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Essays 1951 - 1980

Employment: Civil Rights

have been various statutes that have aimed at changing and eliminating discrimination that involve religion, sex, race, age and ma...

The Voting Rights Act of 1965

Voting Rights Laws"). Before the Civil War, "the United States Constitution did not provide specific protections for voting" ("Be...

Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement

the future for the struggles of the African Americans in the United States (Martin Luther King, Jr.: Civil-Rights Leader, 2007). H...

The Constitution and the Bill of Rights

free speech. Certainly, there are limits to speech, but at least the Constitution protects the rights of individuals ideologically...

Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Women

speaks of the position of women in society, elements of a womans life that can often lead to a position where she is seen as littl...

Gun Control: Rights

citizen who often needs a gun to protect himself from the very criminal element of society who will always have access to firearms...

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Its Effect on the Third Estate

always outvote the Third Estate" (Hooker, 1996). It was, in effect, a "rubber stamp" for the nobility to pass the legislation that...

Washington & Du Bois/Who Was Right?

separate as the five fingers, and yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress" (quoted by Du Bois 24). This "c...

Michigan Civil Rights Initiative: Proposal 2

of public employment, public education, or public contracting" (LaBash, 2006). Another author indicates that it essentially refle...

Trans People & Bathroom Rights in Canada

meet the health needs of trans people (Sandeen). A fact cited by Davis is that only 15 to 20 percent of individuals who identify t...

Women’s Rights in the Military

cooks, laundresses and saboteurs" Women In Military Service For America Memorial Foundation, Inc., 2007). They clearly had no righ...

OpEd: Right of Refusal

on some theological idea that only God can end life. We wouldnt allow a dog or cat to suffer; why then do we force humans to do so...

Transgender Bathroom Rights

their physical gender" (Armstrong, 2006). The issues that such people face "on a daily basis are not issues people in the wider co...

Legal Rights: Case Studies

the arrest the car was searched and weapons and magazine clips were found, all pointing to the mens involvement in a robbery. Th...

FBI Counterintelligence and the Civil Rights Movement

years earlier and prior to the U.S. involvement in World War II. The 1940 Smith Act criminalized any advocacy of "the overthrow o...

ADA And Fourth Amendment Rights

Section 504 was enacted in 1973, its full implications are only now being realized. This is particularly true of those components...

"Declaring Rights"

happened at the Constitutional Convention, and trying to reassure them that the new federal government still leaves a great deal o...

Sociological Article Analysis (New Soldiers in the Fight for Human Rights)

the fact that the human rights field has grown immensely, but what it also does that is not quite as obvious is to suggest that un...

Civil Rights in the Nineteenth Century

to move to the back, and when he refused, would go to court. The court essentially ruled against Plessy, rendering segregation val...

Surrogacy: Right or Wrong

This essay draws upon research to argue that surrogacy, while encompassing moral issues, can be conducted in an ethically sound ma...

Roles and Rights of Women in Works by Kate Chopin and William Faulkner

that Faulkner is telling. We can only speculate as to his reasons for not allowing her to speak directly and instead relying on ot...

The Reaffirmation of the Voters' Rights Act

The argument is presented that the continued prejudice that exists in the US has necessitated continued federal regulation at the ...

A DISCUSSION ABOUT INTERNATIONAL REPRODUCTION RIGHTS

Discusses issues pertaining to gender equity and reproductive rights. There are 3 sources listed in the bibliography of this 5-pag...

The Quest for Civil Rights

This paper outlines some of the important chapters of the Civil Rights Movement. There are five sources in this ten page paper. ...

Four Countries: Analysis of Minority/Ethnic Rights

This research paper describes the issues associated with minority and ethnic rights within the context of the United States, Russi...

Role in Civil Rights Movement, To Kill a Mockingbird

This essay utilizes literature to put forth the argument that Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, both the novel and the film adap...

Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, An Evaluation

This research paper summarizes the points made in relevant literature in order to discuss whether or not the Charter has succeeded...

Overview: The Civil Rights Movement

This research paper presents an overview of the history of the civil rights movement. The major major events that characterize thi...

Climate Change and Human Rights

is important to perceive climate change in accordance with a human rights perspective because of the devastating effects that dras...

An Overview of Prisoner Rights

the monarchic model of leadership began to dissolve, it became apparent that the punitive systems in place were rife with the pote...