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- 2271: Brown V. Board Of Education
- ... not bring about total integration of blacks in the schools, it resulted in efforts by many school systems to remove the imbalance by busing students. The Court's decision had far reaching effects, influencing civil rights legislation and the civil rights movement of the 1960's.
- 2272: Tradition and World War 1
- ... that no religion should be discriminated against in order for French citizens to become more of a unitary nation. In accordance to perfectionism, universalism was also introduced. This took into account the Declaration of the Rights of Man (Declaration des Droits de l’homme et du Citoyen) and various new views and ideas. These ideas were first expected and used at the time of the European War. We see tradition more ... the French population, it served his purpose in unifying his regime and the people. In 1968, French tradition began to fade. The fresh movements of feminism spread rapidly across France questioning the Declaration of the Rights of Man and how it should be implemented, student protests, originating in Nanterre, over conditions and scarcity of job prospects. Political aspects began to arise as well. Anti-Vietnam war and anti-capitalist movements began ...
- 2273: Jane Eyre: Somewhere, The Dark Sheds Light
- ... encounters many obstacles to her intelligence. Jane lives in a world and in a time where society thought women were too fragile to ponder too much at once. Women at the time had barely any rights at all, and women were not allowed prominent positions. Male dominance proves to be the biggest obstruction at each stop of Jane's journey through Gateshead Hall, Lowood Institution, Thornfield Manor, Moor House, and Ferndean ... complete dependency on those around him, primarily Jane. Understanding dominance, though not yielding to it, becomes the key for Jane to achieve success. After all, both Jane Eyre and Charlotte Bront‰ stood up for their rights in a time where society said they couldn't. Reader, if you have a problem, speak up.
- 2274: The Holocaust
- ... April of that year, Hitler began to boycott Jewish owned shops. Later that month, the first anti-Jewish law was passed in Germany. A couple of years later, the Jews slowly began to loose their rights. For example, Jewish children were expelled from German schools simply because of their religious beliefs. After that, people were beginning to be sent to ghettos. Ghettos were places where the Jews were isolated from other ... they were basically rejected from society. After spending some time in the ghettos, they were transported by cargo trains to what was called a concentration camp. It was basically like a prison, they had no rights, they were worked like slaves, and they were exposed to horrible conditions that killed over two thirds of the Jewish population in Europe. People were packed onto the trains. There was no room to spare ...
- 2275: The Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute
- ... the 1950s beneath land occupied by both tribes (Wood 1999), an area later established as the "joint-use area" (JUA) in 1962. While the JUA existed in relative peace, the technical problem of land usage rights was becoming more apparent to politicians and big business interests. Only one year after the coal's discovery, Hopi Tribal Council representative - and attorney for Peabody Coal, the nation's largest coal company - John Boyden ... US government tried to permanently end the 117-year-long dispute with S.1973; also known as the "Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute Settlement Act of 1996," signed into law by President Clinton. Once again, the rights of the Dineh seemed to be overlooked. While the act claims to acknowledge and respect the sincerity of the traditional beliefs of the Dineh still residing on the HPL, it authorizes the Hopi to establish ...
- 2276: Female Genital Mutilation
- ... started in Egypt 2,000 years ago and spread from there. Only a few years ago, FGM was considered a cultural tradition, but now the United Nations has labeled it as a violation of human rights. Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands, and the United States has declared Female Genital Mutilation grounds for seeking asylum and is a punishable offense (1). Many of us never heard of Female Genital Mutilation until the story ... a decision to codify the control of women, and codify violence against them, in addition to decodify the inferior status in society" (9). The UN Human Right Conference in Vienna, has classified as a human rights violation and is a criminal offense and against the statutes of national and international medical associations. UNICEF and UNDP want to stop this. They say that it is "absolutely certain that if similar tortures were ...
- 2277: Walt Whitman
- ... He walked among men, among writers, among verbal varnishers and veneerers, among literary milliners and tailors, with the unconscious majesty of an antique God. He was the poet of that divine democracy which gives equal rights to all the sons and daughters of men. He uttered the great American voice; uttered a song worthy of the great Republic. No man ever said more for the rights of humanity, more in favor of real democracy, of real justice. He was the poet of life, he was the poet of love, he was the poet of death, and he was the poet of ...
- 2278: Faust
- ... be revered by the masses as an individual of great morality and strength, a man or woman that never sacrifices his beliefs under adversity. Therefore, through his immoral actions and his unwillingness to respect others rights and privileges, Faust is determined to be a man of un heroic proportions. It is seen early in the poem, that Faust has very strong beliefs and a tight moral code that is deeply rooted ... other parts of the story in which Faust commits an illegal or immoral act to heighten himself in his own eyes. It is obvious then that Faust is a criminal, a man who abuses the rights of others to gain spiritual and financial freedom for himself. A criminal is a personn that should neither be rewarded or idealized for his actions against society. The only endeavor that Faust does in order ...
- 2279: Families On The Fault Line
- ... s movement appeared to lose its momentum after women gained the right to vote. But although women’s groups were no longer held together by a single goal. They continued to fight for women’s rights on several fronts. However, it wasn’t until the 1960’s that the movement regained its previous strength. Women in families are not the only ones who have argued with the political sphere and won some political rights. Some Gay families or same-sex couples have won the right to adopt children and in some states to get married. The Modern family depends heavily on the all the institutions of society for support ...
- 2280: The New World
- ... didn’t understand that once the land was sold, they couldn’t hunt, fish, of grow crops on it. Indians believed that land is not a commodity to be shared. There shouldn’t be exclusive rights to ownership. "Although the growing season was short, habitants were able to produce subsistence crops by employing Indian farming techniques, and eventually they developed a modest export economy" (Out Of Many,53). The Indians showed ... a great controversy. Also, slavery has always been a debate in the United States. In conclusion, the Europeans greatly affected the Indians in every aspect of their lives. From land use and freedom, to religious rights. You can even say that from the time of the arrival of Christopher Columbus, life in the Americas has been greatly altered by the Europeans. Works Cited Faragher, John Mack, et al. Out Of Many ...
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