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Community Notification on Reported Sex Offenders

is a great deal of difficulty resuming normal life. This is true for any convict, but it is especially difficult for the sex offen...

US and Rights for Women

a woman becomes pregnant she is urged to quit and stay home with her children, without little realization of what the loss of that...

Criminal Law Considered in 4 Questions

fair and sensible legal procedure based primarily upon morality and justice. Alexander the Great was the instrumental force behin...

Do Global Issues Include Gender Discrimination and Gender Rights?

in turn participation in collective action" (p. 242). Allowing societies to deal with gender issues as they see fit enforces isol...

English Aristocratic Class in The Reason Why The Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light Brigade by Cecil Woodham Smith

than the military ineptitude without. In fact, the author makes clear that had it not been for aristocratic pride and arrogance, ...

Federalism and its Changes

entrenched in either the federal or the local jurisdictions. And while many think progress is being made, or that things have chan...

Overview of Government Surveillance

this legislation, although it increasing the ability of surveillance in some situation, such as when the Office of Fair Trading (O...

Human Rights and Homelessness

of being deprived of what they are "owed." As a result, they demand that there elected officials take their concerns into very se...

Karl Marx, John Locke, and Thomas Hobbes

of society. However, Hobbes is also making the assumption that human beings will able to ascertain what is the correct way of doin...

U.S. Constitution and Classical Liberalism

for all citizens of a nation. Then we have Adam Smith, a Scottish philosopher whose focus was on morals. He was, interestingly ...

Article on Human Rights

rights, as such, propose an unacceptably anthropocentric view of the world, which sets human beings at the top of a pyramid wherea...

Human Rights Act and Parliamentary Sovereignty

light of current interpretations of the Act. The Lord Chancellor (2004), speaking in 2001, sees the Act as a highly positive addit...

Case Law and Decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court

Although the right to public trial is protected under the due process clause, however, that protection is not absolute in that rea...

New Nation of America and its Founding Documents

official title of the document was unanimously passed on July 2, 1776, signed on July 4, 1776 with an official proclamation made i...

Rights and Wisconsin v. Yoder

both the Amish religion and the Amish way of life (University of Missouri/Kansas City, 2003). The parents felt that by sending the...

Women's Perspectives on Africa's Postcolonial State and Nationalism

efforts were not in vain, inasmuch as they "helped awaken others that followed her and forced them to mount offensives against the...

Exploring Transsexuality and its Modern World Implications

issues involve health and human welfare, paternity and maternity claims, and military and personal-identification regulations amon...

Child Labor Practices in Asia

child population) as opposed to 80 million in Africa (40 percent of the total African child population) and 17.5 million in Latin ...

Patient Choice and Medical Negligence

mechanism it can be expected that this shift in the accountability and transparency needs to be indicates within case law. It can...

Consideration of Medical Negligence

In ten pages medical negligence is considered with such cases as 1957's Bolam v. Friern HMC and 1997's Bolitho v. Hackney HA refer...

Pride and Prejudice and Women's Rights in the Nineteenth Century

There is little affection shown between the couple and one gets the distinct impression that theres was a marriage of convenience ...

Animal Conservation Argument

the normal way of life. While in this schizophrenic society people eat animals, they also keep animals as pets, and so there is a ...

Relationship Between Income, Gender, and Civic Activism

possessed a higher IQ and the ability to reason. With this discovery, Singer writes, the line between a divine being and the lesse...

Women's Rights Movement Pioneers

in society. Admittedly, each of these women lived during a time in which, as Elizabeth Cady Stanton so aptly observed, men sought...

Religious Freedom Protection

such cases must go. The political legal system of this nation is where all such matters are ultimately decided. It is also the pla...

Unborn Babies, Genetic Defects, and Parents' Right to Know

with it a great deal of uncertainty and guilt. Needless to say, most men and women who undertake abortions do not do so lightly o...

Second Trimester of Pregnancy and Abortion Rights

some point, the fetus has a face, but perhaps cannot survive on its own. The question becomes whether or not this fetus is a human...

Criminal Justice and Victim's Rights

106th Congress aimed at preventing violence against women, "one of the most blatant manifestations of patriarchy" (Mananzan, 1995,...

John Rawls, Nozick, and Adam Smith on Business Ethics

actually benefited society. This is no longer true. in todays society, corporations use these and other precepts to pass on their ...

Employment Law of the UK and the Unfair Dismissal Concept

times between its enactment and the Employment Rights Act 2002. ACAS has the authority to issue Codes of Practice for the purpose ...