Essays on Controversial Issue

They say history repeats itself, but is it history if nothing has changed? In 2016, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick bewildered an American audience when he took it upon himself to kneel for the national anthem during football games. His actions meant to protest...

Immunization is a controversial issue because it involves a dispute between sides which hold opposing views. Those who support immunization believe that everyone should be vaccinated. Some proponents claim that vaccinating “Protects the herd”, protect the herd is saying if someone is allergic or can’t...

In many universities, free speech is a controversial topic. Campuses such as UCLA and Berkley argue that they are a free-speech campus yet later they are suspending students for their actions. Some board members agree with the consequences and say there needs to be a...

Growing old is inevitable. It does not matter if someone colors their hair or gets Botox to hide wrinkles; every human being on the planet eventually grows old. So how does someone age gracefully and accept what happens to them in old age? Is it...

It was early on the Sunday morning of August 17, 1971, when the Stanford Study Experiment first commenced. A college student was confused as he heard sirens blaring and a police officer placed him under arrest and drove him towards Stanford University. The “prison” made...

On this date in 1979, SKIDS released their second studio album, Days In Europa, (October 12th, 1979). The Bill Nelson produced and widely misunderstood Days In Europa delivered the thicker, insistent churn of ‘Animation’, ‘Charade’, ‘Masquerade’ and the almost skippy journey through Apocalypse Now terrain...

Depending on a person’s personality, background, mindset, etc. , they can see some things in the complete opposite way of another. A prime example of this is the poem by Theodore Roethke titled “My Papas Waltz”. The poem, depending how one can interpret the situation,...

An Avoidable Catastrophe In the discussion of the United States’ dropping of the atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, one controversial issue has been the justification for using the nuclear weapon. On the one hand, Spence Tucker argues that the atomic...