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Workplace and Gay Rights Issues

(Religious Intolerance, 2004). Pressure from lobbyists has prompted this decision but it appears to be a growing trend in the mar...

Civil Rights and Federalism

inclination to foster, improve or, quite frankly, deal with. Programs such as welfare and education have been placed back in the h...

Three Strikes Law in California

of those that opponents to the law point to as evidence its injustice. In 1995, Andrade was arrested for shoplifting $84 worth of ...

Philippines' Revolution of 1986

(Weir, no date). With Aquinos death came a plummet in business confidence, with the equivalent of twelve million dollars in capit...

Legacy of Mahatma Gandhi

scientific and biological perspective, it is quite obvious what makes a female, well, a female. There is no arguing with biologica...

Improving Human Rights and International Efforts

to the survival of international law, for without this controlling entity there would be no sense of responsibility. With no modi...

Nonviolent Drug Offenders and Incarceration

(32%)" (Anonymous Drug War Facts: Prisoners, 2002; prison.htm). Another study indicates that, "As a result of increased prosecutio...

Civil Rights and Law Enforcement

loopholes that allowed law enforcement officials to turn the other way during a white-on-black lynching), stories such as Janes we...

Proposition 209 Civil Rights Initiative of the State of California

In fourteen pages this paper discusses the socioeconomic and political aspects of California's Proposition 209 and also examines i...

Natural Law and Natural Rights

In six pages this essay discusses natural law and natural rights as considered by James Hutson in 'The Bill of Rights and the Amer...

Civil Rights Era and the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission

In twelve pages this research paper examines why this Commission was created, its purpose, and what led to its downfall. Seven so...

Civil Rights in the Late Nineteenth Century and the Abandonment of the Freed Men

The Compromise of 1877 is the focus of this six page research paper that involved a close election in which Republican Rutherford ...

Protection Offered by the Constitution

Few rights protected in the U.S. Constitution are harder to define and agree on than the right to free speech. This paper focuses ...

Individual Rights Usurped by the U.S. Supreme Court

generally supports freedom of speech, the current conservative move is to protect children from pornography and foul language on t...

Are Incarceration Alternatives Economically Feasible?

In a paper consisting of five pages the different types of incarceration of nonviolent criminals are discussed from a cost perspec...

International Participation, the United Nations, and Human Rights

In eight pages this research paper examines how the U.N. approaches human rights issues in a discussion of organizations such as t...

1961's Civil Rights Freedom Riders

On May 4, 1961 a small group of many races decided to travel in two buses and challenge the fact that some of these southern state...

Howard Zinn and the Civil Rights Movement

This research report looks at this era but focuses on one book called A People's History of the United States. This five page pape...

Scotland, China, and Nationalism

In three pages this paper examines nationalist ideology, its diverse appeal, and its nonviolent manifestations in China and Scotla...

The Status of Human Rights in Brazil

the main problems being a militarized police force that tended to shoot first and ask questions later (Human Rights, Political Wro...

Cesar Chavez, the Man, the Union Organizer, and the Minority Rights' Activist

told us we had to leave, or go to jail. My mother came out of the house crying, we children knew there was trouble, but we were c...

Civil Rights Legislation Backlash, Liability, and Discrimination

organizations are facing today when they try to hire or replace employees based on qualifications rather than racial, ethnic, or g...

Utilitarianism and Civil Rights

In five pages this essay discusses Martin Luther King's 'Letter from Birmingham Jail' from John Stuart Mill's utilitarian philosop...

Civil Rights and the NAACP During the 1960s

This paper is written in the form of a fictitious letter from a NAACP attorney during the 1960s. The attorney represents an Afric...

Women's Rights According to Edmund Burke and Mary Wollenstonecraft

were discounted. It seemed to be an alien concept to the philosophical thinkers of the eighteenth century that the freedoms that ...

People's Republic of China and 'Survival Rights'

'Survival Rights' and what they mean in terms of human rights in the People's Republic of China are discussed in a report consisti...

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act

committed by anyone in the organization, including suppliers, vendors and any other group with whom there is interaction (Bohlande...

Does the Human Rights Act Protect Civil Liberties?

in law. Article 8 may be seen as balanced with Article 29 which is the right of expression. Article 8 states that "Everyone has th...

Human Rights and Civil Liberties in Canada

fractionation which is based not only on ethnic and racial differences but also on other socioeconomic factors (Clement, 2009). ...

Winning Women's Rights

The right to vote is one of the most cherished of women's rights. With it comes other rights. There are three sources in this ei...