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  • The Civil Rights Movement

    The Civil Rights Movement

    The Civil Rights Movement in the United States was a political, legal, and social struggle by black Americans to gain full citizenship rights and to achieve racial equality. The Civil Rights movement was first and foremost a challenge to segregation. During the Civil Rights Movement, individuals and organizations challenged segregation and discrimination with a variety of activities, including protest marches, boycotts, and refusal to abide by segregation laws. Many believed that the movement began with

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    Submitted: February 13, 2010 By: regina
  • African Americans: Fighting for Their Rights

    African Americans: Fighting for Their Rights

    African Americans: Fighting For Their Rights During the mid 1950s to late 1960s African Americans started responding to the oppressive treatment shown to them by the majority of white people in the country. They responded to the segregation of blacks and whites during that time and the double standards the African Americans were held to. African Americans responded to their suppression by participating in boycotts, marches, sit-ins, and trying to get legislation passed so that

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    Submitted: February 13, 2010 By: Mike
  • How to Make Sure He Is the Right Guy

    How to Make Sure He Is the Right Guy

    How To Make Sure He Is the Right Guy When you, girls, reach the right age, it will be time for you to look for cool guys to be with. Obviously, you don’t only want to be with a prince charming but also a smart caring one. Anyway, how can you be sure that the guy you are dating is the kind of guy you really long for? It’s hard, isn’t it? However, there are

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    Submitted: February 13, 2010 By: David
  • Euthanasia: The Right to Die

    Euthanasia: The Right to Die

    Euthanasia has become an issue of increasing attention because of Dr. Jack Kevorkian's assisted suicides. As of October 21 Kevorkian has assisted in nineteen suicides. Because of the increasing number of suicides in Michigan, Gov. Engler signed an anti-suicide law in late February that made doctor- assisted suicides a felony. During the 21-month trial period of the new law anyone assisting in a suicide can be sentenced to up to four years in prison and

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    Submitted: February 13, 2010 By: Bred
  • Rosa Parks: The Mother of Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement

    Rosa Parks: The Mother of Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement

    Rosa Parks: The Mother of Modern Civil Rights Rosa Louise McCauley Parks is nationally recognized as the mother of the modern-day civil rights movement in America. She was not trying to start a movement. She was simply tired of the social injustice and did not think that a woman should be forced to stand so that a man could sit down. By refusing to surrender her seat to a white male passenger on a Montgomery,

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    Submitted: February 13, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Genealogy of Morals Summary (friedrich Nietzsche)

    Genealogy of Morals Summary (friedrich Nietzsche)

    According to The Genealogy of Morals, Friedrich Nietzsche’s account of history regarding the origin of morality posed a decadent contention that deeply challenged him. This problem resulted in an enlightening new perspective that altered his foundation of morality: a question of value. His objection was to clarify the origin of the moral language, in order to establish a placement for the value of morality. He began his journey by theorizing the division of individuals into

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    Submitted: February 13, 2010 By: Jon
  • Is the Death Penalty Moral

    Is the Death Penalty Moral

    The death penalty is the only punishment for a crime that is permanent and cannot be undone once the chemicals flow down the needle into the flesh the deed is done it doesn’t matter anymore if the person did the crime or not because that person is dead. Now saying that you may notice that I said person twice the death penalty kills human life. Taking a human life is wrong, but let us look

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    Submitted: February 14, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Protecting Intellectual Property Rights on the Internet

    Protecting Intellectual Property Rights on the Internet

    Protecting Intellectual Property Rights on the Internet Issue Summary The issue of protecting copy written material on the Internet has been an issue of great debate lately as the technology to copy and distribute copy written material becomes more prevalent and easy to use. On the pro side there is the Working Group on Intellectual Property Rights, they contend that copyright laws need to be strengthened because computer networks make it fast and easy to

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    Submitted: February 14, 2010 By: Top
  • The Question of Spanking

    The Question of Spanking

    Spanking a child is a controversial issue. On one side of the debate are people who believe spanking is a necessary component of parenting. On the contrary are people who think spanking a child is destructive. Somewhere in the middle are people who believe spanking is legitimate only when used correctly. Part of the reason for the debate is that some parents and experts define spanking differently. To some, spanking means slapping a child on

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    Submitted: February 14, 2010 By: Mike
  • Weighing the Right to Privacy Against the Threat of Terrorism

    Weighing the Right to Privacy Against the Threat of Terrorism

    Introduction Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd As home his footsteps he hath turn'd, From wandering on a foreign strand? If such there breathe, go, mark him well; For him no minstrel raptures swell; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim,-- Despite those titles, power, and

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    Submitted: February 14, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Employee Privacy Rights in the Workplace

    Employee Privacy Rights in the Workplace

    Employee Privacy Rights in the Workplace Imagine you are writing a very personal email to a family relative and you don’t want your work buddies to know about it. Well if your employer is reading your email for no particular reason, and one of the computer people just happen to say something that they may have read about someone’s personal information, it is then disclosed. Employee privacy rights in the workplace are a very serious

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    Submitted: February 14, 2010 By: Mike
  • Legalization of Gay Marriage

    Legalization of Gay Marriage

    Legalization of Gay Marriage What is the definition of marriage? The dictionary states it as being the legal union between a man and a woman as husband and wife. However, times are changing as the gay life style becomes more accepted by society it is time to allow all couples regardless of sex to enjoy equal protections, rights and benefits under the law. Perhaps, it makes the most sense to consider arguments against same sex

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    Submitted: February 14, 2010 By: Artur
  • Issues and Ethics in Counselling Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Individuals

    Issues and Ethics in Counselling Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Individuals

    Issues and Ethics in Counselling Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Individuals A considerable number of lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) people will turn to helping professionals when they need assistance with problems. Lesbians, gay and bisexual individuals experience similar problems to heterosexual clients, such as anxiety, depression, suicide ideation, alcoholism, violence, relationship problems, and anger. There are unique issues faced by LGB persons, however. This paper will summarize the major issues for which LGB individuals seek

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    Submitted: February 15, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Hobbes on Moral Duties

    Hobbes on Moral Duties

    Some might claim that a social contract transforms our moral psychology so that we come to act from a sense of duty to others and not just selfishly. In this essay, I will express why Hobbes' theory that people always act from self-interest would not change people's moral psychology. Hobbes argues that being involved in a social contract does not transform our moral psychology, so that we act from a sense of duty, but rather

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    Submitted: February 15, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Sometimes What Is Right to one Person Is Wrong to Another. . .

    Sometimes What Is Right to one Person Is Wrong to Another. . .

    Sometimes what is right to one person is wrong to another; the resulting conflict can build walls and break hearts. In her story, “The Cardboard Room”, Teresa Pitman writes about a girl who faces many choices while she is growing up. The reader witnesses her making a critical choice between what her parents want and what she wants, and the reader watches as things fall apart for her when she chooses what she believes is

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    Submitted: February 15, 2010 By: Jack
  • Right to Privacy

    Right to Privacy

    Kevin Farrell Political Science Immigration America has, is, and will always be a nation of immigrants. Many people look at the present immigration problems as a purely modern dilemma. The truth is America has always struggled with the issue of immigration, both legal and illegal. It is important that the government adjusts today's immigration laws to fit today's standards. Those standards, however, are not easily defined. In any discussion about immigration there will be those

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    Submitted: February 15, 2010 By: Janna
  • The Right Path from Good to Perfect

    The Right Path from Good to Perfect

    The right path from good to perfect is a Yoplait Kids advertisement analysis. The Right Path from Good to Perfect No family is perfect, but a good one always tries to do its best under odd circumstances. Whether they face financial difficulties or worse, the family attempts to reestablish an enjoyable family environment. These actions do not lack determination but often fail or don’t provide the desired results, simply because people tend to seek for

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    Submitted: February 15, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • What Wrongs Have White Administrators Done to Aborginal People in the Past? Have All Wrong Been Righted?

    What Wrongs Have White Administrators Done to Aborginal People in the Past? Have All Wrong Been Righted?

    What Wrongs Have White Administrators Done to Aborginal people In The Past? Have all wrong Been Righted? Even though Hardy wrote his book in 1968, he gives a good definition of how the Aborigines were treated in that time. A very bias 'opinion' based difinition of the treatment of Aborigines: "To this day the Aborigine is treated as less than a man, his situation isapalling. His destiny and very identity is decided by his white

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    Submitted: February 16, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Tax Payer’s Bill of Rights

    Tax Payer’s Bill of Rights

    One could go through life in a breeze paying their taxes assuming the numbers were entered correctly. However, one number could be off and one payment missed by ones’ employer. Then there it is, a letter from the IRS telling the taxpayer in big bold letters “AUDIT”. What does one do? Where would one go for advice? Does the taxpayer have rights? And the first thing that goes through ones mind,”money and jail”. Well

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    Submitted: February 16, 2010 By: Kevin
  • Is Government Interference Right?

    Is Government Interference Right?

    Is Government Interference Right? Should government have the right to interfere in our private lives? Does being part of a representative democracy mean that we abdicate our freedom to make our own choices in the name of the good of all? Should the government have the right to interfere in our private lives? Democracy guarantees freedom. One might then argue that a government should allow people to act according to their own free will. But

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    Submitted: February 16, 2010 By: Victor
  • Capital Punishment: Morally Required?

    Capital Punishment: Morally Required?

    One of today’s most debated political and moral topics is that of Capital Punishment. Many people believe that the sanctity of life should take precedent over all, and that even if there is some deterrent effect stemming from capital punishment it is still not morally permissible. However, there are still others that believe that it is this same sanctity of life that requires the use of the death penalty in “death eligible” murder cases and

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    Submitted: February 17, 2010 By: Top
  • The Right to Die (euthanasia)

    The Right to Die (euthanasia)

    English 1010 The Right to Die You are terminally ill with cancer that will probably kill you slowly and painfully over the next couple years. As time rolls on you find yourself in chronic pain. Medication helps but it isn’t enough to stop the ache, or you just don’t like being all drugged up. At least you are alive and you can spend time with your family, but at the same time they have to

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    Submitted: February 17, 2010 By: Jack
  • Declaring the Rights of Men and Women in the French Revolution

    Declaring the Rights of Men and Women in the French Revolution

    The French Revolution was a dark time in the history of man. From corruption in government to the almost certainty of starvation for the French peasants, there seemed to be no sign of better times. These were just a few of the logs in the ever-growing revolutionary fire that was burning in the late 1700's. There were many causes to the French Revolution ranging from: poor distribution of power and wealth, a bad harvest which

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    Submitted: February 18, 2010 By: July
  • Gay Marriage

    Gay Marriage

    According, to Merriam-WebsterЎЗs Dictionary, one definition of marriage is defined as ЎИthe state of being united to a person of the same sex in a relationship like that of a traditional marriage.ЎЙ If this definition is true, why does society and the U.S. government intervene and judge same-sex marriages? The topic continues to arise in political debates whether or not same-sex marriages are right or wrong, with same sex marriages in the U.S. today, society

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    Submitted: February 18, 2010 By: Yan
  • Objective Morality

    Objective Morality

    My purpose in writing this is to argue for the existence of an objective morality based entirely on rational and scientific reasoning. By "objective morality" I do not simply mean that morality exists in the sense that various societies consider various actions to be immoral. What I mean is that certain actions are inherently right or wrong regardless of what any society thinks about them. In other words, I mean that there is an "objective

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    Submitted: February 19, 2010 By: Top