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- 861: To Have Intellectual Freedom Or To Be Censored
- ... Haklarý Sözleţmesi, Kiţi Haklarý ve Siyasal Haklar Uluslararasý Sözleţmesi begin to guarantee the fundamental right of human beings, intellectual freedom. Due to this fact, Turkey as a nation that accepts the Declaration of Universal Human Rights should reorganize the laws about intellectual freedom and censorship in order to become one of the full members of the democratic countries. Also because the opinions of the majority show that people are against the idea of censorship, some of the laws of the Turkish Constitution should be changed in order to make people benefit from their basic democratic rights. But like in every field, there are some people and groups that support censorship not intellectual freedom. They give their reasons such as to provide the motherland’s and the nation’s indivisible wholeness and ... Intellectual freedom means that people have right to decide on their behalf but instead of this, people who support the censorship try to maintain a world order that doesn’t accept the existence of human rights. They defend themselves with the meaningless reasons but by using their depressing and intimidating powers in order to show that they are strong and right. And by doing all these things they say that ...
- 862: World Order
- ... role of international law. The players in international law are the states, Non-Government Organisations (NGOs), regional and Inter-Governmental Organisations such as the EC and ASEAN, and the United Nations. Individuals have virtually no rights and duties at international law, however, they also have limited scope for complaints/petitions to agencies of the UN. There have been many initiatives towards achieving global stability, beginning as early as last century. The ... the establishment of the United Nations in 1948. The UN was established with its primary purpose as an international organisation to ensure peace and security, to develop friendly relations among nations, and to promote human rights and better standards of living. The United Nations is not a world government, nor is it an independent entity. It is a means for countries to co-operate, when and if they choose to do ... Amnesty International, the Red Cross and Rotary are among such groups. As partners of the UN these NGOs are playing an increasing role in key areas of international concern such as the promotion of Human Rights, protection of the Environment and the delivery of aid to people in crisis. The UN operates on the concept of international law. International law (otherwise known as public international law or law of nations) ...
- 863: Muhammad Ali - Cassius Clay
- I consider a hero someone that has done great things. Some of the things that I consider great are, accomplished hard goals, stood up for their own rights, done things that would be hard for me to do, and done things that are extraordinary. Muhammad Ali-Cassius Clay is someone that fills my standards of a hero. Muhammad Ali has accomplished hard goals by getting medals in the Olympics. Muhammad Ali had to stand up for his rights when he started to box. He has accomplished things in his life that would be very hard for me to accomplish. Muhammad Ali has done things that I think are very magnificent. The thing Muhammad ... would not enter the seventh round making Muhammad Ali world champion. After knocking out Zora Folley, he did not fight for three and a half years. During this time he was standing up for his rights during the Vietnam War. He said, "I have no Quarrel with Viet Cong (www.usatoday.com)." He did not want to fight because the more troops we sent in, the more we lost. His ...
- 864: Australians Against Further Immigration
- ... and attitudes and culture of our nation. The people have been consulted on, or given their consent to, the interwoven policies of immigration and multiculturalism. It is now time for Australians to demand their democratic rights, reclaim their sovereignty and demand a say in the future of their nation. Australians Against Further Immigration want immigration drastically reduced to zero net. That is, out immigration numbers should merely replace those permanently leaving ... multiculturalism - a philosophy that has failed wherever in the world it has been tried such as in Yugoslavia, Sri Lanka, Fiji, Bosnia, Chechnya, Rwanda, Tibet, Isreal, Briton, Timor ect. Multiculturalism always produces conflict between group rights and individual rights. The small ‘l' liberal establishment, who so strongly support multicultururalism, seem blind to the fact that their philosophy of individual rights will disappear under the pressure of group, ethnic and racial rights in a ...
- 865: Uniform Commercial Code 2b The
- ... UCC was drafted in the 1950 s and currently governs the sales of goods but not products like software, which are licensed, not sold. Basically, when you purchase software, you are purchasing the information and rights to use the software. Article 2B creates standards for licensing these information products, including rules for interpreting warranties, legal remedies, liability and risk. This project began to give consideration to instituting a separate article of ... contracts instead of trying to negotiate a separate contract for each buyer, or licensee. The lengthy legal forms that most don t read when installing software are shrink-wrap licenses. These mass-market licenses restrict rights of users. Licenses involve restrictions on the use of intellectual property. They can have nondisclosure provisions, restrictions on how the product is used and who can use it, and restrictions on transfer of the licensed ... companies from liability. Article 2B reduces liability rather than expanding it. Software publishers are given more power to set their terms than in current law. If UCC 2B is enacted, your could potentially lose your rights to criticize or analyze the product you purchased. It allows publishers to use confidentiality clauses in their license agreements. They can have you agree to hold the software package and not publish, communicate, or ...
- 866: A Senator's Pain
- ... reader to pay close attention to the feelings expressed by each individual she interviewed, because feelings tell more about a person and an event than the facts. In Twilight: Los Angeles 1992 the monologue by Bill Bradley entitled "Application of the Law" contributes more to Smith's piece than does the monologue by Elaine Brown entitled "Ask Saddam Hussein," because when a Senator notices the reality of racism it seems authentic ... bizarre and so, uh...And it's foolish" (Smith: 228). Brown's contribution to Smith's theatrical piece is limited because she does not show the authentic anger like Senator Bradley. Even though both Senator Bill Bradley and former Black Panther leader Elaine Brown gave similar messages, their presence affects the reader in a different way. After reading Bradley's monologue, I felt elated and anger. When Bradley questioned the partner ... to our society. In Twilight: Los Angeles 1992 when Anna Deavere Smith says, "Every person I include in the book, and who I perform, has a presence that is much more important than the information," Bill Bradley and Elaine Brown are just a few of the characters Smith is describing. Bill Bradley was a white Senator who people might have thought would have agreed with the actions of the LAPD ...
- 867: The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
- ... the former Soviet Union), the FBI began conducting background security investigations for the White House and other government agencies, as well as probes into internal security matters for the executive branch of the government. Civil rights and organized crime became major concerns of the Bureau in the 1960's (by that time the number of Agents stabilized at about 6,200). At the same time, Congress gave the FBI new federal laws with which to fight civil rights violations, racketeering, and gambling. By the late 1960's, the confluence of unambiguous federal authority and local support for civil rights prosecutions allowed the FBI to play an influential role in enabling African Americans to vote, serve on juries, and use public accommodations on an equal basis. In the 1970's counter terrorism, drugs, financial ...
- 868: Jesse Louis Jackson
- Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson Jesse Louis Jackson is one of America's foremost political figures. Over the past three decades he has played a major role in virtually every movement for empowerment, peace, civil rights, gender equality, and economic and social justice. Jackson has been called the "conscience of the nation" and "the great unifier." He is the best-known living American leader in the United States. Jesse Louis Jackson ... and was awarded a football scholarship to the University of Illinois. Later, he left U. I. And enrolled in North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College in Greensburo. There he became class president and the civil rights activist began to show himself to the world. After graduating in 1964, he attended the Chicago Theological Seminary until he joined the civil rights movement full time in 1965. Before graduating he joined the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), led by Martin Luther King Jr. King appointed him to the head of Operation Breadbasket in Chicago. In 1971 ...
- 869: Reforms Are Need In Canada's Government
- ... independent, intellectual body, the Senate's main function wasto ensure that all power did not come from one source. In theory, this prevented a dictatorial government, since any action (such as the passing of a Bill into law) had to receive the 'O.K.' from the Senate. This was protecting Canada's democracy. In 1949, six addition seats were given to Newfoundland, and in 1975, two more seats were added to ... S. Senate is to debate bills either introduced in the Senate, or passed to it, approving then, amending them, or killing them. Since it is a separate body from the Congress, in order for a bill to be passed, it must be approved by both bodies. One of the criticisms of the U.S. Senate is that it is a large body consisting of many committees and sub-committees. Since the process to passing a bill must first go through these committees before it is debated upon, the procedure tends to be quite slow and expensive. Another criticism is that, while the Senate does represent each state equally, women and ...
- 870: The Symbolic Use Of Hunger In
- ... Fed. The narrator was making a political statement by going on a hunger strike in the effort to get the vote. She and other women in the early twentieth century were being deprived of their rights, and thus starving for those rights. They chose to physically starve themselves in the attempt to call attention to their spiritual starvation. The doctors were forcing food down the narrator s throat, ignorant as to what she was really hungry for: her rights. They were nourishing her against her will, yet could not give her what she really wanted. In Anna Wickham s The Affinity the narrator welcomes hunger, and actually thanks God for it in the ...
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