Human Rights Watch

Government has been around for ages. Although there are many theories why government was first established, nevertheless we need government. We need government because of its beneficial purposes such as maintaining order, providing public services, and providing protection. Also through the film “Lord Of the Flies” we’ll see why we need government. One of the reasons we need government is because it maintains order. What this means is that the government makes the rules and keeps us…

It seems as whenever there is a discussion, debate, or civic civil discourse in a room full of people, the room temperature is higher than normal. It is not any coincidence. The temperature rises because of disagreements between bantering groups of people. These days, it seems as if almost every debate or conversation getsgrows heated due to the inability or unwillingness of participants to work together, leading to arrogant guffawing and judging making the environment impotent in disagreements…

Most of the time, foreigners are nice to people living in the country they are travelling to. This is because they allready expect to socialize with other cultures and other races from the moment they leave their country. However, how tolerant they are, actually depends on the culture they come from, wether is a conservative culture or an open minded one, and how used to they are to interacting with other cultures. In some cases, it depends on their beliefs, and how it is expected from them to…

Carly Fiorina “I’m in this race not just to hold an office, but to transform a nation,” remarked Barack Obama. This quote is used to show that Carly Fiorina doesn't just want to hold office, she wants to change this nation for the better. Mom and Dad, please vote for Carly Fiorina for president; she has a good background, great views on events of today, and her promises to this country are extraordinary. First, Carly’s background is very important for running in this race. Like the fact that…

I have said on multiple occasions that I pride myself on having a strong ethical base. I have thought of the phrase, “doing the right thing when no one is watching” as a measure of that claim. However, this class has me thinking how I determine what right and wrong is. Writing my code of ethics was not tremendously difficult, I feel I have a pretty good understanding of who I am and what is important. With that said, It has changed considerably over the last three years so it is interesting…

John Thomas Scopes, better known as the Scopes Monkey Trial. The State had passed the Butler act that made it unlawful to deny the Bible’s account of man’s origin while also banning the teaching of human evolution in public schools. It held the Bible to be of higher moral and religious value than Darwin’s theory and passed because the state’s legislature had been lobbied to pass laws against evolution. Here the state was acting as a censorship by denying…

Freedom of the press is a right that is protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution. It is essential to an effective democracy, in order to cast an educated vote people must be informed. Thomas Jefferson once said “Where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe.” How is freedom of the press defined? Most commonly freedom of the press is defined as the right to circulate opinions without government regulation. In the world today every person has the freedom to be a…

societies are usually more pluralistic. He speaks about good vs. right and setting aside the good in favour of the right(s); when separated from the good, the right resolves to rights in the plural. Rawls harks back to his Original Position, Veil of Ignorance, and Difference Principle. In Theory of Justice, Rawls confesses that he was proposing individual rights not only as a political principle to govern, but individuality as the meaning of human existence (Rawls, 15). Now, he's saying to…

were set (Hammurabi). Although Hammurabi’s codes punishments were much more violent and sever than the punishments set by western 21st society they have many things in common. Hammurabi and the modern western 21st century both had similar ideas of right and wrong. For example, in Hammurabi’s codes stealing was considered a crime and an immoral thing which stealing is also considered a crime in the modern times. This shows that although Hammurabi’s code was put in place in 1772 BCE,…

The social contract theory was created to go in accordance with a person’s moral and political obligations. The social contract was created to convict a person who broke their moral and or political contract (Social Contract theroy ). The social contact is based on the legitimacy of the government and the contract between said government and the people. In the United States of America people believe that the social contract is the constitution, but in reality there cannot be a contract if no…