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ABSTRACT On a warm summer morning in September of 1983 a young boy's life was about to end. He would be the victim of a person who most people would never have suspected. This…

with a beating heart a living creature? A baby's heart forms and starts beating in the fifth week of pregnancy, therefore, that would make abortion murder. The baby that is growing inside of you is depending on you, so when you make the choice to…

The conception that lesbians and gay men may be parents is frequently perceived in today's society as impossible or immoral. Gay men and lesbians are often viewed as excluded from having children because sexual reproduction is related to…

of the State if it goes against the individual's will? The only obligation anyone has is to do what they think is right. When laws are broken, consequences are inevitable. Obeying the law is every citizen's duty, but if a law is seen as unjust then…

in today's world. There are two million children ranging from ages 4 to 16, who are forced to work. These children find work in textile mills, mines, glass factories, canneries and sweatshops. Jobs are needed so badly that kids can get fired from…

United States was established in seventeenth century Virginia. Small units of land that were privately owned produced harvests of crops such as tobacco, rice, sugar cane, and cotton. These crops were very labor intensive. The European immigrants who…

is defined as the legal infliction of the death penalty. The death penalty is corporal punishment in its most severe form and is used instead of life long imprisonment. Putting people to death that have committed extremely terrible crimes is a…

to have her students read The Catcher in the Rye, but was aware of the profanity described in the novel. Worried that the parents might oppose, she asked permission of the parents, and most of them seemed fine with it. Of course, later on, someone…

a value equal to that of a living human? Is the death of one human worth saving a thousand animals? These are questions that remain controversial to this day. Should human beings abuse the autonomy allowed to them through such things as technology,…

goes as follows: Any action that kills an innocent person without their direct consent is ethically wrong; war kills innocent people without their direct consent. Therefore war is ethically wrong. The first premise of my main argument states…