Sodomy

“Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road," said Voltaire. Throughout Americas history persecution was a norm. Human rights and civil rights were protested by a array of people because they were mistreated due to their own personal beliefs. America’s government and Americas citizens have officially discriminated a variety of other American citizens. These citizens were mistreated in their own society…

Americans have come a long way throughout the late 20th century and today. It was only in 2003 that sexual activity between two mutual adults was officially legalized in the United States. The landmark Supreme Court case, Lawrence vs. Texas struck down “sodomy” laws in Texas and in other thirteen states. The outcome of this landmark case was the pinnacle point for LGBT activists. However, there were additional discriminatory laws that gay rights advocates wanted to confront such as the right…

Gray, lived a very controversial lifestyle during the Victorian Era. In the 1840s, police had often looked the other way regarding cases of homosexuality until homosexuality laws became much stricter (Adut 214). In 1895, Wilde was put on trial for sodomy; in his trial, the controversial contents of The Picture of Dorian Gray were used as evidence against him. He was found guilty and served the maximum sentence for his crime–two years in prison (Adut 238). But, even before his trial, Wilde’s…

History The death penalty has been used as a penalty for disobeying the law since the 18th century B.C., in the Code of King Hammurabi of Babylon. The Hammurabi Code included the death penalty for more than 20 different crimes. Since then, most countries have adopted the death penalty at some point. The integration of the death penalty in the United States was largely influenced from Britain, as Britain had a major history of capital punishment. In 1612, Thomas Gale, the Virginia governor at the…

As of this writing, there have been a total of one-hundred twelve Justices of the United States Supreme Court. It is recognized as the highest legal body in the land, and as such, the Justices of this Court are all extremely well respected. All members of this hallowed institution have rightly earned the designation as significant legal scholars. The notion has been put forward that Justice Antonin Scalia is the most significant member of the Court in United States history. This is an…

Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, who is also known as Sandro Botticelli, was born in 1445 in Florence, Italy. He is one of the greatest painters of the Florentine Renaissance. Botticelli’s name was coined from his older brother Giovanni, who was called Botticello, which means Little Barrel. His brother took care of him for the most part when he was younger. His father was a tanner, and Sandro was apprenticed to a goldsmith by his father. However, Botticelli preferred painting, so he was…

Imagine being handcuffed, to demonstrate a magic trick, by a man you thought you trusted and in a blink of an eye his intentions change and you end up with a rope around your throat. This was what John Wayne Gacy did to his many victims. John Wayne Gacy seemed to be a respected business man with many friends in high places, but his life would be an open book after his last murder of a boy by the name of Robert Piest. Wounded by his childhood, Gacy was taught to hide unusual yearning for the…

use of spells, and felt that the more independent women were, the less they had to depend on the Church and therefore the men themselves (Ehrenreich, English 5). Men, more specifically priests often thought that witches gained their power through sodomy and intercourse with the Devil. Factors such as this made it dangerous to practice the Craft in the 16th…

Democracy. It is the basis of the American government today. According to the Cambridge Dictionary, democracy is defined as “the belief in freedom and equality between people, or a system of government based on this belief, in which power is either held by elected representatives or directly by the people themselves.” Using this definition, the United States corresponds to the first of the two versions. It is a democratic republic, which means that instead of the people doing all the…

MARITAL RAPE IN INDIA INTRODUCTION Marital Rape refers to unwanted intercourse by a man with his wife obtained by force, threat of force, or physical violence, or when she is unable to give consent. Marital rape could be by the use of force only, a battering rape or a sadistic/obsessive rape. It is a non-consensual act of violent perversion by a husband against the wife where she is physically and sexually abused. The United Nations Population Fund estimates that more than two-thirds of…