Essays on Human Rights

When a person has an irreversible illness with a prognosis of up to six months to live, should that person decide when to die and if a doctor assists a terminally ill patient in a peaceful death, is that mercy or murder? For most, death...

There are many conflicting views the concept of the right to death and whether or not an individual should be able to decide when to end their life. Some can agree that in certain cases under unbearable circumstances, such as terminal illness, having the right to...

Planned Parenthood is a non-profit organization that provides reproductive healthcare and family planning services. It’s a designed program to help men, women, and teens decide on many important decisions and procedures regarding abortions, pregnancy, STD’s, contraception, and many other things surrounding women’s reproductive health overall....

This essay discusses the effects of potentially defunding Planned Parenthood. Specifically this paper investigates the extent of which the defunding of Planned Parenthood in the U.S. negatively affects women’s health programs in the US and around the world. This essay examines the various issues associated...

“Your access to health care shouldn’t depend on who you are or where you live’. Planned Parenthood is a non-profit healthcare association that believes in women’s right to make their own healthcare decisions. In essence, Planned Parenthood should not be defunded because other healthcare providers...

It is both the accomplishment and the progress of legal codes with the intentionality of preserving the country against assualts, illegal foreign invasions and terrorism. It greatly helps to maintain security in worldwide trade and guarantees the control of immigrants. National security surrounds (focuses) on...

In the last few decades, technology has advanced swiftly in non-public industry. Devices just like the iPhone and the Internet have fundamentally changed the manner we live our lives, lots of the ones changes being good and plenty of being bad. As this technology makes...

Often times, authors and playwrights are ridiculed for their written works, which can lead to the banning of their literature. The practice of banning books, or other forms of printed works such as plays, is when the works are prohibited by law to the public....

The Magna Carta was one of the first documents that kept power in check between a single authoritarian figure and the soon to be called bureaucrats of the land in the early medieval age period. The king was crossing lines in what he can do...

The two terms “Civil Rights” and “Civil Liberties” are usually involved in our daily conversations. We use these words so regularly that many of us don’t even realize we’ve been using them interchangeably and incorrectly. Even though we can say that they are similar to...

The consumer goods we buy in our day to day lives have a lot of work and a big story to tell behind their making, but the story may not be so pleasing. Sweatshops commit an abundance of crimes that most of us are unaware...

Throughout the Middle ages, women in society were completely dominated and controlled by men, making their life’s difficult and unequal at the time. They were taught to be obedient and subservient to their male counterparts, which in turn gave them little chance for any independence....

This research paper will discuss the ethical theories of Emotivism and Social Darwinism, and their applications to abortion, capital punishment, and digital media/piracy. Section 1 – Ethical Theories Emotivism – General Beliefs Emotivism is a meta-ethical view that claims that ethical sentences do not express...

In the United States, 135,000 children are legally taken in and brought up by an adult that is not their biological parent each year. This action, known as adoption, has shaped an abundant amount of lives. Imagine being one of the 428,000 kids are in...

“Breast-feeding is the process of feeding a mother’s breast milk to her infant, either directly from the breast or by expressing (pumping out) the milk from the breast and bottle-feeding it to the infant.” The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends exclusively breast-feeding a baby for...

Introduction In Mexico City in 2010, it was “approved to allow same-sex marriage and since then, some states have continued with the reforms to the law” (Milenio), modifying their civil codes to allow equal marriages. However, they are currently only “sixteen states that have approved...

For years Gay parenting has been looking at differently in society. In the media, in the politics and in history. It has been viewed as a bad influence to some people and a good influence to the others. There are some major issues and challenges...

To raise the issue of globalization how linked we are in our present culture and where it comes from, one of the primary ways that has evolved over time is through trade routes and the concept of all trade paths is the Silk Roads. Evidence...

Civil Society Civil society is a powerful, yet vague theoretical concept and everyday practice. Whenever members of international organizations refer to democracy promotion or consolidation, local politicians talk about prosperity and welfare in their town or any non-governmental organization (NGO) writes a grant application, civil...