Abortion In the time that we live in, it seems to me that humans have lost the respect for life. For one to actually be able to say they no longer want this human existing blows my mind out of the water. Abortion is clearly an act of murder, allowing one human to destroy another. Though the federal ...

Passion in Ai's Poetry Ai uses both sexes as speakers in her poems. In Twenty-year Marriage there is a female speaker who is speaking to her husband through her body movements. It is a man conveying thoughts to the mother of his dead child in Abortion. Both poems are very moving and be...

I believe in some cases, a woman should have the right to have an abortion if she so chooses. But in the case of Steve and Michelle, presented by philosopher George W. Harris, I feel that Michelle does not have the right to abort her child. When Michelle decided that she was not going to tell her ...

The Family Breakdown The disintegration of the family has always preceded the decline of a culture. America and American families are in trouble. In the history of our nation, there has not been a single generation raised with the societal conditions that we have. Our nation is faced with a severe ...

Imagine being in a cage, with cameras everywhere. Never being alone. There's nothing you can do about it. Only being able to eat certain foods, like a strict diet, but without the choice. Can you possibly imagine having to work at a job that covers up the truth in reality? Nothing is for certai...

The main character in this play is Shelby a woman who usually falls for the wrong type, romantically linked to Tyrel, a promiscuous man. Also supporting characters are Debra, friend to Shelby, married to Leonard, friend to Tyrel. The play was written in 1999 as a subsequent to the successful novel...

As a teenager, one is faced with many different obstacles that must be overcome. The pressure about school, homework, after school activities, a job, a boyfriend, and family all contribute to what makes up a teenager's stressful life. One important thing that teenagers face is sex. There is an i...

Making ChoicesIn everyone's life, there will always be a time that you have to make an important choice. Whether is for education, business or relationship. In the story "Hills Like White Elephant" by Ernest Hemingway is about making choice in a relationship situation, about a girl who need to mak...

Feminism is one of the most important themes during the 1970s. For centuries, women have been subjected to a male-dominated society. Recent history however, women start to struggle with what their roles should be in the society. As a female writer, Margaret Atwood develops the theme of feminism...

The Road of Teenage PregnancyAs a senior in high school, I had to make a very important decision. Did I want to have a baby and finish school, or did I want to get married and quit school. Although abortion and adoption were the right choice for some people, I knew they were not the right choice f...

'IF YOU LOVE ME, YOU WILL HAVE SEX WITH ME.' The statement is a threshold of many different viewpoints and opinions that people can have. Some may believe that the statement is correct in saying that if u love someone, u should have sex with that person, yet, on the other hand, some ...

Human Sexuality Written Assignment I can not think of a proper age to engage in sexual intercourse because to me it should be experienced when one has matured enough and has the ability to make choices on their own, which would normally would be later a young adults life. But as where some peop...

The English Patient Essay Love can sometimes be a destructive or a healing force to one's relationship. In the novel, The English Patient, written by Michael Ondaatje, love is appeared to be the truest element in many forms of relationships during the wartime. The traditional marriage of ...

Edward Albee's, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, takes the audience through a night of a few drinks shared by college professors. This show first appeared via television on October 15, 1962 and is considered to be one of the most important plays in modern theatre. The play is set ...

In the recent 2004 Presidential Election, the candidates for the different parties had several main issues that they made arguments on. Some of these issues included: the war on terror, health care plans, tax cuts, abortion, the environment, and same sex marriages. Why should the government of a ...

THE GREAT GATSBY No, Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short winded elations of men. The American dream is love and money. In the novel, The Gr...

Pre-Marital Sex Pre-marital sex or fornication is somewhat of a common theme amongst teenagers in today's society. Despite the Catholic Church continuing to teach that sexual love between a man and a woman should be reserved for marriage, young people are still engaging in the act of pre-marital sex...

The Bushmen vs. Romans In this paper I compare the non literate society of the African Bushmen to the ancient agricultural society of Rome. I specifically compare the human institution of family. The other institutions are religion, education, economy, and politics. These five institutions are wa...

Officials that distribute condoms on school campuses have often been accused of immorality. As stated in the article, Condoms in Schools, "courts have tended to defer to school boards decisions and allow condom distribution programs to stand, but legislators have tended to re...

Sex is one of the most heated issues in our society today. Obviously sex has always been here, but in the past people were at least a little more discreet and respectful, and it was much more common for sex to be honored in marriages only. Now, sex education is taught to junior high scho...

What does the Handmaid's Tale contribute to the debate over women's positions in society today? Throughout the Handmaid's Tale there is a connection between women's roles in our society today and that of how they are perceived in the novel. All of the different roles in socie...

One can hardly imagine the reaction of the young bride Shidzue Ishimoto (later Kato) when she first arrived at the small mining town in Western Japan soon after her marriage to Baron Ishimoto, an engineer with ideals of social reform. Descended from the Samurai origins, Shidzue was born into ra...

In the novel The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, four of the main characters have a secret in their past that haunt them constantly. Suyuan Woo, An-mei Hsu, Lindo Jong, and Ying-ying St. Clair all have terribly bad experiences in China. These women try to escape their past by moving to America, but thei...

Contraception over Abstinence Over the past decade sex has emerged as a prominent aspect of everyday life. Television shows, movies, magazines, newspapers, radio programs, movies and billboards are just the beginning of the list of items that throw sex at the public everyday. Let's face i...

Greenfeld, Josh. (1972). A child called Noah: A family journey. New York, New York: Holt, Rinehart and WinstonThis is book tells the story of a family with a child named Noah that is Autistic. Josh Greenfeld is an author by trade but displays a unique perspective on his families struggles with Noah....