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    certain rights guaranteed to the people that are unparalleled in most nations. Founded on the idea that tyrannical or monarchical regime is unjust and discriminatory. During the creation of the Constitution, our Founding Fathers faced great difficulty in passing the document. The argument posed by Anti-Federalists was that without the Bill of Rights, the indisputable freedoms of the people would be infringed upon, replicating the regime of King George III. Many times, these unalienable rights…

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    constitutional issues that plagued our society as a whole and how they still affect us today. I’d say that arguably the biggest issue from the 60s was the Civil Rights Movement. In this major series of events, the majority of the non-white population of America felt that they weren’t being treated as well as the white folk, and they couldn’t be more right. Comparatively to the majority population, the minorities would have separate bathrooms, separate drinking fountains, separate schools, there…

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    Rights Vs Contractualism

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    Moral rights theorists focus on individuals who have autonomy and the protections that they deserve. They deserve to have their choices protected. Contractualists emphasize that that individuals have their own distinction of the good life. They believe people should keep their promises. Privileges and valid claims that arise from contracts are recognized by moral right theories. Both theories recognize contractors, potential contractors, and individuals who could make agreements with a…

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    You can only imagine how much smaller your life would be if you couldn’t get from the couch to the bathroom without someone’s help. Transition: Personal Experience: This is basically where my grandma is at right now and she looks like she’s moving pretty quickly towards stage 5. VI. When the patient progresses to stage 5 they are no longer able to take care of themselves (Glass, Jankovic) A. Visual Aid: P/P Slide 8 B. Their rigidity has gotten to the point…

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    can’t make people think a certain way. While others think that equality is able to be reached because we as Americans have already come so far; segregation, slavery, and voting rights have all been changed over the years.” Equality is achievable in America’s society, because America have come far with segregation, and voting rights. Also because,…

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    Title VII tells us that the employers cannot discriminate against employees because of their religious beliefs or practices. If an employer is mindful of any kind of discrimination against a person or people for reasons of anything that would prevent them from employment or a promotion, then Title VII prohibits it (Bernardin & Russell, 2013). And it does not state how to address the employer who has done so (WIRTS, 2017). Some dreadlocks are very neat and maybe it depends on what the dreadlocks…

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    Minority Discrimination

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    may be unsuccessful. No federal statute ever has been implemented specifically to prohibition racial discrimination in private commercial dealings between two business firms. (The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. (n.d.) While both federal and state laws protect employment rights and there have been some improvements, there is no equivalent protection for minority owned businesses that come across some form of discrimination. While business discrimination…

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    Song Analysis: Sam Cooke

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    Structural layout: “A change is gonna come” is organised in order of phases of Sam Cooke’s life. In the beginning of the song sam starts by talking about his birth and his life as a child. He then speaks about the transition from gospel to pop music and how he is afraid of getting rejected by his community. In the middle of the song he speaks about the racism he faced in his life (shmoop editorial team). Throughout the song Sam speaks about his believe in the change and his optimism. He also…

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    As stated by Cesar Chavez, "a new study shows pesticides used in growing may be responsible for the illness over 300,000 of the nation's 4 million farm workers." Chavez created a speech encouraging people to boycott the grapes because of the pesticides. Chavez used rhetorical strategies such as pathos, logos, and metaphors in order to provoke and inspire the consumers to stand against the pesticides. Throughout Chavez's speech, he uses pathos to alarm consumers about the dangers of…

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    “All men are created equal. No matter how hard you try, you can never erase those words.” This was said by Harvey milk in the movie milk that represented what he stood for equal rights for not just gay but everyone. The definition of social justice is “Justice in terms of the distribution of wealth, opportunities, and privileges within a society”. In the movie milk addresses social justice and equity issues that the gay community in California faced in the 1970’s struggles socially, politically…

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