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In the US there are: “1.3 million refugee torture survivors living in the US” (News & Success Stories). Torture is the act of severe pain onto someone as a form of punishment to get them to say something the torturer want to hear. There is a divided opinion whether torture can be effective on getting…

In our novel, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, our characters face very many problems with human inequality and divisions within the human society. The title has very little significance and relation to the story, but the mockingbird represents the innocence we see in some of our characters. In our book, Atticus states that…

Slaves constituted about one-third of the southern population in the United States during the 1790s to 1860s and most slaves are bought to work on large plantations to help their masters on the sugar and cotton plantation which requires a lot of manual work and hard labor. Slave owners made their slaves completely dependent on…

From the moment the United States entered the great fight of World War I; it was found that during that same year congress presented the eighteenth amendment which banned the transportation, manufacturing, and above all, the sale of intoxicating-liquors. The amendment received a greater amount of support of the necessary three-fourths of the country in…

Bullying fails to honor human dignity, but there are ways to overcome it. Bullying can directly hurt the victim, affecting them in many aspects of life, such as their different types of health. Bullying completely fails to honour the dignity of the victim. Bullying occurs when the bully feels like they have more power over…

The movie “Cinderella Man” is a true story about James J. Braddock, a boxer during the Great Depression. This movie came in 2005. This film is about a man who went from “Rags to Riches,” but it wasn’t always that way. He was a world famous boxer and after his injuries and the stock market…

What is “justice”? What does justice mean? During the powerful play of antigone, justice is a focal point that makes this play so emotional, and is the cause of conflict. Throughout this play, a series of dynamic characters are introduced. The main characters include Creon, Antigone, Eurydice, Ismene, Polyneices and Eteocles. The play is set…

Having any sort of drug prohibitions will have a negative effect on the world’s economy because of all the violence and criminal activity from drug cartels, and the unknowing of the safety of the drugs leading to more people overdosing and being poisoned. Many examples in the present and past have shown that drug prohibitions…

In today’s society the sociological perspective on youth crime is that youth are more dangerous and disrespectful now than they were in the past (Schissel, 2010). This perspective is incorrect because many factors play a part in the increasing crime rates. Changes in juvenile legislation and rapid population growth are two reasons to why there…

It is presumably safe to say that the United States of America has not always been the “land of the free,” although the National Anthem would have one believe otherwise. Sure, it is true that America has always opened her nurturing arms to the likes of affluent Caucasian men. Certain groups of people, though, such…