Compulsory sterilization

Henry Laughlin did not care for the mental patients’ rights and performed sterilization without their knowledge and consent. In this time period their belief “was on eugenics and looking to produce the best possible race”. Surgeon John Fulton performed a lobotomy on two chimpanzees, causing the usually moody animals to calm down.…

had created a place that “ women were tortured and exterminated.” Most women were “brutalized, experimented upon, forced into prostitution or compelled to undergo sterilization or abortion against their will.”(Groundbreaking study exhumes) People have reason to believe that the reason the Nazi’s did this was because there was no compulsory saying that they couldn’t. Many people vocalize that “the jewish experience was horrifically unspeakable.”( Groundbreaking study exhumes) It can be argued…

A decade ago in Nigeria, rumors spread that polio vaccines were surreptitious sterilization efforts. That led to a boycott of the vaccine in 2003 and a resurgence in the poliovirus three years later. This story highlights a key point about vaccinations: Confidence is critical. Lack of confidence in vaccinations -- lack of confidence in their effectiveness, their safety and their usefulness -- has fueled a growing debate about the use of vaccines. Vaccines have, no doubt, revolutionized…

National efforts after WWI to mobilize more civilians in war effort. Country’s had different methods but many included elements of gender, race, and ethnicity. Civilians are attempted to be controlled by a government using fear or a scape goat which single out a single or group relating to gender, race, or ethnicity. In the US social and cultural mobilization by the government was spurred by using fear and the astrocytes Germany committed in Belgium. The American mainland Homefront was never a…

Huntington’s Disease Huntington’s disease is a fatal genetic disease disorder that makes progressive breakdown of nerve cells in the brain. It literally deteriorates a person's physical and mental abilities, it has no cure. Huntington's disease is known as the quintessential family disease. People affected by this disease can have trouble walking and speaking. Huntington’s Disease was first discovered as an inherited disease in 1872. Huntington’s disease is a dominant gene. Since it is a…

As a writer, John Steinbeck was incredibly conscious of social issues of his time. He portrays these bits of social commentary through certain archetypes within his writing, one of his most famous being Of Mice And Men. The novel portrays the hardships that characters had to struggle through in the 1930’s, internally and externally. The most obvious character with an internal struggle is that of Lennie Smalls. Lennie Smalls as a character who stands as a sort of posterchild as to how the…

Since World War II that ended in 1965, more than two million migrants have entered Australia (Migrationheritage.nsw.gov.au, 2014). In 1947, the number of migrations was approximately 250,000 and in 2009 there was a rapid increase of migrants to approximately 450,000 (J. Shu et al- See Figure 1). Betts (2010) states that Australia has an ongoing referendum of individual’s attitudes towards the amount of migrants coming into the country. Although statistics show that majority of individuals…

Historically, Chinese parents preferred larger families; often parents gave special treatment to their sons over their daughters. Dodge and Suter explain that this preference is on the grounds that males are able to carry on the family name which is important due to the cultural traditions of paying respect to ancestors (17). Another study states that “only boys can continue the patrilineal family line, girl babies are seen as financial burdens” (Liisanantti and Beese). Ling acknowledges that…

substantial amount of poverty in the cities with people taking underpaying jobs and increasing their cost of living than people in the rural areas. This substantially left behind especially women, children and elderly for to survive in daily. Moreover, compulsory education system between urban and rural area causes the increase gap of poverty. Rural children are struggle to deteriorating buildings, poor materials and substandard education whereas urban student has full access to the state-of-the…

'solution' was based on negative eugenics which was used to decrease undesirables. Nazi Germany first introduced sterilization in 1933 which enabled 300 000 people who were seen as undesirable to be forcibly sterilized in order to preserve the pure blood line of Germany and decrease undesirables. This law was extended to include all prisoners and mental asylum patients furthermore a compulsory abortion up to six months should the mother or child did not meet the desired profile. Hitler then…