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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...

Canadian Ex Convicts and Discrimination

a whole (PG). Thus, evidence on the harm of pornography was sufficient for a law against it (PG). The court observed that true equ...

Anne Moody and Civil Rights Coming of Age in Mississippi

house (Moody 44). Bruce Clayton and John Salmond, who wrote, Debating Southern History, state that during the fifties and sixties...

Treatment and Rehabilitation of Female Offenders

were carried out by women who had, had it with the system which had failed to protect them from an abusive spouse. Says Nadler, "F...

Slavery in America

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

'The Souls of Black Folk' by W.E.B. Du Bois Analyzed

a Negro as well as an American, they should be accepted as both without having to sacrifice one for the other (Velikova 431). Kir...

Leaders of Social Movements and Their Challenges

good work in his book appropriately titled Good Work. Authors essentially provide a review of controversial professions, like gene...

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 ...

Literary Social Criticism

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

Civil Service Spoils vs Merit

begins with a rank and expands through steps based mostly on longevity (LeMay, 2005). There are 15 ranks and 10 steps but there is...

Civil Service Employee Recruitment

fields but this will eventually turn around. Even if the jobs were available, one must ask why a talented individual would want to...

US Civil Liberties and the USA Patriot Act

The societal impacts we have experienced in our country as a result of terrorism and the resulting warfare are many and diverse. ...

A Civil Action by Jonathan Herr and Lessons Learned

after hearing of the deaths of the children and the illness in the community (Trevino, 2000). Today it has been proven that there ...

How A Civil Action Demonstrates a Need for Social Action

1998, p. 67). The case is not anything new. It is based on a true situation and there are other cases of cancer clusters being tie...

Civil Liberties, Terrorism, and Immigration Laws

the arrests and the consequent interrogations that they were outraged and told officials that these tactics would not prove to be ...

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...

Analysis of African American Civil Rights and Women's Equal Rights Struggles

ready to go in order to defend their inherent rights as human beings. That particular incident was not the first encounter Parks ...

Civil Rights and Media Reportage in a Post-9/11 World

they be prohibited from flying? Yet, arguably, profiling is a good method to use because most terrorists are from a handful of cou...

Thoreau’s Description of Jail in Civil Disobedience

new found perception to inform his discussion of why he was in jail in the first place. Thoreau objected to the fact that slavery ...

Civil Rights, Slavery Versus "Free" Citizens

When the Reconstruction Period arrived, it looked as though blacks were going to regain their inherent rights as free citizens alo...

Thoreau and Civil Disobedience

it is immoral to allow oneself to be associated with a gross injustice. In his essay, Thoreau refers particularly to the Mexican W...

Ronald Reagan: Speech Comparison

and serious nature - was interpreted as threatening to the Soviets ears and caused an unexpected attitude backlash for Reagans pro...

Modern Technology Critiques by Henry David Thoreau in Civil Disobedience and Walden

In six pages this paper examines how Thoreau criticized modern technology in these literary works. One source is cited in the bib...

A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr

In five pages this paper considers corporate accountability regarding environmental abuses within the context of this book written...

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...

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 ...

Promotion Request in a Civil Service Job

In a paper consisting of fourteen pages a sample of a U.S. Postal Service employee writing a letter of explanation as to why he is...

Jonathan Harr's A Civil Action

In 12 pages this essay considers the five families who brought a lawsuit against the chemical companies responsible for poisoning ...

Reno V American Civil Liberties Union

both verbal and physical battle; indeed, to interfere with ones inherent constitutional rights is to intrude upon the very essence...

Jonathan Harr's A Civil Action

This 14 page essay reviews Harr's popular book examining his narrative style and outlining the main points that are covered. An e...