A reader with even slight knowledge of the Holocaust or of Nazi Germany, would understand that sciences practiced during the Holocaust on prisoners was inhumane and as a whole un-scientific. The fact that some of the same procedures used in a time of moral darkness, were being used in America, is unnerving. The idea that Nazis were eugenically sterilizing thousands of people for the same reasons as Americans should unsettle the reader, making them uncomfortable to condone this behavior. The text “Carrie Buck’s Daughter” by Stephen Jay Gould is a successful persuasive text because Gould uses allusions, intellectual language, comparisons, sarcasm and statistics to provoke the reader’s thoughts and make them want to agree with
Incapable The N.C. Sterilization Program was an immoral set of laws devised by the U.S. Government that allowed states that were represented by the eugenics board to declare if an individual was genetically suitable or unsuitable to reproduce similar persons into the gene pool. Those who were seen as unsuitable were deemed by the term “degenerative” meaning considered to have fallen below a normal or desirable level in physical, mental, or moral qualities. They were later sterilized and could no longer reproduce. One of the many people sterilized was Elaine Riddick, a 14 year old rape victim. Eugenicist , the study of or belief in the possibility of improving the qualities of the human species or a human population, especially by such means as discouraging reproduction by persons having genetic defects or presumed to have inheritable undesirable traits.
In Hit, she talked about having more equality laws so wives and children could leave unhappy homes. This also required the women a right to vote. In Hit, she wrote, “[U]ntil women have a voice in making [laws], they must of necessity be imperfect, as are all laws, where … woman has had no voice in their making.” She also argued that marriage was a “contract” between “equal partners as she wrote, “No young lady, when she is being courted … for a moment supposes that her lover can … ever wish her to be his slave.” In April 1917, while the World War was going on, she offered Kaiser Wilhelm II her land to have a German American peace conference. Also in 1917, while in Washington, she fell on the steps of Capitol. She was 85 years old and never recovered from her fall on the Capitol steps.
The American public was led to believe that this population was the enemy and that they needed protection from him. This meant removing the unjust from the just society (Austin, James & Irwin, John, p. 15). The consequences of mass incarceration are its achievements. It is the salt in the wound that history created. A common falsehood is that the Black man picked up his hat and walked out of his community (Alexander, Michelle, p. 179).
This was the land they were born on. This was their home. Being American might mean being so self-centered to put our so-called “discoveries” before trying to even reach an understanding of life that was already thriving in this land. But no, if anybody isn’t white, they might as well be called savages. According to the people that pillaged and plundered all the land that wasn’t theirs, practiced slavery, denied equal rights to women, and discriminated everybody that looked different in every way
Yolonda Easiley Mr. Philips English 1113 Essay # 4 July 24, 2012 Evil Can peer pressure make a person become evil without them knowing? In this essay I will speak on how easy it is to change a person’s moral conscience. Also are humans just pure evil from birth and if the right person comes along can that bring that evil nature that is in us to the surface? Humans are born to serve, so having an authority figures commanding us to do an evil act, in my opinion, it is peer pressure that most likely will be followed. In the short story, written by ZZ Packer, litter black girls are prime examples of how one can become engaged in acts of evil through peer pressure.
Friedan called it “the problem that has no name”. (Bowles,2010) In this book Friedan relates to these women and informs them that they are not alone. She let the women know that they could have more out of life then just during house whole chores and taking care of the family. She encourages them to look beyond of just being a housewife and to pursue a meaningful life. Three years after writing the book in 1966, Friedan helped found the National Organization for Women (NOW).
That’s how I personally would feel. For example, if a teenager had sex and got pregnant, whose fault is it? Is it the babies fault for making a stupid and ignorant decision? If you made a mistake, is it correct to put the blame on someone else? Catholics follow the golden rule of “treat others the way you would want to be treated.” Wouldn’t you want to experience life?
The draft discriminated racially, by favoring the whites and neglecting the minority populations, and economically, by favoring the elites and punishing the masses. Citizens of America who were wealthy enough to get into college were able to avoid the drafts, while their non-privileged counterparts had no excuse or choice but to fight in the war “Who were the people opposed to the war? …opposition to the war was inversely proportional to both wealth and education”. (Franklin 297). This provided the antiwar members with motive for refusing the draft.
It is not a social issue of mere preferences, but an issue about life and death. Abortion draws out the clashes between two divergent schools of thought. Proponents- identifying themselves as pro-choice argue that abortion is a fundamental right that should not be restricted by governmental authority whereas, Opponents- identifying themselves as pro-life, assert that personhood begins at conception, and therefore abortion is the immoral killing of an innocent human being. Although some people claim that abortion poses a threat to humanity because it involves killing a human being as life starts at conception, however, abortion legalization is important as access to legal abortions reduces maternal death and injuries, for the need to save woman’s life, in the cases of rape to preserve woman’s mental health, fetal impairment, due to resource limitation and finally it is a woman’s fundamental right to control her body. One of the most important factors for legalizing