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Where does life truly begin? This is a controversial question that varies in its answer. Abortion is the ending of a life by taking out the embryo or fetus before it can survive outside the uterus. Some people believe that a child’s life begins at a zygote, and others believe that it’s not wrong to…

What is controversy? Without looking at a dictionary, I, by heart, can honestly define it as having many sides or taking a stance on something with more than one stance without being sympathetic to the other side or not taking the other sides arguments into account. Political correctness for instance is controversial, although not the…

Developments in the Law: Employment Discrimination and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Harvard Law Review , Vol. 84, No. 5 (Mar. , 1971), pp. 1109-1316 This booked is written by Harvard Law. The Review discuss what the Civil Rights Act of 1964 entails and discuss and why Title VII was a…

George Bierson’s ‘Pot, the Deceptive Drug’, was produced and edited by the Massachusetts News. In this article, Bierson presumes that “pot” is hurtful from numerous points of view, including mind harm, harm to the conceptive framework, and debilitating of the insusceptible framework (Bierson). I believe that marijuana is a gateway drug to harder drug abuse….

“Hands up! Don’t Shoot!”, shouted thousands of demonstrators marching through the streets of Ferguson, Missouri just days after the controversial police killing of African-American teen Michael Brown. Ever since the Ferguson Protests, “Hands Up! Don’t Shoot!” has become a rally cry for what has become the Black Lives Matter movement, a group whose goal is…

Japan is a chain of islands located in the Pacific Ocean with a population of 127,185,332 people. This island nation is the forefront of technology, especially in Tokyo, which is also the largest city in Japan. There are four main islands that are called Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu. Most of Japan’s population lives on…

On January 31, 2019, Mr. James Forman, Jr., professor at Yale Law School and former public defender gave a brief overview of his book: Locking up our own: Crime and punishment in black America. In doing so, he spoke about being a public defender in Washington, DC as well as the mass incarcerations of African…

The catastrophic attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001 have made it all too obvious that wars do not have to be declared and threats do not have to be unconcealed. It is brutally apparent that there is a wide spectrum of possible threats to the U.S. homeland that…

The t-shirts used in the Clothesline Project are made to show that effects of violence are very prevalent in our society. Each t-shirt hung in the project is decorated by a victim, family member of a victim, or a friend of a victim who has experienced some form of violence in their life. Every shirt…

Gender roles are basically defined as socially constructed roles that society considers proper to men and women. Gender role plays a big role in this story and in the Greek society as well. The play, “Antigone”, determines that Haimon and Antigone challenge gender roles while Ismene perpetuates. Haimon stands up for woman and condractics societal…