Running head: COMPARATIVE REVIEW Introduction The article “Why Prostitution Initiative Misses” was written by Ronald Weitzer, a professor at George Washington University who specializes in criminology. The article is about prostitution and the proposed Measure Q a bill initiated by the city of Berkeley. The second article “The Legalization of Prostitution” was written by James Bovard a libertarian author and lecturer who have written several books on social issues. The article states several reasons of why legalizing prostitution is important. Article One The purpose of the article is to state why Measure Q, a proposition on the November 2004 ballot in the city of Berkeley, is negative and should not be passed.
Is It Ever Too Late For an Apology? “But I Didn’t Do It” by Stanley Fish is an essay about how Georgia lawmakers try and resist apology. This is a claim of fact essay and is about the controversy on whether or not it is reasonable to apologize about something that happened long ago, and whether or not the Georgia lawmaker’s reasons for resisting are substantial. Georgia’s legislature is in the process of passing an apology movement for a wrong that was formerly done about slavery. According to Fish, reasons for resisting the apology movement are very plain.
Persuasive Outline Topic: Stand Your Ground Laws General Purpose: To Persuade Specific Purpose: To persuade the audience the importance of Stand Your Ground Laws in the United States and why it shouldn’t be repealed. I. Introduction A. Attention Step: The United States, a place where people die everyday, some due to natural causes and many due to homicides. Our homicide rates are rising every single year because of one reason, murders.
Lastly, I believe that a clause needs to be added to the law, which would prohibit the initial aggressor of a confrontation from claiming Stand Your Ground. In my opinion, a person who provokes instigation should not be allowed to claim Self-defense afterward like Zimmerman and Dunn. Earlier this year, a committee in Florida held a hearing in which the parents of slain teenager, Trayvon Martin, testified. The purpose of the hearing was to determine if and how the Stand Your Ground law should be amended. In an overwhelming vote, the committee agreed that this controversial law should be revised.
In a perfect world this would be true. However, there are many other factors that must be taken into consideration before agreeing with this statement. For example, in a 1996 study Professor Gary Kleck (University of Florida) states that more than a million crimes are thwarted due to the homeowner being in possession of a firearm, with only a very small percentage of these incidents ending up in death or injury of either party. With guns being banned, it would simply take a group of criminals to march into a home with no fear of being shot, to overpower someone and do as they please. This is assuming that the criminal who is breaking countless laws as it is has decided to abide by the gun control law.
and Robert Kennedy the 1960’s were two foundational instances when the government knew they had to act and strengthen gun control laws. Gun control laws have always been an issue for every state. One of the biggest issues is that we don’t have enough people that are willing to speak up for stricter gun control laws. According to an Associated Press poll in December, “only half of Americans thought that gun laws should be stricter and 15% actually said they should be less strict.” I think we can all agree that gun control laws should be stricter. There are people who are mentally ill that are able to purchase guns with the intent of killing people.
Oxholm 1 Olivia Oxholm Cole AP Lang October 7, 2012 Civil Disobedience and Letter From A Birmingham Jail Comparison In writing Civil Disobedience , Thoreau attempts to motivate the American people to change. He stresses the responsibility of citizens to protest and take action against corrupt and unjust laws of the government. His angry disposition is obvious from the beginning through the fact that he chooses to start with the statement that “government is best which governs least” and takes it a step further to say that “government is best which governs not at all”. Meaning, that the most ideal form of government is one that enforces the least amount of power over its people. As for Martin Luther King Jr., he also writes to show
The numbers don't lie.” “The comments, and the mayor's defense of them, have touched a nerve, sparking a deluge of criticism. Mr. Bloomberg's NYPD ramped up the stop-and-frisk tactic, conducting more than five million stops since the mayor took office in 2002—the vast majority of them being young black and Hispanic men, (Saul and Faux). He practically validated his action and disagreed with the accusations that NYPD racially profile because minorities are not stopped enough compare to the murder suspect’s description and the number of stops are equivalent to the demographics of individuals who commit
In particular anti-harassment policies. Any employer who has not updated its anti-harassment policies since the United States Supreme Court decision in Burlington Industires, Inc. v. Ellerth and Faragher v. City of Boca Raton should do so promptly (Mautner, 2000). In Hafford v. Seidner the courts recognized that the overall harassment experienced may not have been based exclusively on his race but also on hostility to him as a ‘black Muslim.’ They showed that the theory of hostile-environment claim is that the cumulative effect of ongoing harassment is abusive. In this case the courts realized that even though the harassment was not all based on race, it was caused by their bias against his religion. All anti-harassment policies should include language prohibiting harassment on the basis of all protected categories and provide an easy to use complaint
Where to Draw the Line The First Amendment of the U.S. constitution boldly states that “Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech.” As members of society, we witness this privilege utilized in both positive and negative ways through our daily lives. But, what happens when this liberty is abused and the emotions of certain groups are damaged in response to this “freedom?” Through his essay, “Protecting Freedom of Expression at Harvard,” scholar and former president of Harvard University, Derek Bok, expresses his firm claim that “Hanging a Confederate flag in public view or displaying a swastika in response is insensitive and unwise because any satisfaction it gives students is far outweighed by the discomfort it causes