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ESSAY QUESTION: How did the concept of social and Civil Rights evolve during the 20th century with regard to African-Americans in the United States? 
PROVISIONAL HYPOTHESIS: By the twentieth century, segregated blacks in the United States began to protest against white supremacy, first in small groups that gradually evolved into a more organized effort with elected leaders. The leaders initially sought to fight against segregation and the killings of blacks in the Southern States but with time, the right to vote emerged as a fundamental concept in fighting racial discrimination. Consequently, publicized riots and the brutal handling of protesting Continue reading...

Perfect illustrations of societal imposed gender roles are evident in the History of the Roman Republic. From the commoners’ households to that of the richest man, the lowest government official to the influential politicians, the Roman Republic boasted of an entirely functional state with a culture observed by its people. About gender roles, while men enjoyed high degrees of independence and respect in the society, the women's autonomy faced limitations because of the men in their families. Fathers, brothers, and husbands were responsible for the females, both young and old. Hence, males reigned supreme in the political, social, and Continue reading...

Nursing

1 In the case of my friend’s grand-mother; Susan, who is seventy-nine years old, she has a frail body and requires physical support to walk around the house. However, she can perform all other ADLs on her own. She does require someone to help her take medicines. 2. Since my friend’s mother and father are employed, they have little time to spend with Susan during the day, and my friend and his sister spend as much time as possible with her. They also have a parrot at home, and Susan has a particular liking for this bird Continue reading...

Is Chindia a Friend or a Threat?

Nations create ties as a sign of camaraderie. Hence, organizations like the United Nations and the World Trade Organizations are formed. These organizations strengthen the bond that nations form and ensure that protocols are followed in the engagement of ties and bond between nations. However, there are often more to just mere camaraderie when nations affiliate among each other. For example, the United Nations was formed to ensure that nations will no longer engage in hostile situations that would succumb each to participate in war (United Nations Organization), while the World Trade Organization ensures to keep nations fully aware Continue reading...

World Health Organization defines diabetes mellitus as a chronic disease in which one's body does not produce sufficient insulin or it has a decreased ability to use insulin. It was calculated that there were 29.1 million people suffering from diabetes in the United States of America in 2012 (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 1). Currently diabetes cannot be cured but only treated with insulin injections and/or healthy lifestyle. This chronic disease remains the 7th leading cause of death. Cardiovascular disease, blindness, kidney failure, lower limb amputation are among the common complications of diabetes mellitus (International Diabetes Federation). It Continue reading...

Dear Governor

Re: The controversial sexual education bill
Owing to the above matter, I hereby take this opportunity to request you to drop the sex education bill which has proved to be controversial and contentious. Although yours is a good intention to ensure that children and the youth have a better understanding about their sexuality, this move contravenes a number of morals in our society. Abstinence is the key word every parent would wish their children to appreciate. It is important that you get to understand the anger of the parents towards your move of supporting this bill vigorously. As much Continue reading...

Business and Customers

Introduction
In business, ethics is the code of moral principles and values that guide the behaviors of different individuals within the business environment, such as managers and employees. Guidance for such action regards the right and wrong doings. Courageous, ethical behavior remains one of the essential traits of business managers today; a value strengthened by the lapse in morals and financial scandals as witnessed in some cases in the modern economy. We have, in the past, observed the degradation of corporate ethics that are clearly manifest in scandals such as financial and Health and Safety standards, corruption and bribery, Continue reading...

Introduction

This paper is a summary and analysis of Martin Luther King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” that was written on April 16th in the year 1963. Martin Luther wrote the letter in the Birmingham jail, where he was confined, after organizing and taking part in the nonviolent demonstrations against segregation. The letter was written with the primary objective of defending the nonviolent resistance strategy employed by the African American to fight racism. The paper mainly analyzes Martin Luther’s use of persuasion through the Rhetorical Triangle. Eemeren (19) defines rhetoric as the art of effective use of language in Continue reading...

In the United States, Congress uses data collected from the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) and the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) as well as the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) in the making of policy decisions. The information finds application in the generation of appropriate responses to crime. This crime data can be used to seek grants for the law enforcement agencies to implement systems such as community policing. Statistics are analyzed and compared using these measures. This paper will look at one of these methods, Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) data (Federal Bureau of Investigations, 2010). It will take Continue reading...

Does the US have a right to torture suspected Terrorists?

Introduction
A couple months ago in December, Senator Diane Feinstein released a report that documented the extensive use of torture by the US on a number of terrorists at certain black sites across the nation. Feinstein reported that the United States used, “enhanced interrogation techniques” which included waterboarding and other various de-humanizing methods. These were used by the CIA and describe how these methods were not all that effective in gathering information. Feinstein believed the use of “enhanced interrogation techniques” were both inhumane and ineffective in the pursuit of combating terrorism or any other potential threat to the United Continue reading...