Equality before the law

the end of the world, which explains the totalitarian society. In Ayn Rand’s world equality 7-2521 begins to find out about the unknown while the council has no idea. Equality wants to share with the scholars, what he has found; however he believes he will be punished for doing so. As the story goes on equality has began do discover light. He also finds how to contain the light into creating electricity. When Equality presents this “idea” to the people they begin to run in fear due to the fear…

Many years way before the Woman Suffrage Movement, woman weren’t considered as equal as men we were downgraded. The historical poem & document I chose are when women's rights movement was taking place. The woman suffrage movement began to gather strength In the 1840’s as woman began to fight for equal rights, the woman suffrage movement opened opportunities for women. The poem that I chose talks about women's equality it is called ‘’Ain’t I a women’’. The passage ‘’Ain't I a women’’ it describes…

actions to be. In the novella Anthem by Ayn Rand, the character Equality 7-2521 is seen writing, for himself, in an underground tunnel, alone. He remarks in the early on in the first chapter that he is sinning his society’s teaching for doing so. This is because he belongs to a socialist, collective, community where everyone must be equal. Now, a sin is an offense that is against religious and or moral law. It is something that Equality admits harshly to himself (and to the reader) in his…

men. Despite popular beliefs, the dictionary definition of ‘feminist’ is a person who believes in social, political and economical equality of the sexes. So, story time. When I was 16, I was asked by my distant relatives about when I would be getting married. That took me off guard, because I was 16, and I had my dreams of changing the world and having a stable life before even thinking of getting married. Why were people asking a 16-year-old teenage girl that? Let’s have women who don’t want to…

continent. A vast number of Africans were under European rule and were stripped from their land and shipped back to their home country only to have their freedom shattered. This was the root cause of the disruption and weakening of the African world. Before 1880, Africa played an important role in the international trade of many countries. It continuously exchanged goods through the Sahara desert from West Africa to North Africa and further in Europe and Middle East. This same exchanged…

The first case is about Plessy v Ferguson which is a case that determined whether or not racial segregation is constitutional under the separate but equal doctrine. The second case is about Brown v Board of Education which decided that state laws requiring separate but equal schools violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. Both cases had a powerful effect on the precedents that we now have in today's justice system. Plessy v Ferguson established the doctrine of “Separate but…

This summer, the SCOTUS ruled that LGBT Americans everywhere in the US have the right to get married. Some groups lauded the court’s decision, other condemned it. However, it has been decided. The next step towards social justice and equality from LGBT people is federal nondiscrimination protections for the LGBT community. Even though popular media sources from both sides of the issue try and frame this as an issue about the right of LGBT to feel non-threatened in their workplace or the rights…

primarily as escapes from the structures of the law, which would see them punished unfairly because of their femininity. This is directly stated in Thelma & Louise. After the two drive away from the scene of the murder, Louise dismisses the idea of going to the police, as she believes that the two won’t believe them that the murder was in defense from attempted rape. After a period of maniacal driving all over the highway, Thelma asks: “’Should we go to…

Board of Education in regard to race. The due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment was interpreted to give parents specific rights to prior notice, to discuss changes in a child’s education plan before they occurred, and to appeal decisions made by school districts. Two critical cases laying out these rights were Pennsylvania Association for Retarded Children (PARC) v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and Mills v. Board of…

A New, Unrecognizable Society Imagine a society and a city where rules are so strict that everyday is the exact same. Everyone's the same. Everything is the same. Everyone and everything relies on equality to live their everyday to day life. In the book “Anthem” by Ayn Rand, Equality 7-2521 envisions his own perfect world without the cities control. Will he include the society he grew up in within the society he envisions? The city seems to rely on these rules and…