America; the first thing that should come to your mind is a nation of peace and equality. But it’s not‚ is it? We live in a nation of racism‚ sexism‚ and homophobia. Homosexuals get the worst of all the unfair treatment. Gays have been fighting for rights since the 1960’s‚ maybe even before then‚ and yet today in 2010‚ those pleas for rights go unheard. I believe that we should allow same-sex marriage because banning it is unfair‚ love is all that matters in marriage‚ and gay families have certain
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Animal Rights “What is man without the beast? If the beast were gone‚ man would die from a great loneliness of spirit. For whatever happens to the beast soon happens to man” (Chief Seattle). While much has been done to protect animals‚ it is nowhere near what needs to be done to secure their inhabitance on earth and give them their rights. Animals have nerves so they can feel pain and they do suffer so is it right to put them through that by experimenting on them? Additionally if more of the
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challenged the idea that women were weaker and needed to be taken care of. Second‚ she argued that women were as smart as any man. Thirdly‚ she explained that Christ came from a woman so women should have equal rights. What stood out in my mind the most was that she had to work in the fields just as hard if not harder than the male slaves‚but wasn’t considered as good as a man. And this line "Then that little man in black there‚ he says women can’t have as much rights as men‚ ’cause Christ wasn’t
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Disobedience The government sees the rights of the human fetus as a complex topic‚ along with civil and human rights. In most states fetuses are not given entitlements because it can be seen as a violation of the privileges of the woman carrying the fetus. As of today the U.S. Supreme Court does not recognize the fetus as a person under the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution (Constitution). In the Declaration of Independence it is stated that the government is in place to give the U.S. people‚ “life
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The Religious Right Who are they and what are they doing to America? In the past three decades‚ there has been a major shift in the Republican Party. While the Republicans have represented the economic conservative side for some time‚ they only recently became the party of socially conservative policies. This is in large part due to their absorption of the Religious Right Party. The Religious Right‚ a faction of the conservative movement‚ is a group of individuals who feel that government and
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On 12 April 2012‚ in its historical decision the Supreme Court (SC) of India threw its weight behind the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act‚ 2009. The court upheld the constitutional validity of RTE Act that guarantees children free and compulsory education from the age of 6 to 14 years of age. The judgment makes it mandatory for the government‚ local authorities and private schools to reserve 25 percent of their seats for ‘weaker and disadvantaged sections’ of society. The
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Republic of the Philippines SUPREME COURT Manila EN BANC G.R. No. L-45987 May 5‚ 1939 THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES‚ plaintiff-appellee‚ vs. CAYAT‚ defendant-appellant. Sinai Hamada y Cariño for appellant. Office of the Solicitor-General Tuason for appellee. MORAN‚ J.: Prosecuted for violation of Act No. 1639 (secs. 2 and 3)‚ the accused‚ Cayat‚ a native of Baguio‚ Benguet‚ Mountain Province‚ was sentenced by the justice of the peace court of Baguio to pay a fine
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In this report I am going to talk about the rights people have to privacy and about the laws that go with privacy. Privacy is the thought that information that is confidential that is disclosed in a private place will not be available to third parties when the information would cause embarrassment or emotional distress to a person. The right of privacy is limited to people who are in a place that a person would reasonably expect to be private such as home‚ hotel room and even a telephone booth
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Legal Rights Elisia Jackson Introduction to Criminal Justice Criminals have legal rights during trial procedures. Without these rights there would be so much confusion and controversy in the court system today. There are four of them that I will give a brief summarization of and explain to you the consequences that could possibly happen if these legal rights were no longer upheld in the court system today. They are; the right to confront witnesses‚ the right to an impartial
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Women Rights No Rights? Are You Kidding Me? In the early 1900s‚ women barely had any kind of rights. There were many laws that prevented us from doing anything. For one thing‚ women were EXPECTED to stay at home and take care of the cooking and cleaning. Women were also considered as the “property” of men once they got married. They couldn’t do anything without the permission of their husband. Women couldn’t sign any contracts‚ and so they wouldn’t be able to start any businesses without their
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