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The Civil Rights Act of 1991

it limited the amount of damages a jury could award to an individual (Wikipedia, 2006). It is interesting to note that...

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...

Anne Moody's Coming of Age in Mississippi

The civil rights movement occupies the primary focus of this book review which consists of two and a half pages....

Florida and Women in Power

property holders voted from 1691 to 1780. The Continental Congress debated the woman-suffrage movement question at length, decidi...

1950s McCarthyism and 1960s' Civil Rights Movement

In four pages this essay discusses the McCarthyism period and the emergence of the civil rights movement thereafter....

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...

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 ...

Enlightenment Theories and Rights for Women

In five pages this paper assesses equal rights for women in an examination of the Enlightenment theories expressed by Gouges, Woll...

Church and State in the 1992 U.S. Supreme Court Case of Lee v. Weisman 505

In eight pages this paper discusses whether or not the First Amendment rights are being violated by a school function's religious ...

'The Case for H.R. 1534: Equal Access to the Courts' Critiqued

In five pages the Private Property Rights Implementation Act of 1997 is examined in terms of implications....

Womens Rights 1865 till the Present

This paper reviews the history of women's rights. Women fought diligently for the right to vote to the right to control their own...

Individual Rights v. States Rights

This research paper investigates literature that examines the inherent tension between the rights of individuals and states rights...

ARTICLE REVIEW: MINORITY THREAT AND POLICE BRUTALITY

the Department of Justices Police Brutality Study 1985-1990; Uniform Crime Reports during the same period and the 1990 U.S. Census...

Cold War Civil Rights

work essentially takes the reader through many eras as it relates to what was going on in the nation (lynchings etc.) and in polit...

Right to Refuse Treatment

so (Forsloff). However, the state considers itself to have a vested interest in protected those who cannot protect themselves, suc...

The Ethnocentric Approach to Human Resource Management and its use in International Companies

level with reference to the human resource issues as many individuals at head office are assumed to have insufficient local knowle...

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...

Children's Rights

be awarded the children they gave up for adoption. This meant that judges would award bio parents the children even though the chi...

Human Rights Organizations and Colombia

In forty five pages this research study discusses Colombia in terms of the work of human rights organizations and its negative imp...

Human Rights, Sovereignty of States, and the United Nations

1995). And now that the Cold War is over, the U.N. seems more rudderless than ever - charged with requests for peace-keeping f...

Problems and Solutions for Iraq's Human Rights Situation

In ten pages this research essay discusses Iraq's human rights problems since the war in the Gulf in a consideration of policies a...

Latin America, Human Rights, and the Catholic Church

In eleven pages this research paper discusses Latin American Human rights, and the liberation theology of the Catholic Church. Fi...

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...

New Guinea, Nigeria, and Violations of Human Rights

won the national election (Jaffrey 36). But Muslin military forces from the North called for an annulment of the democratic proce...

China and the UN's Human Rights Policy

signed by individual nations as State parties. In order to assess their commitments under those covenants, committees meet regula...

Kosovo, Human Rights Violations, and Ethnic Conflict

In fifteen pages the Kosovo crisis is considered regarding the continuing ethnic conflict and human rights abuses as they pertain ...

Human Rights Organizations and Globalization

In eight pages this paper examines how globalization has increased the power wielded by human rights organizations. Eight sources...

Human Rights and UK Liberalism

In six pages this paper discusses how basic human rights are ensured in the United Kingdom's concept of liberalism with the signif...

Human Rights and War

In seven pages this paper examines human rights during times of war in a comparative analysis of Farewell to Manzanar and Anne Fra...