Social Issues Essays

The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica             A woman presides over the counter of  a Latin Deli, behind an antique cash register with a magnetic plastic effigy of mother and child on top. The deli smells of open trash cans, dried codfish, and indoor plants.             The woman behind the …

How effective were the abolitionists in achieving their goals? Did they hasten or delay the end of slavery? Generally, while the abolitionist movement was successful in significantly curbing massive slavery in most countries, they were not able to completely eliminate it as various forms of slavery such as child trafficking, …

The Zimbardo Stanford prison experiment involved the signing up of psychology students as participants in a role-playing experiment. Participants were divided into two groups, some acting as prisoners and others acting as guards in a prison set-up. The participants were contained in the prison and in their roles for a …

Who was more powerless – Bartleby or the boss? Why? The story of Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wallstreet by Herman Melville shows how destiny differs among men. The narrator, a lawyer who hired Bartleby, a scrivener in the 18th century setting, tried with all his might to change …

The “Yellow Wallpaper” is a vivid, partly autobiographical tale of clinical depression and the struggle for selfhood, written by an early feminist, Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Her life was concerned with her troubled and loveless relationships: with her mother, her father, and her daughter. The story, “The Yellow Wallpaper” is an …

It cannot be denied that our civilization has gradually evolved, and we have reached a certain point of development, wherein to prolong our existence, we develop a system that manages our resources and knowledge efficiently. However efficiently, we are still careless, because we tend to make decisions that detrimentally affect …

Determine the ethical implications of business polluting in a third world country. Businesses go into these countries and set up camp. Meaning they go there and pollute the country with all those toxic waste chemicals and the land, air and water is then contaminated so bad that the people who …

2.54 The city of Philadelphia requires GPS system in all taxicabs. Is a government requirement for a tracking system for private taxicabs a reasonable public safety measures or an unreasonable intrusion on the privacy of drivers and passengers? Identify several differences between such a government requirement and a taxicabs company …

The little-known 1835 clash between the Maori and Moriori peoples was particularly interesting for Diamond because the Maori-Moriori peoples are both from common ancestors originating less than a millennium earlier. Diamond believed that if we could understand the reasons for the “disparate development of these two island societies, we might …

Because no real text exists for Social Studies, two historical books were chosen for this study in this class. One is entitled Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass and American Slave written by Frederick Douglass and published in 1845. The other text is entitled Vienna Prelude and was written …