Essays on Unjust

In Tom Regan's article “The Case for Animal Rights,” he makes the case for the rights of animals on the basis of equal treatment of all living things that possess inherent value. He argues that morality should be centered on the equal treatment of all living entities, rather than the reduction of suffering and the amplification of pleasure. Consequently, Regan's involvement in the animal rights movement is based on three issues: the elimination of all commercial forms of animal testing, animal agriculture and animal hunting. Ultimately, Regan's argument stands as a sound defense for animal rights on the grounds ...

The death sentence is not only unjust but also unethical. I, therefore, believe that it should be abolished. The death sentence is against the human rights, and this makes it be an immoral way of sentencing people. I believe that any administration across the world should abolish death sentence as a form of capital punishment. Capital punishment is the infliction of deaths for capital crimes such as murder, rape and even crime (Theroux& Krasemann, 2014). This form of punishment is just like the eye for an eye sentiment, which is also unjust and immoral. Sentencing people by murdering them ...

Does the Theory of the Tripartite Soul Give Us Good Reason to be Just?

Introduction The well-known philosopher of Ancient Greece, Plato, presented the theory of the tripartite soul. However, the ideas, which consider the components of the soul to depend on the social system or have an impact on the human behavior, can as well belong to another genius of the same time, Socrates. Plato and Socrates, as two of the most prominent minds of the ancient times, questioned the features of the human personality under the terms of the natural instincts and the characteristics, which all people get with birth. In fact, all the thoughts of these two masters stand on ...

The Mendelsohn elements, in theory, include portal quest, immersive, intrusion and liminal that helps in classifying the antagonists in the ‘Alice in Wonderland’ and ‘The Midsummer Night's Dream.' The protagonists and antagonists from both pieces of fantasy literature have various character traits that are similar and different. Fantasy literature has been used to refer to an imaginary universe that uses magic as well as other supernatural elements. Therefore, the authors have created the characters according to imaginary creatures to fit the overall genre of the story. In most fantasy literature stories, there is a happy ending for the protagonist ...

Background

Part 1 Question 1. The four facts that can help in explaining the advantages of workplace diversity are a variety of viewpoints, language skills, positive reputation, and increased creativity. These facts would ensure the management understands the need to accept workplace diversity as a necessity rather than an option. Question 4. Demographic shifts that indicate American workplace is becoming more diverse are dramatic growth in the role of women in the labour force and the leadership positions, 40% of the Americans would leave the workforce by 2025, 92% of the American population growth come from the ethnic groups, and ...

The qualities of leadership that make one individual a great leader and another individual an ineffective one are not absolutely fixed. Depending on the time in question, the situation and the person who is leading, the qualities that an individual will need to have as a leader in order to be effective can vary significantly. At the same time, it can be useful to examine those qualities in historical leaders of the past so as to glean whatever lessons are possible from their approach and their accomplishments. The following will consider the leadership qualities of Moses, Martin Luther, Pres. ...

It is traditionally thought that the primary function of law is to regulate people’s behavior and, thus, to establish order within a community. Law and fear of punishment are supposed to prevent people from criminal activity. Therefore, law and law enforcement are essential components of any civil society. At the same time, morality can also perform the function of regulating people’s behavior. Besides, very often morality is named a predecessor to law since many laws were made on the basis of certain moral principles which the society thought necessary to follow. And even though morality does not ...

Article Review

In her 2014 article entitled “What are health disparities and health equity? We need to be clear” for the bi-monthly, peer-reviewed journal Public Health Reports, Dr. Paula Brackman discusses the need for the healthcare sector to come to agreement on the meaning of health disparity and health equity. According to Brackman, a clear definition for both phrases is necessary for a number of reasons. First, clear definitions will facilitate a better development of healthcare objectives and targets, prioritizing and allocating resources, and evaluating progress in achieving healthcare goals. More specifically, clear definition of health disparity will allow healthcare officials ...

Introduction

One topic of great debate today is the amount of student debt being accrued by college students that, whether, they graduate or not, who leave college with debts from several thousand dollars to hundreds of thousands of dollars. These debts are, most often, federally owned. Student loan debt cannot be eliminated with a bankruptcy and can only be forgiven if the borrower were to die. At least that is how it has always been. However, there are today may people who feel that student debt should be forgiven by the government under of number of applicable circumstances. There are ...

Before arriving at the final definition of Justice, in Book I and II, Plato argues, against the other participants in the discussion, that paying debts and speaking the truth is not enough to define justice (90). Indeed, he defends that justice is more useful than anything else (92. After agreeing that Justice is wisdom and virtue, and that injustice is a vice and ignorance (121), he continues to explain that the state cannot be exercise unless it is done with justice (122). He says that justice is a virtue of the soul, and on the contrary, injustice a defect ...

The topic of Piety has been best discussed and covered by Plato in the dialogue between Socrates and Euthyphro. The two speakers engage in a verbal discussion on the applicability as well as the meaning of the word Piety. This essay will start out with a brief overview of the dialogue and will proceed to critically examine the concepts discussed between Euthyphro and Socrates. Lastly, the essay would also briefly discuss Plato’s view from my own viewpoint, while also examining my own notions of Piety.

Overview

The story starts out as a dialogue between Plato and Euthyphro. While Plato ...

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Differences between a Regulatory Agency and a Professional Nursing Organization The main distinction between a regulatory entity like the Board of Nursing (BON) and a Professional Nursing Organization (PNO) is that the first one regulates, develops legislation, deals with licensures and monitors professional nurses at all levels, while the second represents the rights of nurses. The central aim of BON is to safeguard the rights of the patients (NCSBN, 2016). A PNO has a goal to advocate for nurses and it usually consists of a group of nurses that unite aiming at educating, sharing, and fostering the elaboration of ...

ABSTRACT

Capital punishment is the most serious sentence that can be assigned to any criminal offender. Capital punishment, or the death penalty, is one of the most controversial, social, ethical and legal topics of debate in the modern era. Many American states allow the death penalty and others do not. There are many people who are opposed to the death penalty claiming it is morally, ethically questionable and unjust. At the same time, there are many who fully support the death penalty, at least in the severest of cases; like murder. That said, finding common ground between the two antithetical ...

Introduction

Socrates is considered one of the greatest philosophers in the history of Western Europe. Virtually every person that goes through the education system must come across his name, his works, or his demise story. Greek official had previously put Socrates in jail for the charges of ‘corrupting the mind' of the Athens' youth. In the eyes of the wealthy and the influential, Socrates was making a fool of them by empowering the young people with new information about the society and its leadership among other things. When put to jail, he was scheduled for death in a few days, ...

Keywords: Complaint handling, Customer loyalty, Service failure, Service recovery, Transparency

Introduction

One of the primary goals of business organizations is to provide effective customer service to ensure that they retain their existing customers and attract new customers to the business. Retaining the existing customers shows customer loyalty. Achieving customer loyalty is critical to the success of organizations because it helps them to maintain their share of the market. However, the imperfect nature of organizations means that service failures occur at times, and this has a negative effect on customer loyalty. Service failure refers to the occurrence of errors in the ...

In the 4th Century BC, Aristotle clearly stated that for a government to have an effective constitution, it must have in place three basic elements. These are a public assembly, various officers of the state and lastly a judicial department. One of the most famous quotes of John Adams is ‘power must never be trusted without a check’. This may be said to mean that in instances that an individual or an institution which is tasked with the authority to rule over a people should never be given the absolute authority to have the absolute authority. Institutions checking on ...

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“At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is worst”—Aristotle The above statement made by Aristotle emphasizes the significance of law and justice in not only maintaining order, but also help to affirm the nobility and distinction of human beings. In Thrasymachus’s account of justice, the philosopher presents his argument that different individuals and different states perceive the concept of justice differently. For the purposes of this essay, I will be focusing on 377a and 344e, while paying special attention to 338d-339a, 338a-339d, and 343b-344c. ...

In 1960, a group of students called the “Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee” (SNCC) began to organize sit-ins with black students who would walk into restaurants throughout the south and sit in places designated for “whites only.” This stirred up a debate between Malcolm X and James Baldwin, who both played a prominent role in the history of the fight against the nation’s racial inequality that led to the Civil Rights Movement. Each of the men had some interesting, valid, and unique perspectives on their thoughts about the sit-ins that were occurring across the south that resulted in the ...

What kind of vision does MLK offer in the letter from Birmingham jail? A positive one to strive for or a negative one to avoid? In his letter, Martin Luther King’s vision seems to be a negative one to avoid. He provides the recipients of the letter with a realistic view of what the circumstance of blacks actually is and what the effects of discrimination and segregation has caused. He ensures that the reader is aware of why he is taking action and why it is important for others to do the same. He consistently admonishes the reader ...

The moral point of view refers to people’s perspective on an issue based on whether the issue is deemed morally applaudable or morally right or wrong. So it involves the resolutions or laws created based on a larger perspective about what is right or wrong, one that affects or impacts more than merely one person, and therefore doesn’t take a person’s self-interest into account. The point of view can be identified by two characteristics: a best practice of deferring to reason; in other words, the resolutions should be the outcome of thoughtful sound reasoning, rather than ...

The letter of Martin Luther King is a reaction to the condemnation of him and his followers for a protest in Birmingham, Alabama. This condemnation was published in the newspaper, brought to King into prison where he was put for the violation of a court ban on the Birmingham rallies, marches, and pickets, issued on the 10th of April during protests of blacks (held from April 3). Languishing in his prison cell, King produced one of the most remarkable documents in the history of American thought. The number of local white priests who were friendly to King’s long-term ...

The letter by Martin Luther King, “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.” targets the white ministers in the city of Birmingham. King writes this letter to the 8 white ministers who criticized his actions as a clergy in a statement which was published in the newspaper, after he violated the law of the city and had to be jailed. The purpose of the letter is to address issues in the city which subjects African American towards injustices and segregation. The author seeks to address the plight of the Negroes who have suffered under the whites for a long time (Fahey ...

The line between matters such as good and evil, just and unjust codes and Pandects is a thin one, and these matters have become highly controversial over the years . The laws governing different countries and religion have also been in conflict over the years. One reason for these controversies is that all countries have more than one religion practiced by the citizens of the country in question. The law of God justifies that which is holy, righteous and just. According to Hobbes, the law by the government is absolute and individuals have a moral obligation to abide by these ...

Introduction.

The famous philosophers such as Polemarchus, Thrasymachus and Socrates occasionally met together to discuss such important matters concerning life. The subject concerning the exercise of justice and the consequences of being just or unjust is the subject matter of one such discussion as shown in this paper. The core values that accompany being just or unjust, such as happiness and sadness respectively. The self-justification involved when we do something that is unjust and yet continue in the same line and end up being the tyrants that we know today. How sure are we that we are making the right ...

The letter from Birmingham was written by Martin Luther King Jr. as a response to the religious leaders who criticized him for taking part in anti-segregation movements. King claimed that it was not like him to easily respond to detractors, because doing so would consume all his time which would otherwise be used for productive purposes. However, he thought that it was best to answer the criticism thrown at him by the clergies. His message in his letter from Birmingham may be thought of as his way of defending of himself from his detractors, yet a closer analysis would ...

View of Justice

Thrasymachus believes that there is no justice in the society. He gives an allegory of a shepherd; why a shepherd looks after the cattle to ensure that they are fat. It is not that the shepherd cares about the cattle, but he does so for purposes of the masters and the people who eat meat. In the same vein, he argues that justice means differed things to different individuals. The perfect example of an unjust person to Thrasymachus is the tyrant because he uses “by stealth and force takes away what belongs to others, both what is sacred and ...

Introduction and Thesis Statement

St. Aquinas believes that way is sinful and waging war is unjust. He argues that “those who take to sword will die by the sword.” According to him, war is a detriment of peace and therefore a sinful endeavor. However, St. Augustine explains the validity and the justifiability of war. He believes that war, to some extent, is just and necessary (White 269). However, for a war to be just, it has to follow three conditions. A just was must that that has been sanctioned by the highest authority. It will be unjust to wage war at a personal ...

Philosophy

Compare Views: Obligations of the Citizen

In his ‘letter from Birmingham Jail”, Martin Luther King wrote to eight white clergymen, addressing their disapproval over his nonviolent protests against racial inequality. Martin Luther King answered the charges of him being an outsider, by claiming that anything that happened anywhere in the United States affected everyone else, and that no one was an ‘outsider in the United States. King further addresses the clergymen’s opposition to the black demonstrations. King’s central idea regarding the obligations of the citizen is that it is the duty of the citizen to oppose all ...

The novella by Von Kleist, titled “Michael Kohlhaas” was first published in 1810. In the book, the man Kohlhaas who was a horse merchant at the time is subjected towards a number of injustices by the government. His horses are taken away from him, and his wife is beaten and succumbs to her injuries. Attempts by Kohlhaas to use the legal system to get him justice are futile since he is dealing with politicians who are powerful in the state. He later resolves to violence in which he terrorizes the Junker together with an army he had managed to ...

Glaucon is depicted in Book II of “The Republic” (Plato) as a philosopher concerned with the value of justice. He wishes to decide if it is worth being a just person just for the sake of justice. He argues that there is no reason to prevent a person from behaving in an unjust manner if that person can get away with it – in other words if someone can reap the rewards of wrong behavior, but not deal with the consequences of their actions. The Man without a Face (1993) tells us of a McLeod, a man who was involved ...

The movie “The Man without a Face” is an American film produced by Mel Gibson in 1993. The central theme that the film intends to address is prejudice, the kind of relationship that exists between teacher and the student. In addition, it also looks at the motive of deception. Gibson represents these by his cast of Chuck Norstad, who is a young boy whose mother has unstable marriage life. The situation leads to some tension between the boy and his family prompting him to look for companionship elsewhere. He lands herself to a friend whose face is damaged. The ...

Fugitive Slave Act was a couple of federal legislations that allowed for the incarceration and return of runaway fugitives within the territory of the US. Initially, the Congress enacted the Fugitive Slave Act in 1793 that empowered the local governments to capture and return the slaves who have escaped from their owners and impose penalties to people who aided the escape of the slaves. The extensive resistance to the 1973 legislation later spurred the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850.The new law further complicated issues by imposing harsher punishments for the people who were interfering with the ...

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Capitan Vere’s Struggle 4 Capitan Vere’s Just Action 6 Capitan Vere’s Biblical Implications: Sacrifice to Save Many 9 Capitan Vere’s Biblical Implications: Actions and Consequences 9 Conclusion 10 Works Cited 12 Captain Vere’s Choice In Herman Melville’s exceptional novel Billy Bud, Captain Vere is forced to execute the charismatic Billy Bud, a character who accidentally kills a naval officer that accuses him of mutiny. Many readers hold that Captain Vere is unjust in this action towards Billy, as the evil naval officer, Claggart, provoked him. This latter character untruthfully accuses Billy Bud of ...

Mernissi, a Muslim woman who grew up in the Middle East in a traditional Muslim harem, with women and other children, compares the “Western harem” to be much worse than the restrictions of the Eastern harem. What she calls the Western harem, is the standard of beauty in the West that is so restrictive to women’s sense of self. The author compares the Western standard of beauty as a very oppressive problem for women, much more damaging than anything she has experienced in her native country. The argument from her perspective is that the Western version of men ...

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Abstract

The article “Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon: An unjust system, how should individuals act?” by Siba Harb is in the context of Lebanon and highlights about the exploitation of the domestic workers who work for Lebanese families. There are 200,000 people who are currently employed by Lebanese families; these people belong to the poor countries like the Philippines and Sri Lanka, and they are able to stay in Lebanon on a work visa. These people are mistreated by the recruitment agents in their home countries, and once they are in Lebanon, they are again mistreated in ...

NCAA Governance

NCAA athletes should be paid to protect these student-athletes from being exploited by the universities to profit from commercial enterprises. The present set-up of NCAA is that it has three divisions namely, Division I, Division II, and Division III. Under NCAA rules, Division I and Division II universities and schools are allowed to offer scholarships to the student-athletes for playing a sport. For Division III, the universities or schools are prohibited to offer any athletic scholarships to the student-athletes under this category. Currently, the NCAA has prohibited the student-athletes to receive payment in whatever form for their athletic skills ...

The Tempest by William Shakespeare is interestingly simple yet complex in its own way. It has the complete recipe that categorizes it as a true Shakesperian play written during his time, with its magical theme as opposed to what ‘s real, the conflict between a father and his dhild, or between the old and the new, and the most apparent struggle for power. The play, with its constant reference to power and culture, appears to be an elucidation on European colonization. There were so much indication in the text, such as the arrival of Prospero and his daughter, Miranda, ...

Introduction

Karen Warren coined the term “Ecofeminism” in explaining the logic of domination where the notion of people’s control over nature as a whole is wrong and for the same reason that the subordination of women to the will of men is also wrong. According to argument, feminists should object to the idea domination because subordination of women and domination over nature both represents the logic of domination. On the other hand, the asserted claim of twin domination encompasses several issues. In this discussion, Warren’s logic of domination and the concept of ecofeminism will be examined by explaining ...

The character of Bartleby is the most interesting narrative from the narrator of Bartleby the Scrivener. The narrator describes Bartleby as “one of those beings of whom nothing is ascertainable, except from the original sources, and, in his case, those were very small”. It is important to note that before describing Bartley, the narrator first describes other characters working in the law office. The description of the first scrivener is that of Turkey who the narrator describes as excellent in the morning but poor in the afternoon. The narrator also describes Nippers as ambitious and whose character is directly ...

Our society has regulations and policies that govern the activities that we do. Some of these activities need approval before venturing into them such as law, medicine and pharmacy. Drivers, doctors, lawyers and psychologists conduct activities which might harm human beings and hence need to be subjected to scrutiny procedures which test their proficiency before being allowed to venture into them. The safety of the human beings cannot be compromised by the acute inconveniences that it might cause from the denying of such individuals the license to chase their dream. In order to be granted the opportunity to run ...

Henry David Thoreau and Dr. Martin Luther King are two people who helped to change America for the better with their actions and their words. Henry David Thoreau, in both is writing and in his social practice, developed a new form for citizenship and civic action called Civil Disobedience. He developed Civil Disobedience in response to his government’s support of slavery, but also its support for the Mexican-American War. Over the years, many great leaders of important social movements, both within and without America, have been inspired by the example of the life and social practice Henry David ...

1. The Brown v. Board decision handed down by the US Supreme Court sped up, and catalyzed the incipient civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s (McBride). Thus, under the “equal protection” clause of the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution, desegregation was ruled constitutionally illegal (McBride). Since segregation of public schools along black and white color lines had been an acceptable aspect of southern Jim Crow laws, it was an acceptable practice to educate blacks and whites in separate but “equal” educational facilities (McBride). However, in Brown v. Board, the Supreme Court ruled with strong conviction, using ...

There are many events and problems faced by Americans in late seventy’s and early eighteen’s. Few of those issues led the Americans to the revolution in late eighteenth century. Many authors presented the revolutionary story of Americans. One of those authors is Jeff Wallenfeldt, who wrote this book to highlight the issues of that era when Americans faced various problems to due to the British. The main issues discussed in this book are related to unjust taxation in which Congress noticed taxation without representation. Then British related the other one to the intervention in colonial affairs. It ...

Introduction

Over the decades, the United States of America has been an egalitarian human society that has dedicated its resources to the eradication of women inequality and racism (Katz & Moore, 2004). Besides, it has formulated numerous legislations to push for equality for women, emancipation of slaves, and civil rights movements that aimed to promote equal treatments of the American Society (Katz & Moore, 2004). Despite these tremendous steps, racism and gender discrimination in the workplace still continues to be prevalent. In particular, women and minority groups like African-American have been the main target of this discrimination. The discrimination takes various forms ...

Symbolic interaction emphasizes the constructed and negotiated aspect of self and social life. As a result it draws attention away from analyses of the structural and institutional features of society. How can some of the key concept (there are at least 10, work with 5) in this framework be used to explore stratification systems and relations of domination and the subordination they sustain. Stratification is based upon the arrangement of groups in social hierarchy which can remain over generations due to the presence of inequality. It includes division of groups according to the caste system, on the basis of ...

Martin Luther King’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail remains one of the most famous essays written by Dr. King, and demonstrates his mastery of rhetoric as well as ethics. Dr. Martin Luther King penned the letter while in jail for protesting segregation and Jim Crow laws in the South, and for equality and over all civil rights for African Americans in the rest of the United States. King has always been considered the most important of the civil rights leaders of that period, and the eloquence and his masterful use of rhetoric and other persuasive techniques on display ...

The basic most concept of morality taught to people revolves around the dictum that human life is sacred, and it has great value. This is the very reason death comes as a shock to people, chiefly because life is a gift and it is cherished by every soul. Throughout the history of mankind, people have killed and have been killed over various disputes. The death penalty has been a major form of punishment given to people in order to penalize them rightly for their crime. The executions were carried out in various forms where torture, beheading at the gallows, ...

Throughout history, prison and the extent of punishment has always been an issue that is debated among nations because it is always critical to assess whether the punishment does in fact fit the crime. There are varying scholarly opinions as to whether prison is the effective punishment in many cases. Particularly in prior eras, prison could be a simple offense or extreme and a man could be imprisoned regardless of whether they were innocent or guilty without a fair trial. Particularly to avoid this, the United States designed its constitutional framework in order to avoid unjust imprisonment that was ...

Determining What is Good

A day before his execution, Socrates is visited in prison by his friend Crito to try and convince him to escape. Crito tells Socrates that if he is executed people will think that Crito could have helped Socrates if he was willing to give money but he did not care. Crito says that people will think he values money more than a friend’s life since no one will believe he tried to convince Socrates to escape, and he refused. Socrates tells Critos that the opinions of many people do not matter. Socrates says that the only the only ...

Q. 1 Dr. King counters the “outside agitator” viewpoint held by the Birmingham clergy by claiming that the affiliates in Birmingham had asked him as well as his staff to engage in a non-violent direct action program if people would appreciate it. According to King, he and his people lived up to their promises. Besides, he distances himself as an outside agitator by claiming that injustice was not only affecting the people of Birmingham, but also people in other cities. Therefore, through organizational ties, he had to help the inhabitants of Birmingham to secure a working solution. Q. 2 ...

The existence of hell is a claim that conservative Christians (and other religions) assert to instill the notion that sinners would languish from eternal fire and be punished for all the immoral acts that that they have committed. In reality, the existence of hell remains questionable as several arguments about the evil and the eternal fire are inconsistent and lacks clear evidence to prove such. Even theologians and religious people continue to debate on the existence of evil and hell because of the contradictions on the notion of God’s true attributes. Although opposing views state that hell is ...

Most countries in Africa fought hard for their independence just like Algeria did. Many countries from the West came and took control of almost all African soil. A large percentage of Africa lost sovereignty and total control of their natural resources due to imperialism. The colonizers benefited from taking control of natural resources, and they believed that it was a necessity to colonize and civilize Africans. Many African nations rebelled against colonial rule since they were on the losing end. Algeria is the largest country in Africa, and it was colonized by France. The movie ‘Battle of Algeria’ is ...

Ethical problem

Stacy (2012) reviewed a case study of an irreversible case of pneumococcal pneumonia who had become mechanical ventilator support dependent. The male patient had decided to be removed from the ventilator and allowed to die with full knowledge of his irreversible condition and the eventual death that will come upon him after all life-maintaining support were removed. Although the family did not agree on the removal of the life-support treatment, they acceded to the wish of their father and approved the gradual removal of the ventilator referred to as terminal weaning. This case, unlike most controversial cases that leads ...

Financial crisis is not a new word in today's economy. The world's economy has consistently been a victim of the financial crisis, and these cases will continue to happen. The global financial crisis in 2008 relates to the 1930's great depression that nearly brought down the economy of the United States. The actors in the financial sector have grown big and are becoming uncontrollable. These financial institutions have now become tough to monitor and control. Government and central banks have a duty of controlling commercial structures through proper supervision and regulation of financial market (Flannery 275). Due to the ...

Most families today are dual-earner, as many women have entered the workforce, either because of financial needs, or because of their wish to pursue a career and to be financially independent. While the gender gap is closing on the labour market, at home, the patriarchal ideology is reaffirmed by means of the division of household chores. Whereas men had to assume a share of the household chores, in most families, women continue to perform most of the chores which have been traditionally assigned to them. The purpose of this paper is to analyse how the current gender division of ...

Argumentative Essay: Capital Punishment

Introduction Capital punishment is one of the most controversial topics pertaining to criminal punishment. For many years, this issue has been debated, yet until today, no conclusive position has been reached especially in the United States. Discussing the issue of capital punishment is important primarily because people are divided on whether capital punishment should be imposed or abolished. Furthermore, capital punishment raises an ethical dilemma that needs to be resolved since it is crucial in achieving a just justice system. This paper would like to argue that capital punishment is a just form of punishment.

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Abstract

The paper explores what hardships black American women are facing in their pursuit of happiness. Though the time of slavery has passed, people still suffer enslavement. In modern world it is some sort of “spiritual enslavement”. Women try to survive in spite of all the obstacles they meet in their life path. It is hard to live in the hostile surroundings where people still judge you for the colour of skin. More difficult is to stay in constant fear of being abused or raped by your own husband. The story that may seem invented or exaggerated is actually the ...

Question on Chapter 6

In chapter 6, Okin argues that the private/public dichotomy should be abolished so that there is no division of roles and responsibilities between men and women in the society. She asserts that there should be a fair distribution of benefits and burdens concerning family responsibilities, which denies women equality and justice in the society. Okin argues that in the society people refuses to perceive division of labor between sexes as unchangeable and natural and define gender as a social construction. Okin suggests that until the notion of tying family to its gender structure is successfully challenged, and recognizing and ...

The need for changes to the situation of African Americans in the last half of the twentieth century is evident in Letter from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King, Jr. With 1963 as its original publication year, the document encompassed King’s ideologies on the use of civil disobedience to combat segregation and other racial injustices against the black populace in the United States. Apparently, King and his followers sought to achieve the Civil Rights of the African Americans through peaceful protests; however, rather than listen to the complaining masses, racist whites insisted that the protests defied law and ...

The value and respect that citizens have in observing an established government of society is a tradition that has been established for centuries. The puzzling question about government is that it is important to ask where this respect to be a law abiding citizen actually comes from? Historically, there have been many texts throughout the ages that debate the citizen versus the government and how the government claims its inherit right to nurture, control, and aide the citizen. One of the literary works that has been a constant reference throughout the ages of how the citizen is obligated to ...