Essays on Freedom

In Chapter Six, “Diagnosis: Freedom: The Civil War, Emancipation, and Fin de Siècle Medical Research” from her book Medical Apartheid, Harriet A. Washington analyzes how medical research and statistical data were manipulated back in the mid-1800s to the early 1900s to prove African American inferiority….

“Development as Freedom” is a book written by Amartya Kumar Sen, Indian economist. In 1998 the author was awarded a Nobel Prize in Economics Science for his collective and successful contributions in the sphere of welfare economics and social choice theory. Most of his research…

In the past few years in the United States, there has been a gaining popularity in the belief that some of its policies infringe on basic human rights which is false. However, throughout the world, many governments are clamping down on people’s freedoms by having…

In Ibsen’s A Doll’s House and Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, both playwrights have shed light on the struggles women face to establish their place in the patriarchal society. While in A Doll’s House women finally triumph over patriarchy, in A Streetcar Named Desire, they…

After visiting the museum, I learned that James Earl Chaney who were born and raised in Mississippi participated in multiple of Freedom Rides in 1962. These rides consisted of protesting the challenge to practice the racial segregation for bus rides. Because of Chaney and other…

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is an 1845 memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and former slave Frederick Douglass during his time in Lynn, Massachusetts. It is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives written…

Pros: Peaceful house: After a long day at work, you can come to a quiet and peaceful house. This makes your home the perfect place to relax. Freedom: It is your house, you can do anything you want without worrying about anyone judging you. You…

In Jo Smiths article ‘chickens run free’ smith opens the article by acknowledging that a truck of chickens was intercepted by activists in which the chickens were given their ‘freedom’ , arguing that it was a well needed head start in order draw attention to…

When you think of being satisfied with your life, what do you imagine? Having a good bank balance? Owning bungalows? Driving a luxurious car? Or do you simply vision yourself being contended with your family or having a peace of mind within your job and…

There is no simple answer to how modern freedom is defined with in political philosophy. In a free country with a modern democracy, political freedom could be defined as justice and fairness. There are two types of liberty; positive and negative. Positive liberty is freedom…