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- 181: Eleanor Roosevelt
- ... and needs. A new relationship was forged, but on terms wholly different from the old. She turned her energies to a variety of reformist organizations, joining a circle of post suffrage feminists dedicated to the abolition of child labor, the establishment of a minimum wage and the passage of legislation to protect workers. In the process she discovered that she had talents-for public speaking, for organizing, for articulating social problems ...
- 182: Capitalism-Communism
- ... well being of the group instead of personal gain. The existence of the group is improved because of a group effort to achieve a higher quality of living. This idea of Communism also includes the abolition of class conflict: the wealthy Bourgeoisie versus the working class Proletariat. The communists believe that the proletariat will eventually overthrow the bourgeoisie and achieve a classless society where "the free development of each is the ...
- 183: Capital Punishment Is Ineffect
- ... are poverty, lack of social community, and inadequate legal representation at trial or on appeal (NCADP). The above flaws in the actual administration of capital punishment are only one of the many clear reasons for abolition. In the judgement of the fair-minded and unprejudiced capital punishment is a power that cannot be exercised fairly and without discrimination (Smart). Therefore, we cannot put human lives in the hands of a flawed ...
- 184: Capital Punishment
- ... Currently, however, there is a great deal of controversy surrounding the death penalty. Capital cases are long and expensive, and there is no proof as to whether capital punishment deters crime. For these reasons total abolition may be the best way to resolve the capital punishment controversy. If the laws concerning capital punishment were modified, however, capital punishment could become much cheaper, and possibly a lot more effective. Steve Brinker Capital ...
- 185: Animal Rights
- ... is to have a claim or entitlement to something and to have that claim recognized by others. The bad news for animals is two-fold. First, in all the cases of women's rights, the abolition of slavery, and ending apartheid, a good part of the political momentum comes from the oppressed themselves. Secondly, empathy for the oppressed by influential outsides came because the outsides could identify with the oppressed - because ...
- 186: Feminist Movement
- ... of time. This work raised the consciousness of many women, but the first hints of an organized movement did not come about until the approach of the twentieth century. It has been said the Black Abolition Movement was the encouragement that women needed to go after what they believed in (Ryan 10). In 1898 came the beginnings of Womens Suffrage, which was the movement intended to allow women the right ...
- 187: Against Capital Punishment
- ... 9). This is partly because the people in many European countries might have been tired of killing from the war. In most cases the countries and states that stopped capital punishment followed with its formal abolition shortly after (Clay, 1990, p.10). One reason that the United States did not end capital punishment at this time is partly due to the fact that the war was never fought on our soil ...
- 188: BLACKS, PRISON, AND INSTITUTIO
- ... 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 ...
- 189: The Alien And Sedition Acts
- ... within the definition of despotism - a union of legislative, executive, and judicial powers." Another Republican, James Madison, also noticed the beginnings of monarchy. In a letter to Jefferson on May 20, 1798, Madison wrote, "The abolition of Royalty was it seems not one of his [Adams'] Revolutionary principles." Jefferson also noticed the rising aristocratic tide in a letter to Philip Mazzei of Italy in 1796, "...an Angli! can monarchial, and aristocratical ...
- 190: Oliver Cromwell
- ... and assured them that he was not committed to any particular form of government and had not had any underhand dealings with the King. On the other hand, he opposed extremist measures such as the abolition of the monarchy and the House of Lords and the introduction of a more democratic constitution. But Cromwell's efforts to act as a mediator came to nothing when Charles I escaped from Hampton Court ...
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