Strict scrutiny

According to a strict reading of JS Mill’s Harm Principle, the State does not have the authority to criminalize Latimer for the murder of his disabled daughter because anything that has consent is perfectly legal and cannot be criminalized such as euthanasia and physician-assisted…

Kosher, Halal and Vegetarian are each food groups or classifications that have played significant roles in three unique religions. Each having a controlling effect on the practicing religious community it relates to. The link between religious belief and the regulations on specific foods continues to be a divisive issue. Over time the demands of religious or spiritualist groups on the range of acceptable food has both created and divided communities. With some sighting that such restrictions are…

In the Mock Supreme Court, I had the role of being a Justice, which made it my job to give the final judging in all cases involving laws of Congress, and the Constitution. I worked on the case Fisher v. University of Texas, rooting back to 1977 when Texas legislation made a law that required the University of Texas give admission to all high school seniors who positioned in the top ten percent of their class. When discovering the lack of diversity in the their college 's undergraduates and state…

The parent should first identify what is causing the violent behavior, which could be from multiple sources. Televised material, in general, should be under scrutiny. The influence that televised media as well as the Internet, in general, has dominated our society in a sense. We are influenced to need the nicest and newest things while violence is happening everywhere. Violent video games are no exception, but…

Poetry is a form of art. It is used to convey emotion. There are over fifty types of poetry. Epic, Haiku, Cinquain, Ballad, Sonnet, Limerick, Verse Drama, Elegy Cento, and Ode are just a few of them. Poetry has also changed over the years. “Epic of Gilgamesh” is one of the earliest poetic works. It dates back to 2000 B.C. and was a tradition of the Sumerians. The ancient Greeks were also known for epic poetry that dates back as early as 1200 B.C. and A.D. 455. Homer and Hesiod were two of the…

“The Lottery” is a fictional account of a group of villagers who out of tradition conduct a yearly ceremony to determine at random who among them will be ritually sacrificed. The villagers have come to believe that the continuation of this tradition will result in good fortune, as such every year “The Lottery” is conducted at the end of June in the belief that the success of the corn harvest to follow in the coming weeks will be ensured by their ceremony. With little desire to even make minor…

Government Control Brave New World, a novel written by Aldous Huxley, is a satirization of an all-powerful government and a portrayal of how new technologies could be used to alter facts. A similar novel is 1984 by George Orwell where the reader is shown the physical and psychological effects of totalitarianism and brutal political authority. Both author’s books were written after Stalin’s Soviet Union (USSR) began, and Huxley and Orwell heard of the cruelty happening in the fifteen countries…

Colleges always face a lot of scrutiny when it comes to how they are run. In recent years, the First Amendment has come into play on campuses across the nation. Many articles have been written defending both for and against restrictions, defending the use of trigger warnings in class, and explaining what this controversy is really about. While the colleges themselves have the power to choose what they do, they must consider what experience they want to provide for their students. What is Free…

Body cameras on law enforcement officers has become a common practice for many organizations in the past few years. Much of this attention is due in part to the many issues between police and the community. Most of the attention is placed on issues that help to bring in new ideas where technology is used to counter or act on claims of neglect between police and community. Changes in technology and the lack of change in laws for the use of technology have produced serious issues between what is…

However, concerns over incidences where they harm innocent civilian, infringe international law and have political and moral consequences are factors that need further scrutiny for the success of the war against terror that the international coalition forces are conducting. This paper showed that the use of lethal force by any given state can legally allowed either during an armed conflict, while observing the principles…