In today’s society, it is very easy to allow ourselves to conform to the expectations and thoughts of the people we look up to or spend our time with. However, in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay, “Self-Reliance,” he goes into great detail about his belief that it is very important for people to formulate their opinions … Read more
Ellen DeGeneres might be better known for her short spurts of memory as Dory in Finding Nemo, but she is also known for her shocking coming out in 1997 on network television. Her coming out was one of the most important events to happen that year. Her show and career suffered for a bit, but … Read more
Discrimination has always existed in our society. No matter how many attempts we make to repeal it, it always finds an opportunity to keep going. African American people have been the ones who have suffered most from this atrocity rejection. Society used to exclude them for the simple fact of their skin color. The racism … Read more
The movie Philadelphia stared by Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington entails the story of Andrew Beckett (Tom Hanks) suing his old employers for firing him based on prejudice against his HIV + condition. Andrew is a senior associate at one of the largest corporate law firms in Philadelphia who’s asked to be the head lawyer … Read more
“Where do we draw the line? I get it, the Black and hispanic community deserve their rights, they are people, I get it. But racially mixed bathrooms?? Like, you’re joking right? You can give me all the stats about Black men and how they don’t rape our white women, but this is asking for problems. … Read more
Today, Starbucks is revered as the coffee shop of the Gods: lines go out the door, pictures of their lattes flood social media, and consumers make sure the logo is in plain sight wherever they take the cup. However, the coffee does not have a secret ingredient that makes it so special. In fact, the … Read more
In her short story “Paul’s Case,” Willa Cather’s use of red carnations serves as a symbol for her protagonist Paul’s own life. The carnations, alongside the significance of the color red, appear multiple times throughout the story. They exemplify the statement Cather makes about how people and objects who attempted to live a different kind … Read more
In the summer of 1969, Greenwich Village in New York erupted into protest against police raids on gay bars and establishments. The protests began with the raiding of the popular establishment The Stonewall Inn. The Stonewall riots proved pivotal in the gay rights movement, as the Sixties and Seventies marked the rise of queers rights … Read more
This paper will focus nursing home health care disparities among the LGBT elderly. Throughout the paper, there will be research to identify the problem and support the factors that contribute to the identified problem. This paper looks at the issue of nursing home disparities among the LGBT community at a micro, mezzo, and macro level … Read more
This literary writing will attempt to examine the impact of domestic violence (DV) in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender community (LGBT) and demonstrate the plethora of disparities that impact this community in the DV arena. Domestic violence is statistically more prominent in a homosexual relationship than in a heterosexual (cisgender) relationship (White & Goldberg, 2006). … Read more
Homosexuality is becoming more acceptable in today’s society; however, when it comes to homosexuals establishing a family, issues begin to arise. As of 2015, 27 states are opposed to homosexual adoptions due to the fact that the bible states it is a sin and individuals perceiving themselves as homosexuals will go to Hell. There is … Read more
“I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief. ” This quote, by Gerry Spence, encaptures an attitude that is needed in people today in order to move forward with LGBT rights. There have been many ups and downs for the LGBT rights movement but it’s a working progress. LGBTS … Read more
Introduction Bread Givers is a novel written by a Jewish lady Yezierska Anzia in 1925, the novel covers a number of aspects. The set up is in the old Manhattan in the United States of America, in the 1920s. The author is believed to have migrated from Poland to United States of America in the … Read more
Over the phone, I could hear quiet anguish in the mothers gentle contralto voice: We found out in late August. He sat us both down and told us his secret. Deep inside, I already knew. I guess Ive known for a long time, but I could not accept it. Hes my baby boy. How could … Read more
Feminine equality and the need of a male female relationship, these two ideas are what many people believe in today’s society to have always been around since the beginning of time. But these people are wrong because both misogyny and homosexuality have been around for thousands of years and in this paper I intend to … Read more
The question of same-sex unions and their legitimacy in many different societies is a topic that has been hotly debated for centuries. One society in particular is pre-modern Europe. Noted author and historian Dr. John Boswell looks extensively at the topic of same-sex unions in his book Same Sex Unions in Premodern Europe. Dr. Boswell … Read more
Perhaps the most volatile social issue the church has faced in recent memory, homosexuality and the issues it raises have confronted both the church and Western society. It has polarized the church and even political institutions, with fundamentalists and the Canadian Alliance political party taking a more conservative approach to homosexuality, and liberal denominations and … Read more
“When a gay couple sought to adopt a boy- who had leukemia, had been neglected by his biological parents, had lived in five foster homes, and whose adoption was favored by his legal representative- the judge deemed it not in the interest of a seven-year-old male child to be placed for adoption into the home … Read more
“If anyone says, ‘I love God,’ yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen cannot love God, whom he has not seen,” John 4:20. So, why do heterosexual people hate homosexuals? They are ordinary people with a different lifestyle who would simply like … Read more
The following is a paper written in 1988. I would change some, perhaps many of the conclusions, and certainly the theoretical approach. In particular I would emphasis the position of large aggregates of human beings [i. e. cities and monasteries] as a necessary but not sufficient pre-condition for homosexual sub-cultures. It should also be noted … Read more