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Is it right to “justifiably kill” people? This is the question that is commonly associated with euthanasia. However, the dilemma is much deeper than this simple question. There are two types of euthanasia, passive and active. Passive euthanasia is the process of allowing a patient to die on their own without medication or direct action…

The philosophies of W.E.B. Dubois and Washington are more different than alike. Washington and Dubois both preach about the uprising of the American Negro, what is the American Negro, –an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being…

Martin Luther King Jr. was a civil rights leader and activist. He was also a pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. He died on April 4, 1968. Martin Luther King Jr. tried to stop segregation and racism in…

Most people are still terrified that the world is still in danger when it comes to dealing with terrorists and terrorist threats. Today people make it seem as if we’re in harm’s way and that authorities are doing nothing to protect us. When it comes to 9/11 most of us that are in college now…

Boston King was born a slave sometime around 1760 on a plantation run by a man named Richard Waring in Charleston, South Carolina. He lived there with his father who had been taken from Africa when he was very young, and his mother who was a skilled nurse and seamstress. King was a house servant…

What is the Electoral College? The Electoral College is the current voting system in the country we live in. I think that this is not the best system we can have. If we only thought about it, we could do better, the Electoral College is a system of voting for important figures such as the…

Gary Watson presents a moral predicament currently in the social justice system, particularly relating to social injustice. On one hand, if the state unjustly treats the dispossessed, then this would undermine the justice of punishing criminals. On the other hand, if the state fails to convict and punish criminals among the dispossessed, then the peoples’…

17 year old Marty Tankleff woke up to a terrible sight on the first day of his senior year in high school. On September 7, 1988 he woke up to his mother bludgeoned to death and his father clinging to life in his office. From this day forward the Long Island teen’s life would change…

According to the United Nation’s World Population Prospects: 2017 Revision, the world’s population currently sits at around 7.6 billion people, with the Earth’s carrying capacity maxing out at 9-10 billion people, we are at the brink of overpopulation.(United Nation’s World Population Prospects, 2017) Many countries, including China, realize this and have taken steps individually to…

How would you feel if the police arrested kids all over our country to jail for just crossing the street the wrong way or pushing another kid on the playground? That is what is happening to many underage juvenile all over the United States; they are being sent to adult prisons for crimes that do…