Social Issues Essays

Animal testing has for a long time been a much debated moral issue. For many, this kind of testing has been the only kind of hope for developing new medicines and treatments for illness. For others, it is an unacceptable and unnecessary cruel way of exploiting animals for our own …

“Dracula” is a complicated novel with many themes. Perhaps the most prominent theme is the derogatory portrayal of women. During the time period “Dracula” was written, there was a large feminist movement and women’s traditional roles were starting to change. As seen in “A Doll’s House” , women were supposed …

Some hundred years ago, the oppressed broke away from the oppressor. They fought for the freedoms that we have today. Through different movements such as Black power, Black pride, and Black is beautiful, we’ve come to see the true power that we hold as individuals and a group. When the …

At the moment I am at College in Saraburi of Thailand, which is a cross between a town and the countryside. Coming from an industrial town, it is a nice change to be away from the dirt produced by industry and the traffic pollution, which occurs in towns. Also, I feel …

Today’s employment practices were defined by the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The law sanction in the year 1964 bans discrimination in employment based on religion, national origin, race, color, or gender. From the beginning, Title VII has advanced the laws regarding anti-discrimination. The laws are …

In “The Case for Animal Rights,” Tom Regan writes about his beliefs regarding animal rights. Regan states the animal rights movement is committed to a number of goals, including: “the total abolition of the use of animals in science; the total dissolution of commercial animal agriculture; and the total elimination …

The title of this poem is derived from the expression ‘To sow your wild oats’. It was culturally accepted by men at the time, that before marriage, men would be allowed to indulge in many sexual relationships with many women. The reasoning behind this is that if a man is …

In his speech, What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?, Frederick Douglass passionately argues that to the slave, and even to the freed African American, the Fourth of July is no more than a mockery of the grossest kind. Douglas uses many rhetorical strategies to convey his powerful …

In the essay “The Ignored Lesson of Anne Frank” Bettelheim’s thesis is that because the Franks had decided to go into hiding as a family as opposed to hiding out separately, they were refusing to accept what was going on around them and they contribute to their own deaths by …

While motherhood is not the stereotypical home making occupation that it was in the 1970’s, it is still one of the most important roles women play in this country. In “Motherhood: Who Needs It?” Betty Rollin openly expresses her negative opinion of motherhood. Throughout the essay Rollin elaborates on many …