Separate but equal

In Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence, 56 important officials came to an agreement, then signed the official final draft of the Declaration of Independence. In this document, there are four major ideals. Equality, all men are created equal. Inalienable Rights you have the right to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. Consent of the Government the people set up the government. The right to Alter or Abolish government. Each ideal has major significance, of the four ideals the…

In the “Created Equal,” Milton and Rose Friedman try to determine equality and liberty of America. According to Friedman, equality before God and equality of opportunity aren’t in conflict with liberty, while equality of outcome contradicts with liberty drastically. Friedman’s purpose is to show the contrast between the different types of equality and how they coexist with freedom. According to Friedman, the idea of equality before God as the idea of equality of opportunity does not come into…

As former President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson once said, “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Thoma Jefferson implies that the people are not to be controlled nor deprived of their rights, no matter their skin color or race. In Henry David Thoreau’s essay, “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience,” he influences the…

Pay Gap Equal employment opportunities and the right to earn a paycheck that is free from gender bias is the right given to all American females under the Equal Pay Act 1963. Equal pay refers to “the right of a man or woman to receive the same pay as a person of the opposite sex doing the same or similar work for the same or a similar employer.” (Equal pay, n.d.). Equal Pay not only protects wages, but also ensures employers provide employees equal compensations regardless of gender. Equal…

Introduction “Rapid internationalization and globalization have resulted in a diverse workforce in most Western countries”(Netto et. al 2014). A diverse workplace refers to the variety of differences between people in an organisation… which encompassses race, gender, ethnic group, age, … education, background.. “ (Greenberg 2004). Establishing a diverse workforce allows organisations to have different solutions in solving the problems within the organisation, it also provides a wider service to…

have taken place over time that helped people against being discriminated against especially in the workplace. Even though it still happens there are things that they can argue to help their case. The Civil Rights Act protects people’s rights, the Equal Pay Act helped women and men doing the same work with the same skills get the same pay, and even the Medical Leave Act which gave men and women the same amount of time off for a family member in critical condition or for childbirth without being…

generations now the labor movement has stood as the most prominent and effective voice for economic justice in the United States (What the Union No Longer Do pg.5) With help of unions many struck, while millions of Americans supported these strikes an equal amount did not. However, no one could ignore these strikes. Who could ignore 146 people who died, people like you and I. Someone’s father, mother, brother, sister, aunt, uncle grandmother, grandfather, husband, wife. People who needed to…

these unalienable rights, lest the people decide to alter, or perhaps even abolish the government. Yet, as important as these principles may be, the premise of the entire Declaration of Independence cannot be concrete unless all mankind be decreed equal. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is arguably the most enticing characteristic of the United States…

who are being discriminated, receiving a lower salary, and working more. It should not matter whether a person has a different color. They are still human beings and are capable of doing and obtaining the same goals as a white person when given an equal…

Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), in practice we do not. It seems to be a recurring theme, that we tell people they have rights, but exclude certain demographics from the rights that we consider most inalienable. We say “all men are created equal”, but this is only really true if you are born a Caucasian male, regardless of your socioeconomic status, and with the exclusion of females in general. Thus I feel that there have never been truly unalienable rights. There are only rights,…