It began when he was working in NSA as an analyst. He and his colleagues had some ethical doubts. He mentioned there were 18-22 year old analysts in a critical positions having daily access on all private records. These data were used for blackmailing others….
Essays on Legal cases
Whistleblower is not a new topic nor is it a new term, deciding whether a whistleblower is a traitor or a hero relies on the implications of their actions. Is every whistleblower considered to be betraying the company they work for, should they be considered…
Government officials have historically condemned government whistleblowing, though it has played an essential role in the formation and evolution of modern democracies. Although thousands of government whistleblowers have come forward in recent decades, few have achieved the same notoriety as Daniel Ellsberg and Edward Snowden….
Introduction We know the government is spying on us, we know the CIA tortures with waterboarding, and we know nuclear testing is dangerous. But are these just conspiracy theories that we have made up? Or is there some truth behind this? Who planted this thought…
People who are truthful often find themselves under scrutiny for being honest. Instead of being looked at as trustworthy they end up with being known as a blabbermouth. Blabbermouths have historically been retaliated against since humans first walked the Earth and the security of them…
Everything you do is being judged. Everywhere you go people observe and watch your every movement, waiting for you to pull out a gun or a bomb any second now. People say that it is not about your appearance, that it is not about your…
The stand your ground law has quickly become a controversial topic amongst US citizens since it was introduced in 2005 in the state of Florida, it has since been passed on by 26 other states, all though its different in every state the principal stays…
“An issue frame is ‘a central organizing idea or story line that provides meaning to an unfolding strip of events, weaving a connection among them… A frame can suggest explicitly that we should view an issue in certain terms,” Winter (2006). A framing effect occurs…
Police brutality is the use of unnecessary force by police when dealing with civilians. The issues surrounding police brutality isn’t a new. However, it has been a topic of conversation in recent years, with related cases popping up in the news regularly. So let’s take a look…
The night of February 26, 2012 a young man was killed. Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old Afro-American high school student was going back home after a walk to a 7-eleven store when the incident happened. Trayvon Benjamin Martin son of Sybrina Fulton and tracy Martin, he…
Some governments spy on everything we do on the Internet. The documents that Edward Snowden made public in 2013, so he had to flee the United States, have revealed how state security agencies use mass surveillance to secretly collect, store and analyze millions of private…
What would you do with all the information from the government? Well, think about it, would you do what twenty-nine-year old Edward Snowden did or would you keep the documents and let off all the information to other countries? Edward Snowden is considered a hero….
Edward Snowden. One name, one man, a person almost everyone in the information technology field has herd about. That one name can fill peoples mind with hatred or with respect and gratitude, sparking a debate that will last for years to come. How can one…
The Plessy v. Ferguson case wrongfully convicted Plessy telling him that the 14th amendment only applied to political rights not “social rights”. Homer Plessy was a 7/8ths white and a 1/8th black man living in a white and black world, with no in between. Whites…
In the United States Supreme Court cases of Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v. the Board of Education, the Court show signs that they are in favor of segregation. By assessing documents from the perspective of individuals in the different departments like psychology, sociology, etc.,…
A thirty-year-old shoemaker makes a history-altering decision on Tuesday, June 7, 1892, when he will be purchasing a train ticket to board the East Louisiana Local to purposely sit in the whites-only section. The man of the hour is Homer Plessy, and although he was…
The certainty of Miranda v. Arizona is a known as the important legitimate contention, simply because at the finish of Miranda vs. Arizona it prompted the presence of something huge that is still even practiced till this day. The case of Miranda v. Arizona occurred…
No man is allowed to be tortured to attract a confession out of him; he must be convicted first by trial. Then if it is clear that he had conspirators he is allowed to be “tortured” but in a humane manner. The Connecticut Law in…
Everyone has their natural right when they are being arrested or enterrigated they must be informed of their rights so that they understand that everything they say can and will be used against them later. Arnesto Miranda was the man in the case that wasn’t…
During the Nixon presidency many movements like the Hippie Movement, The Protest on Alcatraz by members of “Indians of All Tribes”, and the Women’s Rights Movement started to arise. Former President Richard Nixon was a strong supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment that would have…
Imagine if everything you did on your phone or computer was being watched and monitored. This kind of activity in the government is what Edward Snowden exposed. The government had a data mining tool that they used to collect metadata, as well as worked with…
Edward Snowden, born in 1983 North Carolina, was a former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor. He worked for both the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and NSA. At the time of his departure from Hawaii in 2013 he was a Systems Analyst with Booz Allen Hamilton,…
Government officials have historically condemned government whistleblowing, though it has played an essential role in the formation and evolution of modern democracies. Although thousands of government whistleblowers have come forward in recent decades, few have achieved the same notoriety as Daniel Ellsberg and Edward Snowden….
Introduction A lone figure watches from outside a church under his dark mask. He spots an usher that he instantly recognizes and quickly walks toward him, pulls out a handgun, and boom! He shoots two bullets into the man’s head. The usher is killed right…
Abortion has consistently been an incredibly disputable issue. There are, and will most likely consistently be a wide range of perspectives concerning the moral worthiness just as the social approach of abortion. Truth be told, before the choice made in the celebrated court instance of…
Watergate and the Nature of the Presidency Watergate Plus 30, a 2003 documentary looking back on the Watergate scandal during Richard Nixon’s presidency, gives viewers direct insight into the boundaries that were breached by the Nixon administration back in the early 1970s. Although Watergate is…
What Would Kant Do? Edward Snowden made waves when he released classified documents from his job with the National Security Agency (NSA), to the media. His actions launched the ongoing debate over privacy into forefront of American political discourse, where it has remained since 2013….
Edward Snowden was a NSA contractor that leaked an unknown number of confidential files to the press. Snowden always planned on being granted an asylum to avoid jail time for leaking the documents. This is apparent, since he left the US before leaking the documents,…
No Place to Hide opens to Glenn Greenwald describing what led him to “become increasingly alarmed by the radical and extremist theories of power the US government had adopted in the wake of 9/11,” and start writing about these issues in 2005 (1). He stresses…
In 1920, for the first time, the United States census revealed that more Americans lived in cities than in rural areas. This fact speaks to a dramatic cultural shift that had taken place. The older ethnically homogenous white Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP) culture, characterized by their…
Tennessee vs. Scopes Trial: Fact or Fiction In 1925 the court case of Tennessee v. Scopes received national attention, and gained legendary status. This case was the direct result over the nationwide debate on weather Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution, or the bible’s account of…
1920’s DBQ Throughout the centuries it has always seemed as if America is always changing. It is always on the rise to bigger and better things. Every era seems to get caught up with people who are all for new revolutions and ideas, and then…
“Because of the impact on the woman, this certainly is a matter of such fundamental and basic concern to the woman involved that she should be allowed to make the choice as to whether to continue or terminate her pregnancy.” Sarah Weddington, a pro-choice Texas…
The Roe v. Wade case originated in the state of Texas in 1970 at the suggestion of Sarah Weddington an Austin attorney. Norma McCorvey otherwise known as Jane Ro was an unmarried pregnant woman seeking to overturn the anti-abortion law in the state of Texas….
Challenges to Roe v. Wade – women’s right to privacy? We want abortion, so we will no longer have to have abortions Second-Wave Women’s Movement, Italy Thirty years have passed since the Supreme Court of United States stated its opinion in the Roe v. Wade…
