“It is better for all the world,” Justice Holmes asserted in Buck v. Bell, “if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the Fallopian tubes.”(Quinn, 82) Carrie Buck was the daughter of a woman who was feeble-minded, for that she was sent to “the State Colony for Epileptics and the Feeble-Minded in Lynchburg, Virginia.” (Quinn, 82) Buck had a child and the Supreme Court felt it was the state’s right to sterilize her. But, she declined and her case was sent to the “nation’s highest court”. (Quinn, 82) For Buck, the case was a complicated one especially because there were many who believed that the state had a significant role in determining offspring. “In the case of Carrie Buck, her mother, and her daughter, the requirement of sterilization was glaringly self-apparent.
Rhetorical Analysis of “The Declaration of Sentiments” Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s “The Declaration of Sentiments” wisely utilizes rhetorical strategies,such as anaphoras, objective manipulation of pronouns, and logos to copy the structure of the United States “Declaration of Independence” and highlight the hypocrisy of citizens who once were denied their civil rights by Britain and are withholding the same rights from women. The intro of “The Declaration of Sentiments” is close to a word for word copy of the “Declaration of Independence”, except for a few changes in gender specific pronouns, “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” She manipulates the pronouns this way to derive the underlying point that women should have equal rights to men. This is an effective strategy, as it starts to introduce a heavy logical appeal that will continue to show throughout the rest of the declaration. Soon following this, logos is again drawn showing powerful and sophisticated word choice, “Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes... but when a long train of abuses and usurpations,” Choosing to use a word like prudence, which has a close meaning to common sense, to start off a sentence brings the audience to the idea that the point applied is widely accepted. Logos like that can make people blindly follow because it just seems right.
"One Nation Under God' is the sixth and seventh line of the pledge. “Nation" is just repeating United States of America and "Under God" is the United States being blessed by God. "Indivisible, With Liberty" are the next two lines. Indivisible means it cannot be divided. Liberty means having freedom.
They must pay taxes, vote in elections, and serve their country whether at home or abroad. They must be accepting of all religions, ethnicities and personal morals. First, an American has the right to speak their mind, which is freedom of speech. This freedom helps us serve our country, an American stands up for what is right and just. As Ghandi said "A "no" uttered from the deepest conviction is better and greater then a "yes" uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble."
Same-sex couples can adopt children to raise as their own, and specify them as their heir to land, property and wealth. We live in a country where we pride ourselves on freedom and equality, and to live up to that pride, we must destroy the arbitrary lines drawn in our moral, ethical and legal views on same-sex marriages. If we give no thought to the marriage of the elderly, infertile, or child-less-by choice, why should procreation be a factor on the legalities of recognizing same-sex marriages? The simple answer is, it
"...that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness..." The framers of the Constitution formally indicate the importance of God-given values in the lives of every citizen in America. The most significant
How did it get to this point? A background in elitism according to Abramowitz stems from the ideology of self reliance and personal freedom. The main idea is that the individual is responsible for themselves in order to achieve the greatness that they desire. The main issue is that those who achieve restrict those who are not at their level from being heard. The counter to elitism are the theories of egalitarianism and populism, which are doctrines in which they support the rights and powers of the common people in their ongoing struggle with the political elitism, they believe that all people are equal.
This would create a vicious cycle of the poor against the rich and the perfect against those unable to reach perfection. This would never allow anyone to fight for their dreams or to try to seek a better future for them or for their families. In Conclusion, the genetic technology that we see in the movie “Gattaca” would be very harmful for society and have bad effects on how people live. It would stop those who aren’t born as planned from fighting to achieve something out of what is expected. It would be very prejudicial and people would stop caring for who you care and just look at what your hereditary traits say.
These two themes show the ugly side of war. Insanity among the soldiers and the way they view each other is very unusual. The soldiers can’t conform to one another or follow a common set of rules. The reader also sees that regardless of his mental state, Yossarian can’t be discharged. The theme of death, is one that is against war.
Why Democracy? Preserving Human Right: Democracies attempted to preserve individual freedom and to promise equality of opportunity. The U.S. Declaration of Independence expressed the belief that “all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” The declarations added that the people may change or abolish the government if it interferes with those rights. People once thought that the greatest obstacles to individual freedom and equality were political.