Social Issues Essays

The US government has developed several measures, techniques and strategies that it intends to use to combat and reduce terrorist activities through corporations, its militaries, police departments and put strategies to respond to real and imputed terrorist threat. Terrorism has remained a fore front in many discussions by various governments. …

Obscenity and pornography are terms used to designate written, recorded, or pictorial material – including motion pictures – that many people consider indecent and offensive. The term obscenity can also refer to language or to behavior that is believed to corrupt public morals. Some people also consider violence and war …

Prejudice has been with man since time immemorial. The earliest community of men might not have been consciously aware of it then, but prejudice could very well have been behind the tribal wars and the low status of women in almost all primitive societies. In fact, even the prophets like …

“Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.” – Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. A very powerful and resounding …

1.0 Introduction The internet is unregulated and uncensored hence anybody who has an e-mail address is able to distribute information widely and rapidly and the evaluation of the web page material/content distributed is questionable. The responsibility for the accuracy of the web page information rest with the creator but this …

Introduction Who has the right to punish? How much punishment is just? How does society punish those who have violated its rules? These are just some questions that normally arise whenever punishment is discussed. There are various conflicting theories about the laws, rules, and customs that regulate and keep check …

Introduction In this essay, an attempt is made to analyse the theme of poverty found in Gaskell’s North and South.(Gaskell, 1970) While analyzing this work, one is required to know that in the era of industrial revolution, poverty, particularly in the urban workplace, was a notable phenomenon and this was …

Introduction For all preoccupation of the US authorities with external terrorist threat expressed in the global war on terror campaign, terrorist groups continue to exist on domestic terrains. The agendas of these groupings vary widely, including anti-government, social, political, reiligous, supremacist, racist issues, as well as unique interests such as, …

     Three days before Christmas in 1994, Anthony Baez and his three brothers were in front of their family home, located at Cameron Place – University Heights section of the Bronx, playing catch with a football.   While tossing the football between them, the ball gets away and hits a police …

Since mankind has started, many changes in the way of living, the environment and the people have occurred. The human population has been increasing swiftly resulting to a big difference between the rate of birth and the rate of death causing having a huge effect on the economy and environment. …