Essays on Public Debate

The world today is seeing more immigration than ever before, both legal and illegal. While countries forging solid links with one another in the vein of the European Union (hereafter referred to as EU for brevity) has encouraged legal immigration of all kinds, while war and deprivation in various other parts of the world has led to a burgeoning refugee crisis, with more people entering Western countries than can be adequately or carefully handled at any one time. These forms of immigration can be seen as quite different to each other at face value; however, when looked at in ...

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The field of medicine will continue to move forward (Worboys 117), and this has been indicated by the products produced by laboratory sciences, as well as the development of significant medical products like penicillin, which was made possible through the discovery of ‘macromolecularization’ (Lowy 117). Like the industrialization since the post-World War II era, the field of medicine will continue to move forward (Worboys 117), as was indicated by history, specifically the industrialization period, which shows “development of hospital and laboratory medicine, public health, and the rise of the asylum took place” (Worboys 109). However, when discussing the genomics ...

In the late 1800’s, Europe was experiencing rapid industrialization and women were beginning to work outside the home. This sociological development led to a public debate on the role and rights of women in society (Pinchbeck 11). At this time a woman was generally legally under the control of her husband or father due to societal norms which were based on antiquated ideas that women were physically and mentally inferior to men and needed to be “looked after” (Pinchbeck 12). However, this hierarchical view of gender roles in families and society were beginning to change around the time A Doll’ ...

Islamophobic Media in Case of Park51

The past decade has experienced an increased growth of disdain for Muslims in the west especially in America. It has been a period where the western people have not hesitated to voice their opinions and expressions about Islam. The growing disdain, especially in America has been due to the 9/11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York. However, the proposal for the construction of an Islamic center close to the site of 9/11 terrorist attack provoked anti-Muslims activists who created a notion that the proposal was a scheme by Muslims in America to conquer the hallowed site of 9/11 ...

1. When was the Peloponnesian war? Who were the chief warring parties? What were the core issues at stake? Who was Thucydides? The Peloponnesian war was started in 431 BC and ended in 404 BC, the Greeks empire and the Spartan allies were the chief warring parties in the war. The core issues at stake in the war were the security and land ownership especially in the expansion of boundaries by the warring parties. Thucydides was an Athenian historian who wrote about the historic war between the Athenians and the Peloponnesians. 2. Who was Alcibiades? Alcibiades ...

Successful public policy is very difficult to devise but when the known facts and the perceptions of the citizens and government officials are used with honesty, success is more likely. David Baum wrote a book about the ‘war on drugs’ titled Smoke and Mirrors which was published in 1996. Examples from his book have been discussed with reference to Deborah A. Stone’s categories of causal stories. Causal stories that are used to justify public policy may involve policy actions that have been carefully researched and are targeted towards a specific goal. On the other hand the actions may be based ...

Introduction

There have been increased awareness on ethical business and environmental degradation within the recent decades. Just like human, organizations are held responsible for their actions. This paper explores the ethical theories and concepts as they apply to the case study of the OK Tedi Copper Mine. The new CEO of BHP, Paul Anderson had just come in office and faced with the task of managing what people had referred to as the world’s greatest ongoing “environmental disaster” (Velasquez, 2012).

Utilitarianism

Utilitarianism is a normative ethical theory that places the locus of right and wrong solely on the consequences or outcomes ...

Question 1

Karl Marx Karl Marx theory of conflict has a lot to offer about wilding behaviour in the United States. Wilding behaviour is all about self interest, individualism and many others which do not conform or are not supported by others resulting in a conflict. Conflict is a misunderstanding that is derived from any decision made by another with or without the intentions of hurting others but mainly as a way of being in power. This is shown in the Karl Marx theory of conflict where there are two classes in the society, one is the ruling and the other is the ruled. ...

Aristotle and Ethos: The Course and Consequence of Rhetoric

ABSTRACT

Aristotle’s Rhetoric detailed the components of persuasion, atomizing a form of communication that he recognized as indispensable to the Democratic process. He concluded that rhetoric in the hands of well-educated and trained philosophers could attain the status of art. Based on an understanding of human nature, the practice of rhetoric came to serve the purposes of men who understood human nature only too well. Today, the practice of politics has given rise to the cynical use of a rhetoric aimed at manipulating public opinion through superficialities.

Aristotle’s conception of rhetoric was based on – among other things – notions of ...