in 1948‚ Harry Truman desegregated the armed forces. In 1954‚ the Plessey decision of 1896‚ which created two societies‚ one for whites and one for blacks‚ was overturned in the case of Brown v. Board of Education‚ creating integrated schools (894). Although the Supreme Court ruled that official school segregation was unconstitutional‚ blacks still faced many discriminatory laws and attitudes‚ especially in the South. At the beginning of the 1960s‚ the goal of the Civil Rights Movement‚ led by
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According to the Crito dialogue‚ Socrates argues that "two wrongs don’t make a right." In this argument‚ Socrates claims that no matter how unjust someone was treated‚ it never gives them justification to injury someone. I will argue that there is a potential objection to the claim of Socrates’ argument. I will show that it is possible to oppose the idea that with or without prior injustice from someone it is unjust to do injury to them; by showing that without prior injustice it is justifiable
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A Detective’s Decision Have you ever had something valuable stolen from you? For what it’s worth‚ you would try your best to find whoever stole it and where it is. In this situation‚ Sherlock Holmes let go two guilty criminals who stole a carbuncle from a Countess. In my opinion‚ Sherlock Holmes positively made the wrong decision. In the 1st place‚ the criminals themselves confessed to a crime. With that kind of evidence‚ it should’ve led to an immediate arrest since they have proven guilty.
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Assisted Suicides and Euthanasia‚ right or wrong? Who should be the one to determine when to terminate a person’s life?” Have you ever sat down to think about that question which lingers through everyone’s mind at one time or another? What tells us as humans if the things we do are either right or wrong? A lot of the time people answer that question by looking back at the time when they were children. People usually decide whether things are right or wrong based on the way they were taught
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In 1947‚ President Truman’s Committee on Civil Rights issued “To Secure These Rights.” The text emphasizes the government’s responsibility to protect Black people amid unfair treatment regarding employment‚ housing‚ and voting‚ while drawing on the morality of Americans to stand for the freedom that the nation claimed to uphold. The statement recognized that the federal government should interfere in instances of “serious wrongs” —discriminatory housing policies to lynchings—committed by private
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The Death Penalty‚ Right or Wrong? Fear of death discourages people from committing crimes. If capital punishment were carried out more it would prove to be the crime preventative it was partly intended to be. Most criminals would think twice before committing murder if they knew their own lives were at stake. As it turns out though very few people are executed and so the death penalty is not a satisfactory deterrent. Use of the death penalty as intended by law could actually reduce the number
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‘Atomic Diplomacy’: At Potsdam the President had seemed in a conciliatory mood toward the interests of the Soviet Union‚ traditional Russian concerns like those for an ‘ice free’ port were treated with an earnestness they didn’t deserve‚ and when it came to any serious measures like the fixing of borders post war‚ the American President would note that such important matters should rightly be postponed until the meeting of the “full peace conference” expected to take place sometime in the fall
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The Atomic Mass of Metallo You may have noticed on the periodic table that the atomic mass of an element is usually not a whole number. That happens because of isotopes. An atom that is missing a neutron or has an extra neutron is called an isotope. They are still the same element; however‚ they are just a little different from every other atom of the same element. Most of the carbon atoms in the universe are Carbon-12‚ with 6 neutrons. A small percentage of carbon atoms are Carbon-13‚ with 7 neutrons
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the weight of the decision to deploy the first atomic weapons. Historians have placed the decision along racial‚ political‚ and tactical lines‚ while the reasons for the use of atomic weapons are still debated‚ the lasting effects of this event are just as important. Currently there are nine countries that possess the capability to deploy nuclear weapons; countries like North Korea and Iran are currently conducting limited research to development nuclear weapons. While the bomb was herald as the
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Assisted Suicide‚ Morally Wrong or Your Right? Is assisted suicide your right as a human; is it moral or ethical? First we must look at what is assisted suicide. Assisted suicide is a common term that most people know of‚ suicide that is facilitated by another person. (Dictionary.com) However‚ there are three terms that are sometimes used interchangeable when discussing assisted suicide; physician assisted suicide‚ assisted suicide and euthanasia. Physician assisted suicide is when a physician
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