Objections to the Institutionalization of Euthanization - Stephen G. Potts (2016)
Text commentary - 2 pages - Social sciences
The essay "Objections to the Institutionalization of Euthanization'' by Stephen G. Potts argues against the legalization of active euthanasia in hospitals. The majority of his paper is broken down into nine distinct arguments to support his objections; I will be examining 4 of his...
Locations and forms of power - Who will win the fight against violence in the United States?
Essay - 1 pages - Social sciences
The notion of locations and forms of power covers a wide range of different topics. Thus, we will mainly focus on forms of power, in other words, all the elements that can give more importance, more weight to one man rather than another. In the United States, we notice that the right to bear arms...
Different methods of birth control and their history
Essay - 2 pages - Social sciences
Modern birth control went through many obstacles before it was available to the public. In the United States during the 19th and 20th centuries, birth control and contraceptives were social issues that were fraught with controversy. This backlash led to legislation (e.g. Comstock Law) being...
Description of Value-Based Purchasing (VBP)
Essay - 2 pages - Social sciences
This is an initiative by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) that is meant to reward or punish acute-care health centers through incentives payments depending on the care quality given to beneficiaries of Medicare. It was authorized by the Congress under the Affordable Care Act...
Death penalty: does the U.S. really need capital punishment?
Thesis - 5 pages - Social sciences
Capital punishment, which is the act of killing a criminal for a terrible crime, is a controversial subject in the United States. Over the course of history, public opinion has wavered on whether or not the death penalty should be administered. Decades ago in the 1970's, for example, public...
Afghan women under the Taliban
Thesis - 3 pages - Social sciences
Living in the United States it is often easy to take for granted many of the liberties that we hold so dear and which were gotten so long ago. However, when thinking about equality, we must remember that great strides have been made to accommodate different people, but at often times people...
Discrimination against women
Essay - 2 pages - Social sciences
Discrimination may be defined as the “treatment or consideration of, or making a distinction in favor or against a person or thing based on the group, class, or category to which that person or thing belongs rather than on individual merit.” (Landrine and Klonoff) It is not...
How we should think of homelessness
Essay - 2 pages - Social sciences
Our nation is plagued with an array of issues. Some problems are foreign, but many are domestic issues. With domestic issues come the possibility for domestic solutions. In other words, you and I can help solve these problems. Homelessness illustrates the potential we have of solving domestic...
The world hunger
Essay - 2 pages - Social sciences
Everyone human being experiences with some form of struggle. It is an inevitable part of life. However, some struggles are a bit more serious in nature than others. Hunger provides an example of this. Hunger is a world issue that has yet to be resolved. The issue has been evident for several...
Greek law
Case study - 4 pages - Social sciences
The Larissis and Others against Greece in 1998 shows an evolution of the case law on proselytism. Facts: three officers of the Greek army, a member of the Pentecostal Church and are convicted by a court of proselytizing the army. The Court takes the term "improper proselytism". Thus in paragraph...
Tunisian government
Case study - 4 pages - Social sciences
According to Stefan Prins Sottiaux and Dajo, "it might have been better to make the first condition less strictly, so that only callers political parties systematically make use of illegal means can be prohibited." The Court E.D.H. talking serious violent offenses and refers to jihad. In...
The American psychologist journal
Case study - 3 pages - Social sciences
Discourse communities are groups of people that use the same language to communicate. This language is usually specialist and thus leaves the other members of the general community out. For example, while reading an engineering paper, the reader has to have a dictionary if they are not a member...
First Amendment Right for Anti- Muslim Video by Nakoula Basseley Nakoula
Case study - 3 pages - Social sciences
The-infamous film that allegedly insults and ridicules the Prophet Muhammad-Anti-Muslim video presumed to have been produced by and Egyptian-born Coptic Christian known as Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, sparked violent protests targeted at Western embassies across the Muslim and Arab world. The video...
US Role in the Middle East
Case study - 2 pages - Social sciences
According to the Collins World Dictionary, stability refers to the quality or state of being stable, especially in resistance to deterioration, displacement, or change. It is the constancy of purpose, order, or character. Due to the vastness of energy resources, especially oil, in the Middle East...
Social class - does it affect understanding of people's relationship with food and/or drink
Case study - 8 pages - Social sciences
A multi-national company is a company that has been formed to operate across known international physical boundaries (Cooke, 2003). These companies are often located to other international countries apart from the parent country in which it was originally founded. These multinational...
Conflict between Israel and Palestine
Case study - 2 pages - Social sciences
The conflicts between Jews and Arabs are wells published. These conflicts have historical roots and seem to never end. Though there have been efforts to mediate between the two parties, these efforts have often produced limited results and after a short duration of peace, the conflict reemerges....
The Better Face of Unpreparedness
Case study - 2 pages - Social sciences
Cheryl Strayed' memoir “Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail” reveals her extraordinary experience regarding her trek through the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) when she was twenty-six years old. All this was to rediscover herself from the self-destructive life that had...
Adopting the Surname after Marriage: Let Women Make Their Own Choices
Case study - 5 pages - Social sciences
The issue of changing names is a century old tradition. According to Sarah Rainey, this tradition has existed for many years. In many cultures, women were considered responsibilities of men (Rainey, 2013). For example, a woman surname was a sure indication of the man who ‘owned' her. After...
Is Violence an American Tradition?
Case study - 2 pages - Social sciences
Thio, Taylor, and Schwartz (2012) considers violence to be of types which include assault, serial and mass murder, terrorism, genocide, hate-motivated violence, school violence. The authors argue that the poor are the most likely persons in the world to engage in violence, specifically homicide....
Humanities and contemporary issues: cheerfulness, wealth, and the material World
Case study - 2 pages - Social sciences
More research work has been done in the recent past to ascertain whether more money results in more happiness. This question has been an omnipresent one throughout the timeline of human history; however, not satisfactory answer is yet to be arrived. Societal researchers have unearthed a...
Social inequality, democracy, capitalism
Case study - 6 pages - Social sciences
In Latin America, social inequality can lead to the strengthening of anti-democratic convictions and further develop the "apartheid" prevailing social. The intervention of the political in the definition and implementation of economic and social policies is becoming more necessary, and the State...
The essence of apartheid
Case study - 4 pages - Social sciences
Apartheid in South Africa is seen as something so common that it is in the Constitution. It is the only nation in the world that skin color determines the conditions of life and survival of people, despite the many historical justifications, the Apartheid violates all the conditions of human...
Apartheid on the Africans
Case study - 4 pages - Social sciences
In the history of humanity, has been witnessed by many the exploitation of man by man, for several reasons: political ideology, religious and economic. South Africa lived many years in this system of economic exploitation, emphasizing a difference to other regions dominated, there was this...
The law of apartheid
Case study - 3 pages - Social sciences
In the 1950s, the fight for equal rights has mobilized many Africans, who until then had never spoken out for or against or their rights, is born the people's congress campaign, and Africans are invited to submit their grievances and aspirations would become the basis of a document-from all...
Economic Growth and Construction Industry in Libya
Case study - 4 pages - Social sciences
The sector of construction is ranked as a vital factor that influences policies of the economy in countries that are still developing like Libya. The sector entails backward and forward linkages with various sectors of the economy. In other words, they are dependent on each other. Countries like...
East Asia Studies
Case study - 3 pages - Social sciences
There has been tremendous changes in situations in East Asia, the East Asia of today barely resembles that was only a decade ago. Recent proliferation of several mini9sterial conferences and numerous multilateral dialogues, along with various calls for the creation of the East Asian community has...
Of Gustavo Capanema vision on the question in brazilian population protection act creating social family
Case study - 5 pages - Social sciences
When Getulio Vargas adopted Decree-Law 3200 of April 19, 1941 - on social protection of the family - was determining state intervention in poor and large families. New in Brazil and recent attitude in Europe, corresponding to the so-called "family issue" problematic within the...
The Current Organization of the Local Government System in England
Case study - 3 pages - Social sciences
The government of England has a complex pattern with quite an array of functions distributed according to the local governments. The government and public administration includes the central government and the civil service, devolved and regional government and the local government. The main role...
Income Inequality evidence and Policy Representation- American Politics
Case study - 3 pages - Social sciences
There is incontrovertible evidence that the American income inequality has increased, while the social mobility has reduced. It is widely known that states with higher income inequality have lower social mobility, in cases of income-based definition of mobility. This implies that increasing...
Why the Age of Revolutions (c. 1760-1840) was a historic period and whether it was global?
Case study - 4 pages - Social sciences
The Age of Revolutions was marked by the American Revolution (1775-1783), Haitian Revolution (1791-1804), French Revolution (1789-1799), Spanish and Greek wars. The Age of Revolutions (c. 1760-1840) was a historic period and was global in nature because the effects of economic, social,...
