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General Topics [Humanities BJ, or Ethics, courses]  *Link to Program Specific Topics


topic                                   subject/ keywords                some informative links
Abortion pro-life, pro-choice, induced miscarriage, termination of pregnancy, Dr. Henry Morgenthaler
Animal Rights "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged       by the way its animals are treated." ~  Gandhi 
. testing cosmetics, the LAL test,  "puppy mills," enforcing legislation
SPCA, J. Huggins, PhD
Capital Punishment death penalty, executions
 
 
Civil Disobedience  protest, Dukhabours, sit-in, demonstration, strike, Oka crisis.  NB, manifestation is not the English word for this
Deception lying, equivocating, etc. "Please tell me the truth. Is there a Santa Claus ?
Drugs, "Recreational" Use of  "I am not hurting any one else."

see also, names of drugs

Drugs II:  "The best you can be" doping in sport: Is using drugs at issue, or the nature of  drug-testing imposed upon athletes?
Euthanasia see also assisted suicide, Dr. Kevorkian, Robert Cashin
Freedom of Expression    Bill 101, office de la langue francaise, the Canadian mosaic,
Gambling   lotteries, bingo, gaming, cards, actuarial science [insurance] distributing limited resources, as livestock feed in drought, etc.
Human Rights/Civil Liberties 

 

Freedom of speech
Declaration of Human Rights:
what is its history?
Health care equal access, medicare, socialized medicine
Preferential Treatment for visible minorities? Aboriginal rights, see discrimination
Discrimination bigotry:see also racism, anti-semitism, sexism, homophobia, B'nai Brith, NAACP
Children's Rights moral development
Religious Tolerance blue laws, dress codes,  veiling, Sikhs: turbans and kirpan 
Privacy Confidentiality
Social Justice, 
Property Rights

 

corruption, bribery, landlord-tenant, custodial ...  also indigenous peoples,equal opportunity, affirmative action, housing, poverty, begging, squeegie kids, 
Suicide  depression
auto-erotic asphyxiation,
Violence  self-defence, defense of property, honour or "face," war,conflict, revolution, terrorism S 'n M

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