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The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire by Karl Jacoby is about a successful entrepreneur named William Ellis who lived an extraordinary life. Born into slavery as William Ellis in Victoria, Texas, he later decided to begin his new life as a Mexican named Guillermo Enrique Eliseo to…

Youth discounts, or “a proportional reduction of adult sentence lengths based on the youth of the offender” (Feld) are discussed throughout chapters 5 through 9 of Scott and Steinberg’s Rethinking Juvenile Justice. Critics such as Feld argue that the juvenile court should be abolished. They believe that a system that “employs a ‘youth discount’ in…

When people hear social justice, they may not really understand what the term means and may assume it is just a form of freedom and our rights. According to the Oxford dictionary, Social Justice is justice regarding the distribution of wealth, opportunities, and privileges within a society. However, I do not believe that definition is…

Laughter, smiles, and doing whatever you want is amazing. These are only a few examples of freedom. My name is Sunny Rain and I’m fourteen years old, and a live in Dorchester county , Maryland on Edward Brodas’s plantation. I have an identical twin named Billy Rain, but we think very differently. I also have…

Introduction Within the corridors of scientific progress, a moral quandary looms large—the controversial practice of animal testing. As society’s awareness of animal welfare grows, the question arises: Is it time to ban animal testing? This ethical dilemma reflects a delicate balance between the drive for scientific advancement and the need to protect the lives of…

Picture this: a patient suffers from an illness (cancer). The patient suffers with pain and nausea, but the federal government made marijuana illegal even though marijuana remains one of the drugs that are proven to help with these side-effects. Without the legalization of marijuana, doctors will not be able to stop the pain naturally of…

September 11, 2001, is a day that most people will never forget, The United States experienced the first major terrorist attack since Pearl Harbor in 1941. After sixty years of living in a safe zone, no one would expect such a thing could have happened- at least not in their lifetime. After the attack we…

Introduction and background One of the most important issues in sociology of gender is the position of women in the Islamic countries. This is an issue that has gained a lot of interest due to the view that Islam has been a patriarchal religion (Charrad, 2011). Under Islam, it is the man responsibility to protect…

The women’s suffrage movement was from 1848 to 1920 when women fought and spoke out for equality and political rights. Women had no power to own land, to vote, no voice in their marriages, and were limited on what they could do. This caused women to unite and fight for their freedom such as creating…

This is a case that looks at the implementation of a single market for goods and services across the European Union countries. Although the policy was launched two decades ago, its complete progress has not been witnessed A case of English Premier League broadcasting across European Union countries arises, Karen Murphy, the owner of a…