, oppressive governments etc. The Jehadi Terrorists are communal terrorists who fight for their own interpretation of Islam. The ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) is a Sunni extremist group, formerly known by the name of Al-Qaeda, renowned for its terrorist activities all over the globe.

The ISIS practices and propagates Jihad, a form or religious war against other religious and cultural states and uses extreme interpretations of the Qur’an as ...

The American history has come a long way since the fifteenth century to the twenty-first century. Across the protracted arc of the American history, there are various significant events that have shaped America. The history of the American nation is extremely rich and involves a number of events such as the revolutionary war, the ratification of the US constitution, the 1824 elections, the Jacksonian democracy, the 1812 war, the great depression, and the Second World War amongst others. However, three specific events; the American Revolution, the Great Depression and the Second World War, inexplicably determined the progression of America as a country. ...

When most people are asked to identify the reasons why a public support for an ongoing war changes, the media’s coverage usually comes on top of the list; yet most scholars neglect the influence of the media on war. The media has the ability to shape our outlook on almost every topic under the sun, this means that the general assumption that the support of a war depends on its cost and casualties alone is disfigured. Information on whether a war is being won or being lost is relayed through the media, also, are the reasons behind a war (Arraf, 2009). This ...

Frederick Douglass, born in Talbot County, Maryland, was a social reformer who escaped slavery to become the leader of the abolitionist movement. In his narrative, he describes his unhappy and troubled childhood as he experienced slavery firsthand (Gates, 328). He was raised up in the home of slave masters where he grew up seeing how cruel slavery was. Frederick Douglass’s mother was black and his father was white; of whom he did not know. Douglass was separated from her mother at a very tender age, a very common practice among the slave owners. Douglass believed that this was done so as ...

1. There were six victims killed – two females and four males (Bovsun, 2010).

One of the female victims was pregnant. Her door was unlocked and the perpetrator entered the house just as she was about to bring the garbage out. She was alone. The other female was babysitting an infant and had her son with her when all three of them were killed (Ramsland, 2012). The son was supposed to go to a friend’s house around the time of the killings. A male friend was in the house and also died. Both the female victims were sexually assaulted.

There are four crime scenes. One home was entered into by the perpetrator and ...

Amnesty International. (2013, Nov 14). Abolish the Death Penalty. Retrieved Nov 3, 2014, from http://www.amnesty.org/en/death-penalty This is an Amnesty International website, which comprises information about the practice of capital punishment across the world. With executions having increased by 15% in the year 2013 compared to the previous year, Amnesty International calls for a worldwide moratorium and subsequent abolition of the practice. This source gives a perspective into the issue, including statistics drawn from across the world as against just the United States. The information is both authoritative (since it is founded on solid research and evidence). The information on this ...