Essays on Social Issues

The movie “Return to Paradise,” raises profound ethical questions regarding personal mortality as well as lawyers’ ethical responsibility. The movie revolves around three young Americans who enjoy a cheap and sensual summer in Malaysia, usually while stone on cheap hashish. Two of them, Sheriff and Tony, return to the United...

Global poverty and international distributive justice Global poverty and international distributive justice have taken center stage in fighting for equality in the society. International distributive justice promotes equity by advocating for people to work collaboratively in eradicating global poverty, through equitable distribution of resources. Thus, this paper presents my opinions and...

The compassion of human suffering that is portrayed in the work of Mother Teresa, Simone Weil, Martin Luther King and other movie characters tells much about the attributes of a secular saint. They acknowledged that people have souls and bodies, and therefore they would work hard to improve the human...

Katie Roiphe and Nicholas Dixon are individuals who have written articles concerning social matters in society. It is of importance to take a keen interest of these social aspects since they involve every person in the society in one way or the either, i.e. either directly. Katie Roiphe gives a...

Simone de Beauvoir is among the most popular novelist and feminist thinker who has contributed significantly to the field of philosophy. The most famous work of this writer trained in the analytic tradition is the “The Second Sex” from 1949 which forms the foundation of second-wave feminism (Cameron 483). She...

Introduction Edmund Burke states, Gaming is a principle inherent in human nature (Rogers 235). Gambling is the activity which entails playing at a game involving the chance for money. The activity is undertaken in various ways by individuals in different societies. For instance, in Africa and most other societies,...

Introduction For doing the same job, a woman is paid a wage lower than that offered to a man. What a sad fact. The pure thought of it disturbs any parent who realizes that after schooling their daughter for all the years with the same fee payments as her male classmates,...

Head, Tom. “5 Arguments for the Death Penalty.” ThoughtCo, 19 Feb. 2017, https://www.thoughtco.com/arguments-for-the-death-penalty-721136. Accessed 30 Jul. 2018. In this paper, Tom Head puts forward his arguments in support of the death penalty. He observes the waning support of the capital punishment in the United States by referring to a recent Gallup...

The central objective of the term paper was to highlight five theories that define juvenile delinquency or criminal behavior among adolescents and teenagers. The focus on delinquency among the young was informed by the fact that it was commonplace in the modern society. For instance, close to 1.6 million cases...

There is the common saying that men are from Mars and women from Venus just to depict how the two genders of the same species are different. The comparison between females and males is not new to us. As a matter of fact, it has been carried out through the...

Newman, R. S. (2008). Adaptive and nonadaptive help-seeking with peer harassment: An integrative perspective of coping and self-regulation. Educational Psychologist, 43(1), 1-15. Newman, as the prime objective of this article, seek to examine the dilemma that students faces while in school when harassed and the approaches that most apply to counteract...

Throughout the history, women have always been confined to the domestic sphere while the men control the public and all-important decision-making organs in the world. In the past women were not even allowed to make decisions that would determine their future as they were supposed to live under the shadows...