Essay Database

… suggest about his conceptualization of black subjectivity in the urban North, and to what extent does it depart from the "the New Negro" in Alaine Locke's text? The Bigger Problem Alain Locke's essay "The New Negro" explains how the condition…

… a leading environmentalist organization, proposes a moratorium on GE foods and makes its stand against business clear: "No one needs genetically modified food, except the companies investing in it. The only reason for its existence is to increase…

… handsome or beautiful, people will do almost anything to enhance their looks. American society is so obsessed with looks that some people choose painful and expensive routes to be gorgeous, such as plastic surgery, Botox, or collagen injections. There…

… is defined as "a system of faith in and worship of a deity." The faith and the deity is not specified or chosen. We as human beings have many different thoughts and beliefs about religion and what is "right" and "wrong." But in reality, we don't…

… exceptionalism has divergent views which are constructed by American and foreign historians, alike. The topic is, what makes America unique from other countries? What makes us, as Americans, precedent from other people in the world? This is an issue…

… A few more dallors in my pocket. I wonder if it's worth it, then I realize that I don't really have a choice anymore. I pray to you every night Lord that someday myself and my three daughters will be free from this life of abuse and fear. But…

… understand. People tend to look down on or think badly of people who do this. They may believe that these actions are simply to get attention or that it is a way of manipulating people. But, in reality these thoughts are very wrong. So many self…

… putting to death or failing to prevent death from natural causes in cases of terminal illness or irreversible coma". The term comes from the Greek expression for "good death." Now, this short definition is a cause of debates all over the world. Doctors…

… debate and controversy, whether it be between peers or cultures. It seems also that feelings are disparate and of polar opposites and people tend to cling to one pole without regard for the opposite opinion. Arguments for and against abortion tend to…

… a situation in which any use of nuclear weapons by either of two opposing sides would result in the destruction of both the attacker and the defender. The doctrine assumes that each side has enough weaponry to destroy the other side and that either…