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- 381: Odysseus and Bill Clinton: A Comparison
- Odysseus and Bill Clinton: A Comparison Odysseus was allowed to linger in other women’s beds, but his wife was not allowed to sleep in other men’s beds. According to The Odyssey, written by Homer, Odysseus was ... truth, wouldn’t he have been trying to figure a way out of this predicament? But, still he sat on the shore crying, supposedly wanting his wife! In addition to Odysseus’s infantile, he, like Bill Clinton, had some affairs. His first affair was with an enchantress named Circe. Circe had turned some of Odysseus’s men into wild pigs, and the only supposed way to turn them back was if ... affairs, murders, and continuing baby-style actions have earned him a first class ticket to the bottom of the hero’s list in my book! Can you imagine if we praised such a man as Bill Clinton for “lingering” in the oval office and cheating on his wife? That is what I thought, you wouldn’t praise such a man, so why, may I ask, do you?
- 382: A Pro-Choice Argument
- A Pro-Choice Argument In the battle for and against abortion rights, I take the position of pro-choice. I believe that a woman should have the right to govern what she does with her body. When faced with the decision, however, I do not know whether ... but when faced with the decision themselves may choose not to have an abortion. "In July 1994, Father Trosch sent a letter to pro-choice congressional leaders that included his prediction that supporters of abortion rights, including Members of Congress and the President, may be killed by abortion opponents. Stated Trosch, pro-choice activists 'will be sought out and terminated as vermin are terminated. It will be seen as a necessity ... brute force as a way to get things done, but how often do you hear about pro-choice activists sending death threats to government officials warning that if they don't pass a pro-abortion bill their life will be in danger? Pro-life activists need to realize that their way of activism can be that they themselves would not have an abortion performed, but that they must not force ...
- 383: Keep Our Water Clean: Clean Water Act
- ... Water Act Amendments of 1995 are passed, all that we have worked for since 1972 will be lost. It will take all of the advances made to clean our water and totally reverse them. This bill will take apart the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System, leaving loopholes for businesses desiring to pollute our waters. This bill also demonstrates a flagrant disregard for the state of scientific and technological knowledge in the area of water quality. It will corrupt our water in such a way as to totally abolish the Clean Water ... to reimburse landowners for loss of property value resulting from wetlands regulations. All of these measures will make it easier for toxins to be thrown into our drinking water by businesses with no remorse. This bill is supposedly supposed to help our environment, but it seems to me that this bill is driven by political and economic interests, rather than the well being of our environment. Why should we be ...
- 384: Susan B. Anthony and The Women's Movement
- ... Steinem dealt with more current issues starting from the 1960’s. Susan B. Anthony was a U.S. leader of the women's suffrage (right to vote) movement. She worked extremely hard to win voting rights, both for women and freed slaves. She also organized the first women's temperance (anti-alcohol) association and, with Elizabeth Stanton, worked to pass the first laws guaranteeing equal rights for women with regard to their children, property, and wages. Anthony was a heroine in North America for her tests of the U.S. Constitution, though the right to vote was not secured until after ... anti-slavery and to temperance. However, when she rose to speak in a temperance convention, she was told, “The sisters were not invited here to speak!” Anthony promptly enlisted in the cause of women's rights. In a lifelong partnership with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Anthony's organizational skill and selfless dedication built the women's rights movement. The ballot, she became increasingly to believe, was the necessary foundation for all ...
- 385: Guaranteering Civil Rights
- ... seperate but equal" public facilities for blacks and whites did not violate the Constitution. This ruling set a pattern that forced Southern black Americans to live almost totally segregated from white society. A strong civil rights movement in the United States had developed by the 1950s, and ending segregation in public schools became one of its primary targets. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) won a legal ... schools went slowly and met resistance by many whites. Ten years after the Brown decision, a vast majority of black students were still in segregated schools. It was not until the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that the federal government was given the power to push for school desegregatioin. Despite slow enforcement, the Brown decision inspired civil rights leaders to work against other segregation laws. Later legal decisions led to a clearer definition of the protections offered to all Americans by the 14th and 15th Amendments.
- 386: Frederic Douglass
- ... s, Douglass was well on his way to becoming the most famous and respected black leader in the country. He was in great demand as a speaker and writer. He also believed that women's rights were important and he communicated with and stay friends with Susan B. Anthony and Lucretia Mott. Douglass was a good father although he was often gone. His wife had their fifth child Annie. She was ... also warned about the rise in the South of white supremacist organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan. Douglass was afraid that the tactics of the Klan would frighten blacks into giving up the civil rights they had gained in the South. The Republicans won the 1868 election with the support of the black vote. Later that year after the Fifteenth Amendment was passed the last meeting of the American Anti ... highly of the many people who helped the blacks win their struggles and get to where they were at. He was modest about his own achievements though but no one had fought harder for black rights than Douglass. In 1870 Frederick Douglass was asked to serve as editor of a newspaper based in Washington, DC. The goal was to recognize the progress of blacks throughout the country. It failed in ...
- 387: Won't Libertarian Socialism Destroy Individuality?
- ... ideal indicate more about the opponents of anarchism and their fear of looking at the implications of the system they support than about anarchist theory. I.7.3 Is the law required to protect individual rights? No, far from it. While it is obvious that, as Kropotkin put it, "[n]o society is possible without certain principles of morality generally recognised. If everyone grew accustomed to deceiving his fellow-men; if ... is justified - no society could exist." [Kropotkin's Revolutionary Pamphlets, p. 73] This does not mean that a legal system (with its resultant bureaucracy, vested interests and inhumanity) is the best way to protect individual rights within a society. What anarchists propose instead of the current legal system (or an alternative law system based on religious or "natural" laws) is custom - namely the development of living "rules of thumb" which express ... Second Murderer : Zounds! He dies. I had forgot the reward. First Murderer : Where's thy conscience now? Second Murderer : O, in the Duke of Gloucester's purse." Therefore, as far as "The Law" defending individual rights, it creates the necessary conditions (such as the de-personalisation of ethics, the existence of wealth, and so on) for undermining individual ethical behaviour, and so respect for other individual's rights. Individual rights, ...
- 388: The Feminine Mystique
- The Feminine Mystique The Feminine Mystique is the title of a book written by Betty Friedan who also founded The National Organization for Women (NOW) to help US women gain equal rights. She describes the "feminine mystique" as the heightened awareness of the expectations of women and how each woman has to fit a certain role as a little girl, an uneducated and unemployed teenager, and finally ... mother who is to happily clean the kitchen and cook things all day. After World War II, a lot of women's organizations began to appear with the goal of bringing the issues of equal rights into the limelight. The stereotype even came down to the color of a woman's hair. Many women wished that they could be blonde because that was the ideal hair color. In The Feminine Mystique ... push for social change. They have done and continue to do extensive electoral and lobbying work in addition to organizing mass marches, rallies, pickets, and counter-demonstrations. NOW re-instituted mass marches for women's rights in the face of conventional wisdom that marches were a technique that died out with the 1960s. A march in support of the Equal Rights Amendment drew more than 100,000 people to Washington, ...
- 389: Personal Writing: History of Pete Dalberg Family
- ... late 1888 at some time. The family would have arrived there in late 1889. Emma was the first one born at Bear Creek and she was born in 1889. A little over a year later Bill was born in 1891. Hilma was born in 1892. After Hilma there was another daughter born Ester. I don't know when she was born but she died when she was a year and a ... away. Well from 1936-1980 somebody would always tell Emma, “Emma you need to find another man”. Well she never even looked twice at another man because Simon was her love and that was it. Bill was in his late 20's when he married a widow Ida Hawkinson Olson. She had two sons Harald who was 12 who now lives in Spokane Washington and Leonard who was 6 and now lives in Utah when they were married. But Bill thought of them as his children. just like anybody else. Bill just recently past away while living with a step grandchild, Sandra Miller, out of Spokane. His wife Ida past away a few years ...
- 390: Animal Rights
- Animal Rights As Doctor Zola-Morgan stated in a speech to animal right activists, "I've seen the impact of the animal rights movement. I believe this is an attack on science of the worst kind. If we allow it to prevail it will take us back to the dark ages." Too much of the public has come ... is exploited. Although many people think that animal research is morally wrong, animal research should continue because it is critical to continued progress in human health and alternatives to research animals are not available. Animal rights activists feel that animal research is immoral. They do not see where we as human beings see or feel that we are the dominant species. They often assert that research with animals causes severe ...
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