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- 1861: The Jury System
- ... a disadvantage. However, there is a possibility that jury system will check rotting of trial. Jurors need not explain reason of verdict to court. If juries feel way of investigation is dirty and viorate human rights, they can decide the defendant is innocnt. In short, jurors can decide defendant is innocent even if a public prosecutor has disadvantageous proofs for the defendant. Juries who are representative of citizen make the decision ... may say " We had better entrust trial to trained judge." However, meaning of jury system's existence is to stick to common sense of citizens. Providing whether the man is innocent or not by legal rights all people can exercise is permitted is more important than the fact whether the man is innocent or not.
- 1862: Was The Wife Of Bath A Feminis
- ... the ages, and believes that all women are inherently that way. The Wife of Bath describes women as greedy, controlling, dishonest creatures. Although it seems contradictory, she has no respect for her body or the rights of women, and is an insult to true feminists everywhere. The commonly used example of the Wife of Bath's so-called "feminism", is the incident in which she rips pages out of her husband ... marriage". This implies that she is not as strong as she says, if her whole life depends on men. Her lack of ownership and respect for her own body reflects in her viewpoints on the rights of other women. In her story a woman is raped. The man that brutally rapes her receives no punishment and is instead rewarded. Also, the Wife of Bath's fifth husband beats her, and instead ...
- 1863: Wandering Girl, What Insights
- ... was with a friend, the episode of the turkey would not be so bad. They would look at the funny side of things and have a good laugh. However she did find a friend in Bill, one of the Bigelow's farm hands. He was a kind and caring old man who treated Glenyse as a person. "I felt very happy that I found a friend he told me to call him Bill and not to forget - If I ever needed him I knew what to do." (Pg.66) Glenyse lived in an unfamiliar environment where she was not familiar with the equipment the Bigelow family had in ...
- 1864: Teddy Roosevelt's Contribution to Natural Resources
- ... in our natural resources were adopted by other key leaders in the government. The day that Roosevelt read his first message to Congress, a committee of Western Senators and Congressmen organized to invent a Reclamation Bill. Senator Francis G. Newlands of Nevada took an interest in the reclamations and took it upon himself to draft and push the bill through Congress. Finally, after several conferences and revisions, the Reclamation Act was passed on June 17, 1902. The Act set aside the proceeds of the disposal of public lands for the purpose of reclaiming the ...
- 1865: The FBI and Its History
- ... and the advent of the Atomic Age, the FBI began conducting background security investigations for the White House and other government agencies, as well as probes into internal security matters for the Executive Branch. Civil rights and organized crime became major concerns of the FBI in the 1960s, as did counterterrorism, financial crime, drugs, and violent crimes, during the 1970s and 1980s. In additional to its five priority programs, the FBI also concentrates significant investigative resources into applicant and civil rights matters.
- 1866: Conscription in Canada
- ... of the English Canadian government. The war that was going on across the Atlantic was of no importance to the French. For the French Canadians, Canada was a country of two peoples, each with equal rights. Yet those rights were seized, taken away with the implementation of conscription. The problem between Quebec and conscription laid the foundation for national crisis. To the French Canadiens, war meant a large army, having a large army meant ...
- 1867: The Death Penalty
- ... life of another person. From religion's view, use of the death penalty is morally wrong. Almost all religions believe that everyone has a chance to have a new life. Hence, it also against human rights. It is cruel and inhuman punishment. And the idea of putting a living person to death, is wrong and against our morals especially in the civilized society of late twentieth century. Most people argue that ... concludes that tax payers pay an average of $3.2 million dollars per each death penalty case -- enough to sentence someone to 120 years in a maximum security facility. We learned in class that Human rights are every human's right. Other people say that most people fear death, so capital punishment serves as an excellent deterrent. If people know that they would be sentenced to death after committing the serious ...
- 1868: Cicero: Is Law Possible Without Virtue?
- ... For example, without virtue, there will be no equality, and without equality under the law, there will be instability and no happiness, thus, society will be undermined. Cicero does, however, make a distinction between legal rights and political rights. He holds that all should be equal for the law, but that only the most virtuous can rule. Thus, it can be concluded that Cicero does believe that there can be law without virtue, but ...
- 1869: Eva Peron
- ... new change in the course of there lives, the president asked Peron to resign, Peron did. And Eva had been fired from the Belgrano radio. This was a moment when Eva would speak for their rights and fight for what she believed was right. So after Peron resigned Eva organized a lot of people who Peron had once helped and asked them that now it was their turn to help Juan ... this trip in Europe she would visit factories, poor neighborhoods and all of the working classes leaving great donations. After her trip to Europe she started again with her activities, especially that of woman s rights and the struggle for them to vote. The women in Argentina were starting to become a political part of the country also. Evita would attempt to use her popularity to run for vice-president. However ...
- 1870: Middle Class Blacks' Burden
- ... showing whites that blacks are people." Shelby Steele asks, "After all, since when had white Americans taken note of anything but color when it came it blacks?" Our nation, which is supposed to preserve equal rights to everyone, is weakened when certain Americans feel they are judged on a day to day basis by their skin color. Some might argue that blacks and whites are equal, but it is obvious through ... the black middle class who has had it with being patted on the head by white hands and slapped in the face by black hands for my success." Many blacks today still fight for their rights, one of which is the right not to be victimized. Much to often blacks are judged unfairly by whites and other blacks. Sadly enough, many middle class blacks are forced to walk that fine line ...
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