Torture College Essays Samples For Students

Introduction

Dilawar, a taxi driver and an Afghan citizen, was considered as a kind and honest man by the villagers. As such, when the U.S. military detained him, after he had picked up three customers, denizens could not understand why. Picking the innocent taxi driver and hold him in prison without trial remained questionable. Five days after his arrest, his mysterious death in Bagram prison cell followed. Death of Dilawar came just a week after another mysterious death of an Afghan at Bagram. The documentary indicated that, the taxi driver and the other detainee died from injuries sustained at the prison. Injuries inflicted ...

During the 17th century, around 1630, the puritans settled in New England. However, their main purpose was not to promote religion or religious freedom; rather they wanted to achieve freedom from the church and public officials in England. They believed the church and public officials prevented them from pursuing their religious beliefs as God intended them to. This essay focuses on the life of Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams who were deeply religious individuals during the 17th century. Although they led separate lives, the two are linked together because of their religious beliefs that led to them being banished ...

English

Halal Food
Halal food has become a highly conversational subject in our world. Many people are familiar with the word Halal, while others do not know what Halal means. Halal food refers only to meat and chicken, and it means that the meat is slaughtered in different way. Halal is an Arabic term that means permitted. The food is permissible according to Islamic law; for a meat as certified Halal, it is not forbidden such as meat from hindquarters or animal such as pork. The Halal method is specifically practiced by the religions that believe in the God of Abraham. ...

It is not rocket science that Jews suffered a great deal in the hands of the German war machine. The Nazis were a dangerous lot. They did not have mercy. However, even though they suffered, many chose to endure the suffering and die while fighting for their rights to exist. If it were me, I would have done the same thing as they did. I would not have gone anywhere. Knowing very well that access to safer grounds like America were denied, I would have stayed and suffered with others. Though the temptation to flee, either to America or Australia would ...

The term administrative policy has different meanings as it applies to the field of public administration depending on the person using the term. Conventionally, administrative responsibility involves both the behavior of public servant, and certain expectations people have with respect to that behavior. If the behavior closely matches the expectations, public servant is to be responsible. On the other hand, if the said the behavior of the public servant does not conform to set standards, the public servant is to be irresponsible. Additionally, an individual, legal entity, or group can strive towards achieving greater responsibility from others by using ...

Blessed Teresa of Calcutta was born on 26th August 1910 in Albania. She was an Indian Roman Catholic sister who is known for establishing many organizations and projects across the globe. she received many awards during her lifetime with the most honorable being the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize.
Teresa of Calcutta is a person of good character following many awards, a good reputation she created to her subjects as well as to her acts of mercy, motivation and development. Her good character is known to date since people consider her as a humane person because of her care for people that ...

Question 1

Torture has been considered as a serious human right violation all-round the world. Torture is prohibited by each country and also the international law. The use of torture on individuals has an effect on their political and civil rights. This issue was the first to be addressed by the United Nations in 1949 after it was formed. The international law as set out by the United Nations is against any form of inhuman and any degrading activities to humans and cannot be accepted at any cost. Torture is the inflict of harm or pain or emotional trauma in any human ...

Question 1

The government of the former President George W. Bush was lenient in the control of torturing of terrorist suspects. In a statement through the department of justice, his government issued a document confirming the torturing of Al-Qaeda suspects. One of the most common ways of torturing suspects was through waterboarding. This is a technique of covering a suspect with a cotton cloth over the head then pouring water over it to block any breathing avenues (the mouth and nose).
The technique is extremely painful and has numerous resultant effects of the individual that is tortured. Sources close to the former president that have ...

Violations of Peremptory Norms committed by Syria

Abstract
The unrest in Iraq and Egypt in early 2011, as well as the outbreak of a full-blown civil war in Syria later that same year, has led to an intricate web of interstate security dynamics. The civil war in Syria has extended unabated, killing more than 100,000 people and displacing millions more. Western military intervention with air strikes on the Assad regime may get forestalled with a possible UN-backed plan to counteract Syria's chemical arms stockpiles. The essay looks into the dishonor of the Peremptory Norms from the beginning of the crisis until now. The Peremptory Norms are ...

The themes of racial segregation and frustration against the African of the black community run as the dominant theme across these stories. There are the plight and the issue of slaves being mistreated by their white or colonial masters. It is important to note and record and mention that these stories articulate the issues mistreatment against the people of color because there is no aspect of fairness and equality. Most of the stories begin from the background of zero economic wellness. Thus, most of the characters in these stories are sacrificed as slaves or domestic workers where they are ...

David Foster Wallace, in his essay Consider the Lobster, questions the ethics of being a non vegetarian consumer and whether it is morally alright to kill an animal for food. The essay addresses the Maine Lobster Festival (known as MFL) where lobsters are abundant in supply. While covering this story Wallace was faced with certain issues of morality towards killing of animals. In this paper I will discuss Wallace’s concerns, in addition to which I will give my response to the issue.
Wallace begins the essay by introducing the MFL of 2003 where he describes how it is a ...

PSYCHOLOGY IN THE NEWS

Introduction
For the purpose of doing an analysis, an article, called “psychologists to review role in detainee interrogations” was chosen. The article is relevant because it was published on November 13th 2014. The article mainly talks about the role that the association of psychologists played in interrogating detainees during the Era of president Bush. The article acknowledges that the detained were exposed to torture during the interrogation and that critics stated that psychologists were involved. It states the demand for answers prompted the association to conduct an independent study that will show whether the psychologists were involved in ...

After the World War II, two nations became extremely notorious in both crimes of genocide and torture: Japan and Germany. Germany’s attempt to wipe out the Jews out of Germany was because of Hitler’s orders. Hitler believed that the Caucasians are the supreme races on Earth and should remain that way. He killed and captured the Jews and created a laboratory in Auschwitz; many German scientists carried out illegal experiments that lead to torture and death of many Jews. The same case also applies for Japan. The Rape of Nanjing in 1937 tells the story of the torture ...

If you would be a rabbit, or a dog, or a caw how would communicate your sorrow? How would you persuade the others to treat you well? They have no voice of their own; they are able of no formal communication, other than their gestures and their onomatopoeic sounds. But that does not mean that they feel nothing. PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of the Animals) knows the hardships the animals go through and it develops consistent programs for assuring the animals’ wellbeing. Although its efforts are massive, it cannot do it on its own. Human involvement is needed for further ...

In “Mother Courage and Her Children”, Bertolt Brecht gives a clear image of two commonnesses — pace and was. Play’s action takes place between 1624 and 1634. In the beginning, Mother Courage is self-confident and full of strength. Her work is to sell different things to soldiers: from drinks to ammunition. Also, Courage’s children help her doing that. She has two sons — Eilif and Feyos —and a daughter — Kattrin. Gradually, the heroine loses everything. Her sons become soldiers and then die. Her daughter is killed when she tries to wake citizens of Halle that are threatened with Catholics’ troops. At ...

Cruelty on animals could be explained at two different levels, neglect or intentional harm. Neglect is when the animal is denied basic needs that are necessary for survival including food, water, sunlight, or medical services. Intentional animal abuse involves the deliberate subjecting of the animal to physical abuse by kicking the animal, stabbing it or feeding poison. We have become an audience to one of the world’s worst case of animal abuse today. 71% of pet-owning women entering the animal shelters report that animals that had been injured, maimed or killed and 32% reported the killing or the ...

Torture is considered to be one of the cruelest and severest methods of punishment or investigation, which expresses human violence towards other people. It is mostly used by the CIA in order to get secret information from the terrorists and prevent the future terrorist acts. Although this kind of severe act of inflicting physical or psychological pain was prohibited in most of the countries, the debate over legislation and necessity of torture are continuing among the society till today. Plenty of arguments were given by the adherents of torture, the main aim of which is proving that terrorists deserve ...

After arriving on Hispaniola, Columbus discovers that the only wealth of the Americas lay in its human inhabitants, who could be made to work as slaves either in Spain or at home. He identifies the natives as cheap sources of labor to work in the sugar and tobacco plantations. Columbus begins to gather the indigenous people to take back to Spain to sell in the slave markets. He describes the indigenous people as the “best and gentlest people in the world” . He marvels about the health and well-being of the people. He finds sources of gold used in an ...

Edgar Alan Poe is an American author, poet, essayist, literary critic and editor. He is considered to be one of the representatives of the American Romanticism, the inventor of the detective fiction genre. His works contributed to the emergence of the genre of science fiction. Edgar Poe is best known for his spine-tingling and mysterious horror stories and poems.
The Pit and the Pendulum is one of Poe’s famous short stories that was published in 1842. The narrator of the story is a survivor of the torture and torment in the condemned cell at Toledo – the Spanish Inquisition ...

Question One

Prior to the adoption of the prison system, jails were used for temporary detention, corporal punishment and imposition of fines. Capital crimes were punishable through public torture, humiliation, embarrassment, flogging, branding and mutilation. These forms of punishment draw from puritan punishment practices, which encouraged public shaming of wayward sheep. This is not unlike Arpaio’s use of perp walking, pink underwear and chain gangs for inmates serving sentences of up to a month to humiliate and use them to serve as an example to mothers and children that see them on the highway to avoid crime. Specifically, chain gangs hack ...

‘Escape from Camp 14’ is a story that revolves around misery, torture, helplessness, hunger, cruelty and high-level of state secrecy. It is the story of a man who was born in the most atrocious labor camps, that is, camp 14. Prisoners living in these camps were treated in the most inhumane manners.
Shin In Geun, later named as Shin Dong-Hyuk, was one of the very few escaped prisoners who were able to find their way out of the labor camp he was enslaved in. Since Shin was born in a labor camp, he knew nothing about the outside world. The word ‘ ...

Every individual has a message that they want to convey to other people. Expressing the message is not enough. Everyone wants others to be persuaded by the thing they want to believe. To be able to relay the message effectively and to convince the intended audience to agree with the message, Pathos, Logos, and Ethos can be used. The title of the text to be analyzed is “The Ugly Truth”, however, its author is not presented in the video clip. The text was analyzed to show how Pathos, Logos, and Ethos are used to convince the reader to agree with ...

During Philip Zimbardo’s simulated prison experiment, there were many ethical problems at hand. The actual severity of these ethical issues was discovered only once the experiment had begun, after some of the participants acting as prisoners had to be removed before the end of the experiment. After the experiment was over, it was determined that some of the participants acting as prison guards had exhibited sadistic tendencies throughout their role. Those acting as prisoners were all severely emotionally traumatized from the sadistic actions exposed to them by the prison guards. Additionally, the physical conditions in which the prisoners ...

In January 1863, a posse from the Confederate 64th North Carolina infantry led by Lieutenant Colonel James Keith arrested fifteen mountain men in the Appalachians. Lieutenant Keith commanded five of the mountain men to kneel at a time and ordered his infantry men to shoot them. They hesitated, then Keith repeated the order and they shot. The oldest captive, Joe Woods, asked for a moment to pray and he was shot next. Keith commanded five more of the mountain men to kneel and ordered his men to shoot. By this time, 13-year old David Shelton, a boy from the mountains, was pleading with ...

Business

INTRODUCTION
Today human beings have reached such heights in terms of technology and research, that they have started forgetting the importance of other beings in the universe. Using animals for research and development activities is not a new thing. Not only is this but the use of animals for mere entertainment of the greedy humans also not new. From the testing of cosmetics and chemicals on animals to their use in cruel activities such as bull fighting and horse riding, nothing is separable. Today the time has come when people need to become aware of these merciless activities done ...

. I believe that the priest accepted help from the pineapple fruit seller because he was broken and had no choice but to accept because he was broken. Secondly, the words that the fruit seller said must have touched him because for a very long time his life was clouded by bad luck and misfortunes. I also believe that Padre Nazario was a true believer because he accepted the offer from the pineapple seller even though he had suffered ridicule at the hands of the people whom he thought would help him.
The couples Beatriz and Andara represent susceptibility and vulnerability ...

Have you ever heard that a monkey brain is edible? I guess according to current trends everything is almost edible; dogs, cats, tigers. Name all of them. Some are even consuming our ancestors the monkeys. What is wrong? Is it ignorance gone on a rampage, or just a mere discovery that we did not know before? Imagine some people consume monkey brains and they even have descriptions for the delicacy cooked, raw, and flash fried while others still eat it as a snack in the mid-morning. It is such an expensive food. I wonder where these monkeys are sourced from and how they ...

Introduction

Torture is one of most intense human violence forms that result into both psychological and physical consequences. People use it in prisons as a manner of extracting useful information from terrorists and other detainees. Its use has been in existence for thousands of years, and it is still rife all across the globe. Research shows that torture has enduring negative effects at times on both the perpetrators and survivors (Miller, 2012). In addition, it is ineffective for obtaining reliable and substantial information during interrogation. Although many international codes and laws have undergone establishment in order to prohibit torture, it has ...

- Story
- In “The Little Green Monster” a line describes the “spinning dark cocoon” in the woman’s body. Discuss what you think that represents and its connection to the monster and the woman’s reaction.
The story is about a young woman and a monster. As described in the story, the monster appeared from a hole and made its way to the house where the woman was sited. According to the story, the spinning dark cocoon in the woman’s body was her mind. The woman used her brains to harm the monster. When the monster read the woman’ ...

Torture started in back in the 530AD and where the roman jurists advocated for it believing that it could result in victims revealing facts and truth about something. Demosthenes, the Greek Legal Orator, stated that, “no statements made as a result of torture have ever been proved untrue.” Back in the 12th century, the Roman law officially became an authoritative power in most judicial systems and it introduced use of torture to the convicted individuals. This led to the incorporation of use of torture in the civil law system.
Early in the 4th century, the use of torture faced ...

When you play the game of comparison and contrast, one is always better than the other. The HBO fantasy drama series Game of Thrones, based on George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire, tends to leave die-hard aficionados of the epic fantasy novel series divided over the changes the second season has made to the novels. David Benioff’s and D.B. Weiss’s Game of Thrones has not been loyal to George R.R. Martin’s novel series, and to prove this the second season of the TV series must be compared to the A Clash of Kings, ...

Introduction

There is genuine merit in the argument that it is in human nature to be cruel to others. This supposition is favored by the responses elicited by the various subjects in experiments conducted by Milgram and by Darley and Latane. In Milgram’s experiments, subjects were instructed to increasingly inflict electric shock pain on another human every time they failed to answer a question correctly (Milgram 60). Almost all the subjects obeyed, seemingly to maintain social etiquette or avoid disapproval from the authority figure of the instructor. In Darley and Latane, several experiments showed that people are less likely to ...

Animals form a very important aspect of human life. They affect everyone’s life even for those who don’t like them. Their relevance ranges from friendship to beings sources of food. Everyday animals are subjected to animosity and cruelty (Sonny). However they are underfed, beaten and neglected and left to make it on their own. Most people don’t understand that animals require our care because they cannot make it on their own. Animals are usually left hopeless when we fail to give them the compassion and care which we are obliged to give them. While some have been ...

Mass media is a very powerful tool that helps communicate ideas and information to a larger audience. With the advent of technology and its constant progress, people from all parts of the world gained access to mass media and was able to subscribe to it every minute of the day. The need to communicate later on became more important with the introduction of globalization, where interchange of ideas, products, and certain aspects of culture among nations became necessary as a means to improve economies, environment, and cultures. Now that it is able to reach almost, if not everyone, in the world, its ...

Question 1

I remember one day when a boy who used to deliver goods from door to door to raise his school fees in my local area. He emerged into our house and knocked. Thinking that he was just a delivery boy like any other, I rushed to the door, and the boy requested for a glass of water. Little did I realize that the boy was hungry and he was too shy to request for food, than I politely requested him to come in. I gave him a glass of milk and the way he sipped the milk without letting the glass go off ...

ANIMAL CRUELTY

ABSTRACT
This paper focuses the analysis and discussion of results on a recent survey about animal cruelty. The extent of the knowledge students have on animal cruelty are observed through the questions asked in the survey. This paper discusses what students know about animal cruelty and how they feel about the certain issue. It also explores the forms that they are familiar with and what they have done to fight this social problem. The survey discusses the results of the survey and gives a recommendation based on what the students answered. The survey explored the results and answers given by ...

Bahrain Profile

Bahrain is ruled by a king from the Khalifa family. It has a legislative assembly whose members are elected by the public. According to BBC Monitoring, there is discontent among the Shia Muslims, who are the majority, about the power of the Sunni-led government. There has been protest since 2011 as the public agitated for a democratic government.
Bahrain is less reliant on oil than most other Gulf countries and it has diversified its economy by strengthening the banking and financial services sector. Internationally, the nation offers a base for the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet. There is also a Bahraini-Qatari tension over ...

‘Instructor’s Name’

Essay 5
Benjamin Drew was a white Abolitionist from Boston, who traveled to the Ontario region in Canada and interviewed and registered the stories of slaves, who escaped to Canada from America. His interviews were done during the 1850s, and the compilation of these hand-written interviews was first published in the year 1856. His works is the only major and reliable source of historical accounts of the plight of slaves who took refuge in Canada, and thus it gains an important spot in the black American history.
His work was in response to the crisis that befell on ...

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Introduction
As it known, the recent issue of cruelty to animals is particularly acute. Many countries have adopted laws to protect animals; animal cruelty is a criminal offense. Thus, according to the social opinion, a person must not only prevent animal abuse, but also take care of them. But is it not dangerous – to concern excessively for animals?
On the one hand, animal abuse is an act of cruelty which must be punished, but on the other hand, the excessive treatment sometimes can harm animals even not lesser than abuse.

In this report, the problem of animal abuse and excessive concern about them will be discussed.

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Annotated Bibliography

American Humane Association. (2013). Facts about Animal Abuse and Domestic Abuse. Retrieved on 11th Oct. 2013 from http://www.americanhumane.org/interaction/support-the-bond/fact-sheets/animal-abuse-domestic-violence.html
This article further elaborates on the extent of animal abuse. It goes on to compare it to domestic violence. This is aimed at indicating how much the vice has spread in the society. It shows why there is need to curb the mass violation of animal rights.
ANAW. (2013). Home. Retrieved on 11th Oct. 2013 from http://www.anaw.org/
This is an organization that deals with fair treatment of animals. It emphasizes that animals are beings with emotions and can ...

Torture is an act of deliberately imposing ruthless physical pain on an individual who is under arrest or physically restrained and is unable to protect himself or herself against the pain being inflicted. This paper is going to synthesize Christopher Hitchens’ essay titled , “Believe me, it is torture” and David Wallace’s “Consider the Lobster”.
It is not an easy task to judge Hitchens’ point of view of categorizing water-boarding as inflicting physical pain and the underlying contention on the fact that no human being should be subjected to torture (Hitchens 3). I am in support of this ...

Introduction

Stillman concepts of administration and public policy provides that success in bureaucracy comes from skilled executives who identify tasks in their organizations critically, and distribute authority appropriately in regards to those tasks.

Friedrich argues that there is necessity to instil formal and externally imposed mechanisms in ensuring administrative responsibility, due to rise in government administration, professionalism, and growth of public administration discretion and complexity. Friedrich’s ideas apply in the case of torture, as lack of these mechanisms is seen to lead to cases of torture. Unsustainable in practice was the conceptual distinction between administration and policy. Friedrich was ...

The numerous counts of torture by members of the the United States (US) Army committed against prisoners of Abu Ghraib in Iraq in 2003 transpired from a series of policy changes that created conditions allowing such acts to occur. A closer look at the history of policy changes reveals that officials starting from the topmost position held by President George W. Bush have set forth a chain of actions committed by lower officials in a descending manner based on their positions. From cabinet secretaries down to the Army generals and other officers directly responsible for handling Abu Ghraib, policy changes have influenced ...

War on Terror:

Can Torture be Ethical?
Torture involves intentionally causing mental, physical agony, or even both, on an individual without legitimate reason. This includes threats to family members and loved ones. Torture has been used as a punishment, to threaten or control people, to furnish information or just to satisfy brutal impulses. Governments have been instrumental in using torture to keep power in their very own hands, to enforce their own political viewpoint, to remove antagonism and to device specific policies.
Before scrutinizing the legal validity of torture and inflicting pain, it should be considered that pain occurs even in ...

Literature

Thesis Statement: The effect of domination and oppression of the white masters against the black slaves symbolized by the cruel, inhumane and harsh punishments became the catalyst for the slaves to escape.
In the “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, the female author was speaking based on her own personal experience and used her pen name “Linda Brent” as disguise. In this book, Brent emphasized how the Southern whites have completely taken control over the blacks. The whites became the oppressor with the blacks as the victims. The author defined the word slave as a piece of merchandise, ...

In modern times we are bombarded with so many news stories in our everyday existence it can often be difficult to distinguish the true relevance of this information within our own lives. Rhetoric refers to the writer’s intent to persuade, motivate, and intrigue us about a topic. My understanding what motivates readers; writers can employee different techniques to make their message apparent.
With the recent attention focused on animal rights, one key issue that was the focus of many media forms is animal cruelty. Media outlets seem to understand this need to inform the public and also keep ...

It is astonishing, especially at first, to make the case for torture. The idea of torture is itself painful to many people; the idea of causing harm to extract information from another human being is, to most, distressing on a fundamental level. However, in recent years, there has been a growing drive among members of the military to include torture in the arsenal of tools that military personnel can use to extract information from prisoners, particularly prisoners of war in active war zones (Saletan).
There are a variety of problems with making the case for torture, not the least of which ...

Columnist Charles Krauthammer wrote a critical response to the McCain Amendment, sponsored by Arizona Senator John McCain, which sought to ban "cruel, inhuman, or degrading" treatment of any prisoner by any agent of the US government (Krauthammer 1). Krauthammer argues that while McCain has great moral authority on the issue following personal experience of torture and his conviction that his take on the issue is not only right but is also in the best interest of the United States, there is more truth to torture that require consideration. This paper will analyze the author’s position on torture from the ...

Introduction

Slavery was an institution that began before the formation of the United States and was an unfortunate part of the early history of the nation. The Constitution included the paradoxical combination of a Bill of Rights as well as provisions that allowed slaves to be calculated as three-fifths of a free person for purposes of taxation and representation. African natives were captured from their native lands and sold as part of a three-way trade triangle, along with sugar and molasses, that comprised one of the ugliest phases in American history. Even though they were in the land of liberty, slaves were denied ...

Strictly speaking, a jail is a place for the internment of individuals that have been convicted for having committed a crime. But jails, like homes, differ. Whereas jails are supposed to ensure that the rights of the inmates are not violated, many jails come close to doing so.
All prisoners, without exception, have basic rights that are protected by the U.S. Constitution. For example, under the Eighth Amendment, prisoners have the right to be free from inhuman conditions for these would be “cruel and unusual” punishment. However, Fifth Amendment rights must, by the necessity of confinement and discipline, be curtailed somewhat; ...

On February 1st, I went to see the latest production of the Cookeville Performing Arts Center's Backstage Series - Christopher Durang's Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them. A biting satire written by the master satirist, Durang's plays are always on the edgy, raunchy side, and Torture was no exception. Playing on cultural and social taboos, the show is about a young American girl who finds herself mysteriously married (after a drunken night) to a strange man named Zamir. What follows is a wonderful comedy of errors that plays on Islamophobia, the post-9/11 world, and traditional romantic situation comedies in a ...

Introduction

Apparently, animal cruelty is among the most prominent phenomena in the state of Texas. Currently, most human services agencies as well as other animal rights bodies have invested much effort into having the law configured in such a way that it addresses the relationship between the perpetrators of such heinous crimes and the enforcers of the laws. In the recent years, the legislation of the Texan society has been modified in such a style that all the people that are caught or prosecuted for the felony of maltreating animals are held answerable for the same. Unfortunately, the legislation is held in ...

Arguably, there are many ways of extracting some confessions from individuals. As a matter of fact, some nations or even groups inflict pain in order to extract information that they require. During interrogation, torture entails all sorts of methods that do not exactly cause physical pain, but entails tremendous psychological suffering and pain that profoundly causes disruption in the victim's personality. Governments sometime use torture as an indispensable tool of interrogation for collecting strategic intelligence. In most cases, torture is among the most extreme forms of human violence that lead to psychological and physical consequences. In fact, this method of ...

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, is a book that was written by Equiano himself and it tells of his biography and his life after being kidnapped together with his sister. Equiano was a famous African who participated in the British movement to abolish slave trade where slaves were taken from Africa to go and work for Americans. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano is a story that recounts a story of a child born in West Africa and was kidnapped into slavery at a very tender age of 11 years. This narrative explains ...

The number of animals that are killed daily across the globe for various purposes must be big. This number accumulates daily such that at the end of every year it is much bigger than we expect. For instance in United States nearly 9 billion chickens are slaughtered for meat. Another 100 million animals loses their lives in tests and experiments. Additionally, 3 to 4 million dogs and cats are euthanized yearly which adds to the number of animals lost yearly. Felthous (163) has noted that leather industry is not safe either because approximately 1 billion animals are slaughtered for ...

For most of human history the standard attitude towards animals was that they were there to be used as humans saw fit and could even be exterminated or hunted to extinction. In modern times, of course, this has increasingly come to be seen as a highly conservative position, even by those who do not share the animal liberationist position at the opposite extreme—that all sentient beings have equal rights. Human law and custom do grant some rights and protections to animals, such as avoiding needless or gratuitous cruelty, even if they do not extend all of the same rights ...

Using Non-Human Primates for Medical Research

The emergence of various and unknown diseases paved the way for medical breakthroughs including the continuous research and development in finding the ultimate cure for the most severe medical cases. However, the success of medical research was obtained from perfecting formulas through several trials on non-human primates. The objective of medical researchers for using non-human primates is to test drug side effects and experiment on different formulas that will constitute the best results. Since humans are considered to have evolved from primate beginnings, medical researchers believe that the shared biological characteristics of humans ...

‘Slave Catchers, Slave Resisters’ is a 100 minutes, 2005 film which is meant to give an account of how the matters were during the slave trade period. Richardson (2005) mainly focuses on the issue of slave policing on how it happened in the North as well as the South. It analyses the methods that were used to catch and control the slaves, which included armed community patrol for slaves, use of militia, federal law as well as paid slave catchers. These were just some of the methods that were used to attain and contain the slaves. On the other hand, ...

Arguably, there are various crimes in the world today. As a result of a tremendous increase in criminal activities, there are various ways of punishing criminals’ in order to prevent crime in society. One of the correctional tools is solitary confinement. The press has begun raising various issues related to solitary confinement, despite the fact that it is no longer used as a correctional tool. Solitary confinement refers to the confinement of a prisoner in a cell for twenty three hours, and minimal opportunity to socialize and environmental stimulation. Just like the death penalty, solitary confinement is also extreme sanction that may be inflicted ...

In the American history, a lot has happened leading to both positive and negative outcomes. In most cases, the most memorable effects have been in the economic sector of the country. This has led to different activities in the history of America to become significant. Some of these effects have been discussed below.

The great southwest strike

This strike occurred in the year 1885. It involved railroad workers who were oppressed by their management. This strike occurred in two phases where in the first phase, the workers petitioned for a common ground for negotiations. The then administrator agreed to negotiate and the union called off ...