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- 461: Animal Rights
- Animal Rights Animal rights is a very fragile topic. Opposing sides have strong reasons to stand for either of their believes, leading to many ethical questions. One of the major questions is who is right and who is wrong ...
- 462: The Native Americans Had All Rights to Their Lands
- The Native Americans Had All Rights to Their Lands I believe that the Native American had all the rights to their land that the settlers took from them. I don't know what was going though the minds of the settlers that leteraly kick them off their land. I'm know that if they ...
- 463: Bill Gates: Biography
- Bill Gates: Biography William H. Gates Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Microsoft Corporation William (Bill) H. Gates is chairman and chief executive officer of Microsoft Corporation, the leading provider, worldwide, of software for the personal computer. Microsoft had revenues of $8.6 billion for the fiscal year ending June 1996 ...
- 464: Civil Rights Movement
- The civil rights movement was a time when a people who where opressed for many years, rose up against the odds and achieved their freedom. An admirable aspect of the civil rights movement was the unachieveable victory that the african americans sought after and made. Through determination, persistence, and courage, the african americans won their independence. They stared down the lions throat and managed to escape with ...
- 465: Blacks: Indirectly Enslaved
- ... social, economic, and political domination by the southern whites, southern blacks remained enslaved. Southern whites kept blacks re-enslaved economically by keeping them dependant on whites for survival. After the war, freed slaves were given rights, such as the right to vote, which southern whites did not receive. However, the president was lenient on the southern whites and because of this, the southern whites were able to do what they pleased ... Consequently, they then passed the black codes. The black codes were laws that took away black’s privileges. An economic privilege taken away from the blacks was their right to vote. Without the black’s rights, they were kept enslaved because they were not able to do anything and had to depend on the whites. They were now dependent on the white southerners because they had no land and couldn’t ... of the Congress and passed the Freedman’s Bureau, and the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments. The Freedman’s Bureau and the amendments gave the blacks help politically, socially, and economically. Giving the blacks numerous rights, including the right to own land, made the white southerners angry. The blacks were dependent on the Freedman’s Bureau for land until Johnson destroyed it. It took back their land, which took away ...
- 466: Gun Control-Forfeiting Our Rights
- Gun Control-Forfeiting Our Rights Everyday our children wake up and make the dangerous journey to school. With the recent occurrences in Jonesboro, Arkansas and Littleton, Colorado, our children are even more scared to make this dangerous journey to school ...
- 467: Munros Trademarks
- ... her. Likewise in the book Lives of girls and women Munro presents characters in an ambivalent way because it s for more realistic. The three ambivalent characters that I want to talk about are Uncle Bill, Uncle Benny and Naomi. The first ambivalent character that I found was Uncle Bill. Uncle Bill was generous to Ada and Del on her visit, but had a corrupt past and present. He was Ada s younger brother who she hated and she always said that: He was evil, bloated, ...
- 468: The Montgomery Bus Boycott
- The Montgomery Bus Boycott The Montgomery bus boycott changed the way people lived and reacted to each other. The American civil rights movement began a long time ago, as early as the seventeenth century, with blacks and whites all protesting slavery together. The peak of the civil rights movement came in the 1950's starting with the successful bus boycott in Montgomery Alabama. The civil rights movement was lead by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who preached nonviolence and love for your enemy. "Love your enemies, we do not mean to love them as a friend or intimate. We mean ...
- 469: Censorship On The Internet
- ... accessing these materials also. Government, activist groups, and concerned parents are fighting to regulate obscene material found over the Internet to protect children. The first amendment is the only thing protecting adults from losing their rights to obtain pornographic or indecent material on the net. Under the first amendment the government must not regulate cyberporn. Online sex has been around since the first bulletin boards were available over the computer in ... computer. The government and the United States citizens must now figure out how to protect our children from the effects of cyberporn, and yet at the same time protect the adults from loosing their constitutional rights. In response to the need to protect children the Communications Decency Act was passed. The first part of the CDA states if you display “indecent” or “patently offensive” information on the Internet, “in a manner ... of views, whether they want to or not (Topaz A2). The CDA was struck down because it was a clear violation of free speech. All of the proposals do protect children, but trample on the rights of adults to communicate with each other freely. The Supreme Court ruled that the new technology “...would receive the highest level of protection. Internet speakers will not be shackled with the regulations that limit ...
- 470: How America Should React To Ho
- ... undermine our morality, that they present danger to our children and that they are transmitters of AIDs far more than heterosexuals. Today many gays and lesbians come out of "the closet" and demand the same rights that heterosexual take for granted. We have to admit that some steps have been made to protect homosexuals. However, many government and public institutions and individuals still discriminate against homosexuals denying them employment, housing, insurance ... argue that the homosexual act is unnatural since it is not procreative. Then why don’t we discriminate against sterile couples or those of over childbearing age? Others express their concern that by granting homosexuals rights we will give our blessing to other forms of sexual perversions such polygamy and pedophillia, for example. Here it is important to notice, that for one, pedophillia is not necessary a homosexual act. Secondly, it ... we are free to do whatever we please. Therefore, there is no point to call it illegal. Moreover, discrimination against people of different sexual orientation will be a violation of the constitution, which guarantees common rights for everybody. Thus, despite our own preference we have neither moral nor legal right to discriminate against them. As for disapproval of different religions of homosexuality, everyone should have the "freedom to go to ...
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