Social Issues Essays

Set in a very hot summer day, Manuel Arguilla’s Midsummer is a story with a very short and simple plot. It is basically a story of a man meeting a very beautiful Filipina woman by the well in a sizzling summer day. It starts off with the man and his …

For my Internal Assessment I have chosen to do a review of Caryl Phillips’ post-colonial work of fiction, “Cambridge”. This novel published in the year 1991, explores the interlocking of a variety of forms of marginalization, displacement and dispossession that emerge from the experience of cross-cultural encounters. It persistently raises …

In her Newsweek article “TV’s True Violence” Meg Greenfield argues that excessive fictional violence desensitizes viewers to the image of violence they see on television. Her discussion about this subject “generates hypocrisy and confusion”: the coarsening impact of violence on viewers, the effect on children, the volume of the violence, …

Many people wonder why the Bill of Rights was made and why we have it. There are many reasons that we have the Bill of Rights and I think that we should all learn a little more about the Bill of rights and what it does for us that make …

To what extent is targeting the most effective way of alleviating poverty in the context of limited state resources? Weiss (2004) defines poverty targeting as the “use of policy instruments to channel resources to a target group identified below an agreed national poverty line”. (p. 2) The issue of poverty …

Located on the banks of the Buriganga River lies Dhaka; the capital city of Bangladesh. This megacity is the 7th largest populous city in the world, with an estimated population of 15 million, according to the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics. It is expected to reach a staggering population of 25 …

The black female characters within Toni Morrison’s novels are often scarred by their surrounding, oppressive environments. Whether they are racially exploited, sexually violated, or emotionally abused, these women make choices that cannot be easily understood in order to coexist with these scars. Specifically, many of Morrison’s female characters turn to …

Today, media take a major part of our lives, shape our society and create reality. The Banning violence in the media is an efficient approach the government should take to handle the growing violence in our society. I argue that the US Government should make a law that bans violence …

Abstract Privacy. In the past the word privacy was something much simpler than it is today. Privacy meant that information about one’s self was only shared with their permission and was usually in done verbally or in written documents, such as medical records. In today’s society, privacy is a little …

Rich Dad Poor Dad is about how Mr. Kiosaki was raised by a rich father and a poor one. Mr. Kiosaki’s poor father was highly educated with a Ph.D., while his rich dad didn’t even make it through high school. Mr. Kiosaki’s fathers sometimes gave him some advice when he …