Should Physician Assisted Suicide Be Legal? The debate of whether or not assisted suicide should be legal has several different views, and the most common are portrayed in the two following summaries. First, Ernest Van Den Haag, who is a psychoanalyst who's works are widely published on poli...

October 25, 2001 Lincoln: The Articulate Politician The middle of the 19th Century was a period of turbulence and discontent for Americans; although citizens of one country, America was split by the presence of an institution known as slavery. The controversy surrounding the practice of slavery i...

The media provide our access to news and information. The citizens of a nation need to stay informed and thus come to trust the media that brings the news and information they desire without fear that it is a lie, an agency of an evil foreign power or in any other way not the closest to the truth po...

AMISTAD Amistad is a recreation of the true story about an 1839 slave revolt on a small Spanish schooner, La Amistad, ironically the Spanish word for "friendship." Spielberg does a great job in recreating the Amistad revolt that spurred a series of trials beginning in the lower courts of Connect...

Although the authors of the Constitution constructed a document that bound together the existing states, they were unable to foresee social and economic changes that would tear the Union apart. They wrote into it clauses that were well suited for the late 18th century, but unfortunately brough...