Amish

coercion from family members or friends; with threats of violence, verbal abuse and of being disowned from the family. Arranged marriage is different from forced marriage as it is completely legal and consent is given by both parties. Religions such as Amish, Hindus, Muslims and Jews believe and practice forced marriage, which is completely fine. However, if one party does not agree to the marriage then it becomes a forced marriage. (C2013C00152), which has been updated and is now referred to…

Department of Human Resources of Oregon v. Smith. These were two very influential cases involving the Free Exercise Clause. Both times the Court had indicated that no exemption exists. First, in Yoder, the case in which the Court had exempted Amish children from Wisconsin’s compulsory education law, the Court stated that “[t]his case, of course, is not one in which any harm to the physical or mental health of the child or to the public safety, peace, order, or welfare has been…

may live dormant for years in a nonsystematic person, then mutate to infect an unvaccinated child or adult. This virus still exists in countries like Pakistan where in 2015 there have been 30 cases already reported. In May of 2014, one unvaccinated Amish missionary traveled to the Philippines and got infected with measles. This resulted in 195 cases of measles in Ohio (Belluz). In 2000 the federal government declared measles eliminated, but in 2014 there were a record of 644 cases of measles…

The manifest destiny of television technology is real-time viewing of all the places the audience is not. It is the ideal glance into the neighbor’s kitchen window, or through the bedroom door. The entertainment corporations found a way to make televised life commerce, so now it rules the airwaves. Reality-based television is not novel, of course. Allen Funt, with his 1948 TV series Candid Camera is often recognized as reality TV’s first specialist. He actually started a year earlier with Candid…

James Howard Kunstler’s The Long Emergency is the stuff of suburban nightmare. As someone who has lived her entire life in the comforts and trappings of suburbia, the events that have been laid out in this text have raised several levels of alarm inside myself. Many suburbanites schlep their reusable bags into their hybrid or flex-fuel vehicles and regularly run their several mile journey to the grocery store multiple times a week. In the absence of fossil fuels, not only would this trip for…

The Effect of Religion on the Emigration Journey of German to Wisconsin in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries and Parallels with Modern Migration [Document subtitle] Emigration was not uncommon in European history, and many citizens did emigrate to other countries for various reasons, but for many this was not an easy journey. One factor that greatly influenced the emigration process in the late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century was an immigrants’ religion. Many European…

Keep Us Healthy Recently there has been a bunch of controversy going around the news and social media about how vaccinations are useless, can cause diseases, and death. There are certain circumstances where this can happen, but it is very rare. As of the 2014 school year, all the states in the United States of America required each child, attending the school, to be immunized with certain vaccines. These certain vaccines protect against: tetanus, measles, rubella, diphtheria, and polio. I can…

For as long as diseases and viruses have been around, people have been looking for a cure for sickness. Society has yet to develop cures for everything, but there are plenty of preventative methods, which can help keep the body healthy. The most viable preclusion is vaccination, which is an injection that helps produce antibodies and better immunize the body. Vaccines have been around since 1798, when the smallpox vaccine was developed by Edward Jenner. Despite how helpful vaccines are, many…

Make some hot chocolate, turn on the Christmas lights and curl up with your young child to enjoy some wonderful winter and Christmas books this holiday season. Reading Olive the Other Reindeer, by Vivian Walsh and J. Otto Seibold, could become a Christmas tradition for parents with young children. Olive is a dog who suddenly thinks she might really be a reindeer after misunderstanding the lyrics of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer." She travels to the North Pole to help Santa and even "flies"…

Pros Vs. Cons of Vaccinations for Children A lot of times multiple vaccines are given together, which makes it hard to detect which vaccine gave the patient a reaction.What your body receives from natural exposure to infections compared to artificial, temporary, usually inferior immunity vaccines are never 100% protective (Mercola). Parents should do more research on the vaccinations they give their children because there is vaccines that are more harmful than beneficial. Vaccines can save lives…