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.,…
