About fifty-seven percent of practicing physicians have been approached at one time or the other and being requested to aid in assisted suicide. However, it has been established that most patients want to end their lives due to the suffering they go through in cases such as cancer. In the modern world, pain management has been taken to another level and it is possible to manage the same therefore reducing the patients’ suffering. This has been attributed to the decline in cases of assisted suicide recorded.

Doctors take an oath before they start practicing to do their best to save the patients’ lives as well as ensuring that the details given to them by the patient remain a secret. They should therefore not get involved in such actions as ending the patients’ lives. At times, the patient may be too ill to talk or sign consent and so their relatives are involved in requesting the doctor to end their patients’ life and save them the agony. This is ethically and legally wrong.

Claire and Manuel address the issue of assisted suicide by citing the case of Mathew Donnelly who wanted to end his life due to the agony of skin cancer. Mathew had used more than thirty years of his life conducting research on the use of x-rays and at that time he got skin cancer. He had lost his nose courtesy of the disease, his arm, and part of his jaw in recovery and therapy. His condition was not improving and he had become blind. His pleas to have his life ended fell on deaf years though the doctors knew well that he had less than a year to live. His brother seeing his agony killed him and was tried for murder. The question arose on whether that was right and whether the doctors should have aided in ending his life.

Crashes are considered the primary cause of injury and fatality in teens within the 16-19 age brackets. (Morton & Ouimet, 2006). Morton and Ouimet concur with the central finding of numerous researches related to the level of injury and fatality which is highest in teens of the said age bracket. This lays the basic argument that teens are most vulnerable to getting hurt when driving. Because of this, the subject of injury and fatality prevention of researches in vehicular safety has been directed to teens.

More than being the primary cause of injury and death in teens, the high risk of driving-related incidents to teens also is tantamount to social costs. It has been found that people aged 15 to 24, while representative of only 14% of the entire United States population, are credited for $ 19 billion or 30 percent of the total costs of male vehicular injuries, while females account for $7 billion or 28 percent of the total costs in their gender group. (Finkelstein et al., 2006). In relation to the high risk with teens, the resulting elevated social costs are not surprising. With the government and various agencies realizing this, efforts to address and minimize these costs have been the core of every policy that has been conceptualized and implemented to address this problem.

&nbsp. In the outset, it is but apparent that the logical dual factors attributable to teen drivers bearing the highest risk of vehicular accidents are lack of experience and immaturity. Driving skills and judgment on-the-road need time to be developed and mastered. Young drivers suffer from these insufficiencies hence they are more prone to suffer driving-related injuries and deaths.

Realizing and recognizing this huge risk, a number of efforts have been established and implemented to minimize and address this concern.&nbsp.

Hollywood in India: Protecting Intellectual Property Intellectual property refers to any property owned by an individual or organization that came as a result of creativity. This property usually has rights that the owner might have acquired after production. This is in order to protect it from unauthorised usage by other individuals, or parties. The production or copying of this protected material is subject to a punishable offense (Vandana 87). This is if the production was without consent. This is done to protect people’s works of art from being misused. Organizations are coming up to ensure that these rights are upheld, and offenders are brought to book for illegal activities. This paper will review the issues surrounding such protection, and what it means to have rights over intellectual property.

In the case study provided, between the two movies, there is obvious plagiarism of the character portrayed in the first film. There is the first film. My Name is Khan, where the individual gets to have certain characteristics that make him memorable. These distinctive traits are unique to that individual, hence making the movie exceptional and unique. The close imitation of the motion picture arises in the form of another film. Forest Grump. This film depicts a similar character as the one in the previous movie, who has the same tendencies, and gets to do what is seen in the first film.

There are apparent resemblances between these two movies that make the second one a plagiarised version of the first. The original concept is taken from the first movie, and used in the next movie. This is certainly considered intellectual theft on the part of the second film, and those involved in its making (Vandana 90). One may come to the rescue of this film and say that bits and pieces of the first movie inspired the creation of the second. However, as much as this might be true, the entire film should not revolve around the same theme as the previous one.

There is usually copyright infringement in such a case. This involves the use of one person’s work of art to represent another as their own. If individuals get to infringe on any work of art that has copyright, then they are liable for prosecution. They have to have permission to borrow content from some of the work to bring out their ideas and logic. Protecting intellectual property means one is protecting their work of art from being misused by other parties (Vandana 107). There is no fair use when it comes to copying works of fiction. This is because one is out to make a profit from the sale of such material.

In conclusion, to prevent the sale and purchase of another party’s work of art, there is the need to have copyright issue. This may prevent the unlawful production, sale, and purchase of material that was already under someone else’s name. The protection of intellectual property should be upheld to prevent others parties from capitalizing and making a profit (Vandana 137). The above case is evidence that one work of art can be plagiarized, and profit made from such illegal trade. However, with the coming up of organizations that protect the rights of artists, and their works of art, plagiarism might just be a thing of the past.

Work Cited

Vandana, Shiva. Protect or Plunder? Understanding Intellectual Property Rights. New York: Free Press, 2001. Print.

The difference between the Japanese and the European social relations emanates from the strong traditional system structure of the Japanese culture, which contrasts with the volatile nature of the European culture. Thus, where the European ancient traditions can eventually be lost, the Japanese culture and traditions are never lost, but merely runs out of fashion (Cooper, 20).

However, even when they are out of fashion, they still remain an important part of the social structure of the society, thus informing the subsequent transformations in the cultures and social structures, which draw their roosts from these traditional cultural systems. The Jesuit Christians were the most informed European group that visited and settled in Japan, since they landed in Japan earlier than the other Europeans (Cooper, 11). Thus, their observation and documentation of the Japanese social structure and social relations is more informative. Drawing from this Jesuit documentation of the Japanese social relations during the period 1543-1640, we are able to understand that the social system of the Japanese culture was built around five fundamental values, which were also shared with the Chinese value system (Cooper, 55).

The social structure and the social classes in the traditional Japanese culture was not built purely based on the wealth and the material possessions of an individual, but on the respect and honor that the individual has earned, even in becoming wealthy and influential. In this respect, the merchants were not esteemed or regarded as members of the upper class of the society, owing to the fact that they were considered as a set of individuals that earned their wealth through unscrupulous means (Cooper, 56).

The Restoration drama was widely popular for its sexual explicitness in its sex comedies which gained widespread popularity and acclaim especially owing to the introduction of first-ever female actresses on stage. Prior to the foray of female actors on stage, all the roles of the female actors were performed by males. In the latter half of the seventeenth century, there was observed an immense development in the field of drama and theatre and the choice of subjects which became bolder and devoid of sexual inhibitions.

The Restoration Theater was highly influenced by huge social ambiguity, involving sex, gender, and political might. The period post-1660s was characterized by the emergence of a sexual market place which includes prostitution and homosexuals and the same has been mentioned in the drama of that era with homosexuality, sadomasochism, voyeurism, libertinism, and prostitution were dominant themes. Such developments were met with widespread criticism and moral disfavor. The period saw the unrestrained misconduct of the royals including the kings which was often perceived as their dishonesty and disloyalty towards their own kingdom. Such promiscuous behavior which challenged the concept of masculinity was aptly interpreted in the drama (Owen, 1996).

In All for love the author John Dryden, upraises the central character of the story as one who laments frequently, resists fights, and yet is marvelous and charming. while in Troilus and Cressida, the author disparages the male character. However, the portrayal of women in drama suggested a severe paradox. Although the onset of libertinism was perceived as a misogynistic philosophy and the one that consented to the desires of males rather than females and comprehended women as prey, it opened up avenues that asserted the sovereignty of expressing sexual desires.

Women were given opportunities to become actresses and playwrights which is, even today, considered to be significant progress of innate connotation in the field of theatre and drama.&nbsp.