Desmond Tutu

3.9%. 722,762 votes (New York Times). That’s the difference between 749 California inmates being taken off death row and receiving life without parole, or staying on there and ultimately facing lethal injection (Death Row Inmates by State). The death penalty has been a controversial topic for decades, being taken away in 1972, reinstated in 1977, halted in 2006, and continued again in 2010 (Progressive Editorial Staff). This proposition causes voters to have very strong views about it, millions…

On October 2 1869, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in Porbandar, India. As his mother was devoted to religion, his lifestyle was heavily impacted on by teachings of mutual tolerance non-injury toward living things and the practise of vegetarianism, coming from the beliefs of Jainism. His father being Chief Minister of Porbandar, meant that Gandhi was fortunate enough to be born into a high caste of Indian society. Gandhi received a thorough education however proved to perform no better than…

Napoleon Beazley was 17 in April 1994 when he killed a 63-year-old businessman called John Luttig in an attempt to steal a car. He was convicted and sentenced to death on 28 May 2002 aged 25. So the question here arises whether it is ethical to murder a criminal? Does capital punishment serve justice? I firmly believe that capital punishment should be abrogated. Capital punishment is Immoral and has a hypocritical nature. Capital punishment has failed to deter crime. There is a superior, more…

“Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome.” ~Rosa Parks. The roots of racism have passed down through generations because parents force their children to follow racial traditions in order for them to continue those norms for future generations. In the novel, “The Help”, by Kathryn Stockett, racism and prejudice is a major theme. The plot of the novel follows a coloured maid and an educated white women in…

I PRAY TO HAVE MY DREAM FULFILLED........ My Lord, my days are numbered on earth, and I had not yet discovered who I am. I am yet to journey through my soul of self discovering and my time may be up. My Lord, I do not have long to live on this torrid earth. The world has become unbearable with pain that seek to penetrate my soul to the violent extent that my heart rips to pieces by the violence we are accustomed to, as a way of life now days. My Lord, I have a dream that You direct me to my…

Romans 12:9-21 seems to be a disconnected sequence of commands, but a closer examination reveals that these verses demonstrates what love looks like in the Christian life. Genuine love is the common thread that runs throughout this entire passage and where Paul fleshes out the love commandments of Jesus Christ. Before we dive deep into the passage, I first would ask that you pause for a moment and think about: What is Love? or What it looks like? Then I ask that you identify relationships where…

Considering the fact that it is extremely difficult to separate the concepts of gender, guilt, power and dignity in any given conflict, as they intertwine any inter-state, as well as intrastate outbreaks of violence, in this paper I will analyze the way how these four concepts permeate two, in my opinion, very similar conflicts – the conflict in South Africa and the conflict in Argentina, as well as the way how the four concepts intermix with each other and influence each other. In South…

The women’s movement goes so much further than treating a female as though she is no longer just a figment of someone’s sexual representation of her in one’s brain. To get to the point where we are in modern society has been a struggle. A struggle that so many strong men and women have worked towards; some never even getting the chance to see the fruit that had grown from the tree that they had planted. In present day, the definition of a women varies depending on who you talk to and what…

A neutral question is a question posed to a person with data collection by thestions allowing the person to answer in their own words based on the data collected. The speaker is supposed to teach the learner what he or she knows not based on their own views, but by what they actually know as a fact. Even though it seems to be level one curriculum, examining and writing a neutral question is more than just a yes or no question. For being biased on an opinionated question is almost impossible when…

As a society with law, order and justice, the people and authorities of this nation’s land should see that “Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends”(Tolkien)- as said in J.R.R’s “The Fellowship of the Ring”. Sentencing people to the death penalty for heinous crimes would be an easy route for criminals when compared to the everyday life in prison. In…