Essays on Law

According to Lawrence Lessig, copyrights benefit artists by protecting them. The author of Remix: Helping Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy argues that, rather than allowing artists to build on past works, the war on piracy and copyright restrictions have made it impossible for artists to perform their...

Both Henry Thoreau and Martin Luther King held opposing views on respecting unjust laws, leaders, and institutions. Henry emphasized that the rules are intended to safeguard society from any sort of human injustice, such as slavery. He went on to explain that if the government, which is tasked with protecting...

Culture is a social artifact that develops as a result of social contact, either intentionally or unintentionally. Ceremonies, customs, language, symbolism, the design of work environments, the use of technology, and a group's problem-solving procedures or tactics are all examples of culture. The culture of people is much affected by...

Robert Nozick and Entitlement Theory Robert Nozick was a staunch opponent of excessive state interference in its citizens' lives. His entitlement theory attempts to propose a justice distribution approach that seeks to reduce the state's overwhelming influence. Novick advocates for a historical and ad hoc distribution of property, which is deceptive...

People's Perceptions Based on First Impressions People read a lot into first impressions during interactions. This impression causes others to form views about us. People may judge us as honest, educated, confident, or threatening simply by reading our minds in their initial contact with us. In most circumstances, these perceptions are...

The United States Constitution guarantees all citizens access to quality, affordable health care (Maxwell, et al., 2015). Yet, some people, particularly the elderly, chronically ill, and mentally challenged, continue to be denied access to services. The majority of nurse practitioners (NPs) focus on school health, women's health, psychiatry, oncology, and...

The United States' exit from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) The United States' exit from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) might have far-reaching consequences for America's standing as an economic leader. The agreement was one of President Barack Obama's measures to enhance US involvement in Asia and provide balance to China's economic and...

There has long been a broad and complex relationship between crime and the media. The media has had a significant impact on public opinion, policies, and perceptions of a variety of political, social, and even economic crimes. Hence, there is no debate about the impact of media coverage on public...

This project aims to investigate if marijuana is ultimately hazardous for human consumption or if it has certain favorable effects on the human body that can be quite beneficial to the users' lives. This project involves conducting a literature review on some of the accessible publications that describe the benefits...

The Problem of Global Justice Thomas Nagel argues in his paper The Problem of Global Justice that global socioeconomic justice assumes a sovereign world state. The purpose of this dissertation is to question his thesis and to give specific voice to a frequent tendency in political philosophy to assign disproportionate weight...

The tradition of paying bride price is widespread throughout the world, and it is also an important cultural feature in the majority of Sub-Saharan African countries. A bride price is a mandatory payment made by a man to the family from which he obtains a daughter in marriage. Bride price...

The jurors made a critical error in their evaluation of the evidence. With all of the evidence shown to the jurors, it is easy to conclude that there was no tampering with or framing of the evidence in order to frame "the kid" of the crime against his blood father....