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…was when the Thatcher government tried to ban key civil servants working at GCHQ, the top-secret government communications centre, from joining a trade union. It was a judge who had to rule whether the government had the power to take away this 'right…

…with the civil rights act. Affirmative Action is supposed to be a program designed to end racism, but it is really justifying racism by it's own actions. Its policies totally judge people solely on skin color and gender! . That is discrimination in itself…

…The conflict between society and the individual is a theme portrayed throughout Twain's Huckleberry Finn. Huck was not raised in accord with the accepted ways of civilization. He practically raises himself, relying on instinct to guide him through…

…Golding was trying to portray in his novel that the function and representations of the conch were a tool of communication, the rules that formed and kept a civilized society, and power. The conch provided who ever was in possession of it the right to speak…

…. Both Emerson and Thoreau had intuition about what was right. The theories they professed were based on their intuition about what was right and wrong. In “Civil Disobedience,” Thoreau asserted his belief in the oneness of individual souls with nature…

…American Civil Liberties Union American Civil Liberties Union The American Civil Liberties Union is an organization which takes on the issues of concern to the American public and any violations of their rights, or liberties, including…

…the general stereotype of a "housewife" and branching out into the workforce. But, even with the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which states that discrimination in any way is illegal among other things, this is not an easy task to accomplish. Women are supposed…

…of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, while for others, it represented the fall of segregation. The Brown decision was a landmark because it overturned the legal policies established by the Plessy v. Ferguson decision that legalized the practices…

…. Montgomery Advertiser, article by Jannel Mcgrew Jan. 16, 2000 Work site page Bullard, Sarah. Free at Last A History of the Civil Rights movement and those who died…

…Maya Angelou is a remarkable Renaissance woman who is hailed as one of the great voices of contemporary literature. As poet, educator, historian, best-selling author, actress, playwright, civil-rights activist, producer and director, she continues…