...Fight for your Right! American History Since 1865 HIS204 Gwendolly Noble Ranita Wallace August 11, 2013 African Americans are one of the most significant humans on this earth. There has been so many historical events that have evolved around the African American community. African Americans and the fight for their right against America. On major idea was the African American community to have the courage to fight for the rights of the African community. One specific topic of the African community was the ability to stay strong and succeed with the events that were happening. African Americans had to take the pain and heartache to gain their rights for any challenge they were fighting for. Many may disagree on the fact that African American should be able to be equal and free under the American rights in the Constitution. In my opinion the African American people should not had to of fought so hard to become equal if they were born as American, even slaves that were set free. The African American people should have had the same equal rights. African American men and women were beaten and forced to be less of the American because of the color of their skin. It was not always the fight for African Americans to have power but to equal as Americans. These movements that the United States have witnessed only made a way for the African American people to consider themselves as equals and proud Americans. African American should have the right to be equal and have the same opportunity...
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...English 101-14 April 21, 2015 The Fight for Animal Rights What do the names Avon, Proctor and Gamble, Pfizer, Clorox, Mars Candy, Neutrogena, 3M, Crest, and Dawn all have in common? They all continue to produce products that are tested on animals. Despite the regulations set forth on animal testing by the federally funded Animal Welfare Act (AWA), the animals are still subject to inhumane treatment and we as humans have not succeeded in preventing numerous horrific and tragic cases against these animals. Even though it is argued that animal testing is the reason millions of lives have been saved, animals should not be subjected to medical or product testing. These animals are innocent creatures who are forced against their will into these experiments and it is up to humans, as the more intellectual species, to protect them and discover other alternatives for product testing. “We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them. It is our duty to make the whole world recognize it. Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things, humanity will not find peace.” (Schweitzer) To begin, there is much debate circulating that because mice and chimpanzee are so genetically similar to humans that it justifies conducting experiments and testings on these animals. Throughout history, countless incidences have been reported...
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...Sarah Moore Grimke and Fredrick Douglass: A Fight for Rights America is the land of the free, but without abolitionists fighting for such freedom, there is no America. This essay is a comparison between Fredrick Douglass and Sarah Moore Grimke and how they fought for African American and women’s rights respectively. Fredrick Douglass was born into a life of slavery, but he learned to read and after a few attempts, escaped. He started out as an agent of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society and from then, wrote books and newspapers promoting the cause. He later became a consultant of Abraham Lincoln. Sarah Grimke, on the other hand, grew up in as a daughter of a plantation owner. She had high goals and expectations but her family shot them down. Sarah and her sister fought for slavery and sexism and were expelled from the plantation. They were among the first to fight for women’s rights. Back in the 1800s, African Americans were slaves and treated like property. They were whipped, overworked, starved, and had no freedom. They were denied education and shot if trying to escape. On the other hand, women had very little rights. They were simply housewives who looked after the children. They were not allowed to aspire to anything and forced to simply support the husband. Back then, the worst person to be was an African American female. Some females were chosen as breeding moms and raped repeatedly to bear children to sell. If not, the master would call some women in...
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...Elie Wiesel urges human beings to fight off indifference. She claims that indifference is the lack of a response and emotion. It is nothingness and it does not benefit the human race but rather slows down the progress that could be made because it ends a movement. Wiesel goes further to say that even anger and hatred are of greater use than indifference meaning that any emotion a human can show, they should show. Wiesel is incorrect in her statement. In the book Stonewall: Breaking Out in the Fight for Gay Rights, Ann Bausum notes that the observers of the Stonewall bar arrests at first showed indifference towards the arrests being made by the police. The crowd surrounding the bar were stirred up by one of the arrestees who was angered by...
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...Women should have the right to fight alongside men. Why shouldn't women have equal rights? Why can’t women fight for pride and justice? Why shouldn't women be able to serve their country with pride? Men may say that women are weak and feeble, but we really aren't. Men have tunnel vision, they only focus on what they are meant to do. Whereas we women, are able to look outside the box and come up with other plans in case one of our previous ones doesn't take place properly. We live in a world where, financial independence, equal pay and employment opportunities for women are all backed up by the law. With rights come responsibilities. Women that sign up to serve their country's don't expect it to be all flowers and rainbows out in the field. When we sign up we know that every back street, every market place, every playground is a war ground. We do not expect people to make exceptions just because we are women, we realize that there are dangers in war. Women can endure double the amount of pain a man can, we go through child birth, we put up with our periods every month. Like any job, employee's are picked because of their qualities and skills. It's the same in the forces, soldiers are picked because of their qualities and skills. Women can have many different skill's. Why shouldn't women be allowed to fight in combat alongside men? The question isn't in what the women can do, it's what the men will think of it. Women deserve to be treated equally to men. We don't join the forces...
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...The Fight for Women's Rights The Women’s Rights Movement started in 1848 to 1920, a long range of time for a long range of protests and rebellions. It was officially started in Seneca Falls, New York, by the first women’s right convention. After two days of discussion and debate, 68 women and 32 men signed a Declaration of Sentiments, which outlined grievances and set the agenda for the women’s rights movement. The first National Women’s Rights Convention took place in the year 1850 in Worcester, Massachusetts, and attracted over 1,000 participants. Since then, conventions were held every year to 1860 with the exception of 1857, for no reason in particular. Susan B. Anthony was a women's rights activist and a social reformer who played a tremendously important role in the Women's Suffrage Movement. She was born on February 15, 1820, in Adams, Massachusetts. After her career in teaching, she became an active member in the temperance movement. Since she was a woman, however, she was not allowed to express herself at temperance...
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...interpret the civil rights movement in a different, more direct way, far removed from the "I Have a Dream" Idealism of the 1960s. This movement was pioneered by Spike Lee's film Do the Right Thing, and the civil rights themed song Fight the Power composed by Public Enemy. In the Fight the Power music video, which was also directed by Spike Lee, Chuck D denounces the marches and speeches of the 60s and calls for more radical action, promising that "the young black America... ain't goin' out like that '63 nonsense." The clip documents a large rally in Brooklyn’s, Bed-Stuy against the racially motivated violence that had plagued the city. This landmark song and video are widely considered hip-hop greatest, and helped to mobilize a new youth culture with a civil rights movement of their own. The song became more than just a feature in a movie. Fight the Power means something big, refusing to let racism keep Black African Americans down. Furthermore, it's about not just talking the talk, but also walking the walk (Shmoop). In our dissertation, we will concentrate on why Spike Lee wanted to write Do the Right Thing and the message he wanted to send to America. Then, we’ll move into Public Enemy rising as civil rights leaders for black youth and their aggressive approach for equality along with their composition of Fight the Power. We’ll then shift into text and the meaning behind the lyrics of Fight the Power. In addition, we’ll also focus on the civil rights movement that followed...
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...Sometimes ordinary people make a huge difference in our community. One ordinary person who changed everything was Rosa Parks. Rosa Parks stood up for African Americans at a time when people were afraid to fight for their own basic rights. Through her actions, Rosa Parks changed the segregation rules between black and white people. People were not brave to fight for their rights, but Rosa Parks became one of the first African American ladies who fight for the black community and their equal rights to end segregation. Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama. Her full name is Rosa Louic McCauley. Her parents were Leona and James McCauley. She had a brother named Sylvester. Her father left to find work when she was 2 years old and she didn't see him again for many years. Park's mother took her two children to live with her parents on a small farm in Pine Level, Alabama. Rosa Park's grandparents were slaves. Rosa parks hobby was she liked to sew (Rosa Parks Civil Right Pioner 6). During her early life, Rosa Parks started school when she was 6 years old. In 1919, white children and African American children went to different schools. White children rode the buses, but African American children had to walk. The white children who rode the bus would throw trash at African American children who had to walk. In 1924, Rosa Parks attended class at the Montgomery Industrial School. Years later, Rosa Parks left school to take care for her...
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... Cruelty towards Animals and Their Rights If killing animals was entertaining to the people by abusing them and possibly causing them to fight, would you join the cruel humans that are doing this just to have fun watching animals fight and be abused? Animal cruelty comes in different ways from animal abuse, fighting the animals, and even mistreating them. Cruelty to animals is growing all over the United States even out of the US, especially dog fighting and cock fighting has grown dramatically. Animals used for other purposes are being abused more. The poor animals feel pain and suffer every time they are killed or mistreated. Even though my own father commits animal cruelty, still does not change the way I feel towards animal cruelty. My father thinks it is not bad to fight roosters, but I always tell him that fighting them is very cruel to the rooster. Two main animals used for fighting are roosters and dogs. They are trained and forced to fight each other to death, which cock fighters find interesting and gamble their money. Animal Rights and Human Obligations Second Edition, Ed. by Tom Regan and Peter singer, specifies the rights of animals, treatment of animals, killing and value of life of animals, etc. It has various authors on each specific topic that makes it more interesting. I argue that animals should be given their rights and not be tortured by humans for no apparent reason, and those committing the crime...
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...Why would someone fight if he knows he is going to lose? Why would someone fight if he knows he is not going to make a change? Why would someone fight if he knows he is going to die in the fight? For black sailors during World War II, this fight was worth it. Courage under fire is what they didn’t need because they had more than enough. Courage under fire means having courage, no matter what. That is what Small and his squad had in the book The Port Chicago 50 by Steve Sheinkin and in the audio recording, “The Port Chicago 50: An Oral History.” These sources describe the events that happen before and after the explosion at Port Chicago. The book is a more effective source for showing the fight for African American’s rights that seemed that they couldn’t win. In the long run they were willing to fight even to the cost of their lives, but to be heroes or to free their...
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...America’s gift to my generation is privilege. How privileged is our generation? Lets see, many people fight to protect our great nation yet people out there are just so, so terrible. As time goes on the people of this country get worse and worse in many ways. These people want white men to have less rights, they want white people to be slaves, yet our great nation’s army fight every single day to protect our rights, their rights. These terrible people call this great nation a system built for white men, they call this country racist, misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic, etc. Again our soldiers in our great army, fight every day, and for what, so people can hate on this amazing country, so these people can hate on the very men and women who...
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...The women’s right movement is an ongoing campaign to abolish inequality between the sexes on a multitude of platforms. The movement has been a prevalent part of history around the world, with origins as early as the 1500s with literature sprinkled with the mention of women having mind, reason and a voice that is equal to that of a man. This fight for women to be placed on the same level as men has seen much struggle and oppression that is still prevalent in today’s world. However, the fight for women in today’s world is labeled as feminism, which quite literally means the social, political, and economic rights of the sexes. Rebecca Lewin depicts feminism as a “model for a social state – an ideal, or a desired standard of perfection not yet attained in the world”. Lewin expressed this in 1983, and still today’s society has failed to reach this goal. Feminism has transformed into the second “F” word, where society labels feminism as a harmful, extremist movement. The feminist movement has become synonymous with man – hating, bra – burning, lesbians who engage in radical protests to ultimately eliminate men from society and become a female dominated world. Which, is why this world needs a continued women’s rights movement to eradicate the ideology that fighting for the equality of women is obscene or unnatural. Feminism eventually inspired the term “Herstory”, which emerged in the 1960s, a very exciting time in American history full of social change. Herstory aims to look at history...
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...labor laws do not take care of the country’s privileges according to the environment of their civilization. Nevertheless, companies have been unsuccessful to understand that their arrangements discourage workers’ performance, which leads to reduced revenue for the entire firm (Sloan, 2009). Mainly, establishments have to respect worker human rights if they are to be competitive in their route of commerce and safeguard the corporation’s sustainability. Inherently, because employers refuse to adhere to the employees’ rights to be able to converse with their management to come up with a plan; this has caused laws and regulations to be born (Gompers, 2013, p. 222), which leads to low employee morale and incentive in their workplaces. Subsequently, the current United States government labor laws and regulations, have improved probabilities of personnel joining labor unions. This makes it so that they are jointly fighting for their privileges, which means that the acts are sufficient to contest for workers’ rights notwithstanding of their positions in their workplaces. The United States has been increasingly passing laws to protect the rights of employees...
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...Merrit Duke History of American Women May 27, 2015 Equality: Too Much to Ask For? The Equal Rights Amendment has been the source of much debate for almost an entire century now. Since first purposed by Alice Paul in the 1920s one’s stance on the potential amendment has been a dividing factor in the political sphere. Though the amendment was shut down in the 1920s there has been discussion about adding the Equal Rights Amendment into the constitution today. If the potential amendment was to be brought back up my stance on the debate would be in support of the amendment. For some background on the debate on the Equal Rights Amendment it would be good to look back and see where activists in the past were split and what about the Equal Rights Amendment has divided them. The Antebellum era gave two different types of women activists, the true women and the Early Feminists. The True Women argued for gender distinctions, separate spheres, domesticity, and women as moral guardians in their natural role as a mother. The True Women would be the women who be apposed to the Equal Rights Amendment and would be active in the fight against it. Arguing against the True Women were the Early Feminists who stressed gender equality, suffrage for women, equal education, human rights, and saw women as rational beings. This group of activists would be in support of the Equal Rights Amendment. Next would be the Progressive era where the two parties in the debate would be the Early Feminists and...
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...Civil War: Why The South Lost Jason Hillman HIS/110 October 13. 2014 James Halm The south ultimately lost the war because of two things, the will to fight and the emancipation proclamation. The emancipation proclamation basically took a huge chunk of what could have been Lee’s army of African Americans and welcomed them to the free Union army. The slaves were tripping over themselves at the opportunity to escape north and become free. The confederates stayed on the defensive most of the time; rarely did they go into union territory, because most of the times they did it turned out to be a big loss for the confederates. After being beaten down so many times, the confederates lost their will to fight and so started the way the south lost the war. In June of 1863, confederate general Robert E. Lee took his army of northern Virginia into the north for the second time. The union commander George Gordon Meade was in pursuit, they would ultimately bump into each other at Gettysburg. The battle of Gettysburg started by accident, literally troops bumped into each other. General Lee heard that Meade was pursuing him and mead concentrated his army. The union vanguard is already there as well and they bang into each other north and west of town on McPhersons ridge, it’s an intense fight and ultimately the fight will grow until north of town, your had the union 11th corps, fighting against a corps under a man named Richard Uell. In the end you’re going to have 30,000 confederates...
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