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  • The Evolution of Individual Rights and Liberties Prior to the Constitutional Convention

    The Evolution of Individual Rights and Liberties Prior to the Constitutional Convention

    History 311 The Nevada Constitution has much comparison to the U.S. Constitution, and has various perceptions and requirements of the Nevada Constitution, which have roots that go back to English common law. The right of petition are often forgotten when people are asked to recite the rights guaranteed in the First Amendment. Up till now, this right could arguably be credited with providing the foundation for all other First Amendment rights. In this paper, I

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    Submitted: April 15, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • What Price Is Right?

    What Price Is Right?

    What price is right? Suppose there are two people A and B, they both subscribe to the services of a gym. A pays the annual subscription of INR 12000 while B pays in monthly installment of INR 1000. Both of them pay the same amount but B is more likely to continue exercising at the club than A. A will look forward to get the money worth early in the membership, but this drive will

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    Essay Length: 257 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: April 15, 2010 By: Artur
  • An Ethical Dilemma in Counseling: Deciding Between Two Rights

    An Ethical Dilemma in Counseling: Deciding Between Two Rights

    An Ethical Dilemma in Counseling: Deciding between two rights Ethics, considered the study of moral philosophy, is a broad way of defining human duty, right and wrong; essentially, it is more expansive than simply applying a principle. Dilemmas are situations that require a choice between options appearing uniformly favorable, unfavorable or mutually exclusive. Naturally, an ethical dilemma can place a professional counselor in a precarious position, thereby compromising the effectiveness of the therapy, the trust

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    Submitted: April 16, 2010 By: Jon
  • Whose Rights?

    Whose Rights?

    Who's Rights? Abortion, in its most common ways of usage, refers to the voluntary termination of pregnancy, generally through the use of surgical procedures or drugs. As with all public policy issues there are many points of view on this subject. Abortion is a culture wars issue, and as such "the fissures that [it]...creates are deeper and more difficult to contain within civil and constrained discourse."(Peters 415) Due to the deep moral arguments attached to

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    Submitted: April 16, 2010 By: Top
  • China Becomes the World's Third Largest Consumer of Luxury Goods

    China Becomes the World's Third Largest Consumer of Luxury Goods

    China Becomes the World's Third Largest Consumer of Luxury Goods 12/09/05 -- Goldman Sachs released a report yesterday on China's luxury goods market. It stated that excluding private aircraft and yachts, China's purchase of luxury goods reached 6 billion USD, bringing its share in the global luxury goods market to 12%, but only about 2% of this amount comes from domestic purchases, with Chinese tourists' purchases abroad comprising about 10%. Goldman Sachs predicts that by

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    Submitted: April 16, 2010 By: Stenly
  • The Right Stuff Defined

    The Right Stuff Defined

    The Right Stuff Defined Tom Wolfe’s novel The Right Stuff, gives an accurate description into the lives of the first astronauts and rocket-powered aircraft test pilots, from their careers before, during, and after their selection to become astronauts, through to their private home lives. All throughout his book, Wolfe refers to “the right stuff” and “this righteous stuff” without ever saying upfront what “the stuff” really is. I have concluded that throughout the story, “the

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    Submitted: April 16, 2010 By: Tommy
  • Driving Is a Privilege, Not a Right

    Driving Is a Privilege, Not a Right

    Driving a car and obtaining a valid driver’s license is something every teenager longs for. Their parents are the ones who decide whether or not they are responsible enough to own one because owning a driver’s license is a privilege, not a right. Unfortunately, illegal immigrants feel that obtaining a driver’s license should be their right for working in the United States illegally and that each member of their family should own a car

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    Submitted: April 18, 2010 By: Tommy
  • Rosa Parks Civil Rights Activist

    Rosa Parks Civil Rights Activist

    Rosa Parks in the Civil Rights Era You can walk through any school in this nation and ask any student if they know who Rosa Parks is. Most students would say that she was the African American woman who did not move from the front of the bus to give up her seat to a white man. The majority of students pay little attention to the impact her decision had on the United States. She

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    Submitted: April 18, 2010 By: Max
  • Censorship: An Infringement of Rights

    Censorship: An Infringement of Rights

    Censorship: An Infringement of Rights America has always been known as “the land of the free, and the home of the brave”, but recent events begin to arise questions of how “free” we, as Americans, actually are. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press... (Bill of Rights) It has been over two hundred years since these

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    Submitted: April 19, 2010 By: Max
  • Hugh Finn: Right to Die

    Hugh Finn: Right to Die

    Hugh Finn: Right to Die Michele Finn was given the right to remove her husband’s tube after hearing from the courts and going against everyone else. Her husband like many others has battled the right to die, which is highly discussed worldwide. Many people disapprove of this matter, because they still have hope. I think that Michele Finn’s case was truly about autonomy and each person should be able to die, if there is more

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    Submitted: April 19, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Evaluate the Significance of the Bus Boycott to the Civil Rights Movement

    Evaluate the Significance of the Bus Boycott to the Civil Rights Movement

    Modern Extended responses b) Evaluate the significance of one of the following in the civil rights movement 2. The bus boycott The events and outcomes of the bus boycott are significant in assistance to the civil rights movement. It was the introduction of direct action and non violence, the beginning of Martin Luther's campaign in the movement and the achievements. The boycott began on the 1st December 1955 with Rosa Parks in Montgomery, Alabama, with

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    Submitted: April 19, 2010 By: Jon
  • Animal Rights

    Animal Rights

    “We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do nut suffer less because they have no words.” Sewelle, Anna. Black Beauty.(2000) Through the course of evolution both the animal and the human species have evolved; humans ironically taking form from prehistoric animals as well. As our body and mind have evolved we have separated from each other on this so called hierchy chain. The

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    Submitted: April 19, 2010 By: Steve
  • Abortion: Is It Right?

    Abortion: Is It Right?

    Abortion: Is it right? What constitutes a living person: Do you have to be born into this world; are you considered human as a fetus or do we even have the right to say? It is my beliefs that God does and lets things happen for a purpose. Meaning that if you get pregnant then it was Gods will for you to get pregnant. There for does this give you the right to reject Gods

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    Submitted: April 20, 2010 By: Mike
  • The Second Amendment of the Bill of Rights

    The Second Amendment of the Bill of Rights

    The Second Amendment of the Bill of Rights gives people the right to keep and bear arms. The ideas of setting strict laws that allow only hunting rifle use, and laws that allow more freedom has been argued over for many years. The best argument protecting the Second Amendment is that people have more security when possessing a gun. Although this is possibly true, gun control provides much more than comfort for the people. The

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    Submitted: April 22, 2010 By: Andrew
  • View on Intellectual Property Rights

    View on Intellectual Property Rights

    Intellectual Property RightsA Through the years history has documented amazing men and women which have contributed much of their ideas to improving society. Intellectual Property Rights plays a vital role in not just safeguarding the individual to protect the use of their ideas from misuse but it was meant to promote inventiveness and creativity. Intellectual Property Rights has evolved with the emergence of new technologies its scope has grown and several factors including globalization of

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    Submitted: April 22, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • Analysis of the Kids Are All Right by Susan Faludi

    Analysis of the Kids Are All Right by Susan Faludi

    Analysis of The Kids Are All Right by Susan Faludi Kids are crawling around in the dirt, screaming, and have not yet had their diapers changed because the day care provider seems to be in a trance watching the latest episode of the Montel Williams show. One of the workers strikes a child because she won’t stop crying about how hungry she is. The other worker just sits in her chair drinking Jack Daniels with

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    Submitted: April 23, 2010 By: Mike
  • Advertising: Right or Wrong

    Advertising: Right or Wrong

    ADVERTISING: RIGHT OR WRONG The largest money-making industry in the United States today is advertising. During events such as the Super Bowl, companies pay large sums of money in return for thirty seconds of air time. Advertising is the act of promoting a product by informing the public of the products worth. Whether it be television, radio, or newspapers, companies must find a distinct name and phrase that one can associate with their product; nonetheless,

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    Submitted: April 23, 2010 By: Yan
  • The Fourteenth Amendment - the Right to Die

    The Fourteenth Amendment - the Right to Die

    The Right to Die 1. Introduction Why has the right to die initiated such a vigorous debate among philosophers, lawyers and doctors? The Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution states “No State shell deprive…any person of life, liberty or property, without due process of law.” [1] However, how does one define life? Even more so, how do we define a life worth living? Does the right to privacy give the individual freedom to choose even on

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    Submitted: April 25, 2010 By: regina
  • Physicians for Human Rights

    Physicians for Human Rights

    As a global society it is important that we make sure every one of our fellow human being’s global rights are protected. It’s easy for national governments to make laws, and for international organizations such as The United Nations to say what qualifies as ethical treatment for people all around the world. But enforcing these rules and ensuring that all humans are being treated fairly is not easy, and cannot be overseen simply by

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    Submitted: April 25, 2010 By: Tommy
  • Declaration of Rights

    Declaration of Rights

    Today, after decades of expanding opportunity to all citizens, institutions are applying the lessons learned, to the task of meeting the new and growing needs of business, as well as of the larger society. The term diversity is embracing an international as well as multicultural perspective. The positive benefits that can be recognized from this diversity are significant to today’s executives, corporations, and higher education. Commercial success in the future will depend, even more than

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    Submitted: April 27, 2010 By: Janna
  • Abortion: A Basic Right

    Abortion: A Basic Right

    Abortion: A Basic Right The abortion controversy has been debated for years. The presidential election this year has become very involved with this topic. On one side, John F. Kerry, along with third party candidate Ralph Nader, the pro-choice supporters, sees individual choice as central to the debate: If a woman cannot choose to terminate an unwanted pregnancy, a condition which affects her body and possibly her entire life, then she has lost one of

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    Submitted: April 28, 2010 By: Mike
  • Civil Rights

    Civil Rights

    Civil Rights When I think of Civil Rights I think of the Civil War. During a national crisis involving human rights, morale, and economic issues and in some cases, brutal hatred of African Americans the North stood up to help give them their freedom. This was only the beginning though, and some would probably argue this was long before the era where African Americans were actually given Civil Rights, but it was the first step.

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    Submitted: April 28, 2010 By: Top
  • Action Research: Women’s Rights

    Action Research: Women’s Rights

    Action Research: Women’s Rights “Women do two-thirds of the world’s work, receive ten percent of the world’s income and own one percent of the means production” (Robbins). Are women and men created equal? Many women’s are not created equal. For many years, women have been unable to participate and have often been discriminated against in many situations and circumstances. Throughout history, many American has fought for their freedom in their country such as women’s, they

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    Submitted: April 28, 2010 By: Tommy
  • Rights

    Rights

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    Submitted: April 28, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Animal Rights for Marine Mammals

    Animal Rights for Marine Mammals

    Animal Rights for Marine Mammals Written By: Bottlenose dolphins became part of a United States Navy program in 1959 for the purpose of conducting scientific research into their sonar and hydrodynamics in hopes of getting design ideas for submarines, ship hulls and weapons. It was discovered dolphins hear and navigate in the water by using their natural sonar, which happened to be more precise than most fabricated sonar systems. In the mid-sixties, Navy dolphins were

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    Submitted: April 29, 2010 By: Wendy