Civil rights and liberties

going on would be civil rights. Even in the past it still goes on today and some information that has happen in the past would be for obtain civil rights for black Americans. These moment have accomplish thing such as the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision of 1954, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Now a days it is about either police brutality or donald trump that many people fight. Some current condition of civil right in our…

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, prohibits private employers and state and local governments from discrimination in employment in any business based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin (Pozgar, 2016). No employee may be harassed because they are affiliated with one group or another. Both racial and political tensions are running quite high in the country now. It seems the country is being divided once again. Employers must not let these tensions cloud their judgment when…

Let’s talk about equality. When I use the word “Equality” I am not talking about freedom of speech or religion; I am referring to how people in America are treated when it comes to justifying justice in many situations. It is quite ignorant of us to continuously change something a group of people with similarities united together to create. A bond that should not be broken or altered to make our own. That is what we have done with the Black Lives Matter movement. We have altered “Black live…

Pervious, the amendments to add age to the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was rejected. There were several reasons for excluding age from Title VII. First, Congress felt there were not enough information to enacted into legislation. Second, Congress feared adding Age would overload the Civil right measure and as a result cause defeat. Finally, in 1964, Congress did not understand the importance of the Age discrimination problem. As a result, Congress ordered the secretary of…

Dhruvi Parmar Feb.1st piece February 1st, 1960 is a day that represents how the people in American history fought to free themselves form the chains of the chains of discrimination. On that day 4 valiant people opposed the norms of society and sat in the “Whites Only” section of the Woolworth diner in Greensboro, N.C. This courage, ignited a wildfire of boycotts that spread throughout all of America. My piece conveys the courage of the people who participated in the sit-ins. The Boko-Haram…

The disability rights movement also had its foundations in the Civil Rights Act of the 60's. Like how the Civil Rights Act promoted integration, the Disability Rights movement promoted equality and access for the disabled community. As the disabled community fought for their rights, they eventually became recognized by Congress and the birth of the ADA was born. Laws such as Section 504 and Title VII were created. Although Section 504 didn't have the same idea as the Civil Rights Act of 1964…

England and divides it under three types of rights: civil, political, and social. He states they all began as one. However, with time they separated, in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth century, respectively. Each of these types of rights emerged because the public demanded them, and each went its own way, without regard for the other rights. They were completely separate. It wasn’t until recently, in this century, that the three types of rights managed to meet again and walk side by…

goal, or “common good.” To avoid these behaviors Mainwaring mentions everyone within society must follow the rules they established. The idea for a social contract was created by philosopher Jean Jaque Rousseau and encompasses certain unalienable rights citizens are guaranteed to, and a government can’t breach. As defined by Rousseau: “The social contract is an agreement…

In America, individuals who cope with a disability have had a long struggle for equality. In the 1800s many did not believe persons with disability were capable of living independently. According to the ASHE Higher Education Report (2013), society viewed persons with disability as incapable of thinking, learning, or achieving goals. Persons with disability were considered a disgrace and spent their entire lives in institutions or asylums for “purification”, because they were seen as unclean…

Ohio’s castle law gives citizens legal right to self-defense. If you feel threatened, if an intruder comes in your house or vandalizes your property you have the legal right to use the castle law in the proper situation. You have the right to use self-defense, when you feel like your life is on the line. Such as an intruder coming in your house with a weapon or someone trying to steal your car while you are sitting in a traffic jam. This is why everyone that has a clean record should have their…