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- 1121: J.M Coetzee's "The Harms of Pornography"
- ... effectively used to defend free speech. The most opinionated and conservative of the authors included is Catherine MacKinnon, who touches on the thought that there is a great deal of similarity between pornography and black slavery. In her article "Pornography, Civil Rights and Speech" she states that "the harm of pornography does not lie in the fact that it is offensive but that, at least in developed societies, it is an ...
- 1122: Women in Africa
- ... women. The Asante women fought back because they wanted exclusive authority of their productive and reproductive rights. Women were angry, rightfully so, at the fact that men no longer provided them "chop money." Also, when slavery was abolished, men began pawning their wives and exploiting them for use on their cocoa farms. The women became so enraged at their subjugation by men, that they reacted, successfully. Allman affirms that these women ...
- 1123: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, and Susan B. Anthony were all leaders of the early women's rights movement. Select one of these women and discuss her contribution to the movement and the difficulties she encountered
- ... father by studying and doing the things that her brother had done. Her father's response was that he wished she had been a boy. Her high hope of working with her husband to abolish slavery was shattered when she was not allowed to enter into the conventions. She, as a woman, was told to keep silent and to do her work quietly. Who better than her husband, who champions the ...
- 1124: Socialism
- ... in his most famous work, Das KAPITAL, that the capitalist employer of labor had, in order to make a profit, to extract "surplus value" from his employees, thereby exploiting them and reducing them to "wage-slavery." The modern state, with its government and law-enforcing agencies, was solely the executive organ of the capitalist class. Religion, philosophy, and most other forms of culture likewise simply fulfilled the "ideological" function of making ...
- 1125: For the White Man, Of the White Man, and By the White Man
- ... sure everyone got the message. Reconstruction brought education to the blacks, but it also brought segregation. Blacks had to use separate schools, buses, and public facilities. Although use of these facilities was far better than slavery, blacks still deserved the same rights as everyone else. With ever increasing segregation, it was only a matter of time before blacks would demand equal rights, and that is what spawned the civil rights movements ...
- 1126: Racism in Colleges
- ... never given a good education. This lack of education continued throughout the centuries. Even in the 1700's slaves were never taught how to read or write. In the 1800's everyone's feelings about slavery, good or bad, culminated in one big war, the American Civil War. During this period, the slaves really tried to break free from their past stereotypes. A small percentage of them taught themselves to read ...
- 1127: The Conflicts of the Black Race: Delayed Economic and Educational Progress
- ... the Black Race: Delayed Economic and Educational Progress In the 1960's, blacks, led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., fought for their civil rights and equal opportunities. Although they had only been out of slavery for less than a century, they felt the time was way past due for them to receive the same treatment as other American citizens. Our people struggled to receive decent education programs for their youth ...
- 1128: Black Supremacy
- ... opinion blacks were fairly liberated in 1988. Now the second part of his statement, repair what damage? Any psychic damage which has been thrust upon the black race has not occurred for quite some time: slavery...not in my lifetime nor separate bathrooms were in my lifetime. And I am not about to feel sorry about what happened before my time. Economic damage is not the white man's fault either ...
- 1129: The Bible
- ... myth. Many questions asked are where would that amount of water come from? and where would it all go afterward? However, there is geological evidence of a universal deluge. An interesting fact of the Hebrew slavery is that there is no Egyptian records of there ever being Hebrew slaves nor the plagues the Bible claims preceded the release of the slaves. There also is no historical record of Moses existence outside ...
- 1130: The Location of the Ark of the Covenant
- ... question the leadership of Moses and Aaron. They felt that Moses led them out of the land of milk and honey, which was referring to Egypt. This was long after the memories of hardships of slavery had faded away. The people of Israel felt that Moses and Aaron had led them to a fruitless scorching desert. God had then placed a plague on the people, in which many people had died ...
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