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- 431: Capitalism & Free Trade
- ... to shut down their factories here, and move over seas where there are less restrictions and cheaper labor. Where as the production cost are drastically less in these free trade zones, so are the human rights laws, especially those pertaining to women, the majority of the work force. By moving its production sites to places like Asia, Nike is able to pay workers sub-minimum wage, on top of allowing the ... feminist move. Prior to its creation, women enjoyed no representation or benefits from their anti-union government. The trade agreements that South Korea entered into were for monetary reason only, with no worker consideration or rights. Though the KWWA has not changed the government dramatically, it has made a motion in the right direction. It brought not only laborers rights into the picture, but women laborers right as well. The latter is particularly important because the majority of the workers are women. The KWWA won the right to organize unions as well as seeing ...
- 432: The Medea: Women's Rights
- The Medea: Women's Rights Personal vengeance is not a flattering characteristic. When people wish to change a situation they are in it is wise to use rational methods. In Euripides' Medea, Medea and all the women of fifth century ... everything she said. When one looks at the women's liberation movement that occurred in the united states history, one will see that the women wanted to appear stable and sane. The women wanted equal rights and they used logical and rational arguments. If liberating women was what was in Medea's mind she would have tried to put women in a positive light. Instead she resorted to her evil, and ...
- 433: The Ideas of Government Held by Locke and Hobbes
- ... over another person, or worse, all of which add up to a state of continual war, fear, and chaos. Hobbes believes that at one point in time we decided to voluntarily and mutually transfer our rights to another person or group in an attempt to get out of that miserable state of war. He felt that absolute power was justifiable because of its usefulness and not on grounds of divine right ... his rational being that, until we are in a state of war with the government, the government still has something to offer us. Locke on the contrary finds the chances involved in revolution if the rights and property of the majority are not being protected. Locke believed that people had given up some rights, but the rights that were kept were the natural rights, which included the right to live, the right to enjoy liberty, and especially the right to own property. Locke rejected the notion of “Divine ...
- 434: Pornography and the New Puritans
- ... obscene. He refers to the pornography victims’ of sexual crimes exposed to obscene material, which is pornography, can bring civil suits against publishers and distributors that expose these obscene materials. Irving predicts that if the bill is passed than it will be the first bill to give “credence to the unproven theory that sexually explicit material actually causes sexual crimes.” Irving mentions that he is “pretty sure” that rape and child molestation has not been revealed in pornographic material. He ... that there has been no real evidence that exposure to sexual material influences criminal sexual behavior. Irving then gives us several reasons why the will is a “grave mistake.” His first reason is that the bill is blaming the responsibility of any sexual crime onto a third party, which are the ones who expose sexual material – namely, away from the ones who are actually committing the crime. Second, it runs ...
- 435: Margaret Sanger
- ... horrible thing that was to have asked a nice girl (Miller 204). During her time at White Plains, Margaret met, was courted by, and married William Sanger. In the time that followed her marriage to Bill, Margaret moved with him to the suburbs of New York and bore him three children: Stuart, Grant, and Peggy. Margaret's tuberculosis was so terrible with each pregnancy that after Peggy the doctors forbid her ... the three children were in school; Margaret realized that she could no longer bear the life of a suburban housewife. Margaret talked to William about it and shortly thereafter they moved back into the city. Bill's mother moved in with them to take care of the children and, at 31 years old, Margaret returned to nursing (Miller 206-207). In 1910, most women still had their children at home and ... such large families, did the poverty breed the large families or did the large families breed poverty? The difference between the world where she worked and the world where she lived astounded Margaret. At home, Bill would host dinner parties for prominent socialists and radicals; in this he was much like her father. Margaret once pointed out to them, "Poverty and large families seem to go and in hand. If ...
- 436: Feminism and Gender Equality In the 1990s
- Feminism and Gender Equality In the 1990s English Comp I Overall, the rights and status of women have improved considerably in the last century; however, gender equality has recently been threatened within the last decade. Blatantly sexist laws and practices are slowly being eliminated while social perceptions of ... reaction was to point out that “Betty Friedan was a college-educated woman, and she had certain goals that never interested me.” My grandmother, though growing up during a time when women had few social rights, said she didn’t experience oppressive sexism in her life. However, when she describes her life accomplishments, I feel she spent most of her life fulfilling the expected roles of women instead of pursuing goals ... was written, the Supreme Court decided whether women should have the right to an abortion in Roe v. Wade (410 U.S. 113 (1973)). I believe the decision was made in favor of women’s rights mostly because the court made a progressive decision to consider the woman as a human who may be motivated by other things in life than just being a mother. Justice Blackmun delivered the following ...
- 437: Computer Pornography
- ... safe" for everyone to enter. The Government passed a law known as the Telecommunications Act of 1996. In the TA there is a part called the Communications Decency Act or CDA. This part of the bill arose because of the recent surge of pornography on the Infobahn. The CDA criminalizes indecent speech on the Internet(Wallace: 1). The CDA describes indecent speech as anything "depicting or describing sexual or excretory acts ... of the big conversion(Wallace: 3). More and more often people are looking to the Internet to do reports and research. It is one of the biggest resources in the world today. If the TA bill stays in effect many of the books listed will not be downloadable. Mark Managan co-author of the book Sex states, " A law burning books by Miller, Joyce, Burroughs, and Nabokor might also protect children ... letter. It's not fool-proof but it stops some of it. " The CDA hits smaller ISPs harder that the larger ones because of the different types of users on each system(Emigh: 1). The bill has good points and bad ones. Steve Dasbach, Libertarian Party Chair, states that, " This bill is censorship. This bill threatens to interrupt and curb the rapid evolution of electronic information systems. This bill isn' ...
- 438: Teenage Rights
- The Rights of the Young American Dismissed Under the eyes of god we are all created equal, and under the foundation of the country with gods blessing all patrons of the great USA are created equal. Right ... behavior, which seems to have no second thought upon your treatment of us? We are sick of the being followed by police for no particular reason. Blocks at a time. Being harassed when defending our rights, which have been violated by certain officers and citizens. We are sick of respecting those who don t respect us. We will not anymore. Respect is something earned not just given.. You will treat us ...
- 439: Terrorism In The United States
- ... totally safe and in order to do this, it will require hundreds of security guards in every building nationwide. Terrorism occurs frequently enough in the United States to warrant strong legislation that impedes upon individual rights. Terrorist acts occur so frequently that at anytime of any single day anywhere an act of terrorism can be witnessed (The Terrorism Research Center). Comprehensive legislation about terrorism should be enacted no matter what rights it encroaches upon. Defending the nation against terrorism in the twenty-first century could be very costly. Since terrorism will be the biggest threat to national security, no monetary figures should be taken into account ... feel that the U.S. has softened and will be more willing to attack or take action against us. When dealing with domestic terrorism, much emphasis should not be put on the protection of individual rights because if emphasis is put upon their protection, there will be no way to combat domestic terrorism. The cost of human life easily transcends the cost of losing one's individual rights because terroristic ...
- 440: Martin Luther King Jr.
- Martin Luther King Jr. In this report, I am going to talk about a man who was a great civil rights leader in this Nation. A man who dedicated his life to trying to end racism, poverty, and war. He was a fighter for equality among blacks and whites alike. He changed the lives of many ... up their seats to white riders. So in December of 1955, she refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white man and was arrested. Her arrest sparked the direct-action civil rights movement. Tired of being pushed around, some of the black leaders in Montgomery formed an organization called the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) and called for a boycott of the busses to protest the arrest of ... protest worked, Dr. King and other ministers believed that they could bring about more change like it the same way. So in 1957 King formed the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) to campaign for civil rights in the South. "In the spring of 1957 the SCLC, NAACP, and Randolph's Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters joined together in a prayer pilgrimage to Washington, D.C. There, on the steps of ...
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