These physicians who generally refused to assist suicide because they believed that those acts were morally wrong and that such actions an inappropriate practice and that in their religion beliefs such deeds would "violates God's authority over life, which is God's gift.... Gradually patients began to seek the right to choose to receive treatment or to refuse further treatment if they did not want to prolong their agony rather than the doctor getting to make the decision. ... "I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those res...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The interrogators likely felt justified in their actions because he eventually confessed making the ends justify the means. ... God forbid your name matches anyone on that list. ... Wall Street Journal's Scott McCartney writes that a government program set up specifically to remove innocent people from such watch lists has been ineffective and riddled with problems (Homeland Security News Wire). To take it to the other end of the spectrum, this author has personally experienced what happens to people, in foreign countries the United States occupies, when they are detained because their na...

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Ado-Ekiti, Oyo and Benin came later and grew and expanded as a consequence of their strategic locations at a time when trading became prosperous. ... The name Yoruba was applied to all these linguistically and culturally related peoples by their northern neighbors, the Hausas. ... The Yoruba take names seriously, for names have meaning and are believed to live out their meaning. ... For instance, a family of hunters may name their baby "Ogunbunmi" (the god of iron gives me this). ... For instance, a family of Ifa worshippers will name their baby Falola (Ifa has honor). ...

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• Grade Level: High School