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- 891: Not Only Impeach, Remove from Office
- ... s name and office. Through recent investigations, of the Paula Jones sexual harassment suit, it has come into light that our nation's highest elected officer has lied under oath in an American courtroom. Granted, Bill Clinton's sexual activity is none of our business; however, when he is sworn under oath and under God, he must speak the whole truth and nothing but the truth. That he did not. Bill Clinton's "two-speak" and misguided information was nothing less than perjury. The oath of honor and honesty is what our judicial system is based upon. When Clinton placed his hand on the bible and ... nation in the face. People often sympathize with the President because he was unfairly accused. Not true. He was formally charged with a sexual harassment civil lawsuit. Kenneth Starr began his investigation and realizes that Bill Clinton has a history of making sexual advances to his employees. As he questioned witnesses, he stumbled across a young woman named Monica Lewinsky. Monica was quickly summoned and gave accurate testimony. Bill Clinton ...
- 892: Martin Luther King - I Have A Dream Speech
- ... as such by sanctioned power, dared to dream of what the country could be at its best, in the face of what often was its worst. For example, in December, 1955, days after Montgomery civil rights activist Rosa Parks refused to obey the city's rules mandating segregation on buses, a bus boycott was launched and King was elected as president of the newly formed Montgomery Improvement Association. As the boycott ... unfathomable goal of abolishing federal and state-sanctioned segregation and discrimination was accomplished in only a few short years. King was asked by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to aid in the struggle for civil rights in Birmingham, Alabama. Thus, he was there because injustice was present (154). He was not content with a system that saw his people or people of any color, as second class citizens. He set out ... circumstances. Above all, King follows his method of careful reasoning and is convinced that his arguments will persuade his audience (153). King, quickly realized that the best strategy to liberate African-Americans and gain them rights was to use nonviolent forms of protest. He wanted to eliminate the use of violence as a means to manage and establish cooperative ways of interacting. "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere" ( ...
- 893: King's "A Letter From Birmingham City Jail": An Analysis
- King's "A Letter From Birmingham City Jail": An Analysis Martin Luther King Jr., one of the greatest speakers for the Black civil rights movement, had written many great works in his time. Two of his pieces stand out as his greatest works, Letter from Birmingham City Jail; a letter written from a jail in Birmingham where he was arrested for demonstrating peacefully, to clergymen who didn't agree with his views, and I Have a Dream; a speech given by King in front of the Washington Memorial at a huge civil rights tea party. Both works convey the same message: the time has come where Black Americans will not stand for civil injustices any longer. The way in which the works are written, however, are different, for ... speech the same way Lincoln did, by using the word score to keep track of years, but he also referred to him and the Emancipation Proclamation; both of which are clear symbols of the civil rights movement. However, after placing the Emancipation Proclamation on a pedestal, he knocks it down with his second paragraph, where he clearly makes an offensive on Lincoln and his proclamation, by starting it with the ...
- 894: BAMN By All Means Necessary
- TOPIC: There were many things people of democratic country did to protest for their rights and desire freedom. However, the points that they made for their freedom were agreeable and disagreeable. Yippies and "No More Miss America" were the best examples of that in the history of the United States ... is the book that shows some of the events happened in the history of the United States of America. In this book, there were different ethnic or other groups protesting for their desire freedom and rights. The groups that will be discussed in this report are Yippies and "No More Miss America". The author of "No More Miss America" didn't want the Beauty Pageant, and that's okay because she ... difference. The difference is that the world could live without having beauty contests but it can't live without people doing nothing. There were many things people of democratic country did to protest for their rights and desired freedom. The author of "No More Miss America" did the protest by giving ten points, why there shouldn't be a Miss American. Some of the points were agreeable and acceptable. There ...
- 895: Thomas Hobbes
- ... attain such extensive powers is because if a sovereign's power is not absolute then his power is considered void. On pg. 127 Hobbes says "And so if we consider any one of the said Rights, we shall presently see, that the holding of all the rest, will produce no effect, in the conservation of Peace and Justice, the end for which all Common-wealths are instituted. And this division is ... The dignities of the Lord, Earle, Duke, and Prince are his creatures." (Hobbes, pg.128) As it has already been stated, the sovereign's power is indivisible, which means that his subjects have no absolute rights. However, his subjects do still retain some rights under his rule. Those rights are as follows; First is the right of nature, which states that a subject has the liberty to defend their own bodies, even against those that lawfully invade them. ...
- 896: Jfk Alliance
- ... into the wallets of the wealthy instead of profiting the poor. The initiator of the Alliance for Progress was the elected 35th president, John F. Kennedy. He asserted his platform, which was based on the "Rights of Man" issue, which referred to the civil and economic rights that are necessary to human dignity. Kennedy was a moderate conservative and a rational idealist. He wished America to resume its old mission as the first nation dedicated to the revolution of human rights. With the Alliance for Progress and the Peace Corps, he brought American idealism to the aid of developing nations. But the hard reality of the Communist challenge remained. His domestic program, the New Frontier, ...
- 897: Bamn By All Means Neccessary
- TOPIC: There were many things people of democratic country did to protest for their rights and desire freedom. However, the points that they made for their freedom were agreeable and disagreeable. Yippies and "No More Miss America" were the best examples of that in the history of the United States ... is the book that shows some of the events happened in the history of the United States of America. In this book, there were different ethnic or other groups protesting for their desire freedom and rights. The groups that will be discussed in this report are Yippies and "No More Miss America". The author of "No More Miss America" didn't want the Beauty Pageant, and that's okay because she ... difference. The difference is that the world could live without having beauty contests but it can't live without people doing nothing. There were many things people of democratic country did to protest for their rights and desired freedom. The author of "No More Miss America" did the protest by giving ten points, why there shouldn't be a Miss American. Some of the points were agreeable and acceptable. There ...
- 898: Hobbes
- ... attain such extensive powers is because if a sovereign's power is not absolute then his power is considered void. On pg. 127 Hobbes says "And so if we consider any one of the said Rights, we shall presently see, that the holding of all the rest, will produce no effect, in the conservation of Peace and Justice, the end for which all Common-wealths are instituted. And this division is ... The dignities of the Lord, Earle, Duke, and Prince are his creatures." (Hobbes, pg.128) As it has already been stated, the sovereign's power is indivisible, which means that his subjects have no absolute rights. However, his subjects do still retain some rights under his rule. Those rights are as follows; First is the right of nature, which states that a subject has the liberty to defend their own bodies, even against those that lawfully invade them. ...
- 899: WOMAN AND ABORTION
- ... wear a condom or just chose not to wear one. This article is stating that our government is going to start testing the mothers who are caring a child. They want to ensure that the rights of the unborn fetuses are upheld. The rights of the baby should be upheld, and I believe that it will be but I also believe that there are groups that will not agree with this. These groups will protest at this trial to ... was recorded in 1985, in South Carolina, that a hospital in the south would take any measure necessary to make it possible for the unborn fetus has a healthy birth. The unborn fetus should have rights, but how do we know when the unborn child is in danger. We need to use and make laws to ensure that pregnant women in no way possible can harm their babies. Unfortunately this ...
- 900: Civil War - Causes
- ... a surge of democratic reform swept the North and West. There were demands for political equality and economic and social advances. The Northerners goals were free public education, better salaries and working conditions for workers, rights for women, and better treatment for criminals. The South felt these views were not important. All of these views eventually led to an attack on the slavery system in the South, and showed opposition to ... The North wanted to limit the number of slave states in the Union. But many Southerners felt that a government dominated by free states could endanger existing slaveholdings. The South wanted to protect their states rights. The first evidence of the North's actions came in 1819 when Missouri asked to be admitted to the Union as a slave state. After months of discussion Congress passed the Missouri Compromise of 1820 ... hoped to simplify construction of a transcontinental railroad through these states rather than through the southern part of the country. The removal of the restriction on the expansion of slavery ensured southern support for the bill, which was signed into law by President Franklin Pierce on May 30, 1854. This act split the Democratic party and destroyed the Whig party also. The northern Whigs joined antislavery Democrats to form the ...
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