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Essays 1921 - 1950

Different Approaches of Civil Rights Leaders Malcolm X and Martin Luther King

In five pages this paper evaluates the short and long term influences of Malcolm and King in a contrasting of their very different...

Anti Terrorist Legislation of the United Kingdom

strongly by Cohen (2001). He notes that...

King and Thoreau

garnered from the ideals of Thoreau as well (Scholastic). In light of these facts it is clear that King was not only influenced di...

The Meaning of The First Black Presidency

whether or not the statement is true. One can easily see that Obama had become president many years after the movement, and also t...

Jesus/Human Relationships Above the Law

contemporary mindset, the word "law" refers to civil law, which is enforced by the police and government officials. As Jesus indic...

AN ARGUMENT FOR REPEALING THE U.S. PATRIOT ACT

whim of the FBI or CIA. The ACLU points out, for example, that Section 215 of the Act allows the FBI to...

THE PATRIOT ACT, AN OVERVIEW AND THE 14TH AMENDMENT

"wire, oral, and electronic communications relating to terrorism..." (Ball 51). Along with this, Title II also allows the seizing ...

Ralph Ellison/The Dream at the end of "Battle Royal"

the leading black American of his era, gave at a primarily white audience in Atlanta in 1895. This speech became known as the "Atl...

Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965

Act: "All persons shall be entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, and privileges, advantages...

Employment Inequalities and the Civil Rights Act of 1964

1964, its provision that "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall hav...

Reducing Gang Violence In New York City

opportunities for city residents (Soglin, 2006). This author reports that studies consistently show an inverse relationship betwee...

Leadership and Mahatma Gandhi

human tendencies that fall alongside the more admirable qualities. These qualities, in fact, can be credited with the less praise...

Mississippi Burning/A Reaction to the Film

group of KKK members (DuPont, et al). The film ends with snapshots of the men indicted for the murders of the three Civil Rights w...

Out In The Redwoods/An Oral History

spent the first part of this life trying to conform. At the age of 32, he was still not openly gay. He said, "For me, coming out, ...

Thoreau and King

government is as likely as the army to be "abused and perverted before the people can act through it" (Thoreau, 1849). He cites th...

California Law and Medical Practice

in the documents. The period of time that Dr. Sanders has to respond to the lawsuit is based on the method of service, and so can...

Michigan Civil Rights Initiative: Proposal 2

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

Medgar Evers/His Legacy

In most cases, this is the focus and the extent to which African American scholarship mentions the life and work of Medgar Evers. ...

The Unexpected Impacts of 9-11

One of the most concerning of the reactions to 9-11 is the attacks that we have been subjected to in terms of our legal...

A Sociological Analysis of the Role of Malcolm X

at a speaking engagement ("Biography of Malcolm X," 2007). Of course, the 1960s were tumultuous times. Yet, prior to his demise, h...

Employment: Civil Rights

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

Restitution in the Criminal Justice System

are victims of hate crimes. Other special victims may be disabled, gay, HIV-infected, prisoners or students (Wallace, 2007). These...

Education: Crime and Civil Rights

for an individual who is determined to engage in crime. They may know what prison is about, may be intelligent, and yet they find ...

Tobacco Industry

any number of physical ailments, including halitosis and lockjaw throughout Europe (ASH, 2006; Randall, 1999). Sir Frances Drake ...

Legal Matters at Bug, Inc.

can be used to help prevent another company from benefiting from Bugs efforts. 2. Industrial Espionage Corporate spying alw...

African American Writers/On Each Other

"this beautiful/and terrible thing," which human beings find as "needful a air" and as "usable as earth," will finally belong to b...

English Law and Unorthodox Family Rights

prejudicial to disqualify same sex partners form marrying. This would indicate that they are either not capable of making the same...

Civil Engineers; Opportunities To influence Political Decisions

of the overlap (Wenk, 1971). With the expert knowledge it can be argued that the role of the civil engineer ins changing, especia...

Greensboro Sit-Ins

turned into many as the protest continued for almost 6 months.5 In addition, it sparked many other protests throughout the South a...

Civil Liberties

liberties they believe that the Constitution allows freedom in all areas that the society deems necessary. However, there are cond...