A Defense of Abortion

1. With the results of the 2016 Presidential election fresh in our minds, many Americans are contemplating about how their personal dreams will survive the next 4 years. My American Dream is for equality, humanity, education and freedom to survive and thrive in America. We as a country have come far in evaluation of these issues, but there is still work to be done before these dreams can become a reality. 2. One facet of my American Dream is that there is equality of gender. The United States…

The right to privacy is a complex issue due to its lack of definition in the Constitution. There is no direct Amendment that spells out what privacy is to be expected. The most important case for setting the standards of privacy Griswold v. Connecticut explored this problem. In this case Justice Douglass listed the origins of the right to privacy from coming from the First, Third, Fourth, Fifth and Ninth Amendments and the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Justice Douglass stated…

We Shall Overcome! If you had to choose a friend, would you choose a brutally honest person or a person who is a habitual liar? What about if you had to choose a leader for this country? Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are the running candidates for this year's presidential election. Donald Trump, a caring, brutally honest, multi-millionaire, and successful businessman has done so many great things for people around the world and he can make America great again. He has done nothing but…

The progressive-era was a social change that provided a little more freedom for woman in New York City. Although, women were still expected to uphold their image of innocence. Meanwhile society continued to be shaped by gender and sexuality. The people of the State of New York against Max Krakauer was a formula of the same elements, which also were the same elements of crime. This particular crime, seduction. The analysis on seduction sheds light on the legal and social history of sexual…

Violence and the Creation of Virtues Violence is defined as “behavior involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something” (Definition, Violence). Violence can come in multiple forms such as physical, sexual, emotional, psychological, spiritual, and cultural violence, verbal and financial abuse, and neglect. Violence, abuse, and neglect each have an aspect of intended damage, whether it be physical or emotional. Whether someone interprets their actions as…

Klux Klan in Mississippi (Smith, 2014). Other more militant organizations, such as the Black Panther Party, also formed. The Panthers advocated for self-defense of African-American communities and political opposition to the U.S. government by “any means necessary.” In fact, the party’s original name was the Black Panther Party for Self Defense. Despite the generally negative perceptions surrounding the Black Panthers, the organization brought attention to police brutality and established…

Produced in the early 1980’s, when communication tools that were created for the Department of Defense were put into the market by companies concentrating on revenue; cellular phones, turned out to be an instant success. Being under tremendous pressure the governmental regulatory organizations; in particular the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), consented to cell phones being put on the market without pre-market testing. Therefore, cellular phones were freed from any sort of regulatory…

Throughout the course of this semester, our political parties course covered a variety of topics. Additionally, the class took part in numerous polls, including our individual political affiliation. One finding that I particularly found interesting was that no one in the class really identified themselves as a true independent. Even though some students were more drawn to one party or the other, several students also identified themselves as weakly tied to their specific party. In class, we…

Blau defines ideology as “a relatively coherent system of ideas about human nature, institutional arrangements, and social processes held by individuals and groups in society” (2014, p. 135). In other words, ideology is how a person sees his or her perfect world, or their worldview. When thinking about a worldview, there are many places that this can come from such as, “common sense, interpretations of daily experiences, and elaborate intellectual doctrines,” and can be influenced by…

postulate that the twentieth century enabled progressive changes that began to transgress outdated historical ideals, which favoured women’s autonomy through the implementation “wage labour, urbanization, contraception, and access to birth control and abortion (Vance,…