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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...

The Dax Cowart Case Examined Philosophically

due to the fact that she was in so much pain. However, in the case at hand, the situation was far more serious. If one accepts th...

The Violation of 4th Amendment Rights

Charlotte, North Carolina, Police Department, on duty at the time. He was watching the store, and seeing Graham enter and then le...

What To Know in Obtaining an Arrest Warrant

is the personal experiences of the arresting officer. An officers training and experience is presumed to allow them to infer to a...

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...

Basic Human Right of Health Care

early part of the 20th century and all the years before, health care absolutely lay in the realm only of the privileged, those who...

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 ...

Utilitarianism According to Philosophy Professor Bernard Williams

In six pages this paper considers the views of Professor Bernard Williams, who is Cambridge University's Knightbridge Professor of...

Society, Personal Perceptions, Nietzsche and Hegel

In six pages this paper examines how society's outlook is reflected in individual perceptions in an analysis of Nietzsche's On the...

Legal Infiltration, Education, and the Issue of Assisted Suicide

In eight pages the rights of an individual to die are considered in terms of choices rather than law. Five sources are cited in t...

An Argument in Favor of Right Side Steering Wheels for Americans

In a paper that contains five pages the benefits of a steering wheeel positioned on the right side for Americans is made and inclu...

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...

Combined Influence of Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton

In six pages the combined albeit very different visions of Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton had for America and their contr...

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 ...

2 Comparative Articles on Abortion

In this paper containing five pages two articles over a ten year period are presented in the ongoing abortion debate. In a 1985 a...

Brief Essays on U.S. History

This 14 page paper comprises brief essays on various topics in U.S. history from 1877 to the present. Topics covered include Roose...

Saving Jews from the Holocaust examined in terms of cognitive dissonance theories.

A paper which considers cognitive dissonance with specific reference to saving Jews from the Nazi Holocaust. The writer takes the ...

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...

Public Life versus Private Life in The Aeneid, The Odyssey, and Oresteia

In four pages this paper compares and contrasts how the authors depict private life and public life in these ancient literary work...

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...

Analytical Overview of Utopia by Sir Thomas More

both Baker and Bruce, More is not always consistent in the framework which he sets up for his imaginary society. Bruce addresses h...

How the Constitutional Convention Viewed the Power of the President

they wanted...namely a government which would stabilize the money and trade, keep order within the country and defend the nation a...

Policies of Birth Control in China

In eight pages the philosophical views of Pythagoras, Immanuel Kant, and John Stuart Mill are applied to an exploration of the bir...

Basic Health Care as a Human Right

In ten pages this paper examines the issue of many individuals unable to afford health care in a consideration of various issues s...

Case Overview and Nationalism Impact of Gobitis vs. the Minersville School District

In six pages this paper considers how individual rights and nationalism are defined in an overview and discussion of the case of L...

Public Policy's Role in Amnesty International

public policy decision by AI is the fact that on October 14, 1998 a youthful offender, below the age of 18, was put to death in th...

The Handicapped Individual's Societal Role

The writer examines the factor of self actualization within the life of a physically disabled person and how these individuals can...

Living Well, Finances, and Contemporary Health Care

Modern medical technology is a gift, not a privilege, and should be equally available and accessible to all regardless of financia...

Civil Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Administrations of Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon

which Brown was grounded rested "solely on the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution" (1977, p. 306). Warren also points out t...

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...