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- 4231: Affirmative Action
- ... the Fourteenth Amendment extend to all persons. It's language is explicit: "No State shall... deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." It is settled beyond question that the rights created by the first section of the Fourteenth Amendment are, by its terms, guaranteed to the individual." (Bakke, p.485) In the past, we were fighting to abolish racial separation, but today, we have affirmative ...
- 4232: The Role of the U.S. in the Third World in the Year 2000
- ... alone for the most part, since this was their third largest income provider and the number one and two sources, coffee and tea fields were destroyed during the war. Worldwide instant communication has improved human rights. The use of fax machines and cell telephones during the Tiananmen Square uprising informed the world of events and somewhat restrained the Chinese. Dan Rather doing the evening news from the Square while the protests ...
- 4233: Should Children Be Allowed To Testify In Court?
- ... Ceci & Bruck (93) have cited four reasons for this : - The opinion of psychology experts is increasingly being accepted by courts as testimony, - Social research is more commonly being applied to the issues of children's rights, - More research into adult suggestibility in accordance with reason naturally leads to more research into child suggestibility, - Children are more commonly being used as witnesses in cases where they are directly involved (i.e. sexual ...
- 4234: Sectionalism and the Breakup of the U.S
- ... the Missouri compromise. This document set the standard for slavery at the time. It also managed to further divide the country into two opposing groups geographically separated by the 36 degree 30 minute line. The bill clearly stated that no states above the proposed line shall have slavery, with exception to those already in existence. This meant that all new states being brought into the country from the west had a ...
- 4235: Imperialism and India
- ... Company's main purpose was "to break into the Indonesian spice trade which was dominated by the Dutch." But after colonizing a post a Madras in 1640, the company was re-chartered to include such rights as coining money and act as government to British subjects at the East India Company's posts. As well, the British government also gave the company the right to make was or peaceful arrangements with ...
- 4236: How Western Imperialism affects China and Japan
- ... a number of ports , as well as agree to other territorial concessions . China was also forced to open its seacoasts and its rivers to Western intruders . The Europeans also exploited China's land by securing rights to build railways and develop its natural resources . China had been unwilling to learn the ways of the West and so became the next victim to fall prey to Western Imperialism , Japan however, was more ...
- 4237: Government Funding for the Arts
- ... matter is [that] the NEA offends the Constitution of the United States. My own view is [that] there is no constitutional authority for this agency to exist" (Janowitz 56). The only hope is with President Bill Clinton (D-Ark). Mr. Clinton calls for small increases in some of the arts foundations. He also assigned three goals to the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities, which he revived: * to increase ...
- 4238: The Doctrine of Fascism
- ... the state. While Socialism refutes the need for any type of government at all, Fascism is founded by the concept that there is nothing but government. Fascism rejects the liberal doctrines of individual autonomy and rights and representative government. Fascism, according to Mussolini, is for liberty, the liberty of the state that is. Individual liberty is only a facade for a life of trite material pleasure. Only through the state can ...
- 4239: Did The Congress Made Amendment 14 to Punish the South?
- ... United States. This part doesn't hurt the south, in fact, it gives them and advantage on the number of reps in the House. It also helps the freedmen since it is giving them full rights as U.S. citizens and equality in the U.S. Paragraph 2 states that when a state denies citizens (freedmen) the right to vote, its representation shall be reduced. This is obviously hurting the southern ...
- 4240: Child Labour
- ... working children, are involved in one or more international agreements that enforce a commitment to reducing child labour. Examples of these include the International Labour Organization's Minimum Age Convention (1973), the Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) as well as the World declaration on the Survival, Protection and Development of Children (1990)12. In conclusion, an examination of the issue of child labour on a national and an ...
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