Minority rights

“Our division is ineffable if our union is unrequitable” - Henry Walsh. Throughout the course of its existence, the United States has been buffeted with cases of civil liberty- the basic rights and freedoms that make every citizen human. These issues of the American past have yet to be rectified due to the persistence, remembrance, and exclusivity of human nature. Through the utilization of an unrivaled tenacity, those opposed to progress have found loophole after loophole to prevent the…

photograph, “France Trump Inauguration Protest,” he utilizes pathos-heavy rhetoric to argue for equal rights for women and minorities. On January 21, 2017, millions of women and men marched peacefully in protest of President Donald Trump’s inauguration. What began as a Facebook page dedicated to a Women’s March on Washington, D.C. quickly grew into a worldwide march for women, minority, and immigrant civil rights (Hartocollis, Alcindor). Ena’s photograph captures the protest in Paris, France and…

misleading media sources that distorts our views of reality. In this advanced technological era, it is nearly impossible to turn on the TV, access our phones, and browse the internet without hearing the 24-hour news cycle, amber alerts, and human rights violations. Lavish coverage of violence by reporters forces individuals to perceive as if the world and humanity is headed towards an unthinkable destruction. In this paper, just as Pinker did in chapters five through eight, I will…

(101). Their rights had been denied by a system with officers that were more concerned about satisfying their own needs, thus leaving the rest of the population to its own luck. The privileged order, according to Sieyes, was a burden for the nation. They did not do any good for the people, nor did they let them be a free nation. Instead, “the people” were an “all” that was “fettered and oppressed” (101). They were a “nothing” with all the qualities of an…

Upon reading the chapter Women as a Minority Group I was surprised to learn that women as an oppressed group were being compared to the racial inequalities of Blacks. Of course I’ve always known the importance of the Nineteenth Amendment and how hard women fought for the right to vote but I never would have attributed those barriers to that of the African American suffrage. However I did not know that amongst scholars, scientists and doctors in the in Nineteenth and even into twentieth century,…

fight for civil rights especially to the minorities. It is true, racial discrimination, majoritarian still assist right now. The minority still facing racial civil rights, especially the African American. They still struggle to achieve civil right in order to demonstrate the quality democracy in America. Therefore, in this essay I want to discuss the differences on how majoritarian and participatory democracy works; analyzing the relationship between political event of Civil Right Movement and…

retaliating against rapists, murderers, or anyone who might have committed a serious crime as a way of bringing justice and cleaning up society. However, with time, these Robin Hood intentions morphed into a way of targeting society’s outcasts, minorities ––which in this essay references those who lack political, economic, and social power––or anyone who society may deem as “undesirable” including; the homeless, petty criminals, sex workers, drug addicts and/or drug dealers, members of the…

multiculturalism, which provides the basis for the argumentation of this thesis. Her provocative article, “Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?”, is often seen as the starting point of academic debate about the compatibility of women's rights and minority group rights. Nevertheless, this article is reviewed and analysed in Part I along with the rest of Okin’s work concerning the relationship of feminism and multiculturalism. Second, this thesis deals with Kymlicka's liberal approach to…

Sexual minorities in Jamaica face pervasive discrimination. Articles 76, 77, and 79 of Jamaica’s Offences Against the Person Act, collectively referred to as the “buggery law”, introduced under British colonization, criminalize anal sex and acts of gross indecency between men (Offences Against the Person Act, 1864). Although the law criminalizes acts between men, and arrest under the law is rare, it is used to justify human rights violations against all sexual minorities (Human Rights First,…

seen as unequal in government laws and social normalities against minorities and women. Prior to 1920 women were unable to vote and not until 1965 were African American’s given the right to vote. And if you were to ask why it took so long for women and minorities to be given the right to vote, you would receive answers on the lines of sexism and racism. However, the refusal of voting rights was based on the fear that women and minorities were wildcards, current voters had no idea how they were…