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- 2071: Justice in Orestes
- ... significant, because it provides a place for the citizens to decide about what moral elements will be upheld in the Polis. The Eumenides is the battleground for the two competing moralities. The furies invoke their rights as defenders of blood, and it is up to Orestes and Apollo to convince the jury that the son was just in his actions. The jury is expected to believe that Apollo's oracle is ... override the ancient laws of the Furies? These are complicated moral question that Athena asks the mortal jury to grapple with. Even Athena believes the issue too important for her to judge solely. "…by all rights not even I should decide a case of murder—murder whets passions." (Eumenides lines 486-487) She realises that if she were to mediate, the curse will never end. Perhaps she is suggesting that mortals ...
- 2072: Eleanor Roosevelt
- ... began to plan like a Machiavelli, and the tall, queenly woman who would not permit herself airs- had a political confederate and a good friend. After his defeat in 1920 and the passage of voting rights act for women, she started a new career of independence and self-realization. She became active in a network of organizations, many of them run by veterans of hte suffrage struggles, dedicated, kknowledgeable women. The ... grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it? -Eleanor Roosevelt Among her several acomplishments as former first lady, she helped United Nations establish the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This achievement established her as a world figure. Few women in world history had posed to themselves more steadily questions like "what am I here for, what is life's purpose, who am I?" Word ...
- 2073: Contemporary Thinkers: Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aguinas
- ... right. He also believes that only people of leisure should participate in politics because these people have the free time to study, learn, think, and thus are better qualified. Unlike Plato, however, he defends property rights. Aristotle believes that owning property gives incentive and progress, pleasure that the ownership gives, generosity, and has been a custom for ages. He defends slavery as well by stating that some people were destined for ... Stoicism on Roman legal thought existed as well. The Roman legal system under the influence of Stoicism placed much more emphasis on civic duty, social responsibility, the importance of good law, and the equal basic rights of all human beings. Question #4 : Please describe St. Augustine's background and his conception of the two city states. Also, explain Plato's influence on Augustine and provide your opinion of the philosophy of ...
- 2074: School Uniforms
- ... head scarves, during the school day is part of students' religious practice, under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act schools generally may not prohibit the wearing of such items. A uniform policy must protect students' other rights of expression. It must not prohibit students from wearing or displaying expressive items. For example, a button that supports a political candidate should be allowed as long as such items do not contribute to disruption by substantially interfering with discipline or with the rights of others. A uniform policy must also prohibit students from wearing a button bearing a gang insignia. A uniform policy must also prohibit items that undermine the integrity of the uniform, such as a sweatshirt ...
- 2075: Society During The French Revo
- ... only way 7 for the people to change things was by rioting.” Unable to hold back the rising tides of revolt, Louis XVI withdrew his troops and was forced into accepting the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. “Though, the bitterest struggle in France was still between the peasant proprietors and the possessors 8 of seigneurial rights.” Suspicions grew around Marie Antoinette. She was in constant communication with her brother, the Holy Roman emperor Leopold II who was 6 Johnson. French Revolution. pp. 27-28. 7 Seles. The Eighteenth Century. p. 197 ...
- 2076: Locke's The Second Treatise of Civil Government: The Significance of Reason
- ... man “ought to harm another in his life, liberty, or possessions” (123). According to Locke, the law of reason is the basis of man as well as society. It restrains men from infringing on the rights of others. In this state, there is no need for a central authority figure to govern the actions of people, for it is the people, themselves, who impose the “peace and preservation of mankind” (124 ... because they don't take their citizens out of the state of nature. Societies, in fact, are in a form of the state of nature, themselves, so people don't have to give up their “rights” to reason by entering into the social contract. Reason still exists where conformity flourishes. It doesn't diminish but is actually enhanced by the merging of natural law (fundamental law) and positive law (the law ...
- 2077: The Masculine Dismissal of a Women's Quest in The Odyssey, A Room Of One's Own, and Northanger Abbey
- ... as fresh prospectives on history now suggest, in this search for freedom and order, the masculine craving for adventure, demanded restrictions upon women, forcing her into deeper confinement, even within her limited province. Thus the rights of a man are separated by the expectancies of a woman. Each subsequent story deals with a search for truth that is hidden by the facades of social convention. This search is often hampered by ... are put through the test of self-definition and realization. Yet in some unspecified way, a women's segregation was presumed to compensate for a man's expanding universes in the outside world. Thus the rights of a man are separated by the expectancies of a women. A female's quest is best displayed in the sphere of domestic life, which drastically diminishes her diversity of action, compared to men who ...
- 2078: Careful, He Might Hear You 2
- ... so that she would not be alone. When this failed there was no hope left, only desolation and a determination to become herself. PS is also affected by Vanessa's self-realisation. No longer did Bill, PS, want to be a post-scrip to his dead mother's life. By demanding that he be called by his proper given name, PS created his own identity, and discarded the burden of his mother. Maybe by carrying the name PS, Bill was constantly reminded of his late mother, and perhaps felt some responsibility towards her death. PS abided by Vanessa's advice, maybe because he felt partly responsible for Vanessa's death. The importance of identity ...
- 2079: 1963: The Hope That Stemmed From the Fight for Equality
- ... in every person's inner being to strive for equality. The fight for equalization has existed throughout time. Jews, Negroes, women, and homosexuals are examples of those who have been inspired to fight for equal rights, for justice, and for freedom. The struggle for black equality was the event that turned the United States of America upside down. For over two centuries, Negroes have struggled to work their way up the ... taken during this time are grotesque. Violence was out of hand. The Negroes persevered through it all. Of a similar march in Washington it was stated, "More significant than the immediate effect the Washington civil rights march would have on the Congress of the U.S., more remarkable than the spectacle itself, was the Negroes' orderly demonstration of their potential as a moral force" ("They come marching up Conscience Road"). Things ...
- 2080: Santeria
- ... negative attention to the religion. Sacrifices are made to the Orisha to ensure that it will continue to be powerful. Animals that are commonly sacrificed are duck, chickens, goats, doves, pigeons and turtles. Many Animal Rights activist have tried to put a stop to the animal sacrifices. In Hialeah Florida, 1987, townspeople openly showed disgust for a mans religion and petitioned his religious beliefs. The man, Ernesto Pichardo, openly admitted being ... Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1982. Alvarez, Lizette. Santería: A Once-Hidden Faith Leaps Out into the Open © 1997 N.Y. Times News Service http://www.latinolink.com/life/life97/0126lsan.htm Rutgers Animal Rights Law Center. Introduction to Santeria and Animal Sacrifice Copyright © 1996 http://www.animal-law.org/sacrifice/sacrfc.htm
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