Essays on Social Issues

The United States are one of the last countries on Earth where death, as a punishment, is still active. In 29 of its 50 states, if a crime is committed, a criminal could be legally executed. Capital Punishment is sometimes called Death penalty even though after the convict is sentenced to death once the trial...

Chabani Manganyi and South African Psychology Psychology in South Africa has a long and controversial history, especially given the country’s history of segregation and racial discrimination during the Apartheid era. The following essay intends on outlining psychology in South Africa in terms of racism, censorship, the curriculum taught in higher-educational institutions and the demography of...

People always say that ‘you become what you surround yourself by and who you speak to, reflects.’ The reason why this quote is so true and relevant to today’s world is because humans tend to get influenced by others around them. They will behave and understand things in the same manner as the ones they...

Introduction The struggle for civil rights in both Virginia and the entire country has its roots in the history of both Virginia and the United States. There were major periods of improvement and devastating setbacks that occurred for equal rights. The largest proponents in the ongoing and epic struggle is embedded in Virginia’s history and...

Following the self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi, a poor street vendor in the hinterlands of Tunisia in December 2010, a series of pro-democracy protest movements erupted across seventeen Arab states, including Yemen, Syria, Bahrain, Jordan, and Morocco, revealing the scope of mass discontent and coming to be known collectively as the Arab Spring (Hamzawy, 2016; Bayat,...

Problem Statement:- “The law only has sledgehammers, when what we need are parking tickets and spending tickets.”- Mitch Kapor, the cyberpunk Nowadays, the internet has been gaining its popularity at an amazing rate. The internet has become an important communicative tool, which brings significant convenience and efficiency for people. However, the internet also has severe...

Children mainly fall victim to crisis; child poverty and child abuse are two major areas of crisis today (Conway, 2003). Child poverty is extremely unsettling and unfortunate and happens a lot more than we know, “poverty is always ugly, repellent and terrible either to see or to experience; but when it assails the cradle, it...

Throughout life, we have attempted to speculate on knowing the truth of whether America is a substantial nation or if it’s a nation made up of a pattern of different political ideas. Martin Luther King and Abraham Lincoln were two similar speakers who wanted to reach a goal to help their society and make a...

Introduction The proverb “…. teach a man a fish and he will be fed for a lifetime” is one that is popularly used in refugee aid projects to encourage self-reliance and reduce dependence on the external body for livelihood sources especially over a protracted period. In this context, a refugee is defined as “someone unable...

Gun control is a topic of heated controversy in today’s society. Gun control is one of the many public policies the United States possess. In the United States possessing a firearm is constitutionally protected, but gun violence is all too common in today’s world. Are government officials just focusing on gun control as a whole...