Dispensation

Good morning, noble gentlemen of the legislature of Kentucky, allow me to introduce myself. I am the Obdurate Planter, but you can call me Adam Harrison. I am from the Jackson Purchase region and I grew up in tidewater Virginia on my father’s 5,000 acre plantation. Throughout my childhood, I was surrounded by slaves and my father’s wealth and success depended on slavery. After college, I met and became engaged to a nice young woman from good family. She had never seen a slave before, so when I…

In The Once and Future Liberal, Mark Lilla addresses the failures of American liberalism over two generations. Despite the prominence of democrats in the White House along with notable policy influence, the vision of small government and the self-reliant individual introduced by Reagan has continued to dominate political ideology for nearly forty years. In response the Democratic Party has failed to present a competing generalized vision of their own. Hinted at by the books title Lilla argues…

The facts of the case the Speculean Explorers is that there were five cave explorers which got trapped inside a cave due to a landslide and they had only scant provisions. Therefore, to stay alive they decided to play a dice game and whoever lose, will have to sacrifice himself. In The Case of the Speluncean Explorers, Justice Foster has put forward his argument in favour of the accused and has put forward his arguments on two independent grounds in support of his views that the law does not…

1.2. Training of hospital staff and the creation of specific health care waste agencies A need for ongoing training within establishments was reported for personnel that deal with health care waste and are particularly involved in the segregating of health care risk waste from general waste. A solution proposed for encouraging role players to be more diligent in their health care waste management was that of a professional body from which members can be expelled should they be found guilty of…

I can’t breathe by Matt Taibbi is an account of the arrest and death of Eric Garner on a New York side walk in July of 2014. His death at the hands of all white policemen has galvanized his community and has called into question why so black men may have been killed at the hands of the police. 1In Ferguson, Missouri in 2014 Michael Brown likewise was killed by police in an arrest attempt. 2 Unfortunately the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown are not new. Black men born in 2001 have a one…

Physician Assisted Suicide: Death With Dignity or Legal Murder? I. Introduction Physician assisted suicide, since its legalization in the Netherlands in the early 2000’s, has spawned a heated debate on whether or not a patient afflicted with an exceedingly serious, terminal illness has the right to die. This controversial question has led many experts and researchers, to publish their own opinions on the divisive topic of PSA, including Mary Louanne Friend, author of “Physician Assisted Suicide:…

teachings of the leaders of their faith, and found it at variance with their limited understanding, they arose to perpetrate such unseemly acts.... Consider Moses! Armed with the rod of celestial dominion, adorned with the white hand of Divine knowledge, and proceeding from the Paran of the love of God, and wielding the serpent of power and everlasting majesty, He shone forth from the Sinai of light upon the world. He summoned all the peoples and kindreds of the earth to the kingdom of eternity,…

What comes to mind when you think of the Crusades? Probably something like how they were a series of wars and how it was fought between two different religions, namely Christianity and Islam. This essay is going to mainly focus on the religious part of that. A lot of people are starting to think that, maybe, the Crusades were caused by something other than religion, but I don’t think this is the case. The Crusades were primarily caused by religious devotion because of prestigious religious…

Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, and survived goes the saying that King Henry VIII is most famous for. There’s also another fact that no one really knows. Stated by Benson and Stock, “Henry VIII became the first English King in the Tudor family” (Benson and Stock). Although having no prior training of kingly duties and inheriting a distraught and unmotivated country, King Henry VIII’s rule of England has gone through countless reforms and through his popularity and inspiration,…

cognitive conduct such as, the pre-existing socio-cultural and economic factors all determines and affect our model and framework of reasoning. By this, the present reality which are the prevailing societal factors such as trends, policies, global dispensation and culture in general. According to the Australian association of social worker (2010), “Social…