The situation of Donna Hylton is as rare as it is tragic. To hear her voice on the podcast Decarcerated, one knows that she refuses the status of the victim role. At the same time, she was a victim in so many ways. On a sociological level, one can only see the star student reduced […]
Feminism is concerned with ‘…the ways in which literature (and other cultural productions) reinforce or undermine the economic, political, social, and psychological oppression of women’ (“Feminist”). In many stories, women are presented in many different ways. This includes how female characters are created and understood within any given story. These can range from marginalizing women […]
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Get startedCriminal justice reform is when errors are found in our criminal justice system, and then are planned to be fixed. Everyone in a courtroom that has had to appear before a judge, has rights. Rights such as due process of law, the right to have bail, to not have your property searched or your personal […]
Our world is overrun by issues and problems that are overlooked and not being solved. Many people take no notice to the dilema and move on with their life because they believe that it cannot be solved or that their involvement will have no affect. One of the major issues arising and rapidly taking over […]
“You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.” – William Wilberforce, an English politician, and leader of the movement to stop the slave trade. Human trafficking is a violation of humanity. It is a universal problem. It includes hiring, harboring, and deporting human individuals […]
Belize has been in constant turmoil in the past years. These problems have continued to create an unsafe environment for the citizens of modern day Belize. Located in Central America, Belize violates Article 5 of the (UNDHR) which states, “No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment” […]
Brooke Holt Discover New York Tuner December 5, 2018 Everywhere you go there are double standards and there are “traditional” ways of doing things. According to “The Guardian”, women are better off today, but still far from being equal to men. I couldn’t agree more with this statement. Women have come such a long way, […]
has correlations with the number of people that are affected by HIV. The World Health Organization conducted a survey that showed that roughly 34.3 million people around the world are infected with the AIDS virus and of the 34.3 million about 24.5 million live in Sub Saharan Africa. More than half of the population that […]
SHARP is an active program that is in place to eliminate the root cause and underlining issues of the armed forces. The Army’s goal is mission readiness, mission success, and Soldiers morale but sexual crimes are main factors that decrease the readiness of the force. In addition, with this, these are criminal acts and unmoral […]
Since the implementation of the Army’s Sexual Harassment Assault Response Prevention program or (SHARP) the Army has strived to uphold its mission statement: “Enhance Army readiness through the prevention of sexual assault, sexual harassment, and associated retaliatory behaviors while providing comprehensive response capabilities” Within the Army we are an ever evolving machine, this machine like […]
A massive organization such as the Army plays an important role in defending the American way of life. Though there are many external dangers in our line of work we are highly vulnerable to the threats that are within our organization. Sexual assault has no place in our professional organization as it is a cancer […]
During my university coursework, my advocacy skill and my ability to think critically were observed by my professors and thereby, they insisted me to attend in the moot court competition, seminars and public speaking activities. Moreover, I am experienced in working with the marginalized people. At that time, I, scrutinizing the contemporary legal and ethical […]
“It’s not what we do because it’s not who we are.” This is the cultural change the U.S. Army is striving to achieve. In response to an increasing concern regarding sexual harassment and assault in the military, the Department of Defense (DoD) has implemented several measures to enhance the prevention, surveillance and reporting of sexual […]
Police brutality has been an ongoing issue and controversy throughout the years. When you think about police officers, you usually think about someone who is there to protect you from danger but that is not always the case for innocent citizens. Police brutality is defined as “the use of excessive and/or unnecessary force by police […]
This paper, although advocating for the responsibility of mentally ill patients to be transferred over to the states, recognizes that the current system that states use for treating the mentally ill is still broken. Not only should the feral government be reformed, but the states will need to reform their some of their current healthcare […]
Albuquerque was a distant outpost of the Spanish Empire, so its residents were mostly Hispanic or of mixed Hispanic-Native American Ancestry up until the late nineteenth century. Due to increased influences of Protestant settlers, during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the predominantly Roman Catholic Hispanic population reduced to a minorities. During the twenty-first century, more […]
In this section I will be focusing on the fathers’ situation before and after conception, and bring out arguments how he could effectively avoid becoming a parent in any way (biological, bearer of financial costs, emotional). The father after conception has no alternatives left, unlike the mother has. She is in a position that can […]
Whose finished version was written and produced in 1920s New York City. They play is one of many of those by Rachel Crothers, who’s heroine is typically “young, sensible” and “equates financial independence with self-respect”. He and She captures the drama of married life in which gender roles are questioned when wealth and success are […]
Religion is a subject based off what a society believes. The roles of religion in society explain natural phenomena, obscure economic reality, frame morals, and involve social control. These roles changed as soon a science and knowledge began to grow. Starting off early, there was Galileo who argued against the church. Galileo argued about how […]
The deliberate and systematic destruction of a people or ethnic group is considered from the international legal perspective the most atrocious crime among all crimes. We call it genocide. A crime against humanity. A crime that we can not understand. And, despite everything, it has been present repeatedly, under various forms, in our recent history.The […]
The movie separates into two segments. First is classic comedy while other part makes us smile with sadness through the evils of genocide. Benigni plays as the lead role, Guido the waiter in the 1930s Italy. He is also the co-writer and director of the film. Watching his life, we can see the resemblance of […]
In Night, it is the 16-year-old Eliezer and his time within the concentration camps. Dawn tells us of an 18-year-old who survived the holocaust and finds himself working for the resistance. Lastly, Day, guides us through the life of a survivor who, much later in life, is in a life-threatening car accident. Within each of […]
Popularity is defined by that which is loved by the general public; commonly accepted beliefs and ideas and images that society welcomes. But it is the work that breaks out of this generalization, the underrated, that really leaves a mark. Several movies recently have been attempting to reshape this societal mold into something more politically […]
Do you feel safe walking the street at night? Do you carry a gun because of the stories about mass school shootings? Gun violence is an increasing issue that has not been taken care of, moving throughout the past couple years there have been multiple mass shootings and some of the shooters have gotten off […]
A comparative report on the debate of guns in the United States. Specific Purpose is to look at both sides of gun control and gun rights. The right to keep and bear arms in the United States is a protection afforded to the citizens by the 2nd Amendment of the United States Constitution. Researching this […]
Among the developed nations today, the United States is one of the rare countries where arms rights are inscribed in the constitution. Accompanying the possession and use of firearms, the once-great power of the world is also where gun violence occurs likely every single day, sometimes with catastrophic consequences, such as the latest shooting on […]
Issue: The big issue is fought between the gun rights and gun control in the U.S. The supporters of gun rights say that gun control is an individual’s right to have possession of a weapon whilst the gun control supporters believe that an individual needs to go through special inspection before handling a gun. The […]
The purpose of this memo is to discuss prevention of gun violence and whether New Mexico should adopt a law that allows for certain individuals to petition the court for help when someone poses an imminent risk of harm to themselves or others and whether emergency physicians should also be authorized in these situations. There […]
Enough was enough twenty years ago at the Columbine massacre yet hardly anything has been done to prevent it. It’s time to review our bill of rights and reconstruct our amendments for the well being of America . Although our 2nd amendment right states that we have the right to bear arms, we need to […]
Our group is researching about gun laws to see if they should be stricter or less strict. Many incidents involved with guns have happened lately so there are many debates on whether they should be strict or less strict. On February 14th there was a shooting in Florida at a high school and many states […]
