Essays on Human Rights

Bishop and Fyre show how polarization and sexism correlate with each other, demonstrating how our society normalizes discrimination. They both expose how society often creates barriers to ignore new, or different viewpoints. As well as, the overwhelming amount of oppression that can no longer be…

Derek Bok, a previous president of Harvard University, presents his argument in defense of free speech at Harvard in “protecting Freedom of Expression at Harvard. Bok introduces the problem with an incident at Harvard when two students hung Confederate flags in public view and describes…

In this paper I will present a defense against the main criticisms against affirmative action, with a focus on gender-based affirmative action. The first part of the paper will outline the brief history of affirmative action politices and their scope as corrective measures. The second…

Cities such as Seattle, New York City, Portland, and Las Vegas have implemented different forms of banishment in order to keep individuals deemed to be “undesirable” out of certain parts of their cities (Beckett & Herbert, 2009). These individuals often consist of individuals that are…

Justice to a criminal should not be by a dragged out death by injection of drugs or an electric chair, but by a mental suffering of not knowing what will happen next. The death penalty isn’t worth the money put into it. Killing off a…

Racial minorities made up about 37.4 percent of the general population in the US and 46.6 percent of armed and unarmed victims, but they made up 62.7 percent of unarmed people killed by police and all happened to be African Americans or Hispanics. This only…

When most people think about discrimination, they typically think of a person being discriminatory to another for their race, gender or various other reasons. Very rarely do we think of animals being discriminated. Now most people will ask how can you discriminate against an animal?…

Feminist epistemologists believe that the traditional ways of obtaining knowledge through sciences and social sciences are valid, but gender biases are prevalent in these practices and need to be removed to be truly objective. Feminist methodologies all share a dedication to move the focus from…

Whether you are an Indian or a Pakistani, at one point or another, a simple question might have whizzed through your mind like a bullet: What if India was never partitioned and Pakistan was never created? The several reasons including the oppression and discrimination against…

From birth until death societal structure provides individuals with acceptable and unacceptable behaviours in society based on whether they are male or female (Dietert & Dentice, 2009). As per 2011 Indian census it was reported that total population of transgender is around 4.88 lakh (Transgender…