Month: June 2013

Essay: Dancing Skeletons by Katherine Dettwyler

In her book, Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa (1994), Katherine A. Dettwyler explains how she comes face to face with cases of health problems in Mali. In the book, she narrates her experiences in this country as she observes the causes of these health problems and the effect they have on the people. Most of these experiences are seen from an outside observer's point of view. (more…)

Essay about Global Warming

Essay about Global Warming - For a long time now, there has been a global campaign to help control the issue of global warming. This concern has been a result of the increased rates of global warming and the effect that this is having on the environment. One of the major causes of global warming is the emission of carbon into the air. This paper will look into how the Australian government is keen to impose this carbon tax by focusing on the strengths and weaknesses of the legislative measures put in place and how they can be improved. (more…)

Essay: The legal status of Abortion

Warren (1973, p. 100) has a very pessimistic view of the defense of the legal status of adoption. In Warren’s view, abortion at any stage of the pregnancy is morally allowable under any conditions. In formulating her views, Warren makes a number of considerations of the anti-abortion bit. One consideration is that it is bad to murder innocent human beings and that fetuses are innocent human beings and therefore killing them is wrong. (more…)