Human rights

The First Reconstruction, emerging out of the chaos of the Civil War had as its goals equality for Blacks in voting, politics, and use of public facilities. The Second Reconstruction emerging out of the booming economy of the 1950’s, had as its goals, integration, the end of Jim Crow and the more amorphous goal of…

Abortion has been one of the topics of hot debate for the last three decades in our nation. Since the Roe v/s Wade decision in 1973, some Americans feel the need to ponder whether aborting fetuses is a moral action. On the one hand, some people feel that abortion should be legal because a woman…

The roots of affirmative action can be traced back to the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act where legislation redefined public and private behavior. The act states that to discriminate in private is legal, but anything regarding business or public discrimination is illegal (“Affirmative” 13). There are two instances when opposing affirmative action might…

As times change, everything changes with it. The roles that women take on have changed in certain cultures, but in some cultures they have remained the same. Before, men were treated with more respect and superiority, while women had no voices or say in the events that took place in their society. Today, there are…

National Security Agency has been reported to have several network streams over their networks for communications. This has not just happened by their own efforts, but also had help from other telecommunication companies who are providing them with direct access to several streams. With this article, the author has raised many questions of what extents…

Written by Alice Walker and published in 1982, The Color Purple is the story of two sisters living separate lives in the early 1900s: one a 14-year-old child wife living in the South and one a missionary in Africa. Although the book is set in the early 1900s during racial discrimination, the Great Depression, and…

I am going to talk about Sylvia Rivera, who was a transgender activist. My presentation will be divided into four parts, first introduction of Rivera’s early life, and then what she wanted, how she fought for it, did she get it. About Ray Rivera’s early life, he was born and raised in New York City…

This investigation will explore the question: To what extent did Coco Chanel influences women’s rights in the 20’s. We will be focusing on the years 1920-1930 for this investigation. In this internal assessment we will be focusing on how Coco changed women’s fashion by not catering to women fashion at that time and made clothes…

PART ONE CUBA: A Media Profile Media is the used around the world for the central purpose of sending and receiving information. To study the media in a country such as Cuba, you must consider the political, social and the cultural ideologies of the country. While most of the world is free flowing with information…

Without rules and regulations all civilization would plunge into chaos, as there would be nothing protecting us from one another’s most basic self serving instincts, and sometimes self-destructive habits. Often time’s simple rules and regulations protect us from ourselves, such as not touching a hot furnace or driving through an intersection when the light is…