Essays on Social Issues

“The words with which a child’s heart is poisoned, whether through malice or ignorance, remains branded in his memory” (Carlos Ruiz Zafón, 2005). Verbal abuse is an issue that plagues many Caribbean households. It is believed that children living in loving households will often times...

Do you ever wonder how undocumented immigrants contribute to the U.S. economy? Are they really only coming to this country to live off of government assistance? My husband entered this country as an undocumented immigrant from Mexico in 2005. He, like everyone else that immigrated,...

“Everywhere immigrants have enriched and strengthened the fabric of American life”(Kennedy). In what ways and how did immigrants make American life better? Exactly whose life becomes significantly better due to the arrival of immigrants? Opponents say sanctuary cities prioritize illegal immigrants over public safety. It...

More than 44.7 million immigrants lived in the United States in 2018. This number is expected to grow within the next generation. According to Hoefer, Rytina, and Baker, each year, an estimated 150,000 to 200,000 migrants from Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras enter the...

Introduction The issue of global poverty appears to be getting worse with no clear end in sight. The rich are getting richer and those who need help aren’t getting enough support. It’s clear that most people believe that everyone, no matter where they live and...

Everyday we see rich American consumers walking around with expensive cars buying new TVs, 100.000 dollar houses and other luxury items. In “the Singer’s solution to the world poverty” Peter Singer argues that there is know reason that these type of people and others can’t...

A positive duty is a duty of which we are required to carry out (Singer, 1965). Resultantly through Singer’s argument that we have a positive duty to give as much as we can afford to poverty relief charities, he has removed the notion of supererogation...

When you bring up world poverty it always seems to depress people, yet they go eat out once a week and they buy things that they do not even need. Do people really care about world poverty, if they are willing to spend unnecessary on...

Every day, Americans spend their hard earned money on material things that either satisfy a need or provide some form of gratification or pleasure. Should an individual feel remorse buying such items on a daily basis knowing that those few dollars spared can rescue a...

Uprising: Hip Hop and the L. A. Riots is a documentary that was produced in 2012 and it shows how hip hop foretold, some say it fanned the flames of the most terrible civil unrest recorded in America in the 20th century. The documentary is...

The song April 29, 1992 (Miami) by the band Sublime describes social and racial inequalities. The song begins with a police officer reporting damage to a vehicle over his radio. Following this the song begins describing the scene during the Los Angeles riots during the...

Rodney King was an African-American male born in Sacramento, California on April 2nd, 1965. In Los Angeles (on March 3rd, 1991), Rodney King was pulled over by LAPD, forcibly removed from the vehicle he was in, and savagely beaten by four LAPD officers; Laurence Powell,...

The Rodney King case was so influential in American society because it was supposed to be straightforward. It was the first time there was video evidence of police brutality and it was incredibly difficult to watch. It should have been enough to convict any of...

Introduction Public Shaming is where a criminal is humiliated in public instead of being punished by law or other measures. Shaming has changed its techniques and arguably has produced effective results for minor crimes. Public Shaming uses several tactics, including mental abuse to criminals. People...

In the novel, Feet of Clay (1996), The City Watch are in an attempt to solve the murders of the priest and baker and the poisoning of the Patrician, Lord Vetinari. The crimes are supposedly done by the “king” golem, Meshuggah, who is created to...

Since the early 1800s, public shaming has been part of American history.It is not surprising that people have learned so well about the practice of shaming others publicly for their wrong actions. Through today’s age the exploitation of social media and new technology has advanced....

A U.S. Supreme Court case in 1896, Plessy v. Ferguson is considered a landmark decision that upheld the legitimacy of racial segregation laws in public facilities in the U.S. emphasizing support on a legal constitutional doctrine known as “seperate but equal.” This decision not only...

Nowadays, we are living in a world full of racism that leave us without hope in the future, but, if we look at the past, we can see all the changes that have been made and all the injustice that people like Rosa Parks or...

Montgomery, Alabama was the old capital of the Confederacy within the Deep South during the pre-Civil Wartime, and for numerous decades following the Union’s victory of the war, resulting in the abolishment of slavery, Montgomery was still considered to be the heart of the old...