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- 131: Affirmative Action
- ... community were predominantly white then your work force would be predominantly white. The clash between those who view affirmative as a means to provide handouts to minorities and women and those others who feel the abolition of affirmative action will lead to a return of the days when minorities had no rights may seem simple. However, the ideals that surround the beliefs of the opposing sides cannot be summed up in ...
- 132: Women In Reform Movements
- ... agiasnt this kind of treatment, there the ones that had the idea of "men and women being equal." news quickly spred of this new way of life for women ; the demand for a say in abolition was higly opposed by the males in the same group. this and the london anti-slavery convetion, wich would not give a seat to the female delegates was the final straw on the camels back ...
- 133: Segregaton in the United States
- ... northern states. Slavery was a main factor in the Civil War. During that war Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation proclamation declared slaves free in the still rebellious Confederate states, which led to the Thirteenth Amendment (the abolition of slavery). Later the fourteenth and fifteenth amendment were passed to ensure that African- Americans rites were being preserved. After all of this was done racism and segregation were still extreme. The U.S. Supreme ...
- 134: A Discussion on Animal Rights
- ... s organization also files public interest lawsuits in courts and with the federal regulatory agencies to expose the radicalism of the animal rights message (Tapply 98). The granting of rights to animals such as the abolition of medical research, the dissolution of commercial animal agriculture, sport hunting, and trapping would in effect have both positive and negative consequences. Positive consequences to the granting of animal rights would include lessened cruelty to ...
- 135: Feminist Backlash: The Unconscious Undermining of Genuine Equality
- ... them that way will make for a more confused and sexually repressed society. Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, author of Feminism is Not the Story of My Life (1996), asks would the liberation of women require the abolition of a common morality? Being female in America is not easy. The Feminist Chronicles (1993) has endless lists of monumentous abortion laws and states the Christian Coalition as a threat to feminist progress. Women are ...
- 136: Blacks, Prison, And Institutional Racism
- ... youth. Of course institutionalization is nothing new to Afro-Americans, it is something Blacks have faced since their existence in this country. In the beginning Blacks were forced into the institution of slavery. After the abolition of slavery Blacks faced institutional racism, that is, racism legitimated by the whole of society directed against the few of society. As a facet of that institutional racism Blacks are now forced to persevere the ...
- 137: The Roots of Judaism and Christianity
- ... were banned from Jerusalem. Under the Antonine emperors (138-92), however, milder policies were restored, and the work of the scholars was resumed, particularly in Galilee, which became the seat of the partriarchate until its abolition (c.429) by the Romans. There the sages called tannaim completed the redaction of the Mishnah (oral law) under the direction of Judah Ha-Nasi. In the 3d and 4th centuries scholarly activity in Palestine ...
- 138: A Touch Of Jazz
- ... in the American south in the middle 1800's. the origins of the actual music are to be found among the work songs, laments and spirituals of the Negro slaves of the south. With the abolition of slavery and the migration of thousands of Negro workers to the cities and towns of the south, these songs and spirituals were given a new impetus. They were played by the street bands which ...
- 139: The Nuclear Threat: Yesterday and Today and Tomorrow
- ... mail this short letter to the 10 nations which now have or are verging on nuclear capability, we may have hope. http://www.wagingpeace.org/abolition2000/samplelet.html Sample letter to world leaders urging the abolition of nuclear weapons Dear _______ You have the capacity to influence the course of world history. I urge you to play a leadership role in the global effort to reduce the nuclear threat and to eliminate ...
- 140: Ontological and Cosmological Arguments of God's Existence
- ... struggle against the world whose spiritual aroma is religion. According to Marx, religious suffering is at the same time an expression of real suffering and protest against real suffering. (Pg.347). Marx advocated that the abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of men, is a demand for their real happiness. He was appalled at the masses flocking to religion. He said, "it is clear that the arm of criticism cannot ...
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