Search Essays

…it to the remaining ten percent constitute a "special" right to that remaining ten percent? As Justice Kennedy observed in his opinion overturning Colorado's infamous Amendment 2 (Roemer vs. Evans), many gay and lesbian Americans are, under current law, denied civil rights…

…minorities, and women continued to be deprived of some of the most elementary right of citizenship. During the Reconstruction, after the end of the Civil War, the Fourteenth Amendment was passed in 1868, making blacks citizens and promised them the "equal…

…In ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, India and China, geography played an important role in development. Despite being in different areas of the world each managed to stay maintain, and make new developments along the way. Ultimately each civilization’s…

…According to On-Line Medical Dictionary, heterosexuality is "sexual orientation to persons of the opposite sex, or a person who is sexually attracted to a person of the opposite sex". All heterosexual have the human rights - civil rights, the rights…

…was completely against slavery and did everything in his power to stop it. This is where Bleeding Kansas comes from. Bleeding Kansas lasted from (1854-1859). This was an act of civil unrest between proslavery and anti slavery advocates for the control and power…

…The Bill of Rights “Individual rights are the oldest and most traditional of American values.” (ACLU, 1997) The Bill of Rights is a document consisting of the Constitution’s first ten amendments. The first eight of these amendments specify certain…

…The Rights Of Women “The first object of laudable ambition is to obtain a character as a human being, regardless of the distinction of sex.” –Mary Wollstonecraft Since the dawn of civilized society, mankind has witnessed prejudices of various…

…-century in Europe. It was a response to the rapid social upheaval, the devastation of World War I, and the Bolshevik Revolution (source 1). Fascism is a philosophy or a system of government that advocates or exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right…

…of homemaker. Next: Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act was passed, prohibiting employment discrimination on the basis of sex as well as race, religion, and national origin. The category "sex" was included as a last-ditch effort to kill the bill. But it passed…

…Millions of years ago the procreant low lands in the river basins of Euphrates and Tigris was probably the home of some animal life, but no great civilizations. However, things change over time, and just a few thousand years ago the same fertile low…