Essays on Social Issues

The Role of Managing Children's Behavior The role of managing children’s behavior is one of the biggest dilemmas encountered by parents today. There are various ways of improving children’s behavior, including positive reinforcement, taking away privileges, time-out, and physical punishment. Physical punishment is a way of disciplining children by causing them...

The Benefits of Technology The development and growth of technology are considered to be the best thing to ever happen in the global world, due to the many benefits it brought to its users. Through technology, people can communicate with one another regardless of where they are around the globe. Technology...

The Importance of Border Control The United States has spent a lot of the taxpayer's money on border control. Illegal immigration is one of the reasons why border control is crucial. Illegal immigration increases security risks in the country as some of these migrants can be terrorists or enemies of the...

I chose to write on gender inequality in workplaces since it was a pressing issue in my previous working place. It was superficial that women were discriminated in workplaces which makes them feel sort of lesser human beings. Despite the constitution’s laws instituted for protection against gender inequality, there has...

Sampson, Robert J. "Family management and child development: Insights from social disorganization theory." Facts, frameworks, and forecasts. Routledge, 2017. 63-94. Social disorganization theory posits that juvenile delinquency stems from communities that face issues with managing child development factors effectively and thereby suffer from other problems such as child abuse and high...

Introduction: Over the last decades, cyberbullying has rapidly increased all over the world. Cyberbullying is the use of the internet and other electronic communication devices to spread hateful information about another individual. The most affected groups include the youths, bisexuals, gays, disabled individual and the socially isolated persons. The bullying may...

Very few people accept to be associated with the wrongdoers, in fact, most of them avoid associating with suspected wrongdoers even before they are convicted of their crimes. Jeffrey Toobin in The Legacy of Lynching, on Death Row attempts to give an account of a 20-year-old Black American lawyer, Stevenson,...

The Scottsboro Boys case of 1931 involves nine black gentlemen who were falsely accused of raping two white ladies in a freight train in Northeast of Alabama. Except for Roy Wright who was among them, other boys were accused of this crime without adequate evidence and later charged and sentenced...

Bullying and Its Impact on Self-Esteem Bullying is one of the issues that affect the self-esteem of people. In every context, there are those persons that are considered vulnerable. As such, those who have authority tend to intimidate those that are perceived weak. In most cases, people focus on the issue...

Although globalization has had positive impacts on the development of various countries, it is associated with adverse effects on the climate through an increase in the greenhouse gas emissions.  Globalization has gradually increased across the world as interconnections and relationships are created between various countries to keep up with the...

Human nature is prone to the in-group associations which results in prejudgment and formation of mainly hostile attitudes based on limited information a situation known as prejudice. As a result, prejudice leads to the development of stereotypes, discriminatory behavior, and even bullying which are the basic aspects of conflict development. Consequently,...

Hospitals hold an ethics clause against sharing patient’s information against third parties. The understanding is that no matter what the patient speaks to the doctor, the doctor is not allowed to share the information with third parties. In the article, “Should I Protect a Patient at the expense of an...