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Arguing for an Adopted Child's Right to Know Biological Parentage

is to address these two aspects of biological identity as they relate to the human right to know their biological origin. S...

The Constitution and the Bill of Rights

free speech. Certainly, there are limits to speech, but at least the Constitution protects the rights of individuals ideologically...

The Voting Rights Act of 1965

Voting Rights Laws"). Before the Civil War, "the United States Constitution did not provide specific protections for voting" ("Be...

The Right Stuff & Technology

conquer it. The focus of the film changes when it shifts to dramatizing the successful launch of the Soviet Unions Sputnik and i...

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...

Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Women

speaks of the position of women in society, elements of a womans life that can often lead to a position where she is seen as littl...

Washington & Du Bois/Who Was Right?

separate as the five fingers, and yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress" (quoted by Du Bois 24). This "c...

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Its Effect on the Third Estate

always outvote the Third Estate" (Hooker, 1996). It was, in effect, a "rubber stamp" for the nobility to pass the legislation that...

Gun Control: Rights

citizen who often needs a gun to protect himself from the very criminal element of society who will always have access to firearms...

Michigan Civil Rights Initiative: Proposal 2

of public employment, public education, or public contracting" (LaBash, 2006). Another author indicates that it essentially refle...

Trans People & Bathroom Rights in Canada

meet the health needs of trans people (Sandeen). A fact cited by Davis is that only 15 to 20 percent of individuals who identify t...

Women’s Rights in the Military

cooks, laundresses and saboteurs" Women In Military Service For America Memorial Foundation, Inc., 2007). They clearly had no righ...

Women's Rights: How Small Strides were Made During the Renaissance

not as if womens suffrage would come about immediately and without any history. During the Renaissance, both men and women planted...

Transgender Bathroom Rights

their physical gender" (Armstrong, 2006). The issues that such people face "on a daily basis are not issues people in the wider co...

Executive Power: Protection Versus Personal Rights

integral role in saving society from such fatal intrusion, with proponents contending it has, indeed, become imperative for govern...

Islam and Women’s Rights

before, however, Islam is very much an "exposed" religion. It comes to us through practically every medium as each news or public...

OpEd: Right of Refusal

on some theological idea that only God can end life. We wouldnt allow a dog or cat to suffer; why then do we force humans to do so...

The Victims' Rights Movement

grass roots movement and aligned with a variety of groups, such as MADD and others that try to change the system and make their pr...

Employment: Civil Rights

have been various statutes that have aimed at changing and eliminating discrimination that involve religion, sex, race, age and ma...

Due Process and the Definition and Delineation of Individual Rights

Due process has had a definitive impact on the delineation and definition of the rights of American citizens. Interestingly, howe...

Education: Crime and Civil Rights

for an individual who is determined to engage in crime. They may know what prison is about, may be intelligent, and yet they find ...

Human Rights and Social Welfare: Martin Luther King Jr.

to his assassination (New York Amsterdam News, 2003). "Dr. King understood that civil rights meant more than the right to vote or ...

Sociological Article Analysis (New Soldiers in the Fight for Human Rights)

the fact that the human rights field has grown immensely, but what it also does that is not quite as obvious is to suggest that un...

Civil Rights in the Nineteenth Century

to move to the back, and when he refused, would go to court. The court essentially ruled against Plessy, rendering segregation val...

Sperm or Egg Donation and Children's Rights

In five pages this paper discusses English law with regard to the rights of children who have been conceived via egg or sperm dona...

"Declaring Rights"

happened at the Constitutional Convention, and trying to reassure them that the new federal government still leaves a great deal o...

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...

ADA And Fourth Amendment Rights

Section 504 was enacted in 1973, its full implications are only now being realized. This is particularly true of those components...

Civil Rights Movement and Civil Disobedience

being obedient. As the key Civil Rights moments mentioned above illustrate, civil disobedience is characterized by an abs...

Animals and Rights

provide a significant supply of goods for human beings, not the least of which supports mans medicinal, food, companion and entert...