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ISIL stands for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and is a terrorist organization founded in 1999 by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. The United Nations has held ISIL responsible for human rights abuses and war crimes along with ethnic cleansing on a historic level. To compare these two…

discrimination. One moral principle that was broken is the deontological theory because permitting Thomas Simons organs to only be donated to whites with the motive of racism is wrong. Another aspect of deontology or Kant’s ethics is the golden rule that states “do unto other as you would have them do unto you”. If Thomas Simons was black and a part of an anti-white discriminatory group would his family be able to request that his organs only be given to other blacks? Under the terms of…

The idea of the American dream has been present in the country since the early 1900s. Everyone knows the basic idea of it; everyone has come to the same definition of it. But it is still a diverse and universal concept for different individuals. What an American-born citizen thinks of the American dream may be very different to what an immigrant may think of it. Many question whether the American dream is still even possible due to today’s social problems. The dream is still possible. Some of us…

will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” This really goes to show that he really believes and is very hopeful that one day his kids and this nation will live in a fair and just society. A huge image put in our head was when he explained that, “[He had] a dream, one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boy's and white girls as sisters and…

poorer. In today’s legal system the government sets the wages for jobs like labors, Hammurabi’s Code did the same thing. This is impressive to see because even back then people understood that there needed to be a set wage for workers to make things fair. Another similarity is that when two people got married they had to sign a contract. Though today it is rare to have a couple sign a contract when they get married unless they are very rich. Under Hammurabi’s Code two people were not allowed to…

addressed equal protection of the laws, due-process of law, and citizenship . In section one of the 14th amendment it states “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States…

A private industry survey of 179 Fair Trade farmers from Central America and Mexico came to the conclusion that more than half of their families still go hungry for several months of each year. The wage of $1.55/lb leaves the farmer only 50¢/lb after the fees, taxes, and expenses. Antonio admits that without the higher wage provided by Fairtrade, he would be unable to continue to grow coffee but it still is not enough to keep him out of debt. The CEO of Transfair USA stated in response, “What…

The Grange Movement consisted of setting up communities of farmers to helping each other out and voting for state legislature that would be sympathetic to them. This movement failed which lead to the Farmers’ Alliance which again tried to have farmers cooperate with each to go against big business. These two movements lead to the rise of the populist party. The…

Exceptionalism, the idea that the United States and its citizens are superior to all other countries, is a driving force in American society today, which is both positive and negative. As foreshadowed in Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, the early poetry of Phyllis Wheatley, and the work of playwright Arthur Miller, the idea that America is better than other countries has developed and flourished to become a recurring theme in politics today. As Robert R. Tomes states in his essay American…

Writing in 1960 for Esquire, James Baldwin described the damage done by New York City’s racial segregation practices, particularly the desolation of the Riverton housing project. The state of housing segregation in Seattle today is a long way from the dire straits of black housing in Baldwin’s Harlem. Particularly striking, though, is Baldwin’s contrasting of the white, wealthy Fifth Avenue downtown and Fifth Avenue in Harlem. To some extent, this juxtaposition should feel familiar to Seattle’s…