Townshend Acts

Personally, any acts of empathy can give me gratification and happiness, thus being advantageous to my self-interest. In the excerpt “Too Much Happiness” Weierstrass gains something that he has been seeking because of an empathetic act that was also virtuous to its recipient. Both of these examples demonstrate how a positive result for an individual can be achieved through unselfish acts rather than from a self-serving frame of…

that not only slavery being immoral and unjust, but rather the act of association with slavery. Countries purchasing from these areas that are using blood diamond workers are also committing immoral acts, that are contributing to slavery and acknowledging the use of slaves, therefore with their understanding of the use of slavery and not stopping and condoning such acts, their actions coincide with the acts of slavery. The first act that must be taken is to explain why slavery is immoral, even…

physical and mental. After reading Anthem by Ayn Rand, and “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnequt Jr. about the future world and the idea of Utopian societies one may see the similarities and ideas of a lot of Utopian societies. Both display acts of equalism, the act of committing transgressions, and superiors in society. Through reading both stories, without a doubt, one may see there are similarities. In each story the mindset of the characters is that not one man or woman is better or worse…

President of the United States during this time kept the White House well stocked with bootleg liquor even though when he was a Senator, he had voted for Prohibition. The Volstead Act was legislation to carry out the 18th Amendment. The Senators and Congressman who voted for a “dry country” are violating the Volstead Act persistently. In fact, many many of these Congressmen and Senators appeared in a drunken condition in the halls and corridors of Congress. Corruption infested the government…

In January 1920, the Eighteenth Amendment became law, banning the manufacture, transportation, importation, and sale of intoxicating liquors in the United States. Known as Prohibition, the amendment was the culmination of more than a century of attempts to remove alcohol from society by various temperance organizations. Many large cities and states actually went dry in 1918. Americans could no longer legally drink or buy alcohol. The people who illegally made, imported, or sold alcohol during…

Back in 1925, the school board had a law (Butler Act) that evolution (the process by which different kinds of living organisms are thought to have developed and diversified from earlier forms during the history of the earth) or any theory of creation other than the biblical Creation could not be taught in public schools. This law was targeted at English scientist Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, which was that human had ascended from apes. Some people did not agree with this law but others…

1. The first type of involuntary action Aristotle describes is those done under compulsion, where the individual is not in control of what is happening. In other words, external cause is the only factor that contributed to one’s actions. The latter type is involuntary actions done through ignorance. This is dependent on the degree of one’s ignorance; ignorance that isn’t one’s fault is considered excusable, and it does not include willful ignorance, ignorance of the law, and recklessness or…

I can remember this dreadful experience like it was yesterday… it was March 22, 1765. The Stamp act was passed by the British parliament. It was exposed to all the American Colonist, including me. It caused every colonist to pay taxes on every piece of printed paper they needed and used. Such as ship’s papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, and other publications. You even get taxed for playing cards. After the French and Indian war, the British government had many depts. The war had…

The Stamp Act, passed in 1765, was the first British Act enacted that directly affected the colonists. This act placed a mandate on all paper goods. Colonists were required to buy and place stamps on all paper products including playing cards, wills, and contracts. Since this was affecting the colonists directly, their response was notable. Sam Adams, a colonial rebel, formed a group called Sons of Liberty. The Sons of Liberty rebelled against British policies, fought taxation and protected the…

former benefited at the expense of the latter. Furthermore, the Declaratory Act of 1766 was passed to establish complete British political dominance over the Thirteen Colonies, which the Patriots weren’t exactly happy about since they were accustomed to the unusual amounts of freedom they enjoyed while living under salutary neglect.…