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Anselm, Aquinas, Descartes/Existence of God

conclusion that "a being than which none greater can be conceived can be conceived to be greater than it is," which is "absurd" (A...

Human Rights and the Asian Values Argument

not be seen as universal needs to be considered, it may be argued that even in the west the concept of universal human rights is r...

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...

Abortion Impact of Privacy and Natural Rights Argument

free will, but accountable to the state and his community with the idea that the individual agrees to live by rules set by society...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

Global Human Rights Problems and Violations

partly because violations of human rights were protected by the doctrine of state sovereignty and partly because the Cold War made...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

Individual Rights v. States Rights

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

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...

21st Century Report on North Korea's Concentration Camps

of slave labor, beatings, and of the executions they have personally witnessed that scream to be heard by the world. They are spe...

The Right to Private Property in the Constitution

state ownership. In Sparta it was the state that owned all property, which also included land, citizens and slaves (Anonymous, 200...

Civil Rights Act of 1991

charges of intentional discrimination.4 Furthermore, the 1991 Act broadened the language of the 1866 Civil Rights Act and extended...

Wollstonecraft/Vindication of the Rights of Women

them to this necessity. Wollstonecraft attacks each one of Rousseaus principles, showing them to be illogical, inconsistent and ul...

U.S. Failed Policy of Torture Tactics and Techniques on Suspected Terrorists

the instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in an official capacity (Bufacc...

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...

Torture, Psychologists' Role And Ethics

Hippocratic Oath. The decision-making theory of cognitive dissonance helps to illustrate the contrary role psychologists pl...

Torture and the War on Terror

Americans were using torture in hopes of extracting information from suspects about putative terrorist attacks. Suddenly the price...

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...

Entrenchment of Canadian Civil Rights into the Constitution

Pros and Cons of the entrenching the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms within the Canadian Constitution Research Comp...

The First Amendment is the Most Important

Fathers realized that the only way in which freedom of religion could be preserved was to establish a firm division between Church...

How Health and Social Influences May Prevent Economic Development

corruption have prospered. Therefore, corruption alone cannot be seen as a source of constraint. Sachs (2006) notes that the per c...