because of their religion‚ language‚ and skin tone. They tore African families apart and subjected them to inhumane conditions. This tradition went on for over two hundred years‚ until President Abraham Lincoln abolished slavery in 1865‚ after the Civil War. Even though slavery ended in 1865‚ blacks were still persecuted and treated cruelly in America‚ despite the efforts of prominent Black scholars who fought for racial equality such as W.E. B. Du Bois. Hate groups such as the Ku Klux Klan sprouted
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INTL 4997: The Mexican Drug trade | Reading Response #3 | | | Audrey Robert | 10/31/2012 | | David Mares gives us insight into the political economy of drug trafficking in his book Drug Wars and Coffee Houses. To help us understand how psychoactive substances are organized and distributed‚ he uses the concept of a commodity chain. A commodity chain is the system that links consumption of psychoactive substances to everything that makes it possible‚ and proves that if something
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Just war theory is a set of normative principles that determines when military force is just (jus ad bellum principles) and how war can be executed (jus in bello principle). Although war is generally characterized as aggressive‚ destructive‚ and morbid‚ there are basic principles that ought to guide the conduct during wartime. Under jus ad bellum‚ the most important principle is that war must have a just cause. This means that the causes that resort to military force must be appropriate. For
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Differences in how conflict theorists and symbolic interactionists view the issue of gender and housework. The conflict theorist perspective emphasizes on the inequality existing in marriages. According to the conflict theorists‚ there exists an unequal power between couples (husbands and wives) in a marriage. Conflict theorist postulate that an individual with marriage experience as having been in marriage or have even experienced marriage from its inner perspective understand that however much
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(e) “The just war theory makes war fair” Discuss this statement. You should include different‚ supported points of view and a personal viewpoint. You must refer to Christianity in your answer. [12] The Just War Theory was put in place by philosophers such as Plato but later on added to by people such as Christian monk‚ Thomas Aquinas. The aim of the Just War Theory is to provide a kind of framework as to what is the right way to act in a potential conflict situation. Christians have a fairly
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free. Bernie Sanders should become our next president because of his ideals and his stance on marijuana‚ immigration‚ and the college for all act. The war on drugs has been on going throughout the U.S for a very long time and had costed many lives. Much of the reason for the deaths is because of the smuggling and what not of the drugs. “The war on drugs is a failed policy.” He believes He believes that non violent offenders should not be put in jail but get treatment for their addiction. He also thinks
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Two names that are repeatedly mentioned in sociological theory are Karl Marx and Max Weber. In some ways these two intellectuals were similar in the way they looked at society. There are also some striking differences. In order to compare and contrast these two individuals it is necessary to look at each of their ideas. Then a comparison of their views can be illustrated followed by examples of how their perspectives differ from each other. Karl Marx was born in Trier‚ Germany in 1818. He
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The Libya‚ Obama and the Just War Theory There is no doubt that philosophy can be applied to everything from politics‚ to government‚ to our personal relationships. In today’s world‚ however‚ it is difficult to simplify everything into theoretical whims of Cicero‚ Plato‚ and Kant. The Libya‚ Obama and the Just War Theory is a blog post written by a man under the alias “Doctor Cleveland.” Cleveland provides us with a prime example of an archaic theory being used to justify decisions made in a complex
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The War On Drugs In the article written by Julian Critchley‚ he urges us to see through the tabloids’ fantasist dictation of drugs and instead focus on the facts; the legalization of drugs would have an overall positive effect on society. He shared his experiences and gathered knowledge over his time spent at the forefront of the war on drugs and takes a controversial step against the current government policy to make radical changes to our country’s draconian drug laws. His argument is
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Economics 200 November 20‚ 2001 Economics is Winning Bolivia’s Drug War A 1998 article from the New York Times reported that Bolivia was winning its war against drugs as a result of two factors that influence the market for coca‚ which is used to make cocaine. First‚ Bolivian soldiers raided a number of coca plantations and destroyed the crops. Second‚ Colombians began growing more of their own coca and‚ as a result‚ now buy less from Bolivia than in the past. I am proposing that the basic
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