Infanticide

Margaret Sanger was one of the most well-known, influential feminists in the twentieth century. She was born Margaret Louisa Higgings in Corning, New York in the fall of 1879 to Anne Purcell Higgins and Michael Hennessy Higgins. They did not have a midwife or doctor at the birth. Jean H. Baker states that Michael “eased her labor pains with his inimitable charm and a little whiskey from his flask” (1). They had eleven living children and went through seven miscarriages. Both did not believe in…

The debate over abortion rages on as one of the most controversial issues present today; individuals choose sides, labeling themselves as pro-choice or pro-life. Activists fight for what they believe on both sides, some fighting for more protection of women’s reproductive rights on the pro-choice side, others fighting for the limitation of the right to abortion on the pro-life side. Advocates and subsequently movements on both sides have fought each other since the first legislation on abortion…

Schindler Paragraph 6: Oskar Schindler is one of the most famous Jewish liberators in the Holocaust. He was forever immortalized through Academy Award winning movie, Schindler’s List. The movie truly paints him in a heroic light. Placed in the late 1930s-40s, Oskar Schindler was a Czech man that bought Rekord Ltd, a previously jewish owned business. With that business, he employed over 1000 jews from the Krakow ghetto. Later, numerous Jews of the ghetto were being liquidated to Camp Plaszow. In…

The rise and fall of an empire will depend on the mind and intentions behind the leader. In The Count of Monte Cristo- by Alexandre Dumas and “Viva La Vida”- by Coldplay, both the author and the songwriter use imagery and allusion to convey the idea that desire and excessive power can lead to the fall of an empire. In The Count of Monte Cristo, a man by the name of Villefort, is the Royalist son of a Bonapartist. Villefort slowly made his way up the social ladder, was a trusted Royalist, and…

no rights. However even without the religious component we as humans have generally valued life and abhor murder. We want humanity to continue and abortion would seem to impede population growth. But that is not the case. Even with abortions and infanticide the human population has managed to reach seven billion. The only way it will be reduced is if some catastrophe happens to occur in the future that changes the environment so drastically that humans are no longer able to survive on earth or a…

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) refers to the unforeseen and sudden death of a infant who is less than year with the autopsy, review of clinical history and death scene investigation failing to indicate any reasonable cause of death. Toddlers are often at the highest risk of SIDS when sleeping, and SIDS is sometimes known as cot or crib death (Hunt, 2007). The underlying cause of SIDS is a mystery although research has identified a number of characteristics and trends linked to the syndrome.…

The Viking Age was an era in European history during which the peoples of the Baltic and Scandinavia surged onto the world stage as pirates, raiders, traders, and fearless explorers. There are many controversies and theories as to why the Scandinavians chose, or were forced, to leave the far northern reaches of Europe. Various indications have suggested a possible population increase that correlates with available farming land, which in turn, connects to an increase of people looking to settle.…

Secondly, as mentioned previously, I argue that Glaucon and Adeimantus are responsible for the just city and Plato’s Socrates is not committed to the proposals he makes. One reason for this is that Roochnik (2003) disputes is that in books 2-7, we see a change from the question-and-answer style of discussion seen in book 1 to a speech-against-speech style of discussion. This style was prompted by Glaucon, who challenges Socrates to defend that his claim that a life of justice is better than one…

Tragedy is a form of drama, theorized to have been created as a tribute to the Greek god of theater: Dionysus. This form of drama was very popular in Ancient Greece, and was performed in theaters from the late 6th century BCE (Szemerényi 302). One of the most popular tragic playwrights of the time was Sophocles, who was known for his famous work, Antigone, a tragedy in which the main character suffers greatly after burying her brother against the king’s wishes (Ridgeway 141). This tragic play…

Over 200,000 years ago, when humans first entered this earth, to now, 2016, we have gone through an overwhelming amount of discrimination against race, gender, and sexuality. Jews were put in ovens and burned alive. African American slaves were whipped and beaten senseless after spending endless hours doing slave work and obeying their owners’ demands. Gays and homosexuals were tormented and told that they can not marry the love of their life because it is “not right” and it is not what the…