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Policies of President Jimmy Carter and the Relations Between the United States and the Soviet Union

he wanted the American people to believe how the United States Government "can be both competent and more humane" (Carter, 1979, p...

Women's Rights, Working Hours, and the 1908 Case of Muller v. Oregon

law passed in 1905 that prevented the women working for more than ten hours a day. Muller argued that this was unconstitutional, a...

Civil Rights and Hugo Black

members completely and accept without challenge - has indeed proven to be one of the most powerful standards of our culture and th...

Social Contract of Jean Jacques Rousseau and its Contemporary Relevance

Middle East. Ever since the 9-11 attacks on the United States, much has been made about totalitarian dictatorships, and the hatred...

Global Property Rights and Power Shifts

be seen as a bundle of rights which may be separable, for example the sub soil rights may be the property of the state, but others...

U.S. Involvement in the Columbia Plan

to alternative development; 6 percent to human rights programs; four percent to assist the 2 million Colombians who have been disp...

Federalism and Rights of Native Americans

Although the Supreme Court decision in Seminole versus Florida went against the tribe, its our contention that the decision was wr...

New York State's Surviving Spouse's Right of Election

of changes were implemented and these are worth exploring. Before progressing deeper into the intricacies of New York Estate Law,...

Case Study on Internet Marketing

it is used. II. Background to Benetton. If Benetton is considering using the Internet the company itself needs to be consid...

The Philosophy of Soren Kierkegaard Applied to a Case Study Analysis

her actions as an individual and as a member of the military? Or is there a different moral principle at play? Only Hester can say...

Politics and the Value of Human Rights

Ilyich Lenin was a Communist leader who believed he was doing the right thing for the people. It is easy to say that leaders sup...

1815 to 1860 U.S. Reform Movements

insert citation from Chapter 12). While Walden is even today held up as the epitome of how any individual can maintain and retain ...

Early America, England and Rights of the Individual

right to political participation and freedom of religion, became the motivating forces behind the English Revolution of 1640, whic...

Conservative and Liberal Media Bias

Woody West in his coverage of the 1992 Presidential Election between incumbent president and Republican George Bush and his challe...

Case Study on Human Rights

Billy would certainly have a stronger case against the Daily Gossip; however, because freedom of the press protects the publicatio...

Doctrine of Humanitarian Intervention

breach (Carey, 2001). The frequent interventions by the United States in Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, and Kosovo and even East Timor, S...

20th Century Race History

Describing Columbus interactions with the Indians in Cuba, Zinn writes: He took more Indian prisoners and put them aboard his two...

A Case Study That Examines Amelia's Choices

their family unit - a time of stresses that dont need to be complicated about concerns such as career and college choices. Yet unf...

'The Odyssey' by Homer Content Analysis

on which he has been marooned for twenty years, it would appear as if his ship would have nothing but smooth sailing back to Ithac...

Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and the Civil Rights Movement

members in the mainstream population helped them in their efforts. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was actually the third such Act to...

Biography of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt

other first ladies of this or any other time. The concept of first lady leadership is easy to define, but it is not as easy to ex...

Taiwan and the Campaign for the Rights of Women

movement toward womens rights. One of the most important changes with regard to the changing role of women in Taiwan is tha...

Brain Dominance and Various Learning Styles

dominant student (Freed and Parsons, 1997). However, this traditional way of teaching does not take into account -- at any point -...

Right to Light, Covenants, and Land Law in the United Kingdom

covenant was pout in place to bind or benefit a single party, but more usually the successive owners or users of the land. However...

Interrogations and Law Enforcement

long investigation by the Washington Post into allegations that homicide detectives engaged in activities that in fact coerced mur...

Environmental Compassion and Natural Rights

a simple matter of applying social responsibility, which is defined as being aware of the impacts ones actions have upon the rest ...

First Amendment Interpretation and Theory

the First Amendment and the right to free speech did not come before the Supreme Court until 1919 with the case of Shenck v. the U...

Human Rights and How They Have Evolved

may appear as a primary concept, it has been met with great hostility, with critics contending that dialogue apart from justice is...

Transsexuals and Their Legal Rights

of surgery (Deardorff, 2002). In fact, there is little protection for transsexuals in terms of laws or government intervention:...

United Kingdom and Euthanasia

her favour would open the gates to many other claims. If we look at the current situation in the UK euthanasia is illegal. This ...