Industrial Revolution"(URL:http://www.nettlesworth.durham.sch.uk/time/victorian/vindust.html), retrieved May 2005. The Poor Law (Amendment) Act of 1834, otherwise known as the 'New' Poor Law, was about the establishment of the workhouse system. Instead of providing shelter, food or clothing for the poor, workhouses were to become a sort of prison system. The Poor Law was harsh and injustice. It subjects the poor to the dehumanization . Although it may have seemed as if the poor were sufficiently
The Eighth Amendment covers cruel and unusual punishment, but if you were to read the entire amendment line by line you would not be able to capture a specific stature of what is considered cruel and unusual. These broad terms have left the Eighth Amendment up for interpretation. There have been two landmark cases that have challenged the Eighth Amendment and what is considered cruel and unusual punishment. In the case of Solem v. Helm, 463 U.S. 277 (1983), the petitioner Jerry Helm was sentence
If you ask someone what they think about the Fifth Amendment, most people will likely point out that it provides citizens a right against self-incrimination. However, besides the well-known “plead the Fifth” clause, the Fifth Amendment provides a number of other important privileges and protections including the right to a grand jury for capital offences, the right to due process, the right to fair compensation when the government takes your property and a prohibition against being prosecuted or
Recently, a controversy about mandatory labeling of genetically modified organisms has taken place all over the United States. While the production, sale, and consumption of genetically modified foods (GMOs) is controversial regardless; most Americans believe GMO food should be labeled because we have a right to know what is in our food. However, opponents such as corporations and the United States Congress believe labeling GMOs would often be perceived as a warning. What are GMOs? According to
modified pollen was carried 4.5 kilometres from a field of genetically modified crops. There has also been a lack of critical public information on the science and technology of genetic modification. Also, biotechnology multi nationals, such as Monsanto interestingly have developed genetically modified soy seeds and produce Round-up, creating a monopoly in the