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Law That is Just and Unjust in the Writings of Martin Luther King Jr. and Henry David Thoreau II

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares how just law and unjust law are depicted in 'Civil Disobedience' by Thoreau and 'L...

Globalization, Postmodernism, and Civil Disobedience

In ten pages postmodernism is considered in terms of globalization and how it has affected civil disobedience practices. Eight so...

Property as Defined by John Locke

In two pages this paper discusses Locke's Essay on Civil Government in terms of how the English political philosopher defined prop...

Justification for Law Breaking in Henry David Thoreau's Civil Disobedience

In five pages this essay examines the notion that Thoreau advocates breaking the law when it becomes morally important to do so wi...

Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Early Political Thinking

This paper examines Hobbes' work, Leviathan, as well as Machiavelli's, The Prince as they relate to the beginnings of political th...

Ordinances and Gay Rights

that ordinances send the wrong message, helping to undermine the "moral values" that they feel communities should embrace. They ar...

Administrative, Roman, and Common Law Applications

In eleven pages this paper examines various civil and criminal cases in this consideration of how administrative, Roman, and commo...

U.S. Society and 'the Creative Outsider'

In five pages this paper examines the influence of the creative outsider in America in a consideration of the texts My Antonia by ...

Racism in The Long Walk Home and 4 Little Girls

A five page paper exploring the them of racism as it existed in the decade preceeding the Civil Rights Movement. These films serv...

Change Through Protest

In eight pages this paper examines social change through protest in a consideration of the civil rights and women's liberation mov...

Internet Regulation and Civil Liberties

In nine pages this paper discusses legal regulation of the Internet in a consideration of the F.C.C., Communications Decency Act p...

Mahatma Gandhi and Frantz Fanon Fantasy Interview

In six pages this paper presents a mock Nightline interview featuring author of The Wretched of the Earth Frantz Fanon and nonviol...

Southern and South African: Power of Christian Music

is "actually the confidence in the inner, hidden Holy Spirit inside of themselves as divine creations" (Ungureanu-Pamfi, 2011). Th...

The Social and Personal Impact of Civil Procedure

a court is said to have jurisdiction in a matter, then it can legally act as a venue for a given case and deliver a legally bindin...

Brief History of American Civil Rights

Institute (LII) of Cornell University Law School points out, a civil right is a privilege that is enforceable and which, if interf...

Gay Marriages - Arguments For and Against

barred from as the result of a ban on gay marriage, and for many this is simply unfair. More fundamental, however, are the argumen...

The Occupy Wall Street Protests - Would Thoreau Approve

Firstly, one might suppose that Thoreau would support the Occupy Wall Street protests due to his assertion that individuals should...

Civil Order Control, A Country Comparison

that describes the duty of local police to respond to any situation in which two or more citizens require supervision or control i...

Affirmative Action in Academic Institutions in California

academic affirmative actions programs in allowing affirmative action to be part of the enrollment process. While there is no ques...

Personal Life Experiences in Civil Rights' Championn Anne Moody's Memoir Coming of Age in Mississippi

a good student. After graduating from high school, she received a basketball scholarship to Natchez Junior College, which she atte...

Michael K. Honey's Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights Organizing Memphis Workers

from different classes and races integrating with the mainstream. These barriers extended into practically every aspect of Memphi...

Civil Society Membership and John Locke's Views Upon Consent, Equality, and Freedom

as the real measuring stick against which all the answers to all the questions could be compared to see if they measured up. Not ...

Harry T. Moore and His Contributions to the Civil Rights Movement

taken with a bomb explosion on Christmas night in 1951 (Green, 1999). Ironically, this was also the night of their twenty-fifth w...

African Americans and the Impact of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement

that because of the civil rights movement, no black woman will ever again be forced to sit in the back of the bus....

The Foundation of Merit Public Service in American Democracy by Patricia Wallace Ingraham

one needs the combination of power and government in order to enact any level of civil service politics; however, it can also be c...

Civil Rights and Hugo Black

members completely and accept without challenge - has indeed proven to be one of the most powerful standards of our culture and th...

Antiterrorism and Human Rights

against terrorism per se may still be in favour of what he terms extreme action. For example, the bombing of civilians by the Alli...

Slavery in America

Although Reconstruction began during the war, the time period traditionally associated with it is 1862-1877. The political, socia...

Literary Social Criticism

punishes her by labeling her with the letter "A" and through social ostracism. Thoreaus argument with the state in "Civil Disobe...

Backlash from the U.S. Civil Rights Movement

school children to the workplace, from the entertainment industry to the sports world, racial stereotypes are an integral part of ...