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- 1641: Society's Views on Family Values and Children as Reflected in the novel The Handmaid's Tale
- ... and can possibly end up in the courts if the she changes her mind, and wishes to keep the child. Children in Giliead are a valuable commodity. Custody of a child depends not on birth rights, but on power and status of an individual. In the early years of Gilead, a child could have easily been taken away from a family and given to a powerful commander or anyone of high ... speaking out against such single parent role models such as Television's Murphy Brown. In Canada, three members of Preston Manning's Reform party were kicked out of the caucus for speaking out against homosexual rights and supporting the more traditional view of strait only marriages. As more and more politicians use traditional values of the fifties as a platform to get elected into office, more and more liberals get fed ...
- 1642: Crime and Punishment: Is There or is There Not Such a Thing as Crime?
- ... and the police. Enough said. In Morrison's Beloved, the laws are again defined and well established in Early Nineteenth century rural Ohio, although they are skewed toward white people; black people have almost no rights at all. Various acts that occurred in this book can be consid¬ ered criminal acts. The acts of infanticide and segregation were definitely criminal acts, due to the morals involved. We as humans were raised ... community were served when laws were made and certain activities are considered criminal when they break these laws. But activi¬ ties are also considered criminal in people's minds and consciences, as they learn the rights and wrongs of life. This book and the previous books do in totality does seem to assert an absolute definition of what constitues the act of a crime. The laws established, the way people thought ...
- 1643: Oliver Twist: Summary
- ... by a quantity of matted red hair. Mr. Brownlow - A generous man, concerned for other people. A very respectable looking person with a heart large enough for any six ordinary old gentleman of humane disposition. Bill Sikes - A bully, a robber and a murderer. He is an ally of Fagin. Fagin plans the crimes and Sikes carries them out. Sike's evil is so frightening because it is so physical. He ... prostitute and an accomplice of crooks, she has the instincts of a good person. She is part of a few of the most memorable scenes (when she visits Fagin's Den, when she waits for Bill to come home or when she meets with Rose Maylie and Brownlow to help save Oliver). She is untidy and free in manner, but there was something of the woman's original nature left in ...
- 1644: Capital Punishment
- ... in favor of the death penalty. It is what they deserve. It prevents the murderer from ever murdering again. It removes the burden from taxpayers. We all live in a society with the same basic rights and guarantees. We have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness with equal opportunities. This is the basis for our society. It is the foundation on which everything else is built upon ... this possibility enough to be convinced that capital punishment should be abolished. This is not true at all. The execution of innocent people is very rare because there are many safeguards guaranteeing protection of the rights of those facing the death penalty. There is legal assistance provided and an automatic appeal for persons convicted of capital crimes. Persons under the age of eighteen, pregnant women, new mothers or persons who have ...
- 1645: The Themes in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- ... in the setting of the story, her writing proved to be good. The timing for the release of To Kill a Mockingbird could not have been more perfect. "In a time of the burgeoning civil rights movement, her book was met with popular acclaim and was later adapted for film" (Matuz 240). To Kill a Mockingbird to some extent is based on Lee's childhood. "Scout was based upon Lee's ... got a chance. "Lee writes about a time when whites were the head honchos, and blacks were only counted as three-fifths, but that three fifths didn't amount up to anything as far as rights went" (Magill 1680). Before the case even went to trial, Atticus knew that there was no way that he would win this. "'Are you gonna win this case Atticus? Nope.'" (Lee 147). No matter how ...
- 1646: The American Dream
- ... them as free or slave states was where the split occurred. The compromise of 1850 stated that California enters free, and New Mexico and Utah decided on their own which is giving them more state rights in which the South heavily supported. This compromise did not satisfy each side fully. The issue of State rights intensified by the issue of slavery because the Southern states felt they had the right to decide on their own about Slavery without Federal intervention. It seems the Southern states felt that the "American dream ...
- 1647: Harriet Tubman 2
- ... 1851 she moved to Saint Catharines, a city in Ontario, Canada, that was the destination of many escaped slaves. By the late 1850s a number of Northern states passed personal liberty laws that protected the rights of fugitive slaves, so Tubman was able to purchase land and move with her parents to Auburn, New York, a center of antislavery sentiment. Tubman faced great danger guiding slaves to freedom, as Southerners offered ... but in 1869 her friend Sarah Bradford helped her publish her biography, Scenes from the Life of Harriet Tubman, so that her achievements could be an inspiration to others. Tubman became active in promoting the rights of women, particularly of black women. In 1895 she was a delegate to the first and only meeting of the National Conference of Colored Women in America (NCCWA), a group formed to combat attacks, made ...
- 1648: George Lucas
- ... two-picture deal (the other being Star Wars). Lucas had Richard Walters, a classmate at USC, write the film with Gary Kurtz as producer. After he read the script, Lucas was disappointed. He then had Bill Huyck and Gloria Katz, close friends, write another script. Finally, Universal Studios was the one to finance and release the movie. At the preview of the movie, the audience loved it. However, Ned Tanen, a ... option on it. After they rejected it, Fox bought it, giving it a budget of $3.5 million. However, this soon skyrocketed to $8.5 million dollars. After finishing the script, he gave it to Bill Huyck and Gloria Katz to sharpen the dialogue. Unfortunately, Lucas had many problems with Star Wars. Alec Guinness (Obi-Wan Kenobi) threatened to quit because his part was shortened drastically, the Millennium Falcon and R2 ...
- 1649: Abortion
- ... whether or not to terminate her pregnancy. The right to choose to have an abortion is so personal and essential to a woman’s life that without this right a woman cannot exercise other fundamental rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution (Paltrow 72). The state cannot interfere in the private lives of a citizen. Without the right to choose an abortion the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of liberty has little meaning for women. With the right to choose abortion, women are able to enjoy, like men, the rights to fully use the powers of their minds and bodies (Paltrow 73). Abortion has been around since a lot of years in every inhabited corner of the globe. It has always been accepted as a ...
- 1650: "Evil is the Underlying Element in Life of a Living Creature"
- ... itself when a young boy named T.J. Avery is falsely accused of robbing a store. T.J.'s imminent conviction shows us that the judicial system, the one thing that should defend people's rights can be warped according to the way society wants it to be it to be. Therefore, we can conclude that prejudice is yet another manifestation of hatred. In William Shakespeare's play, "Romeo and Juliet ... itself when a young boy named T.J. Avery is falsely accused of robbing a store. T.J.'s imminent conviction shows us that the judicial system, the one thing that should defend people's rights can be warped according to the way society wants it to be it to be. Therefore, we can conclude that prejudice is yet another manifestation of hatred.
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