In his book, Greider stated, "American Democracy is in trouble, more trouble than most people realize," and it's true that major challenges to democratic system of government lie ahead. ... Yet these laws pass all the time and the reason for this is stated above, apart from soundbites the media does not report real issues anymore, it reports hot button issues and celebrity gossip. ...
As he explained in his book I Ask the Right to Die that he wrote by using his thumb to indicate the letters of the alphabet, "The more time passes the less I want to live out my days as a shivered vegetable on a hospital bed." ... For Vincent, he made it clear in his book that he didn't what her mother to be judge and he cited, "What she has done for me is surely the most beautiful proof of love in the world." ... In both countries, the bill institutes a procedure to control it: any doctor who realizes such an act has to write a report, which is transferred, to a commission. ...
The Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies developed in 1985 identified reducing violence against women as a basic strategy for addressing the issue of peace (Report of Secretary General 1995: 125). ... The 1992 statement placed violence against women squarely within the rubric of human rights and fundamental freedoms and made clear that states are obliged to eliminate violence perpetrated by public authorities and by private persons (Report of Secretary General 1995: 131-32; Cook 1994: 165). ... The Vienna Declaration specifically called for the appointment of a special rapporteur on violence ...
Globalize or Die: Affects Everyone and Everything In his book, The Lexus and the Olive Tree, Thomas Friedman wrote: "Globalization is not a phenomenon. It is not some passing trend. Today it is an overarching international system shaping the domestic politics and foreign relations of virtual...
According to her book Nickel and Dimed: On not getting by in America, Barbara Ehrenreich writes that "What surprised and offended me the most about the low-wage workplace was the extent to which one is required to surrender one's basic civil rights and- what boils down to the same thing-self-respect"(211). ... This assertion by Ehrenreich is generally valid because in 2013, the American Civil Liberties Union received more complaints about workplace rights violations than about any other issue, which firmly proves that this problem still manifests through the invasion of privacy,...
The Civil Rights Movement in the American South in the 1950s and 1960s was one of the most significant and successful social movements in the 20th century. Millions of African Americans fought for achieving racial equality before the law. A major factor in the success of the movement was the strateg...
