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Pillar of Fire by Taylor Branch

In five pages this 2nd volume of a civil rights' movement historical text by Taylor Branch is analyzed. There are no other source...

'Original Understanding,' Positivism, Legal Realism, and Natural Law

In five pages this report examines civil liberties and the concept of 'original understanding' as it applies to natural law, legal...

Civil Engineers; Opportunities To influence Political Decisions

of the overlap (Wenk, 1971). With the expert knowledge it can be argued that the role of the civil engineer ins changing, especia...

Civil Liberties

liberties they believe that the Constitution allows freedom in all areas that the society deems necessary. However, there are cond...

The Patriot Act

knowledge or consent of the targeted individual". (Robinson, 2003). Wire taps on our phones, monitoring...

Rousseau: "Second Discourse"

tribes" (Delaney, 2006). And so we cannot know precisely what Rousseau meant by these definitions. The first part of the Discours...

Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement

the future for the struggles of the African Americans in the United States (Martin Luther King, Jr.: Civil-Rights Leader, 2007). H...

Greensboro Sit-Ins

turned into many as the protest continued for almost 6 months.5 In addition, it sparked many other protests throughout the South a...

FBI Counterintelligence and the Civil Rights Movement

years earlier and prior to the U.S. involvement in World War II. The 1940 Smith Act criminalized any advocacy of "the overthrow o...

U.S. Constitution, Civil Rights, and Slavery

that blacks, even if they were freed blacks, were not due citizenship and could never become citizens of the United States. As suc...

Tobacco Industry

any number of physical ailments, including halitosis and lockjaw throughout Europe (ASH, 2006; Randall, 1999). Sir Frances Drake ...

Legal Matters at Bug, Inc.

can be used to help prevent another company from benefiting from Bugs efforts. 2. Industrial Espionage Corporate spying alw...

2 Countries and Human Rights

political opposition, it is doing so by making public examples of dissidents rather than acting covertly....

Civil Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Administrations of Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon

which Brown was grounded rested "solely on the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution" (1977, p. 306). Warren also points out t...

Civil Rights Act of 1964's Title VII

cropped up as a result of Title VII. People with religious beliefs sometimes refuse to wear hats or certain clothing that is a req...

Brown v. Board of Education Case Decision and its Effects

However, the victory that Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka represented in the Black community did not carry over to the major...

1964 Civil Rights Act

(1957), for example, argued that the basis for separation and discrimination was linked to the fact that employees did not want to...

Jesus vs. Thoreau, a Comparison

public inconveniencey, it is the will of God... that the established government be obeyed--and no longer" (1755). Christ was also...

Italian Contact Law and Revoking an Offer

In twenty pages this paper considers the Italian Civil Code in an examination of revoking a contract. Twelve sources are cited in...

Civil Rights and Differing Perceptions Contained Within Congressional Committee on Domestic Affairs Testimony

when the nation was desperately trying to establish policies and procedures which would act to protect the rights of the freed sla...

Balancing Intrusion by the Government and Safety

She is right in this evaluation. During the Second World War, the U.S. supported Japanese internment camps. It was something that ...

U.S. History and American Racism AMERICAN RACISM AND HISTORY

subconscious, if a man has intercourse with a women, he claims ownership of her. Likewise, in a larger world view, if the white ma...

School Violence Prevention and Profiling Controversy

wrong. If for example a crime was committed by a black gang, it would be wrong to profile blacks for all crime. While that is a ...

August 28, 1963 'I Have a Dream' Speech of Martin Luther King Jr.

speech. King uses the words -- "Five score years ago" (Internet source) -- that millions of Americans recognized and understand t...

Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.

In seven pages this paper examines civil disobedience as envisioned by MLK and the lack of conformity of Gandhi to this view. Fou...

President Abraham Lincoln's Role in the US Period of Reconstruction

Eric Froner Consider Reconstruction a Failure? The reasons for the failure of reconstruction are itemized in the article....

Civil Rights and the Government of the United States

protests, a look at what the government has done from the early 1930s through the late 1960s is in order. What did the government ...

Cecelski's Along Freedom Road

those societal institutions, such as schools and churches, which had grown out of the post-slavery era and reflected black cultura...

Civil Disobedience and Philosophy

permission. Abraham Lincoln promoted the Platonic view in his Gettysburg Address in saying that the government should be "of the ...

1960s' Civil Rights Music and Martin Luther King Jr.

all, a wild animal will fight to be free of restraints as well and this does not indicate that they are good, nor does it indicate...