Human Rights Watch

The legal system of America exists for resolving disputes, maintaining order, and protecting various liberties and rights from violations or unreasonable intrusions by persons, organizations, or government. In Jonathan Harr’s A Civil Action, the formal moments of the Woburn case show how, in many cases, the legal system fails to promote justice, truth seeking, and fairness. First and foremost, the adversarial nature of American law, specifically in civil cases, prevent the discovery of the…

The Anger of the Dispossessed by John Phillips and Martin Evans is a fascinating example of Algeria’s recent and very wounded history, demonstrating how the expectancy of independence turned into outrage as Algerians grew progressively isolated. Algeria was in need of a new leadership so many turned to and the rising Islamist movement for this search for guidance and leadership. They were hung up on being unemployed and the tired of the treacherous military regime. The authors are mainly…

Plato and Machiavelli looked into what is best for people and a government structure that can bring to a better society, happiness, and wealth for everyone. Both Plato and Machiavelli focused on a civil society that would work to secure the rule of law and protecting individual’s freedoms, as well as stability as a whole. They agreed that a government or a ruler would have to work for conditions that will bring prosperity of his citizens and a pleasing and satisfactory way of living.These two…

makes it clear that he does not think of him as his equal. Rather then seeing Ward as an equal, Rodman mostly just pities the old man. He calls Ward a “helpless creature” (379) and only sees him as an equal because he was a soldier but not equal as a human being. The same thing happens with Miss Ward. Rodman pities her and talks to her in condescending manner. He thinks very little of her and does not regard her as an equal but merely for what she is – a woman. The only artwork he has in his…

Pro-life and Pro-choice Debate Abortion plays on the heart strings of all who are involved. Both side of the arguments are arguing for human life, one side for the mother and the other for the unborn child. Values play the biggest role in these arguments, and each argument can be circular based on people’s values. These sides use many different transcendence arguments for their movement. Both sides use quantity, quality, value, hierarchy, and antithesis to convince people to support their side…

oppressed, have a sacred ideal to life. These two thoughts will definitely cause strife, on the grounds that a sacred right to life must, by expansion, involve some essential responsibility for an individual’s body, and the body of a slave in America's "particular…

America and its people have relied on lethal injection, the electric chair, and hanging to teach criminals a lesson. The governmental process of putting criminals on death row and having them sit and wait until the day they die just does not sound right. The death penalty is not effective in any way because it does not teach people anything. In my opinion, the government makes itself seem like the bad guy because if one were to kill another and then get put on death row, it is as if the…

So how does an accident make anyone responsible for a pregnancy? As Valerie Tarico states in "I am proabortion, not just prochoice: 10 reasons why we must support the procedure and the choice", humans and contraception are not perfect. About 1 in 11 women still get pregnant although the use of contraception and 1 in 6 people engaging in sex result in pregnancy. Probably the best argument for pro abortion is rape and incest. One does not choose…

I believe the government’s role related to moral issues is to establish laws to protect the rights of those affected by the issue. Today, ethical issues in health care often escalate to a political matter due to the difference of moral values, as well as the unjust treatment of those affected by the issue. The legalization of abortion most likely…

When it comes to human rights, the issue of cultural relativism is widely discussed. Majority of the human rights literature encompasses the western and non-western argument on the right to deny service. As a result of these debates, comes the discussion of cultural relativism. Cultural relativism, at first glance, seems like quite a reasonable argument towards safeguarding different cultural groups. However when we begin to analyze the cultural relativism theory, we come to find that it is not…