Social Issues Essays

Abstract The Willie Lynch Letter is a document that allegedly is a speech given by a white slave owner from the West Indies, on the bank of the James River in Virginia, 1712. It has been said that it was instructions to the current day slave owners on how to …

The UN commission on status of women observed ‘ women who contribute half of the world’s population by virtue of an accident of birth, perform two-thirds of the world’s work, receive one-tenth of its income and owns less than one-hundredth of its property’. In India, women produce 30 percent of …

In the modern society, the problem of workaholism is quite acute. According to studies, most strongly this illness affects employees in Japan and the UK; this issue is relevant for the U.S.as well. There have always been people who work more than others and could not imagine their life without …

At a time when the issue of immigration and immigrants has taken center stage in this country, the message of President John F. Kennedy’s classic essay A Nation of Immigrants is as relevant today as it was 50 years ago. That is why the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and publisher Harper Perennial …

We are now living in the 21st century, the idea of whether or not a woman should work is very different from the traditional culture. It is a very common scene for women to go to work in Hong Kong now. To a larger extend, I believe a woman’s place …

Thesis: * Morrison portrays an important part of Feminist criticism called patriarchy when Sethe takes a stand against the white men. “Patriarchyis the systematic social, political, cultural and economic domination of women by men” (Oppermann). * Sethe choices as a women character show that men cannot rule the lives of …

Blood sports should not be banned; whatever problems there are with the sport can be fixed with reforms. The World Health Organization has called for tighter regulation, including “Simple rules, such as requiring medical clearance, national passports to prevent players from fighting under more than one name, restricting fights for …

I had never encountered such creatures in person, but it seems that I have a lot of ideas of what they look like and what they are capable of. I have seen them in different movies and each of them differs from the others. Some vampires would die under the …

Some people have no respect for animals, by discriminating them. They have a reason they are alive just as well as humans. There are humans that don’t deserve to see daylight, but yet our police, government and society, don’t do anything about it. But yet, they do something with pit …

Hysteria is a pathological condition that reached the apex of its ‘popularity’ in the late 19th century (Maines, 1998). The history of the notion of hysteria can be traced right back to ancient times. Elaine Showalter, who was famous for her study of women and madness, describes the period between …