Right to life

Olympic Project for Human Right or otherwise known as the OPHR. The founder of the organizations was a sociologist and college professor, Harry Edwards. Tommie Smith was one of the original members that helped to get the group up and running. Edwards states that “the group's mission as affecting the liberation of blacks in the united states and elsewhere by using the international platform provided by an in sports”. The group set up many different attempts to fight for human rights such as…

Being able to use gun for self-defense or protection is a right which can 't be denied to U.S citizens; however guns are not the only weapons available to serve the same purpose. Since guns are made to kill, one should consider alternative measures of protection out of respect for life. The statement made by Hasselstrom’s in her paper, is somewhat valid, but comes off as a very one sided opinion if regards to “gender equality” claiming that barring arms makes men and women equal. There is a…

“Government is best which governs least” according to the article “Civil Disobedience,” by Henry David Thoreau. In this article, Thoreau also mentioned that he believes that government is best when it governs not at all. However when a government governs not at all, then there exist chaos and war. But a government that governs least is a government that many people will agree is the best type of government. This type of government allows people absolute freedom. Not freedom per say, but…

Imagine going through your life with no equality, and the person next to you had the freedom of things that you didn’t have, or if you didn’t have the right to your own life and happiness, or even if you couldn’t adjust your leaders when they begin to destruct. This is how our life would be today without Thomas Jefferson writing the Declaration of Independence(DOI). These three ideals of the DOI are the most important for various reasons. Equality of all humans is very important to the…

Abigail Adam’s early signs of Feminism Feminism is an organized effort to give women the same economic, social, and political rights as men. Abigail Adams, the wife of John Adams, supported early ideas of feminism or women’s rights, she focused most importantly on girls getting an education, she developed these ideas from her marriage to John and her influential childhood. First, Abigail Adams felt very strongly about girls receiving an education. Judith Sargent Murray felt strongly about…

Animal rights are believed to belong to animals to live free from the use of medical research, hunting, and other services to humans. Also all animals are entitled to the possession of their own lives and that their most basic interests, such as the need to avoid suffering and should be afforded the same consideration as similar interests of human beings. Animals have been suffering and also killed because they 're on the bottom of the food chain or maybe it could be that we’re smarter than most…

illegal. It holds them back from the rights that were given to them from a long time ago. Meaning taking away the rights to adopt children from the person they choose to be with is discrimination. “So it was a potent marker of how fast laws and attitudes on gay rights issues have changed on Wednesday when civil rights lawyers filed lawsuits in federal court challenging the law”(Lewin). This quote is showing that even if there is laws that have the right that gay rights were allowing gay and…

simply expected to be loyal citizens of their countries by adhering to their nation’s laws and paying annual federal taxes. Moreover, this notion has remained constant even throughout our revolutionizing history and has made the opportunity of equal rights for everyone regardless of gender or race seem almost unattainable. In Nobodies: Does Slavery Still Exist? by John Bowe and Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela, both authors expose the brutal sufferings of select individuals’ everyday lives…

In Thomas Hobbes Leviathan he describes the nature of man as one who lives in “continual fear, and danger of violent death: and the life of man solitary poor, nasty, brutish and short”. He describes this state of nature is a state of war. Hobbes states that the basic goal of mankind is to avoid an untimely death. Thus, the state of man is a state of self-gratification, self-service, and self-preservation. He argues that in a state of nature people cannot know what is theirs and what is…

main characters are both protesters. In “A Letter Home”, Kara is expressing her feelings towards the protests at Kent University that was involved with the Vietnam War. In “Waiting for Dan”, Dan is a man who rides a freedom bus standing up for racial rights. Because of Dan’s brave actions, he was sent to a prison in Mississippi. One similarity between the protesters in “A Letter Home” and “Waiting for Dan” is that they both had the same idea and message in the end, that violence is not the…