Essays on Social Issues

Bullying and Amanda Todd's Story Bullying is a deliberate and offensive behavior directed at another person. Bullying usually occurs when there is a disparity in intensity or power between the victim and the perpetrator. Bullying is generally repeated and happens over a long period. Bullying comes in a range of sizes...

Facebook case Since a provider of an interactive computer service should be kept responsible for delivering speech online, Facebook is immune from responsibility for the content shared by third parties. Allowing users to leave comments on a page or publish something does not open a business to the risk of being...

When a police officer uses excessive and needless brutality on people, he is said to be brutal. The police violence has been documented in a number of countries around the world. Several people have come to accept that police violence only happens against oppressed and marginalized communities as a result...

Racial Discrimination and Racial Profiling Racial discrimination is a particularly disturbing global issue that has disrupted interactions between law enforcement and African Americans and other ethnic groups such as Latinos and Asian minorities in many countries, including the United States and Canada. While reports that the United States and Canada have...

Increased globalization has influenced the growth of technology in today's world. Technology has significantly modified and strengthened the way people interact and relate to each other. The use of computing technologies, such as computers and cell phones, has theoretically grown significantly over the last few years worldwide, with virtually every...

Globalization is how cultural traditions and goods associated with one group in the world spread to other areas of the world, eventually becoming a global product. It has been a defining characteristic of society, with documents dating back to before the Industrial Revolution. Arguably, the world's overall technological advancements can...

When the civil rights movement is mentioned in a discussion, nearly everybody in the audience thinks about Martin Luther King Jr. and his commitment to the movement. Many young Americans equate the Reverend from Montgomery with the efforts and commitment made in the pursuit of freedom and justice for American...

The rhetorical study to be undertaken is that of Robert F. Kennedy's iconic address, which he delivered without advance notice after the death of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968. The Civil Rights Movement was in full swing in America in the late 1960s, and the nation was facing a...

This book is a compelling analysis that immerses readers in the world of opioid use and homelessness in the United States. Jeff Schonberg and Philippe Bourgois spent more than a decade following a group of nearly two dozen crack addicts and heroin injectors who lived on San Francisco's sidewalks. When...

LGBT Homelessness: A Growing Problem LGBT is an abbreviation for lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, and transgender people (Kath Browne 88). With each passing year, a growing number of LGBT youths experience homelessness. As a result, these teens are expected to live on the streets after being evicted from their homes or deciding...

Many sources of news have incorporated the use of humor to introduce such topics that appear to be unappealing to the public's attention and spread them around the board to ensure that they are known to the specific viewer and often worked on. Currently, satirical news programs that have been...

Tsavoussis' essay discusses the psychological effects of domestic violence on children's health. Domestic abuse in homes, according to the report, has a significant impact on children's growth and development. Domestic abuse is prevalent in the United States, with a prevalence rate ranging from 3.4 to 9.2 percent. According to a...