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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 ...

Historical Accuracy of Michael Collins Film by Director Neil Jordan

an uneasy political alliance with Sinn Fein President Eamon De Valera, and this fueled the romantic rivalry between Collins and hi...

Human Rights Act of 1998 and the Sovereignty of Parliament

in law, unless there is an express and specific words that allow for human rights to be undermined. However, this case was heard b...

Virginia's Way of Life and American Revolutionaries

were able, through circumstances, to identify themselves with the people. This isnt too far from the campaign run by Bill Clinton ...

Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

there are few who are literally starving to death--there is AFDC, shelters, charities--there are two classes in society which are ...

Political System of Saudi Arabia

must be handed down through the sons and grandsons of the founders family. King Abd-al-Aziz died in 1953 and power has been held b...

The Cost of Participation of Black Americans in the Political Process

actually possessed. After too many decades of this reality the Civil Rights came along and forced the nation to pay closer atten...

Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed and Michael Zweig's Working Class Majority

and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" Ehrenreich takes on a new identity to secure work in the blue collar workforce fulfilli...

Analyzing Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

anyone would offer her. She claimed to be an inexperienced homemaker returning to the workforce (Clayton, 2002). What ensues is ...

New Zealand and Australia's Indigenous Peoples and Political Rights

law protects against discrimination and provides for true equality, in reality even the rule of law cannot provide for true equali...

Political Society Order and the Philosophy of John Rawls

is contrasted with "conservative" or "right-wing" ideologies. Within the broader context of political theory. "liberalism" has a d...

Commercial Environment and Political Risk

helped to raise the awareness of this risk. Whilst it is known that there is often little that an individual company may do to imp...

Presidential and Political Comparison of Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson

a government by the people. Eventually, Jefferson abandoned the Federalists and championed another party, that of the Democratic-...

Politics and Women Throughout History

that is only one aspect of politics. Again, women had smaller roles. Jeanette Rankin of Montana was elected to office in 1917, and...

Why There Are Few Women Running for Office

as solid political material. As a result, there are handfuls of women politicians on the national level, perhaps a few more women ...

Michael Jordan and the New Global Capitalism by Walter LaFeber

pop icons and insidiously introducing foreign concepts into a culture. Once the outline is firmly in mind, then the studen...

American Masala by Barbara Kantrowitz and Julie Scelfo

an enticing mix of Indian and Western rhythms called "Bombay Dreams," a Broadway musical that Andrew Lloyd Weber and his creative ...

Classical Sociology and Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

apartment or services, they end up on the streets living on wages equivalent to five or six dollars per hour. As if that is not ha...

The Culture of a Corporation

all, over time" (1998, p.60). Smith claims that managers have a difficult task if they want to change the organizational culture ...

Deborah Stone's Policy Paradox Analyzed

back to rationality and politics (and the fact Stone believes the two cant be combined), she notes that the theoretical rational d...

Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver

the sky and became stars where the spirits anchored them in order to "remind parents to love their kids, no matter what". The seve...

Libertarianism's Pros and Cons

prompts. Of course, this is really not a good reason to outlaw the substance. The society also claims that pot is a gateway drug a...

Robert Jordan as a 'Hemingway Code Hero' in For Whom the Bell Tolls

those standards of conduct which generations before World War I appeared to accept as adequate and perfectly satisfactory" (Meyers...

'Nickel and Dimed On (Not) Getting By in America' by Barbara Ehrenreich

handle on that ever elusive definition of class. Each new work pursuit, however, reveals a startling similar answer to the questi...

A Look at Plascov's The Palestinian Refugees in Jordan 1948-1957

that are the focus of attention in this book, there was little group cohesion (Plascov, 1981). This fact is explained by the autho...

Separation Anxiety and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD): The Case of "Jordan"

for OCD based on Jordans mothers report that his grandmother likely had the disorder. From the viewpoint of behavioral psycholog...

Jane Addams as a Successful Twenty-First Century Political Leader

Addams received a college education and used her inheritance to travel abroad. The sights she witnessed would change her life. W...

Croatia; Political Aspects and Change During and Immediately Following the Second World War

Germany. The period of time was one that introduced a period of ethnic intolerance (Kunovich and Hodson, 1999). The object...

Justiciability of Socio-economic, Civil and Political Rights

as being conferred by the state upon the citizenry, but rather the people are perceived as holding these rights independently of t...

Bahrain; Women’s Rights

all elections and public referenda and [be] eligible for election to all publicly elected bodies" (quoted Sakr, 2000). Therefore, ...