Essays on Freedoms

Reason for Catholic and Protestant Reformation’ Great Impact on Europe

The Catholic and Protestant Reformation represent the radical, religious, academic and traditional disturbance that traumatized Catholic Europe in the 16th Century. It set in place the notions and opinions that would describe the continent in the contemporary period. In central and northern Europe, activists like John Calvin, and Martin Luther questioned papal power and probed the Catholic Church’s capability to define Christian exercise. Although the movement was predominantly spiritual, the attitude of independence endorsed by Protestantism steered many people to rebel in contradiction of the power of the church and the authoritative monarchs, who relied on their authority ...

Human rights are fundamental for any individual anywhere in the world. The world is always changing and transforming to meet the needs of the increasing globalization and internationalization. In essence, different countries have different sets of human rights. However, there are universal human rights established by international organizations, most notably the United Nations. They are mostly the fundamental freedoms. They include the freedoms of speech, religion, association, expression, and the right to life. Everyone is entitled to these rights, and there are disciplinary measures for countries or leaders who commit crimes that violate the fundamental rights. However, a select ...

There are some approaches to natural law. The first conception assumes that it exists independently and does not need to be recognized, found by anyone or declared. On the other side, the positive law has to be approved according to certain procedural standards. The positive law is limited, while the natural law of God or of Reason is limitless and universal (Silving 477). In other words, they are of different origin and have different power and procedure of adoption. These concepts fit into my understanding of the role of law in the community. Thus, it is well-known that there ...

It is worth mentioning that human rights are fundamental rights to any individual anywhere in the world. The globe is constantly changing and transforming to meet the needs of the increasing globalization and internationalization. In essence, different countries have different sets of human rights. However, there are universal human rights established by international organizations, mostly the United Nations. They are the fundamental freedoms. Such includes the freedoms of speech, religion, association, expression, and the right to life. Everyone is entitled to these rights, and there are disciplinary measures for countries or leaders who commit crimes that violate the fundamental ...

America was beginning to become a powerful and vital nation in the world in the twentieth century. Power was based on the assumption that Americans felt the abundant life, which was a promise to the world along with the concept and experience of freedom. However, freedom was not experienced by everyone at home in America. Black people felt oppressed and marginalized all the days of their life. In the 1920s, America was beginning to grab attention in the international scene. Europe was fading, while America was appearing as a dominant nation. However, this is not because of the popularity ...

Data Exercise

Part 1 As the table above shows, the Nominal GDP is always higher than real GDP (Bureau of Economic Analysis, 2016, Table 1.1.5). The difference is attributed to the inflation that is accounted by real GDP. Thus, in other words, real GDP is a nominal GDP adjusted for the inflation. This adjustment is measured by GDP deflator that reflects the price change in the current year comparing to the base or previous year. The percentage change of the nominal GDP in the last quarter analyzed compared to the previous period was 1.2 %, while the percentage change of the nominal ...

It is worth mentioning that human rights issues in China are matters that are constantly under discussions and antagonism between two distinct groups. On one hand, there is the government of China alongside the people who support the policies and agenda pushed by the government. On the contrary, there are the human rights activists and critics of the Chinese rule, who have opposing views concerning the human rights issue. The government of China believes that the existing policies regarding human rights are sufficient enough to enable the citizens to enjoy their rights. However, the critics of the Chinese government ...

Industrialization After the Civil War

Introduction Industrialization post the Civil Battle in the U.S. had absolute consequences on the economy, politics, and society. The consequences transformed fields into towns. The country thus changed from an agricultural to an industrial region following the decades after the Civil War. The remarkable transformations arose due to different factors such as the emergence of unscrupulous corporate leaders, the existence of a massive workforce, development of technology and inventions, and the availability of raw materials. Also, came the rise of the capitalistic and corrupt entrepreneur controlled by the American Government. After the Civil War, the industrialization assisted the economy, ...

This paper will discuss the idea of sovereignty after the Cold War, it will examine how the idea of sovereignty has changed as the world becomes more globalized and why the concept of non-interference is no longer acceptable in a world that is becoming more global. Sovereignty is the dominion over a territory. There are four different types of sovereignty. These are Westphalian, which refers to the authority within a country and disregards external factors, interdependence sovereignty or the ability of the country to control the migration to and from their country, domestic sovereignty is the ability of the ...

Introduction

Hiring professional and skilled employees is the key objective of the Human Resource Management (HRM) department. For the purposes of the realization of this strategic objective, the HR manager is obliged to pursue equality in provision of working opportunities for all employees regardless race, sex, nationality or any other supplementary factor giving ground for unequal attitude. In this particular situation, the managers of the company request the Human Resource Department to resolve issue pertaining to division of quotas between ground crew and other employees. With that, the attention of the managers is focused on the age of the employees ...

Ethical Issues

Human trafficking is a worldwide problem. For all practical purposes, this activity is nothing but a form of modern slavery. Every year, about 21 million people are caught up in human trafficking from about 130 countries around the world. Without a doubt, this is a serious issue given that it violates human rights that the United Nations takes very seriously - and should. While this pertains mostly to women who are sold into prostitution while also involving children and young boys as well who are coerced into forced labour as well. Given the atrocities around the world, the purpose ...

Protests have been occurring in Iran for decades, but recent developments have brought them to the center of global attention. In this essay, I will explain why the Iran riots started, their origins, development, and essential points, as well as why understanding them may be crucial for the American public.

Reasons Behind the Protests in Iran

Protests in Iran are happening for a variety of causes. Economic difficulties make up one of the key factors. For years, the Iranian economy has struggled due to foreign sanctions and mismanagement. Inflation is on the rise, while unemployment is widespread, particularly among the young. Many Iranians are struggling to ...

Every period in the history of a country differs not only in a number and sequence of events happening, people playing critical roles in it, or culture which defines people’s attitudes and behaviors. They also differ in perception of things and events by people, hence the variety of meanings people associate with certain ideas. It is true that meaning of an idea changes with the flow of time depending on historical environment, on the complex of events which happen in the given period. Therefore, the idea of freedom has been changing through American history, and the goal of ...

The actual implementation of the rights and freedoms of the individual as the highest social value is possible only when the most important task is to use the apparatuses of the state to guarantee freedom – freedom of personality, freedom of enterprise, freedom of developing institutions of civil society, building a strong state, which is unthinkable without respect for the rights and freedoms of man and where the only one dictatorship is the dictatorship of the Law. (Joyce, 2013) It is well known the importance of criminal justice in protecting individual freedom and human rights, protection of free enterprise and ...

Introduction

The Constitution Act of 1982, which introduced some of the most important changes to the Canadian Constitution since it came into force in 1867; has and continued to play a significant role in changing the framework of Canadian politics (CDOJ, 2016). These changes, on the whole, have had a substantially positive effect on the Canadian political community. In order to understand the benefits of Canadian constitutional reform on the political community, one must first understand how the Constitution had arranged, regulated, and influenced Canadian politics in the past. The Canadian Constitution of 1867 had a number of characteristics that ...

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2016-08-09 Abstract The ethical issues of the usage the Google Glasses are described in this paper. Initially, this product has been introduced as a helper for ordinary people at work as well as in the everyday life. However, some functions of the Google Glasses are considered as dangerous for the users as well as surrounding people. It has caused the prohibitions of the usage the glasses in public places and on the road in different countries (US, UK, others). One can suppose that the necessity of the Google Glasses is quite ambiguous. On the one hand, new technological product ...

The primary objective for the formation of the European Economic Community (ECC) was to create a common market to enhance the achievement of a trading advantage over other Atlantic states. The member states hoped that the move would spur growth by promoting marketing scale and capitalizing on specialization among the member states. However, the ECC faced many technicalities when creating a common market due to lack of strategic decision-making structures and protectionist attitude adopted by members. It was especially difficult to remove barriers and enforce common trade regulation. For a common market to have some effect, freedom of capital, ...

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The Meaning of Freedom and Happiness For centuries, philosophers and thinkers have pondered over the concepts of freedom, liberty, the “perfect” society and the pursuit of happiness. The notion of freedom is as old as time itself- with the earliest definitions put forward by ancient Greeks and Romans. However, it was not until the 16th Century that a modern Social Contract Theory was put forward that reshaped our understanding of how societies work. Two of the most profound ideals put forward were those by Thomas Hobbes and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Hobbes lived during the English Civil ...

The United States constitution comprises of the Bill of Rights which contains rights and personal freedoms that are guaranteed to all its citizens regardless of colour, gender, One of the founding fathers, Alexander Hamilton opposed the Bill of Rights because he believed that it would be potentially dangerous. There are certain rights and freedoms which provide citizens with too much power in their hands and this has led to negative or dangerous outcomes. The second amendment of the United States Constitution is the right to bear arms. This amendment allows Americans to obtain the licences to possess and carry ...

The revolutionary changes brought about by the rejection of the occupation of the former colonialists, and the American neo-colonialists had a profound effect on the sexual revolution in the Cuban society. Although difficulties were experienced in the previous stages, success was realized in the 70s and the 80s. Previous complications were experienced due to the dominance of the white males in the political leadership who were accustomed to the traditional patriarchal sexual ideology. The leadership soon began adopting the Marxist-Leninist concepts that emphasized on reforms of class relations and factors of production (Hamilton, 2012). The leadership sought to increase ...

ABSTRACT

The Sedition Act of 1798 was signed into law by the Federalist Party when there was fear of war in France and to prevent their rival political party, the Democratic-Republicans, from speaking out against and criticizing the Federalist party, which could result in legal ramifications, including fines and jail time. The Sedition Act was and remains an example of unconstitutional legislature that undermined the spirit of the Constitution and the First Amendment guaranteeing Americans the freedom of speech, expression and press. The Act was hypocritical and defied the principles that the United States was founded upon. It made it ...

Industrialization after the Civil War: Thesis and Outline

Part 1 Thesis Statement: Industrialization after the Civil War expanded the United States economy and helped transform American social values, but it also introduced more corruption into the American political sphere.

Part 2

Society: After the civil war, many women started taking work in factories to help support their families. As women began to enter the workforce in increasing numbers, more attention was given to the importance of women’s rights. In 1920, the constitution was amended to give women the right to vote in elections. The economy: industrialization made the average American worker more productive thanks to the factory system, ...

Under what circumstances does employment, purchase of a product, or investment in a company constrain rights to privacy, freedom of speech and association, or religious expression? Although freedom and speech and religious expression should be embodied in any company’s charter, sometimes circumstances may prevent employers from sharing some ideas or expressing their religious views. For instance, an employer may be bound by an employment contract which prevents him from sharing some information about the job. An employer may also not agree with some of the employment aspects, but at the same time, he may not be able to ...

Introduction

Deng Xiaoping's rule in China marked an important pivotal point of political and economic development in the country, which had begun under the reign of the first generation leaders. Even after the death of the former, the political and economic achievements of China continue to impress across the globe. However, at the dawn of the post-Deng era, there has been a growing trend of economic and political development in different regions. As a result, it has alluded to the important question of what is the state of affairs in China amidst some current issues, which questions the growth of ...

Public debate over the need for establishment of powerful, effective, and accessible mechanisms of human rights protection can be heard worldwide and at all the levels, including the official one. Agreeing with Lord Tom Bingham, the prominent judge and scholar in the field of the rule of law principle development, we should highlight that this process took place long time ago. The author defines Magna Carta, passed in in 1215, as the first milestone of this process, when a lawful judgment was necessary for, in particular, person’s detention or imprisonment (Bingham 10). Not only the previous century has ...

This paper will present an analysis of Martin Luther King’s “I have a Dream speech.” The analysis will focus on the five key elements of the five elements of dramatistic pentad. These are act, agency, agent, scene, and purpose.

Act:

The “I have a dream” speech was a speech that sought to fight for civil rights liberties and freedoms for oppressed Americans. Black Americans had suffered discrimination for centuries in the country. The speech began with a history of the suffering of the black people in America. It also gave an excellent portrayal of the struggles the black people ...

Introduction

Although it is an indelible stigma on the history of one of the strongholds of modern democracy, slaver is an imprescriptible part of the United States history. By the beginning of the American struggle for independence against the colonial British powers, slavery became institutionalized practice of the early American society (Boston). Even after the basic tenets of the American democracy were established by the Founding Fathers, the overwhelming majority of the colored population was depraved of the most basic civil rights and subjects to the harshest forms of labor and other exploitation. Despite the fact that responding to the ...

Security Services as well as Methods

Security is an essential factor in the development of any part of the world. Regions where security is threatened, there are few development initiatives. The security of a nation lies with the government of the particular state. When a security concern arises, the government reacts to protect the citizens. Security threats that may affect than one country can be regarded as a regional or global threats. These threats are often tackled by global security organizations. Some of these organizations include the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the United Nations (UN). These organizations are essential in ensuring international peace ...

The U.S. Bill of Rights The Bill of Rights was proposed and passed through twelve amendments but only ten were successfully ratified and became part of the United States Constitution, which was at first considered incomplete because it lacked what proponents called the basic human rights. The common belief at that time was that the framing and ratification of the Bill of Rights was to eliminate fears of the Anti-Federalists that the proposed Constitution did not satisfactorily guarantee individual freedoms. Even if individual liberty was important during the debate for the bill of rights, the Bill of Rights was ...

Since 1945 the United States has been involved in more overseas conflicts then anytime since the first settlers arrived in the 1600’s. This paper will look at how and why the United States went from staying out of world affairs to being in the middle of all the major conflicts of the twentieth and twenty- first centuries. Since the Revolutionary War, America had elected to remain isolated from overseas conflicts. This was mostly because Americans wanted to see themselves as better than the Europeans (Independence Hall Association in Philadelphia). There was also the issue of choosing sides in ...

Civil rights and civil liberties are mentioned throughout the United States Constitution. It is not uncommon for people to assume that both terms mean the same thing. In fact, these two terms have different meanings. Civil rights are a form of equality among the people of the United States. Rights are given to legal citizens of this country and are implemented in the Amendments and the Bill of Rights. There are many rights that individuals can utilize and practice freely. In the Declaration of Independence, it discusses the rights of protection that is guaranteed by the government of the ...

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Speaking about the United States of America, most people will definitely imagine a large country made up of various races and ethnicities. They will also think of a unique culture that is based on constitutional rights and god given freedoms peculiar to each of its citizen. Some may even place America a step higher than other countries and perceive its culture superior to the rest of the world. This point of view, in fact, served as a basic characteristic of a special theory called American exceptionalism. Such theory claims that the United States of America considerably differs from other ...

The New Deal create a public works innovation where many Americans found work making roads, dams, airports and housing. Economic development became the way that people identified freedom. Roosevelt felt that the government should make it possible for everyone to be economic success. The New Deal was seen by Roosevelt as an alternative to Capitalism, Fascism and Socialism. Upon entering the White House his first move was to confront the banks. The banks had invested funds in the stock market and were failing. He provided funds to the failing banks through the Emergency Banking Act. Due to what happened ...

Human Rights for Orphans and Abandoned Children without Adequate Care

The issue of human rights of children is regulated by the Convention on the Rights of the Child with its Protocols. They refer to the protection of a child, prohibition of child labor and other issues that are fundamentally important and protect children’s dignity. However, some categories of children require special attention and care with this respect. The human rights of orphans and abandoned children constitute a specific issue, as they have fewer chances to be protected by parents and relatives. Therefore, as a violation of their rights may seem easier, these children need more legal protection. The ...

As the only memorial dedicated to a former president, the Four Freedoms Park celebrates the freedoms that President Roosevelt considered essential in safeguarding the human freedom all over the world. These freedoms are the freedom of speech and expression, freedom of wanting, freedom of worship, and freedom from fear. The Park is on a four-acre piece of land on Roosevelt Island in an urban space within the City of New York. It is carefully developed landscape presents an atmosphere that is similar to that of an antique sanctuary grounds. The design of the park resembles an arrowhead appearing to ...

Understanding transgender conundrum must begin with making clear distinction between the following fundamental terms sex and gender. Many people knowledgeable or not refer to both terms interchangeably. In essence they consider the two terms to have the same meaning while mostly because of lack of a reason to think otherwise. People who face a lifelong body dissonance understand that the two terms are different and do not carry the same meaning. Sex is the actual physical state of being either male or female, it is a biological aspect of the body based on chromosomes. Gender on the other hand ...

There are groups called separationists, which continuously fight for the rights and freedoms of all Americans. The members of two well-known groups come from the Americans United and Citizens United. Both of these two groups are known to have stood up to fight for religious freedom and to avail of their Constitutional rights. It is the duty of every American citizen to be able to fully grasp the importance of keeping the laws of the land free from religious intervention. Thus, it is imperative for the citizens to realize what is at stake if both the state and the ...

Introduction

Virtually all aspects of people’s lives are governed by gender. The society has long-held perceptions about the appropriate responsibilities, particular weaknesses, and strengths of different genders. The beliefs dictate everyday life, responses, and patterns of activities such as crime and sports. Historians delegate particular focus to the functions of the women who were once considered lowly in the ancient days, but with time have grown to develop themselves and their households. Gender roles have encountered numerous changes within each passing century and decades as human beings continue to evolve into superior and civilized creatures. This essay will look ...

Assisted dying is mostly referred to as suicide that is committed with the assistance of physicians. In this case, the doctor provides the patient with the knowledge and means such as lethal doses necessary for easy dying. To reduce the intensity of the term ‘assisted’ the advocates mostly uses the ‘compassionate death’ to refer to assisted dying. In most cases, the compassionate death is confused with the euthanasia which is ‘mercy killing’. However, assisted dying and mercy killing are different such that, in euthanasia means of dying are administered by the physicians while in assisted dying the patients manages ...

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born in Geneva on June 28, 1712. His family was of French origin. Jean-Jacques, who lost his mother at birth, was first raised by his father, who made him read him adventure stories and Plutarch's Lives. Then he spent two years with his uncle Bernard, who put him up to board with the Lambercier pastor at Bossey. Then, Rousseau returned to Geneva and was apprenticed to an engraver. But one day, in order to escape a deserved punishment, he went to the priest of Confignon, a village two leagues from Geneva, and told him he wanted ...

Philosophy on Tyranny

Socrates on tyrants and Orators. Socrates had reasons to argue that oratory skills were just flattery and tyrants were largely unintelligent. Perhaps, comparing to the modern day set up, one can say that oratory, as to Socrates understanding, was public relations, or the act of dressing things up to look perfect or better than they actually are. Orators and tyrants did things that suited them best, as opposed to what they wanted to do. That made them powerless people with low regard in the society, despite being able to do anything they felt like, including excommunicating people and giving ...

Analysis of the Documentary Food, Inc. through the Lens of Ethical Theories and Ideas

Some may wonder whether the food choice is an ethical issue. After all, we make these choices at least three times a day and our individual decisions influence the global industry of food growth, production and processing. As Jones, Cardinal and Hayward remind us, we exist in society and are connected to other people. This is why our choices, in our case, the food choices, affect other people, and their decisions influence us as well (2006, p. 3). Various theories of ethics propose different ways of viewing the problems of food production and consumption and seek solutions in distinct ...

The Ming dynasty in the 1600s made considerable and deliberate efforts in a bid to ensure that its regions remain under one ruler. A Buddhist monk who was also a peasant found the dynasty, rose to the rank of an army general and led a rebellion against the Mongols. The monk assumed the name of Hong Wu and made the decision to have Nanjing as the capital of China, but a latter emperor of the dynasty moved the capital back to Beijing. One of the major roles that Hong Wu assumed as the emperor include reorganizing every aspect of ...

Ayn Rand’s essays in a book titled The Virtue of Selfishness are thought provoking on the issues of ethics and are a continuation of the discourse on what actions should be considered as moral or amoral as performed by human beings. The traditional ethicists have always viewed self-interest with suspicion with most of the ethicist praising acts that are selfless in intent while viewing actions motivated by self-interest as amoral acts. According to the traditional view of ethics, a self-centered individual does not deliberate the wellbeing of other people and, therefore, will damage the interest of others while ...

International Trends in Correctional Facilities

Private correctional facilities are gaining popularity by governments in many parts of the world. A private correctional facility (prison, detention or jail) refers to a place where individuals are physically in facilities provided by a third party or a private entity through contractual agreements with the local or national government. The government pays the private entity a monthly rate or per diem per prisoner. Privatization may also refer to take over of existing public correctional or the building of new facilities by private entities. Privatization dates back to the days of the American Revolution whereby Great Britain, US colonizers, ...

John Locke’s Social Contract Theory:

Introduction: The Social Contract Theory argues that people’s morals and obligations depend on an agreement among them in order to form the society in which they reside. John Locke's argues that the state of nature of man is perfect, and no one is to interfere each other’s’ lives. He states that even though the state of nature is one without punishment from the authority, it is not pre-moral (Friend, 2004). In Hobbes's argument, he points out that without identification and recognition of a universal authority, chaos is the order of man. In contrast to this, Locke and ...

The Bill of Rights is an unofficial name for the first 10 Amendments to the U.S. Constitution that were ratified by all states in order to limit the federal government’s power and protect the individual liberties (Dictionary of American History). The Bill of Rights was developed when the American colonists were no longer under the control of Great Britain and had to build up a new country that comprised many states. There was the need to develop the legal base so that all states could peacefully co-exist and there was the proper balance of power between the central ...

Ai Weiwei and Zhang Xiaogang are Chinese contemporary artists. While both are leading conceptual artists in the country, they seek to evoke different messages using their art work. Ai Weiwei’s art is motivated by the need to inspire freedom and the expansion of individual space away from government and society. It is therefore the case that Ai Weiwei by virtue of eliciting such emotions practiced artistic activism. On the other hand, Zhang Xiaogang is respected in his own right. His art more or less seeks to evoke memories which he says serve as his greatest inspiration. He especially ...

Define the differences in the “push”, “passage”, and “pull” factors of three different immigrant groups which come to America between 1607 and 1830? Use testimonies from the various websites provided in the first three weeks of readings which illustrate individuals from these groups. Also, are there any testimonies which present how the resident Anglo-Americans feel about subsequent groups which came to America, especially after the Revolution? (For example, what does Benjamin Franklin think about German immigrants and their presence in Pennsylvania?) There were four waves of immigration into America. The first one took place between 1790 and 1820. The ...

“This is the hallmark of the high and absolute destiny of human

Beings, that they know what good and evil are, and know that the will itself is either good or evil – in a word, they can have responsibility [er Schuld haben kann], responsibility not only for evil but also for good; responsibility not simply for this or that or for everything that is around them or in them,”

Hegel PH, 97–98; TWA 12:50–51 (translation modified)

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770 – 1831), a German philosopher, declared the responsibility as a characteristic that defines humanity but also acknowledges that some little confusions were existing. Mark Alznauer, in his book Hegel’s Theory of Responsibility (2015), made efforts to clarify ...

For the social fabric of the society to be in the required equilibrium state of balance, various documents in the form of regulatory constitutions are laid down in any society to govern the day-to-day human and state interactions. However, no particular government body can abridge or limit her citizens through judicial mechanisms. Although the scope of the freedom, rights and responsibilities is explained differently in different countries today, there are many universal rights enshrined in the international bills of rights. Many early writers and thinkers such as Rousseau, Kant, Marquis de Sade, and Sieyes espoused different opinions on the ...

The policy is very complicated and multifaceted thing. Humanity has long interesting history, and humanity is accompanied by the policy throughout a very long period of time. Despite the fact that the policy has already become familiar and integral part of modern society, it remains a very controversial issue, which generates a lot of emotional debates and disagreements. The representative of contemporary democratic society got used to consider that democracy is inviolable or even sacred. A modern citizen believes in his rights and freedoms; moreover, he strongly believes that the state, namely the democratic system is intended for protection ...

The language of rights as identified by Mills (2002) involves the manner in which language is approached today. Policy documents, as well as various academic literature, put language rights at the heart of their analysis. Language right-based policies are displacing traditional language planning while sociolinguistics studies have become studies of language rights. Language rights are additionally discussed as human rights, inspired by the remarkable expansion of international human rights advocacy over the last couple of years. Human rights have been looked to as values of ‘godless’ or post-political age (Klug, 2000). In recent decades, radicals and reforms have turned ...

Employers are not permitted to discriminate based on religion, particularly with companies that have nothing directly to do with religion. For companies that employ people whose job is directly shaped by religion and therefore those who religion to them is a “bona fid occupational qualification” (BFOQ), religious discrimination is permitted, but the BFOQ needs to be part of the business’s necessary operation (Eisgruber & Sager, 1994).For non-religious co-optations, that can be difficult to prove. For religious organizations, when a religious group runs the organization or has direct engagement, preferences for particular religion are permitted. Religious accommodation is required ...

The general understanding of a radical is that they seek change in some form, be it good or bad. An extremist exists outside of society, standing on their own or with like-minded individuals that see themselves apart from whatever society they have chosen to depart. Radical extremists are typically those who believe that their way is that which must be followed. Anyone that dares to disagree with them tends to become an instant enemy, and a potential victim. Through threats and acts of violence radical extremists have caused the loss of freedoms and liberties that many citizens have taken ...

Constitutional Development

The distinctions between the United States and other countries in the globe have been a fascinating subject for many scholars, dating back to the French political thinker Alexis de Tocqueville, who described America as an exceptional region in the early 19th century. Nearly two centuries later, work ethics and individualism in the country stand out from the rest of the planet. However, this particular essay looks at the leadership system in the United States. For the articulate development of the political and social ideologies in the nation, a comparison is created between America and the United Kingdom. The federal ...

Liberty is defined as a state where people have a right to speech and expression, whereas the Equality is defined as a position of being just, particularly in status, rights, or chances. In the history of the world, many wars and revolutions have taken place to achieve rights which each person deserves. Out of these, the rights to Equality and liberty have always been the principal focus. This was the case in the American Revolution as well. After gaining independence, these rights were highlighted in various documents like the Declaration of Independence, the Law and the Bill of Rights. ...

During the American Revolution in the 1770s, African Americans soldiers participated in valor. Some were fighting for the Britain colonialists while others were fighting for American patriots in their struggle for independence. The slaves fought alongside their masters so that they could get human rights and freedoms enjoyed by other Americans. During this time, slavery was at peak, and most African Americans were under servitude and gross abuse of their rights (Matthews 369). Slaves imported from Africa and other parts of the world were sold to slave masters especially in the North. When the revolutionary war ended, most soldiers ...

Introduction

It is a cliché to say that the relationship between China and the world has become complex, multidimensional and interdependent. But that does not mean that we fully understand the complexity of the Chinese attitude towards globalization nor its interdependence with the world in general and the Western industrial democracies in particular, with the implications thereof. The thesis that we develop in this article argues that economic interdependence greatly strengthens Chinese authoritarianism in its ability to politically influence the attitude of States and civil liberties in Western democracies, rather than the reverse. It contradicts the usual thesis that Western ...

Introduction

The United States is depicted as the most democratic nation in the world. The aspect of democracy arises from the choices that people are presented with. The ability to determine one’s leaders, goods, services, regions and rights are some of the choice elements that the American population is presented with. Another aspect that can be associated with the United States is its diversity in regards to the ethnic groups and races; immigration has resulted in the creation of one of the most interracial communities in the world. Nearly all races are present in America as a result of ...