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Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number from a Political Perspective

belly dancer with no political experience, as Vice President (Stevenson, 1998). It quickly became obvious that the aging and aili...

Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington

Northerners who came South to take advantage of the social chaos that characterized the region in the aftermath of the Civil War. ...

Formidable Issues Confronting Kenya's Constitution

be accomplished through a land commission; * Establish courts that operate on Christian and other non-Muslim religious principles ...

Society and the Movie Mississippi Burning

the 20th century when most people would assume such problems were behind us. The producer of the film noted that the movie was sim...

'Rights and Wrongs' of Ethics

community, a society, wherein they feel they belong and they are safe. If they have doubts about what is right and wrong it is lik...

America's Living Wills

terminal condition she might face. That is the precisely the purpose of a living will - to speak for the person who has been medi...

Right to Die Defense

and the bitterness on both sides of that unfortunate incident have brought the debate about the right-to-die to the fore. Ironi...

East Timor Dili Court and Failed Justice

the international community to see the perpetrators of the atrocity brought to justice. The trials that have taken place have re...

The Right to Die as a Legal Issue

between the withdrawal of life-saving treatments and doctor-assisted suicide (Feinberg, 1998). In this case, three terminally ill ...

PA Act 33 and Juvenile Justice

In ten pages juvenile justice is considered in an overview of whether state laws assist or prevent justice with Miranda Rights fed...

Jean Jacques Rousseau and John Locke on Individual Rights

make it legitimate? That question I think I can answer" (Rousseau, 1762). The philosophers answer is in fact the social contract....

Judaism and Human Rights Advocate Abraham Joshua Heschel

the value of religious discourse allowed an "intelligent passion" (Novak, 1998, pp. 63-67) where fear and trepidation once lurked....

Overview of the Controversy Involving the Pharmacist Conscience Clause

substance that is equated with abortion and that is very controversial. Some pharmacists refuse to fill those prescriptions as wel...

Proposed Victims' Rights Amendment and the Constitution

is deemed illegal by the court--even if it has to do with a technicality--the case is not supported. There is in...

U.S. and Gay Rights

in case state law would attempt to implement it. While that never came to fruition, some states already have laws on the books ban...

Freedom of Speech and Inherent Rights

of free speech became an intensely debated issue when Hare Krishnas were told they could no longer solicit at Los Angeles Internat...

UK New Regulations for Schools

most basic of judicial review doctrines, that of ulta vires. This means beyond (ultra) power (vires). This is an idea very basic t...

Dissemination of Personal Information, Articles Eight and Ten of the Human Rights Act, the Media, and Privacy

the newspapers are often looked down on. Not because they have broken a law but due tot he way in which they are breaking what is ...

Struggles for Equality in Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence and Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from a Birmingham Jail

being Thomas Jefferson) gathered to write their objections down on paper. Among the objections were what were termed "self eviden...

Jean Le Pen's Far Right Party of France

the "Front National" party at its height of its popularity. Cuperus (2004, 17), however, observes that although the success of ri...

Michael Moore's Academy Awards' Exercise of Free Speech

duties of an American to question leadership within the foundation of democracy, a reality that is fraught with consequences when ...

Abortion and Fathers' Rights

tell her partner she was getting and abortion. That has been the legal situation since. Men have no legal rights in relationship t...

Director Spike Lee's Film 'Do the Right Thing'

the place and burns it to the ground (Albright, 2003). Ambiguity Is the Point One of the reasons why the film remains controvers...

Romantic Era Human Rights and Religious Sentiments Represented by Mary Wollstonecraft

thousand years, which was directly related to the need for a shared responsibility for survival. This began to change, however, w...

Three Logical Fallacies' Examination

Quoque is a "classic Red Herring, since whether the accuser is guilty of the same ... wrong is irrelevant to the truth of the orig...

Iraq and Violations of Human Rights

had fewer political difficulties with her other neighbors. The country is mostly agricultural, with about half the available land ...

Process Involved in Terminating the Rights of Parents

parents. The Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 (P.L. 104-89) (ASFA) was passed because of children like Cornilous Pixley, an...

Digital Age and the Importance of Protecting Intellectual Property Rights

digital technology looming ever larger on the international business landscape, it is incumbent to produce and protect intellectua...

US Democracy and its Legitimacy

in some sense, by our lack of perspective. Most of us live in a democracy like fish who live only in water and are therefore blind...

Labor and Gay Rights in Australia

these issues affect the labor and gay movements in Australia. Gay and Lesbian rights The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras is a ...