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Madam C.J. Walker and Her Entrepreneurial Spirit

the controversies as well as her successes. Finally, a web site deemed the official website for Madam Walker is used to glean basi...

Roles and Rights of Women in Works by Kate Chopin and William Faulkner

that Faulkner is telling. We can only speculate as to his reasons for not allowing her to speak directly and instead relying on ot...

Cruel and Unusual Punishment

the legislation enacted with regard to punishment is concerned with the method used, not with the fact that an individual is being...

Business Department Disbands Prior To Student Completing Studies: Damages

by virtue of the voluntary nature of that agreement. Known as the will theory, its transformation into contemporary society has l...

Education as a Key to Liberating Women

be educated together" (Wollstonecraft, 2005). She points out that if marriage is "the cement of society," then all mankind should ...

Urban Modernization, Rights of Workers, and Mexico

remained "destitute of hope" (Meyer and Sherman 464). The Mexican Revolution began in the spring of 1910, with the presidential c...

US Human Rights Violations

reason they are not really noticed by the mainstream society is because the people of the nation do not really see a need to prote...

US Aliens and Rights

human beings, and nowhere is that more clear than in the realm of constitutional rights" (Cole, 2006). However, in truth, non-citi...

Representation and US Voting Rights

the Florida recount), the Court ruled that the "individual citizen . . . has no federal constitutional right to vote for electors ...

'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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

Labor Movement and the Rights of Women

as an outward attempt to assemble some semblance of organized labor for the overwrought American worker. The primary goals of thi...

Justice and Ethics II

it is likely that he is carrying a significant amount. If he reaches his destination in no worse physical condition than that whi...

Urban Life and Violence in America

people remember many strong disagreements with their first families. Battles during toddlerhood and adolescence are common and wil...

Gay Married Couples, Benefits, and Rights

States remains steadfastly conservative and downright discriminatory regarding this issue. It violates the Fourteenth Amendment o...

The Right to Silence and Australian Law

In conjunction, it is also necessary to understand the specific context of the claims of the impact of silence on the probative va...

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 ...

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...

Workers Rights and Personal Privacy

or bus drivers, the lives of others are at stake. How does one weigh the privacy rights of employees regarding their behavior and ...

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...

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....

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...

Formidable Issues Confronting Kenya's Constitution

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