Today's Date:
December 16, 2024
Race and the Prison Population Disparities within an African-American Led Administration: Projections and Challenges
As this analysis of race and the prison population in the context of the wider body of important social research will discuss, not only are American prisons among the most populated in the world, they are disproportionately populated by minorities. →
Analysis and Review of The Liberalism of Fear
In her essay, “The Liberalism of Fear,” philosopher Judith Shklar focuses on developing her definition of political liberalism by drawing attention to and exploring the role that cruelty plays in political and social life. Cruelty, writes Shklar, is “the deliberate →
Illegal Immigration: An Overview of Entry, Risk, and Policy
Illegal immigration has been a steady presence in policy and public discussions for decades now and is often the subject of heated, emotional discussion and a wide breadth of important social research. What creates great tension is that there are →
The Need for Health Care for All
The importance of social research cannot be underestimated as new figures reveal ever more striking figures about the need for universal health care. The United States has been facing difficulties in its effort to provide health care for all citizens →
How Moving to a Four Day Work Week Might Ease Unemployment
As dire news about the economy continues to unfold, we are forced to look back in history at other great economic downtimes for inspiration–and to new ideas that might radically change employment. The problem of unemployment and joblessness in this →
Policy Recommendations for President Hu Jintao
Over the past 10 years, China has become an increasingly important presence and influence in international politics. The nation’s economy has grown exponentially as the initiatives first introduced and implemented by Deng Xiaoping’s Four Modernizations plan have matured and borne →
Bush, Working Class Violations, and National PTSD: An Assessment of the Bush Administration through The Grand New Party and Right On
While Douthat and Salam’s detailed plan of action for GOP 2.0 touches on a number of significant events and trends that have increasingly pushed them out of favor with their once core constituency, the focus of this analysis of their →
The First Amendment Protection of the Right to Burn the Flag
While the burning of the American flag is likely viewed by most to be a deplorable act, this very act should be protected by the First Amendment as it is a form of symbolic speech, no matter how disagreeable it →
The Quest for Identity in American Poetry
The issue of identity in American culture has, since the first pieces composed in the New World, been a consistent trope of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry alike. America’s position throughout history as a burgeoning and constantly-developing country is naturally reflected →
Analysis of Poems by Emily Bishop : “One Art” and “A Miracle for Breakfast”
Categorized by the Great Depression, two World Wars, as well as a rapidly changing society, America in the twentieth century was a time of many gains as well as many losses. No poet displays this sense of loss quite so →
