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- 1121: Luis Gutierrez
- ... was on the banking committee, bankers backed him on his re-election. Public funding for health services, gun control and abortion are the three most controversial issues in politics, Gutierrez is primarily pro-choice. A bill was brought to congress on July 17, 1996 to allow federal employees health insurance program to cover abortion, Gutierrez voted, yes to this bill but this amendment was rejected. He supports the Brady bill as well as other topic bills preventing semi-automatic weapons. Gutierrez major campaign topic for 1992's election. He is primarily for better health care service throughout America. According to the performance evaluation by ...
- 1122: Theodore Roosevelt
- ... sentences for speaking out against the President or the adminisTheodore Rooseveltation (Brown 122). It was also set to expire when the next President took office. This was decried as an obviously unconstitutional infringement on civil rights and as an illegal expansion of cenTheodore Rooseveltal government. The Acts stood, however. They put many people in jail and fixed a definite black mark on John Adams’s record in the service of his ... whole nation’s sale of sugar (Roosevelt 226). The 1890s Supreme Court was loath to regulate indusTheodore Roosevelty in any way. It even ruled that a minimum wage or maximum hours law would violate workers’ rights to sell their labor on their own terms (Blum 32). Roosevelt was to change that. Theodore Roosevelt’s Attorney General began proceedings against the Northern Securities Company soon after Roosevelt’s inauguration. Northern Securities, an ... the region. The union continually professed its willingness to negotiate, but the owners refused. Waiting “for the union to crack” (Mowry 134), two of the owners claimed that God had granted them their extensive property rights (Mowry 135). Finally, with coal increasingly scarce, as even schools and hospitals grew cold and riots threatened in several cities, Roosevelt called the UMW and the coal operators to the White House for a ...
- 1123: Jazz Movement In The 1960s
- ... different skin color were no different from them. Several people made a move to change this in the 1960's, and a man named Martin Luther King, Jr. Came to the forefront of the civil rights movement. As blacks and minorities began to push harder and harder for their civil rights, the scene became filled with tension, and Americans watched on television as racial violence erupted in Birmingham, Alabama. In a span of just 5 days over 2,500 blacks were arrested, showing that equality was ... Americans, King was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee in 1968. During his lifetime, however, he was able to influence millions, leading a march on Washington, D.C. in August 1963, and he saw both the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 pass through congress and become laws. The country saw another great American in the 1960's: John F. Kennedy. As the country was enjoying ...
- 1124: The Supreme Court Decision of Roe vs Wade
- ... that a woman has a constitutional right to an abortion” (Kaplan 49). Jane Roe vs Henry Wade was a case that was more than just the right to an abortion, this was about women’s rights and privacy issues. Jane Roe was an alias for a Texas woman who wanted an abortion, but Texas laws made it illegal. When this case came to trial, it was difficult because the constitution never ... case “challenged the statute on a number of constitutional grounds, including equal protection of the law, due process of law, and the right to privacy” (Internet #1). The court voted 7 to 2 for the rights of Jane Roe. Justice Blackmun was the one to write the opinion formally for the court. He said that a woman’s right to decide whether or not to terminate her pregnancy is a fundamental ... 1999 and the abortion rate is 1.5 million a year. People fail to see how much more the Roe vs Wade decision impacted the lives of many. Not just with abortion but with the rights of women. This ruling allowed the world to see that the court gave women rights of their own, not dependent on what the man says. It gave her the right too much more and ...
- 1125: Analysis Of Morality And Accountability In Legal Study Case
- ... Plasma International's situation, one can deduce that their procedures do not fit these standards. If every company needed inexpensive "supply" went to a third-world nation to buy it, there would be more human rights violations. This is comparable to the sweatshop uproar, in which unknowing persons, desperate for survival, worked excessively for pennies in pay. This is an illegal trade, but that did not stop Nike, Reebok, and Kathie ... these choices. In this frame, donors should be paid more than their current wages, and the hospitals should be charged less because they are in dire need. The Stakeholder Theory concerns managerial capitalism and the rights of the people involved. A "stakeholder" is any group that provides "critical support" to a business. In the Plasma International case, the stakeholders are the owners, the suppliers (tribesmen), the local community, and the consumers ... that concern their welfare. This theory states that the corporation should be managed for the benefit of the stakeholders, and must act in the stakeholders' best interests as their agent. By following these procedures, the rights and long-term interests of the stakeholders are secured, and their welfare is maximized. However, this rationale notes that "each stakeholder group makes itself better off through voluntary exchanges." (Evan and Freeman, 314) Although ...
- 1126: Nelson Mandela
- ... civil disobedience). Nelson early became one of the most important leaders in the party because ofhis strong opposition against aparheid. Mandela was jailed for the first time in 1952 for having arrranged a peaceful civil rights campaign. This demonstration did no change any of the apartheid laws, but the work wasnt useless. When some got arrested, others came to take the arresteds place. the number of members in ANC rose from ... demonstrations, speeches and campaigns. He didnt give up the fight while he was in prison, and he was ready to die for his belief. He persuaded the black people to continue to fight for their rights. Now when aparheid is abolished, Mandela's fight for equal rights goes on. Mandela's fight for equal rights goes on. The old system is gone, but there is still bad housing conditions, education, unequal franchise and bad public health services. Mandela diddnt give up ...
- 1127: Abuse of Power within A Clockwork Orange
- ... of the power within him. The violent acts described are graphic and are intended to shock the reader. They also show that the suppression of others is wrong, because it is destructive to the natural rights of man. He consistently chooses evil and violence to show his power of choice, "And now I was ready for a bit of twenty-to-one . . . then I cracked this veck"(7). Alex beats, rapes ... to control Alex is shown as a horrendous attack and abuse of power. When the ability to choose independently between good and evil is stripped from Alex, he realises the importance of choice to his rights as an individual. "I was not your handsome young narrator any longer, but a real strack of a sight"(55). Alex has lost all of his rights and control of himself, which leads to his loss of self respect. He has now lost what gave him ascendancy over the weak, his free will and ability of choice. As stated in the ...
- 1128: AIDS Related Stigma
- ... In the early years of AIDS, many PLWAs were actually refused service in North American hospitals and some were fired from their jobs upon announcing that they had AIDS. The fact that the Canadian Human Rights Commission felt it necessary to specifically address HIV/AIDS discrimination is a good indicator as to what point it exists. Many PLWAs also experience extreme social isolation due to their illness; because of the negative ... in after threats of violence and an arson fire in their home (Giblin, 1995 & Quam, 1990). At approximately the same time as U.S. legislation was passed, the Canadian government included AIDS under its human rights commission anti- discrimination laws. Although some things have changed and laws have been passed, the effects if stigma are still prevalent. Many people still express feelings of fear and hostility towards PLWAs (O’Hare, et ... By exercising their role of client advocate, social workers can help to ensure that their clients receive the services they are entitled to and the proper, non-discriminatory treatment when possible. This includes advocating client rights within the health care system, whether it be in hospitals or CLSCs, within the legal system, and in community organizations. Along with advocacy, social workers can push for further changes in legislation and policy ...
- 1129: Frederick Douglass
- ... Island, Douglass became a lecturer for the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society and a colleague of William Lloyd Garrison. He published his own newspaper called The North Star. Douglass also participated in the first women's rights convention at Seneca Falls, in 1848, and wrote three autobiographies: An American Slave, My Bondage and My Freedom , and Life and Times of Frederick Douglass. He was internationally recognized as an uncompromising abolitionist, indefatigable worker for justice and equal opportunity, and an unyielding defender of women's rights. Douglass served as an adviser to President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War and fought for the adoption of constitutional amendments that guaranteed voting rights and other civil liberties for blacks. Douglass provided a powerful voice for human rights during this period of American history. During the Civil War he helped recruit black soldiers for the Union army, afterwards ...
- 1130: On Apartheid
- ... or (4) Asian. Apartheid required segregation in housing, education, employment, public accommodations, and transportation. It segregated not only almost all whites from nonwhites but also major nonwhite groups from each other. It also limited the rights of nonwhites to own and occupy land, and to enter white neighborhoods." 2 "The South African government tried to justify apartheid by claiming that peaceful coexistence of the races was possible only if the races ... apartheid continued to be criticized internationally. In 1990 South Africa finally ended apartheid. South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, formed to uncover past events without further polarizing society, released its final report on human rights abuses under apartheid in 1998. Its conclusions were attacked by all of the country's main political parties, none of which escaped criticism in the report. TIMELINE 1931-34 South Africa gains independence from Great ... the country. 1953 Separate Amenities Act is enacted, establishing separate public facilities for whites and nonwhites. June 26, 1955 The African National Congress and other opposition groups adopt the Freedom Charter, calling for equal political rights for all races. March 21 - April 5, 1960 Police kill 69 unarmed protesters in Sharpeville. The government bans all opposition groups, may of which begin underground armed struggles for black and mixed-race liberation, ...
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