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    people who violate liberty of others. Liberty is freedom of restraint from use of people’s unalienable rights which are according to the U.S. Constitution are laid out in the Bill of Rights. Early Americans covenanted together to create our government, a government supposedly for the people by the people. This was done to protect people from oppression and violation of their unalienable rights. People were promised freedom, justice, and liberty for all and it was declared that all men are…

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    the Bill of Rights was created was when civil liberties first flourished. They are established in the Bill of Rights. Basically civil liberties are personal guarantees and freedoms that the government cannot abridge, either by law or by judicial interpretation without due process. It has been working for more than a century now and it is very important part of the Bill of Rights. The term civil liberties are often confused with civil rights. However, they are different because civil liberties…

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    marriage should be legal because it’s part of our civil rights, gay couples make good parents, and the banning of same sex marriage will created a second class of citizens. As part of the social contract we take upon being an American citizen, When our founding fathers wrote the constitution, they included the phrase “ We hold these truths to be sacred & undeniable; that all men are created equal & independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among…

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    Does American teacher get the right training cultural sensitivity training they need? In my early days at school, I thought I wasn’t good enough. My k-12 teachers said that I had a learning disability that I had to take extra time to do class assignment and homework assignments. However, since starting at South Seattle College I notice I begun to achieve my educational goals. I have begun to understand how the American educational system works. As a Pacific Islander (PI.) commissioner in the…

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    Mama and Maggie are not the same as the people who Wangero surrounds herself with on a daily basis. They are content with what they have and do not see the civil rights movement as necessary for them, Maggie especially. Maggie exists in the shadow of her sister and represents everything that Wangero despises the most. Maggie does not embrace her western culture, she simply lives it without question. Mama aptly…

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    don’t think that anyone could have the same amount of freedom. Arguments can be made towards this because they don’t believe that everyone has the same amount of rights and privileges in the United States. This in some ways is true because even though freedom should be free to everyone, it isn’t. This is because ever since the Civil Rights movement, many people don’t look at all the races the same. The obligations to gain freedom are steep…

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    Rosa Parks, a black civil rights activist who worked at the Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), pushed the black community toward a new era of freedom (Wade-Lewis 2006). On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested after refusing to give her bus seat to…

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    the United States tremendously with one speech; Martin Luther King Jr. 's "I Have a Dream" speech on August 28, 1963 is inevitably the leading inspirational speech regarding civil rights to date. The "I Have a Dream" speech given before the organized peace walk on Washington the same day, which was to advocate for equal rights and opportunities for blacks, and whites. The Emancipation Proclamation gave hope to the black population. In America, however 100 years later, complete freedom was not…

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    the article “The Rights of Man and Woman in Post-Revolutionary America,” written by Rosemarie Zagarri, focuses in on the rights of women during this time period. Women often have been left in darkness in the course of American history because of simply their sex bearer. When putting into consideration of the trends of the rights of women in America in comparison to men, their rights are visibly incoherent and inadequate until the transition of the American Revolution when rights began to alter…

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    increase the population of early settlers, and had few rights and was overshadowed by the domination of men. In the eighteenth century,…

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