Leeway College Essays Samples For Students

When Herman Melville was writing, capital punishment was a much more commonly used punishment than it is in our own time, and as much as modern death penalty opponents talk about the mistaken use of it in cases when the convict has been wrongly sentenced, the swiftness of the execution and the shoddiness of the evidentiary requirements in Melville’s time were comparatively barbaric. Captain Vere is typical of the sort of judge who would have rendered that sentence in that day, brought in at the last moment and then hearing a fairly swift (and legally shaky) summary of ...

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Euthanasia or Physician assisted suicide (PAS) is the act of relieving pain and suffering by giving terminally ill patients drugs that induce death. Pros of euthanasia include living wills, the Hippocratic Oath and the utility theory as well as the lowering of the cost of health care services. Living wills written by most individuals can deny them the right to extraordinary health care services which are aimed at prolonging their lives. However, it is important to note that a lot can change between when a will is written, and the time of death. Physicians are sworn by oath to ...

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As a researcher investigating web users who illegally download music files, it is best to adopt the storytelling technique to elicit information and understanding from sources, rather than focus groups and interviews.
Storytelling is a technique where the researcher elicits information from participants in an unstructured manner, urging the participants to embellish their individual perspectives as part of a narrative, much like a story. It is best employed when individual parts of a narrative cannot be understood without understanding the whole narrative. In this technique, the storytellers, not just the researchers, serve as interpreters and analysts. The technique forces the researcher to relate ...

After the Germans lost to the Allies in World War II, the issue with what to do with the losing nation was one of the most complicated issues of the 1940s. Eventually coming up with the idea to occupy four separate zones of the country, the occupation was considered to merely be a stopgap until Germany was allowed to reconstruct and could reunite successfully. However, the eventual creation of East and West Germany dashed those hopes for reunification for the entirety of the Cold War. Various factors contributed to the failure of occupying powers to agree upon exactly how to ...

The continued advancement in technology has cut across all spheres of the economy. The field of medicine has had its fair share of the cake having to incorporate the complexities of science and technology. One such area relates to organ transplantation. It has become possible to save humanity through the transplant of organs from one human to another. However, the process in itself though scientifically possible, remains riddled with several challenges and raises questions bordering on the moral, religious and legal frontiers. This paper essentially takes into consideration the place of the law in relation to the application ofsuch ...

Paris has been marred by riots from Muslims following the ban of their face covering veils. The demonstration in Marseille was against the conviction of Pussy Riot, a Russian feminist. The demonstrations led to the arrest of seven, whose main offence was the balaclava they were wearing in protest. The law which was introduced in 2010 by the president Nicolas Sarkozy serves to curb Islamic extremism in the country. However, critics of the law say that the laws deprives the Muslim women the right to religion, a situation that serves as an example of the country’s and continent’s inability ...

Radiologists and the complementary professionals and para-professionals face unique risks while at the work place. Exposure to ionizing radiation induces nuclear changes in cells that may cumulatively lead to cancer. In the case of the patient, the exposure to radiation is necessary in order to establish diagnosis or treatment and the benefits should outweigh the potential harm. For the staff on the other hand exposure to increased levels of exposure is hazardous and undesirable. Shielding is used to avoid accidental exposure to radiation, as well as careful obedience to the laws of physics. The effects of radiation lessen as ...

What do you think are the most positive aspects of Hinduism? Why is it so tolerant of other religions? If you had to worship one of the 1158 deities, who would you choose and why?
Hinduism is a tolerant religion in the sense that it provides a lot of leeway to other religions as they are practiced. This means that religion is a tolerant form and is always important to everyone who practices it but one has to observe the rules of religion accordingly without making out to be error prone. Although Hindiusm has a large amount of deities in its description, ...