Acts of the Apostles

examines the ways in which the discrimination of the criminal justice system and general society against poor black and Latino boys pushes them towards future criminal involvement. In Chapter 5 Rios describes the criminal actions of these young men as acts of survival or of resistance against the system which oppresses them. In a system which immediately criminalizes them, the young men are unable to get jobs or educations. Without the education and learned cultural capital obtained for a higher…

significantly longer or could have even taken conflicts to resolve just like slavery did. The struggle for Women’s suffrage one such prolonged that contained numerous acts of civil disobedience. The fight to gain voting equality across the country lasted decades but was only fully achieved through a plethora of civil disobedience acts, most notably the heads of the National Women’s Party (NWP) becoming political prisoners over their actions and the national uproar causing president Woodrow…

people and politics as acts of manipulation. Alternatively, Shakespeare also presents politics as a manifestation of human values and beliefs inherent within people, demonstrating the absence of manipulation in this respect. In addition, Shakespeare himself was a master manipulator and the play as a…

these child soldiers becoming who they are because of the drugs. This author’s name is Scott Gates who wrote “Think Again: Child Soldiers” , in this article he wrote “It was often coerced children, and often high or drunk ones, who perpetrated the acts.” This meaning that the children did get “high” off the drugs and brainwashed from the…

difference in this sense. It is an act that is carried out by those motivated for what they view as something bigger in their eyes. There are various opinions and views on the acts of terrorism. Some are in understanding while others are in outrage and view this topic as solely one-sided. Regardless of ones opinion on the matter, it is important to understand all sides of what can motivate individuals on acts of terrorism as well as what could draw one away from acts of terrorism. Disengaging…

Personally, any acts of empathy can give me gratification and happiness, thus being advantageous to my self-interest. In the excerpt “Too Much Happiness” Weierstrass gains something that he has been seeking because of an empathetic act that was also virtuous to its recipient. Both of these examples demonstrate how a positive result for an individual can be achieved through unselfish acts rather than from a self-serving frame of…

that not only slavery being immoral and unjust, but rather the act of association with slavery. Countries purchasing from these areas that are using blood diamond workers are also committing immoral acts, that are contributing to slavery and acknowledging the use of slaves, therefore with their understanding of the use of slavery and not stopping and condoning such acts, their actions coincide with the acts of slavery. The first act that must be taken is to explain why slavery is immoral, even…

physical and mental. After reading Anthem by Ayn Rand, and “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnequt Jr. about the future world and the idea of Utopian societies one may see the similarities and ideas of a lot of Utopian societies. Both display acts of equalism, the act of committing transgressions, and superiors in society. Through reading both stories, without a doubt, one may see there are similarities. In each story the mindset of the characters is that not one man or woman is better or worse…

A person loses twenty dollars on the street, and another person picks it up for them. This may be seen as a simple act of kindness, but that twenty dollars could have been all the money that person had. In a way, the person who found the money is a hero for the person who lost the money, so their kind act becomes a heroic one. That person's kindness could be thought of as compassion because the sympathy they felt for the person who lost that dollar allowed them to pick up that dollar and return…

1. The first type of involuntary action Aristotle describes is those done under compulsion, where the individual is not in control of what is happening. In other words, external cause is the only factor that contributed to one’s actions. The latter type is involuntary actions done through ignorance. This is dependent on the degree of one’s ignorance; ignorance that isn’t one’s fault is considered excusable, and it does not include willful ignorance, ignorance of the law, and recklessness or…