Right to die

illegal. It holds them back from the rights that were given to them from a long time ago. Meaning taking away the rights to adopt children from the person they choose to be with is discrimination. “So it was a potent marker of how fast laws and attitudes on gay rights issues have changed on Wednesday when civil rights lawyers filed lawsuits in federal court challenging the law”(Lewin). This quote is showing that even if there is laws that have the right that gay rights were allowing gay and…

but the government should have a limit; there is no reason why they should be saving all the data they encounter. The government should not be checking our phone calls or our credit cards bill this is a violation of the fourth amendment. The civil right was made to protect every individual from higher position abuse for example government, police, or even the president. Some surveillance may protect the state but the government should not be able to store this information with out the people…

simply expected to be loyal citizens of their countries by adhering to their nation’s laws and paying annual federal taxes. Moreover, this notion has remained constant even throughout our revolutionizing history and has made the opportunity of equal rights for everyone regardless of gender or race seem almost unattainable. In Nobodies: Does Slavery Still Exist? by John Bowe and Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela, both authors expose the brutal sufferings of select individuals’ everyday lives…

people with degrees in fields like nursing. The negative out comes from the last five years is the violence and not t up holding the rights of African Americans that has led to the death of innocent people and cause a uproar in African American neighborhoods. These problems are undeniably geared towards bounties of race and leak into not upholding the values of human rights, how this can be achieved is by enforcing the law that treats people equal and gives everyone the same…

In 1875 traveling along the railway was anything but luxurious and the food options were atrocious. Besides the fact that there were very few restaurants options near railway stops the food offered was often rancid and took so long to be served customers didn’t have time to eat it. These existing restaurants weren’t concerned about one-overing their customer because they would never see them again. Fred Harvey was one of the first to recognize this unmet need and he capitalized on it. Harvey…

Martin Luther King, a black civil right campaigner, gave an unforgettable speech called “I Have a Dream” on August 28, 1963, commemorating the centennial of Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation and urging President John F. Kennedy to pass civil rights bill. King’s purpose of giving this speech is to eliminate the inequality of treatment to black people, to express the necessities of eradicating racial inequality and to pursue the improvement of future changes. He adopted a dramatic tone in order…

One of the most controversial topics in today’s society is that should some sort of public service be required. Public service is “something that is done to help people rather than to make a profit” (Merriam-Webster). Public service is so controversial that three out of five Americans support the idea of public service being required. “Roughly three in five Republicans (58%), Democrats (61%), and Independents (58%) agree that some sort of public service should be required.”(Three in five…

many issues of black communities. Some of them were inequality, human rights, racism, but the most important issue was oppression. According to “A Black Pastor Looks at Black Theology,” by Roger Williams, black theology allows to go free if one is under limitations of their rights and abuse. In 1960s, religious beliefs became a tool that bounded people and gave them the strength to resist oppression and gain equal civil rights. As it was mentioned above, movement faded, so as a bond and beliefs…

The Harm Principle: And its Use in Society On Liberty by John Stuart Mill questions the power that can be placed by society over an individual (Bailey and Martin, 200). Mill identifies two different types of actions; self regarding actions, and other regarding actions. When a person is involved in self regarding actions (actions that only affect the individual doing the action), they should not be bothered by the government. Although, when an individual is involved in other regarding actions…

Lord of the Flies and The Philosophies of Jean-Jacques Rousseau Organized society is one of the oldest and most extensively studied aspects of human history. During the Enlightenment, the pinnacle of societal exploration, European philosophers were encouraged to question their beliefs and government, which eventually prompted each to form separate theories on how humans and society should interact. These ideas were about society and human nature, and are explored thoroughly in William Golding’s…