Essays on Baseless

Present day education systems of the United States of America are subject to racially diversified college classrooms that are significantly different from the classes that existed by the second half of the twentieth century. The notable change is the outcome of “affirmative action” that became law under the Executive Order 11246 courtesy of President Lyndon Johnson in 1965. As per the terms of the executive order, publicly funded companies could not discriminate based on any traits including skin color, gender, and religion. In the end, the action sought to serve two purposes: make efforts to allocate equal opportunity for ...

After the American Civil War of between 1861 and 1865, the United States witnessed a rapid transformation in its societies as the people shifted from an agrarian-based economy to industrialization. The development of better transport and communication infrastructures across the States paved the way for the fast and profitable transition that made up the Second Industrial Revolution during the Gilded Age. The federal government supported the developing industries by imposing high tariffs to protect the interests of industrialists from foreign competitors. Subsequently, the high taxes on imports and exports guaranteed that the local markets were favorable for both the ...

Islamophobia

Conclusion and Recommendations10 Work Cited .11 Islamophobia

Introduction

Targeting a certain population or set of people in the world and stereotyping them and discriminating against them is not a new phenomenon as it has been around since a long time. People and nations that have been in power, always find a way to maintain their hegemony and keep their interests and benefits alive. In the same way, different people, creeds, nations and ethnicities have been discriminated against in light of the prejudices harbored by influential people. These can spread and affect the views of other people in the same way ...

Introduction

The legalization of Gay marriage has stirred a lot of controversies in America, and the world in general. Traditionally, marriage has been rooted in many cultures, practices and even traditions, as the union of a man and a woman. Same sex marriages or relationships have been prohibited all along, and people that went against these practices were often termed as outcasts. But in the recent years, the rate of gay marriages and relationships has been on the rise. This has stirred a lot of debate on whether they should be legalized or not. Movements and societies have been formed to protects the gay ...

In different societies in the world, the argument whether to be or not be vegetarian has caused a lot of controversies. The problem in this essay is whether the human race should stop eating meat or whether this practice is morally and ethically acceptable. The main argument presented by vegetarian individuals is that the average human being should be able to survive on a vegetarian diet that the nutritional needs can be met without resorting eating meat. Vegetarians usually base their argument on the moral and ethical implications of eating animal meat and that animals are caused suffering in the quest ...

Black on black crime myth or fact is a controversial subject in many countries with contrasting black and white populations. The black on black crime is a concept where blacks commit crime against other blacks. Although people committing crime against own people have been there for centuries, the concept of blacks-on-black crime seems too common in the present times. There are supporting and opposing sides in this never-ending debate. The whites believe blacks have criminality behavior and are capable of anything including crime against other people including their own. On the other hand, the blacks believe the whites just exaggerate the ...

The way the media approaches Benghazi scandal brought a lot of controversy where different media stations offered different versions of the incident causing conflicts and a clash of information. The different media stations offered different reasons for the attack leading to the failure and lose of track by the news media as a channel of communication. The media there focused more on partisan issues and concerns as well as aspects of entertaining the public forgetting their main role of being a gatekeeper of information. This therefore turned the scandal a political issue of the America leadership by presenting and criticizing the statements of various ...

‘Instructor’s Name’

Pro Gun laws 2nd amendment There are no two arguments that America loves its guns. The history of this great country is full of episodes of guns being used to defend not just lives, but also defend the values of this land – liberty and equality. The second amendment too acknowledges the need for gun possession for ensuring safety of its citizens. But in no where, in the law books of this country, it is written that, guns should be distributed without any checks. Easier gun accessibility would increase the chance of gun distribution among criminals and the ...

Before Liberation, Mao’s thoughts propagated against religious superstition; because there was no clear boundary between religions and superstition, against superstitions also included against superstitions. Religious superstitions were considered anti-social and anti-government, so many religion propagator of was exiled, including Buddhism. Along with Liberation, religion was accepted by society in order to unite all people together, and then the distinction between religion and superstition gradually became clear. Undeniable, religion had close relationship with superstitions, but religions are completely different in ideology then superstition (Jagou, n.d). Both superstitions and religion are theist idea and unscientific, but this is the ...

Paranoia is deeply entwined with the human psyche, and parallels can be seen across generations. This is made extremely clear with Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible, written in 1953, which parallels the communist-hunting era, so characterized by Wisconsin senator Joseph McCarthy and his incessant search for communists, against the backdrop of the Salem Witch trials. There are indeed many parallels which can be made. In both the anti-communist atmosphere of the Cold War and the paranoia of ultra-religious Salem in 1692, there was an element of “the enemy is among us”. It was, to an extent, taken ...

The article by Mark Nucklos, a teacher at Lomonosov Moscow State University School and at the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, exposes the ineffectiveness of one of the most widespread and widely accepted pro-gun arguments by the pro gun advocates. It tries and pin points the loopholes in the ‘Citizen Militia’ theory, which the pro gun people talk about of very seriously and commonly when defending their right to posses guns. The author comes up with some very important and vital points during the course of article to prove that the argument is totally baseless and weightless. ...

Introduction

Communication is a vital facet in today's’ social setting. The complexities emergent in the current settings are as a result of divergent contributing factors that entwine to yield an amiable stance. In different cultural settings, there are belief systems that are both emergent and sustained based on different contributing reasons. For example, most cultural festivities are as a result of an incident(s) that happened in the past which individuals and communities hold with high esteem. Such incidences are celebrated mostly with a lot of marrying, pomp and color. However, there is a challenge that emanates from fathoming the origin of a given cultural practice. ...