This essay was written for the Model United Nations (MUN) application at the American School of Doha, Qatar, by Hossein Moshfeghian in the 01-02 schoolyear. The debate over China's human rights violation has been an ongoing issue in the international communities for the past decade. One way...

May be right now someone is writing a letter. The letter is addressed to a president or king, a general. The letter is about someone the writer does not know. The writer is an ordinary person who has never met a king or a general. The writer is one of the 200000 members of Amnesty International. T...

Child Abuse is such a disturbing subject. Many parents throughout the world cringe when they hear this word. Ironically, one of Sweden's biggest problems is child abuse and trying to stop it. Despite living in such a prosperous wonderful country, children in Sweden are encountering all types of...

A woman dealing with the dilemma of an unwanted pregnancy puts her in the position of having to make one of the most difficult decisions of her life. William Robert Johnson from the organization Christian Voices for Life wrote, "All over the world abortions are performed every day, and for many dif...

WHO IS COMMUNITY AID ABROAD? Community Aid Abroad was founded by Father Gerard Kennedy Tucker, an Anglican clergyman in 1953. After hearing one of Father Tucker's speeches, a few pensioners in a nursing home saved up 12 shillings each week to send to patients in a hospital in an Indian Village. The...

By definition, child labor is described as "any economic exploitation or work that is likely to be hazardous, or interferes with the child's education, or is harmful to the child's health or physical, mental, spiritual, moral, or social development." Although this is clearly st...

The rising number of women who became dissatisfied with their place in American society influenced the rise of the women's rights movement in the 20th century. During the war, women played a major role in workplace, and were able to support themselves. After the war, most women lost their jobs ...

Our busy 21st century world contains a great many more people than it ever has in written history. With many recent advances in medicine and more food available to less wealthy countries, our numbers continue to increase dramatically. Some consider these facts solid ground on which to eventually s...

The advances of the technological revolution have molded the evolution of the United States' foreign trade in the 1990's and into the new millennium. Globalization has become the credo for the Clinton administration, and the booming American economy has done nothing but strongly bolster...

Society cannot escape contemporary moral issues. We are continually exposed to situations that bring into question our very system of beliefs. In response to these ethical dilemmas we are forced to adapt and reevaluate our present frame of mind resulting in both positive change and unavoidable str...