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- 1481: Education of the Gifted and Talented Student
- ... of government-supplied funds. Teachers do not receive the training, instruction, assistance or resources that are needed to successfully utilize these methods. In recent decades, there has been ground-breaking legislation passed to protect the rights of the disabled or retarded child, ensuring equality in educational opportunity for them and the availability of appropriate services. The U. S. Department of Education has only recently illustrated the need for schools to develop ... meets his or her needs. Furthermore, to suggest that education is more important for any specific group of children is absurd and reflects the primitive thought that had, for years denied special students their basic rights. I feel that every child, in every realm of development deserves the very best education that can possibly be provided for them. I feel that it is the duty of every educator to do everything in our power to teach our children: offer every opportunity, utilize every resource available, and fight for their rights when necessary. We must hope to guide all students to reach, challenge and celebrate their maximum potential- because there is one, very basic and universal truth in education: our children (all children) truly are ...
- 1482: Lipset's American Creed
- ... be known as Jim Crow laws. Roger B. Taney, Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court, wrote in a court document that "black" Americans (which is to say any American of African decent) had "no rights a white man need respect". This statement included those blacks who were not slaves. Furthermore, it was only in the latter half of this century that the nation became integrated, and there are still Affirmative ... the matter. The concept of populism also falls under fire when considered from a racial standpoint. The idea is rooted in the our lack of an aristocracy and our belief in social equality and common rights. Social equality and common rights for the white majority, that is. Minority groups have been fighting for these for quite some time, and it is arguable whether or not they have been attained. Consider The Truly Disadvantaged by William ...
- 1483: Church Burnings
- ... by whites. Black churches were burning at the rate of one per week, mostly due to arson (Swett 2). The media jumped on the story. The racial church burnings soon became issues of Politicians. President Bill Clinton was running for re-election and desperately needed the votes of the black communities. Clinton made the discrimination issue a priority. Clinton held a White House summit on the issue and assigned the FBI ... arsons of churches. During a passionate speech President Clinton shared that he had, “vivid and painful memories of black churches being burned in my own state when I was a child.” Ironically, historians and civil rights activists in Arkansas could find no mention of any church arsons in the state during his childhood. Furthermore, Al Gore was quoted “For a very large number of the burnings, what you will find ultimately ...
- 1484: The Policies of My Way
- ... a sleeping dog best left to lie; each could only infuriate conservative Canada from coast to coast. Since King dared not touch them seriatim he certainly would not have touched them together-in an omnibus bill. This, Trudeau did joyously. The myths-makers have it at this was Trudeau's first deliberated joust, the kingship being the final prize. But Trudeau had no leadership aspirations at the time; all that he ... of solitude; companionship an act of weakness, cronyism even wise. It is ironic that Trudeau, a devout Jansenist Roman Catholic, emotionally and philosophically opposed to both divorce and abortion, should grant Canadians greatly expanded divorce rights and their first right to legale abortion. Trudeau took the unholy trinity then disturbing the bedrooms of the nation because all three were trial combat, all three required one strong man to push them through ...
- 1485: Cold Mountain Essay
- ... two elements brought about the enlisting of these men, first, they felt morally obligated that they must protect their country and home and second, all men were expected to enlist, for this war was about rights and as Thomas Jefferson notes, "not to defend ones rights when called upon is treason." After the departure of the men, women had to deal with an entirely new threat. Without the masculine presence, Federal and Confederate troops regularly looted and wreaked these women's ... lack of men changes their role in society. Just as WW 2, the women must take over the men's job to support themselves and their community. This new independence brings the views of women rights and similar ideas to Ruby's following statement, "War or peace, there's not a thing we can't do ourselves. You don't need him.4" Thus it is now evident how the ...
- 1486: Censorship in Public Schools
- ... that it had "a moral obligation to protect the children in our schools from this moral danger" (Berger 60). Five students then sued the school board on grounds that their decision violated their First Amendment rights. The suit was passed around the courts until June 1982 when the Supreme Court took up the cause and ruled that the school board would have to defend its removal of the books. The Supreme Court decided that since the library is used voluntarily, they can choose books there freely and that, as Justice Brennan stated, "the First Amendment rights of students may be directly and sharply implicated by the removal of books from the shelves of a school library (Jones 45). The Supreme Court's decision was that "courts may act our of concern for the First Amendment rights of those affected by school officials' action" (Jones 45). On August 12, 1982, the school board voted to put the books back on the shelves; (special note: the librarian was told to inform the ...
- 1487: Homeless: What Has Been Done to Decrease the Problem?
- ... I look at what the government has done with regard to the homeless problem, I have to doubt that everything is being done to eradicate it. The United Nations implemented a universal declaration of human rights. Article 25 Section 1 of this declaration states: Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing, and ... security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control. This is a step in the right direction. However, this is not enough. These rights are subject to the discretion of the government of the country who decides to obey these universal rights. How much is "adequate"? The government, both at the federal and municipal levels, is currently working on new spending cuts. These cuts also include spending on welfare, unemployment and social services that are geared ...
- 1488: Economic Impact of Canadian Telecommunications Legislation
- ... service which is affordable and universally accessible; Encouraging development of an effective and efficient telecommunications infrastructure; and Permitting Canadians in all regions to have access to the same levels of competitive services (Beatty, 1990, p42). Bill C-62 - the Telecom Act, passed in June of 1993, brought these principals to reality. In addition, the legislation gave Canadian Parliament legislative authority over the principal telecommunications "common carriers" (i.e. Bell Canada, Alberta ... Telemanagement: The Angus Report on Communications Systems, Services, and Strategies. p15, May 1993. Blackwell, Gerry "The Canadian Telecom Market in Perspective" Telemanagement: The Angus Report on Communications Systems, Services, and Strategies. p20-32, September 1993. Bill C62 - An Act Respecting Telecommunications (The Telecom Act) Ottawa: Canadian Federal Government, 1990. Beatty, Perrin Summary of the Bill Respecting Telecommunications Ottawa: Canadian Federal Government, 1990. Telecommunications: New Legislation for Canada Ottawa: Department of Communications, 1992. Untitled and Anonymous postings from the Internet, including messages from rec.canada and the CRTC's WWW ( ...
- 1489: Failure of Gun Control Laws
- ... self-defense. It was after the Civil War that the first gun-control advocates came into existence. These were southern leaders who were afraid that the newly freed black slaves would assert their newfound political rights, and these leaders wanted to make it easier to oppress the free blacks. This oppression was accomplished by passing laws making it illegal in many places for black people to own firearms. With that effort ... that the black population would be subject to their control, and would not have the ability to fight back. At the same time, the people who were most intent on denying black people their basic rights walked around with their firearms, making it impossible to resist their efforts. An unarmed man stands little chance against an armed one, and these armed men saw their plans work completely. It was a full century before the civil rights activists of the 1960s were able to restore the constitutional freedoms that blacks in this country were granted in the 1860s. Today's gun control activists are a slightly different breed. They claim that ...
- 1490: Woodrow Wilson’s League of Nations Speech and Yezierska’s The Bread Givers
- ... this point toward all foreigners, after the event of WWI, but Wilson is trying to better foreign relations by entering the League of Nations. More importantly, in his speech he mentions “ international character for the rights of labor.” This directly relates to the problem in The Bread Givers. Wilson says, “We added great international character for the rights of labor. Reject this treaty, impair it, and this consequence of the laboring end of the world, there is no international tribunal which can bring the moral judgments of the world to bear upon us ... the day.” The problems of labor and attaining work are prevalent throughout the novel and addressed here, implying that if the League is entered, labor problems will be solved. The phrase, ‘international character for the rights of labor’ is especially interesting. It fits the American dream that labor should have ‘character,’ and America is like a policeman trying to make sure everything is fair not only here, but internationally as ...
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