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- 231: What Is Human Rights Abuse?
- By: Kwiana Pinnock E-mail: Kiloka@aol.com What are Human Rights Abuses? Human Rights Abuses are occurrences where there are violations on an individual's right to act in a way to make moral decisions. Tis includes violations against an individual's political rights,worker rights, and freedom of religion,speech, press,peaceful assembly and association. It includes freedom from any cruel or inhumane treatment and not being discriminated against because of race,sex, disability,language or social ...
- 232: The Debate on Gay Rights
- The Debate on Gay Rights The argument on rights, be it human, animal, black, white or gray, is always a difficult one. One should begin by deciding who makes up these rights. Even that in itself would be difficult enough. If a group of white men made a list of rights for black men, one could say it would be biased. Fortunately on December 10, 1948 ...
- 233: Equal Human Rights
- Equal Human Rights In 1863, Abraham Lincoln was faced with a major dilemma dealing with an upcoming election. Arguments and fights were breaking out among the people of Northern and Southern States. Lincoln knew something had to be ... the Amendment before they were allowed back into the union. The Amendment was not only important to African-Americans in the 1860's and 1870's but it also became very useful during the Civil rights Movement of the 1960's. However, ignoring the conflicts over this Amendment I believe it serves a just points in allowing equal rights and protection to all people who lived in the United States, but slavery kept individuals from agreeing with equals rights. Women were also now included in the picture of Civil Rights, wanted and would ...
- 234: John Locke: Property Rights
- John Locke: Property Rights Perhaps one of, if not the, most historically influential political thinkers of the western world was John Locke. John Locke, the man who initiated what is now known as British Empiricism, is also considered highly influential in establishing grounds, theoretically at least, for the constitution of the United States of America. The basis for understanding Locke is that he sees all people as having natural God given rights. As God's creations, this denotes a certain equality, at least in an abstract sense. This religious back drop acts as a the foundation for all of Locke's theories, including his theories of individuality ... consent was pointless, irrelevant and would merely be an overzealous exercision of power. Pointless because as long as there was more for others in the common store, one was not infringing on another's natural rights. Irrelevant because property production or the use of labor was completely individualistic and one should not be able to control another's labor as it is an infringement on their natural rights. There are ...
- 235: Bill Gates and Microsoft
- Bill Gates and Microsoft Bill wrote his first program when he was 13 years old. He and his friends figured out how to pay hundreds of games using the programming language called BASIC (Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code). Since then he has been labeled “the computer guy”. Since Bill was a teenager he has believed that every home could have a computer and that became Microsoft’s corporate mission. Bill doesn’t like the metaphor “information superhighway” due to its implied landscape, geography, ...
- 236: What Life Was Like Before The Civil Rights Movement And What More Needs To Change
- What Life Was Like Before The Civil Rights Movement And What More Needs To Change The civil rights movement is against segregation, the system of laws and customs separating blacks and whites that whites use to control blacks since slavery was forbidden in the 1860s. During this civil rights movement, individuals and civil rights groups have challenged segregation and discrimination with many things, including protest marches, boycotts, and refusal to abide by segregation rules. The movement began with the Montgomery bus boycott in ...
- 237: Bill Gates
- Bill Gates When one thinks of computer software, one must think of Microsoft. In fact if you use a computer, chances are that you will have some type of program on there that is developed by Microsoft. The CEO, chairman, cofounder, and owner of 147 billion shares of Microsoft is Bill Gates. William Henry Gates III was born in the midst of a scenic Seattle on Thursday, October 28, 1995 to his parents Mary and William Henry Gates Jr. His childhood was uneventful and was well ... read often, tried to take up the trombone, had no interest in philosophy but rather thought of himself as a "scientist." His science teacher, William Dougall, remembers if the teacher wasn't going fast enough, "Bill always seemed on the verge of saying, 'But that's obvious.'" Gates once said to a teacher that some day he would be a millionaire. A grossly underestimated statement. Today Gates is one of ...
- 238: Martin Luther King's Life
- Martin Luther King's Life "Without a universal respect for human rights, the world cannot achieve peace" Martin Luther King Jr. led a heroic mission to educate, awaken, and revolutionize the American people. Martin Luther King Jr. was a great man who knew what he believed in ... and women all over the world. He wanted to fight for equality and to show people that he could do anything with the power of words and praise. He led many protests, fought for Civil Rights and lobbied of the right for African Americans to vote. He accomplished these goals through non- violent approach, which lead to triumph and pride. King was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on January 15, 1929, the ... first come first serve basis, with the blacks beginning from the back and whites in the front. Also the bus company would have to hire black drivers in black areas.(3) From this the civil rights movement would began. From there victory a new found pride that the African Americans discovered from Martin Luther King Jr. After a month Dr.King started receiving hundreds of hate letters and telephone calls ...
- 239: Canada - Of the United States of America
- ... subtract the U.S.'s excessive national defense spending, the gap between the two countries considerable widens.2 The United States has adopted a more Freudian “survival of the fittest” concept towards government where the rights of the individual are predominant and industry is publicly owned and run with little help from the government. Although there is some government control and ownership of industry in both countries it is much more ... Good Government” which implies control of, and protection for the society. The parallel motto developed by America's founding fathers is “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”, this model suggests the upholding of the rights of the individual. Due to the Canadian motto being geared towards the rights and obligations of the community “ the crime control model .... emphasizes the maintenance of law and order, and is less protective of the rights of the accused and of individuals generally”.11 Due to the ...
- 240: Legalizing of Homosexual Marriages
- ... would like to see their marriages legalized. In 1991 three gay couples filed a lawsuit, in Hawaii, for denying them marriage licenses. They claim that the refusal amounts to gender discrimination, which violates the Equal Rights Amendment. Judge Kevin Chang ruled, in 1996, that same-sex couples have the right to legally marry. This ruling makes Hawaii the first state to recognize that gay and lesbian couples are entitled, by law ... as heterosexual married couples (CNN). Under the Full Faith and Credit clause of the Constitution, this also forces all states to recognize these marriages as far as federal benefits are concerned. Congress has approved a bill, the Defense of Marriage Act, that will allow states to decide whether to recognize homosexual marriages. The second part of the bill would define "for federal purposes" as the union of a man and a woman. Under such a definition gay and lesbians, even if they win the right to marry in Hawaii or elsewhere, would ...
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