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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...

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 ...

Civil Disobedience and Civil Rights Leaders

Malcolm X who had such ideas, and his concept had nothing to do with changing class problems, but with race. The notion that soci...

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...

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...

1870 to 1970, A Century of Political and Social Rights

to all citizens, regardless of race. This promising start soon faltered during the tensions of Reconstruction (1865-1877) when fed...

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...

Affirmative Action in Academic Institutions in California

academic affirmative actions programs in allowing affirmative action to be part of the enrollment process. While there is no ques...

Bill of Rights and Individualism

collapse into condemnation happens because the vocabulary of individualism sounds harsh to ears becoming accustomed to the competi...

An Examination of Human Rights

academic degrees, but cannot find a job in a shaky economy, might feel that way about accepting a job that only pays a minimal amo...

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...

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,...

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...

Case Study Analysis of Freedom of Speech

shoppers. What is proposed is a nuisance law, with a nuisance being defined as something that contributes nothing to the social go...

Antiterrorism and Human Rights

against terrorism per se may still be in favour of what he terms extreme action. For example, the bombing of civilians by the Alli...

Protected Wildlife Areas, Oil Exploration, and Ethics

of the balance to be considered to be between "pleasures" and "pains" while John Stuart Mill changed the balance to one between "h...

Education, Special Needs Individuals' Rights, and the Law

from the regular classroom at her middle school on the basis of her condition. The parents contended that the school and its super...

Pain Management Choices and Patients Rights

quite succinctly. The Dax Cowart case, that has become rather well known, involves a seriously injured man who was left ...

Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Protective Treaties

US and Native American tribes was signed in 1778 (Capps, 1973). This treaty was with the Delawares, whose tribal land once extende...

Michael K. Honey's Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights Organizing Memphis Workers

from different classes and races integrating with the mainstream. These barriers extended into practically every aspect of Memphi...

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 ...

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...

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...

Swaziland's Sex Ban and the Implications for Human Rights

on the language and concepts that are central to our moral and ethical lives. Yet even though this may appear as a primary concep...

Social Responsibility and Individual Rights

apartments, eat out at restaurants, go to sleep any time they choose, and so forth. In other words, their rights as individuals w...

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...