Infanticide

The debate on what makes a person the same person from day to day, birth to death, has still not been concluded. There is both disagreement on whether continuity of identity is even possible for a person’s whole existence and on how one can define this. Is it the continuity of their psychology (being their personality, thought processes etc.), or is it the continuity of their physical body? Could it be something else entirely? In this essay I will set out to analyse the arguments for each of…

n Canada and the United States, the citizens believe that the crime rate is climbing and continues to climb. On the other hand, the crime rate is decreasing and has been since the 1900 's.Since Citizens believe it is climbing than why is it actually decreasing? History seems to have the answers many early criminologists came up with theories that explained crime rate falling and increasing. Many researchers have also conducted studies that explain why the crime rate has fallen. Those reasons are…

In 1979, two thirds of the population were under 30 years old, and the baby boomers of the 1950s and 1960s were starting to have children of their own. In the same year, to combat the rapidly growing population, the Chinese government imposed a policy in which couples were allowed to have only one child. This policy was enforced by forced abortions, sterilizations, and fines to families with two or more children. Confucian patriarchal tradition has been very influential to Chinese custom and…

(a) Status of women During the British Rule: After the fall of the Mughal Empire at the decisive Battle of Plassey (1775 A.D) the British people established their complete political supremacy over the Indian people. During the British rule, a number of changes were made in the economic and social structures of our society. Though the quality of life of women during this period remained more or less the same, some substantial progress was achieved in eliminating inequalities between men and women…

In discussion of abortion, a controversial issue has been whether abortion is moral or immoral. This issue is important because it affects thousands of people a year. On one hand, abortion is considered immoral because it can be seen as murder. On the other hand, others argue it is not murder and it is no one’s business, but the mother’s. In this paper, I will argue that abortion is morally justified and is in no way murder. I will begin by introducing three accounts of abortion. One view is…

Sir Thomas More’s titular nation of Utopia has come to colloquially express a society free of conflict. A “Utopia” is that place where there are (virtually or literally) no poor, no class struggles, no crimes, etc. More’s Utopia, as described through the recollection of the landless traveler/philosopher Raphael Hythloday, achieves these ends primarily through its commonplace “laws,” i.e., its distributed model of property. Jonathan Swift’s scathing satire “A Modest Proposal…” sardonically…

reader closer to Grenouille We read how he is a devoted apprentice to both Grimal and Baldini even though they are selfish and used him for their own benefits. · Innocent compared to others/ loyal to the people that he worked to/ obedient Infanticide Patrik suskind’s choice of Grenouille's characteristics on Perfume made him successful on making the reader root for Grenouille despite his immoral…

Hylobates lar Stephen Estrada Hylobates lar otherwise known as the lar gibbon is a species of gibbon belonging to the hylobates genus. Despite the unique anatomy of the lar gibbon and the current conservation status of the species, there has been little research into the behaviors and social structures of gibbon populations. In this paper an attempt shall be made at consolidating what research there is to provide an in-depth look at the lar gibbon, both from a biological and behavioral…

Mental Health Issues in Criminal Justice Megan Urbanski PSCI: 130 American Legal System April 29, 2018 Mentally inmates have recently become a higher population within the criminal justice system. While many prisons and jails have begun to teach their staff members how to handle this special population, there are still changes that need to be made in order to properly understand this special population of inmates. With the closing of state hospitals, mentally ill individuals have begun to get…

The concept of cosleeping has quickly become a controversial topic, debated by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and professionals from all different fields of academia. As many papers on this subject state, cosleeping is a controversial topic that is rooted many different aspects of life, making it nearly impossible to designate a “yes” or “no” answer to if one should cosleep. While studies have shown an association between Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and cosleeping, there is no…