Berman v. Parker

is more evident among people of color and the poor who have limited access to legal resources and an adequate lawyer who will advocate on their behalf. Evidence of the death penalty disproportionately impacting people of color is apparent in Furman v Georgia…

his kingdom by defeating France in the war. Since Henry’s nation is at war with the French, their cultures and languages must also be at war. Similarly, Henry V is performed during Elizabeth I’s era to emphasize this cultural superiority of England and revive a similar national pride to that in Henry V. In his historical play, Henry V, Shakespeare juxtaposes Act 3 scene 3 at Harfleur, and Act 3 scene 4, the French scene with Katherine and Alice, as a means to revive national pride in England,…

Forty-five years ago, the Supreme Court made the decision to give women the right to choose to have an abortion in the landmark case Roe v. Wade. Nevertheless, the topic of abortion is still a sensitive and controversial one. Although many have tried to tackle the issue, there is still much debate over the premises in said arguments. In his essay, “Why Abortion is Immoral”, Don Marquis lays out a unique perspective against abortion. However, his argument is flawed because it does not consider…

Ron Paul once said, “We don’t have the freedom of speech to talk about the weather. We have the first amendment so we can say some very controversial things. Cheryl Churchill and Cindy Waters worked with each other at a local hospital in Illinois. Churchill made statements against Waters to a nurse interested in transferring to the obstetrics unit (CYNTHIA). Churchill was fired from her job due to her actions. Churchill took her case to court because she knew her conversation included public and…

While it is easy for one to give up on their goals and move on, one can truly show strength by conquering the various challenges on their way to success. Homer’s, The Odyssey, is able to depict how persistence can lead to fulfillment. Homer’s purpose in the epic poem The Odyssey is to show society that though there are setbacks in life, one can overcome them with perseverance by employing katabasis by emphasize the various struggles Odysseus faces. Homer utilizes katabasis initially to…

Rhetorical Analysis Paid family leave has become a more controversial subject over time, some say. According to Lisa Belkin, author of the article Paid Family Leave: Can We Change The Maternity And Paternity Leave Debates To Include Everyone, the United States have not fully addressed the need or want for paid maternity/ paternity leave or to take it one step further to include paid family leave. She states that many other countries such as “Sweden (480 days), Germany (365 days), Italy (90),…

-Judith Jarvis Thomson is a moral philosopher, who wrote A Defense of Abortion in1971. This piece of writing is still causing uproar even in the present time over the continuous argument of abortion. She is for abortion in the right circumstances, and in order to fight the people against her, she wrote this piece of writing. In this text, she states that a fetus is not a person and does not have the right to life, but in order to fight against objections towards her she agrees that a fetus is a…

Initially the Court was in agreement that the stop and subsequent arrest in the Terry case was appropriate on the basis of the “probable cause” standard. Barrett (1998) states, Chief Justice Warren had initially approached this decision on the basis that the stop in the Terry case was appropriate. It was Justice Brennan who eventually persuaded Chief Justice Warren to render a decision which put forth the new “reasonable suspicion” standard (Barrett, 1998, 793-821). If Chief Justice Warren…

American Dream. Thomas Jefferson clearly stated in the Declaration of Independence that everyone is granted the right to the pursuit of happiness. However this was not always the case, as evidence to the decision debilitating laws that preceded the Roe v. Wade ruling, which granted Jane Roe the choice to have an abortion, mothers were stripped of their right to the pursuit of happiness. If a woman becomes pregnant and she feels as if having the child would be devastating to her or she wouldn’t…

Judith Jarvis Thomson argues that abortion is justifiable due to the fact that in the early stages of pregnancy the unborn child is only a clump of cells and tissues. I, however will argue that Thomson’s views are inadequate due to simple life cycles and the false pretenses that an unborn child isn’t a real “person”. Thomson who, although has some very useable points from her paper “A Defense of Abortion” I still would have to disagree and stand firm in my position of anti-abortion. But we…