Our society and the society from The Giver have a mass amount of differences, but they still have a minimal amount of similarities. For example, the societies both have jobs that support the communities/economy, but this does not mean that they are even close to the same. The GIver’s society has their jobs decided for […]
Harriet Tubman is an immensely interesting and brave person. No one knows exactly knows when she was born, but they think she was born in about 1820. She was born in Dorchester County in Maryland. She was born into slavery with her 8 brothers and sister. Although her family was separated and they were all […]
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Get startedIn the short story, “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe, an unnamed narrator has committed a murder to a man that had an “eye of a vulture”. He does not say why he killed him, other than that the man’s eye bothered him. Throughout the story there are many instances where the readers question […]
The Stanford Prison Experiment was part of a hands on experiment that Phillip Zimbardo wanted to conduct. This experiment sheds some light on how the prison system is, how prisoners feel, and how they deal with emotions. The goal however of the Stanford experiment was to see what happens when good people are placed in […]
At the end of 2016, an average of 2.2 million people were incarcerated in the United States. That’s 2.2 million people waking up on the same hard bed, eating the same old disgusting food, and having to live through the same routine every single day. The condition of a jail cell can tell a lot […]
Should people be held accountable? Of course they should! Let’s start with the Police. It is estimated “As of 2013 a survey of nearly 500 police departments nationwide utilize body worn cameras, 88 percent of Americans supported the use of body-worn cameras” (Pearce, Matt). Historically, A police worn cameras is a small body camera that […]
Sex workers have been around for a long time and always been looked down upon. Many people have disagreements on prostitution but they all are around the same reasonings: immortality. Beside the questionable moral aspect of prostitution, there are many benefits to legalizing sex workers. People tend to forget that along with other things that […]
There is no doubt that Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech is iconic to all Americans. However, did Dr. King’s speech have a profound impact on race relations fifty-six years later? Race relations have not gotten better since Dr. King delivered his memorable speech to a massive group of civil rights marchers gathered […]
The book To Kill a Mockingbird was written by Harper Lee in the year 1960. When people have no laws to follow, mass corruption and chaos run wild. In the book, To Kill a Mockingbird, the law is a major theme in the book. It shows how lawlessness can determine the life and future of […]
Classical School The classical school of criminal theory is very different, from its counterpart the school known as the positivist school of criminal theory. Classical school of criminal theory was formed around the earlier 1700’s and there were not any laws to follow what so ever, so whatever crime that were committed they decided your […]
Sociology is a big part of criminology, as we know sociology is the study of social groups, race, class etc, well those same concepts apply to criminology within those who get caught, prosecuted and incarcerated, as well as what happens to them after they serve their sentence in prison. Edwin Sutherland played a huge role […]
What is a hate crime? By definition a hate crime is, “A crime motivated by racial, sexual, or other prejudices, typically one involving violence,” In other words, someone commits a violent crime against another simply because they do not like the color of their skin, their sexual orientation, their religion, or their political views. It’s […]
“My consuming lust was to experience their bodies. I viewed them as objects, as strangers. It is hard for me to believe a human being could have done what i’ve done” (Jeffrey Dahmer, “These Bone Chilling Quotes From History’s Worst Serial Killers Will Keep You Awake At Night.”). Jeffrey Dahmer is one of the most […]
Nature or Nurture? What exactly is it that makes a serial killer? Are these people born to kill, or is it the twists and turns of their lives, that leads a person, like Jeffery Dahmer, to drug, kidnap, rape, kill, dismember, and at times cannibalize, 17 men over a course of 13 years? Do they […]
Eleanor Louis Cowell birthed Theodore (Ted) Robert Cowell in Burlington, Vermont on November 24th, 1946. Due to Eleanor’s religious beliefs, she had given her son to her parents in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Ted’s real father is unknown. Eleanor married Johnny Bundy and Ted was given his last name to deter from the fact that he was […]
Every 7 hours in the United States an individual life is taken by a police officer. Police brutality is defined as an aggressive overuse of power given to them as a status of a police officer. A 395 pound 6’2-foot man named Eric Garner was held in an illegal chokehold by officer Justin D’Amico. Eric […]
In our current climate due to the police’s actions, they have earned a bad reputations. Some of their actions are beating up innocent civilians, not following laws, and how times have changed. Now people are scared of the police because of what they have done and now civilians do not feel safe whenever they are […]
Have you ever witnessed or know someone who has suffered of police brutality? People would never think that the men and women that are supposed to protect us are the ones abusing their power. Police brutality occurs when police officers use excessive or unnecessary force when dealing in certain situations with civilians. There are many […]
Have police changed from one decade to the next? Police brutality has only changed in the way the abuse is viewed, but not in the way that it is committed or the motivation behind it. In the Martin Luther King era, there was acceptable police brutality in which African American citizens were blatantly assaulted, mistreated, […]
In the book, The Hate U Give is based about a 16-year-old African American girl named Starr to witness police brutality against her best friend. Starr and her friend, Khalil, was leaving a party when Khalil was pulled over for a traffic violation of a broken taillight. The police officer asked for license, registration, and […]
“Controversial, giving rise or likely to giving rise to public disagreement.” (Merriam-Webster Dictionary). The Death Penalty defines controversy, the subject of whether your going to kill someone for a specific crime or give them jail-time. This topic has many different viewpoints, because of the objective of granting someone’s death. The Death Penalty, although very controversial […]
Cruelty has been poisoning the earth for as long as we can remember. More effort has been applied to creative punishments rather than addressing the problem. Since the eighteenth century man has found reason to execute human beings. For many years this execution process has come with numerous difficulties, and recently has become more of […]
There is insufficient data on several issues related to mass incarceration of people in American jails. Although the United States has 5% of global population, it contains 25% of people in jails. Yet those being the bars are disproportionately in favor whites, who by far outweigh the Blacks in the country. Besides, there is no […]
Sexual assault training and the Army seem to go hand in hand, so why does this egregious crime seem to still run rampant through our ranks? The Department of Defense (DoD) defines sexual assault as intentional sexual contact, characterized by use of force, physical threat, or abuse of power when the victim does not or […]
“Radical simply means ‘grasping things at the root’.” – Angela Davis Assata Shakur and Angela Davis are two women that were very monumental in the Civil Rights Movement. These women fought and worked beside the men of the Black Panthers and other organizations to make a change. Angela Davis is best known for her radical […]
On January 4, 2018, a few days after marijuana became legal in California, Jeff Sessions. Attorney General of the United States, announced that the Trump Administration. Was rescinding the Obama-era policy of non-interference with State marijuana laws. According to the Drug Enforcement Administration. Marijuana is considered a Schedule 1 controlled substance. Schedule 1 drugs, by […]
“Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself; and where they are, they should be changed. Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against possession of marijuana be private for personal use. Therefore, I support legislation amending federal law to […]
Introduction Whenever the topic of marijuana comes up in almost all parts of the world, what follows is a heated debate on its legal status. To some people, it is just a herb to which they have attached some religious belief while to others; the topic invokes a mixed feeling as they consider it an […]
For many years, the act of smoking has not only affected the lives of those. Who are in their adolescents, it has also caused problems for smokers of age as well. Though the rise of tobacco is nothing new, the increase of smokers in the US has significantly risen. Since the introduction of the legalization […]
In 1978 the state legislator of New Mexico made a law allowing physicians to prescribe marijuana to patients suffering from nausea caused by chemotherapy, much of this due to the efforts of a cancer patient by the name of Lynn Pierson. The Federal government modified the law to make it comply with IND regulations requiring […]
