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  • George Mason's Virginia's Declaration Of Rights
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    George Mason's greatest accomplishment was being the founding father of the national Bill of Rights. He was a planter from Virginia, had grown up rich on one of the nicest and best plantations in Alexandria, Fairfax County, Virginia. He was an important member of the town's church, had all the best tutors growing up, and had been raised to be a Virginian aristocrat (Miers 39). Mason married 'well' and had a large family of nine kids. He raised them in Gunston Hall, a house which he had built him...
  • Dna The Pro Lifers
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    Nicole Brockway Philosophy Professor Shi bles Dec 1999 Ethics and Abortion Since the beginning of time, women have faced oppression in every area of our lives. While people around the world fought and gained the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, it seemed the women of the world were being denied these rights. Women have worked long and hard to gain equality and the right to be in charge of their own bodies. As a woman of the 1990's, about to reach the turn of the century, I ...
  • Abuses In The Novel
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    The Chrysalids, by John Wyndham is a great novel in my opinion. It occurs in the future but it focuses on prejudices, intolerance and torture, issues that exist now and will always exist as long as we do. I believe the novel has a very important message for readers today. In the novel, The Chrysalids, and in reality presently, many human rights are being violated. First off, child abuse and torture is a major factor in the novel. Secondly, the intolerance towards the women of Waknuk, and how the...
  • White Supremacists From Hate Groups
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    A Wounded Nation Everyday human rights are violated. These rights, established long ago by the English, are taken away by people who are either jealous, greedy, or racist against people. Human Rights are a person's basic right to life, liberty, and happiness without fear of vengeance. Several people realize that the violations of human rights presents a big problem in the United States. Despite the growing number of human rights violations, most cases occurred in the south. For years, southerner...
  • Universal Declaration For Human Rights
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    ... When a baby girl is born, the family views her as a temporary possession. Some parents sell the baby girls when they need the money; these girls are often brought up as household servants or as prostitutes. At other times, baby girls are drowned at birth. Women in China are still considered inferior to men. A women is expected to obey her father as a child, her husband as a woman, and her son in her old age. On the other hand, it is a moral obligation of the person in authority to be just an...
  • Its Investments In Burma
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    Heineken out of Burma The action groups 'A Seed Europe' and the Dutch action group 'XminY's tarted a campaign in February 1996, called 'Heineken out of Burma!'. The investment plans of the Dutch brewer Heineken Inc. in Burma (Myanmar), were said to provide material support and legitimacy to the violent dictator y rulers of the country. Heineken sees Burma as an emerging market, that must be entered without delay. Western beer markets are becoming saturated and the potentials for growth in Asia a...
  • Impartial Protection Of Human Rights
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    In this vast contemporary society, many voices go unheard. Our society struggles to break free from the problems it presents to us. Problems such as the environment, human rights, animal rights, and peace among nations continue to exist. Organizations such as Greenpeace, Sierra Club, and Amnesty are 3 of the biggest associations to help fight and put a cease to the world's troubles. Greenpeace is a non-profit organization, with a presence in 40 countries across Europe, the Americas, Asia and the...
  • Torture And Other Forms Of Inhuman Treatment
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    Torture is one of the most barbaric acts of state repression, and it constitutes a direct and deliberate attack on the core of the human personality. Like slavery, it is an expression of the almost unlimited power of one individual over another. In the case of slavery, the human being is degraded to the condition of a non-human object deprived of legal personality. Torture aims to destroy human dignity and reduce the victim to the status of a passive tool in the hands of the torturer. In ancient...
  • Potential Person
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    Abortion seems to be one of the most controversial topics in the world. However, the majority always seem to rest on the side of Pro-choice. Should a woman be forced to have an unwanted child? A child that she cannot care for? Should a woman be forced into "high-risk' childbirth? Isn't it enough torture that women in this world today are raped, and further torture to force them into having their rapist's child? All of these questions arise during any debate about abortion. Abortion can be a very...

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