Animal rights laws that were passed fifty years ago no longer adhere to modern scientific research as it applies to the sentience of animal species and the treatment of animals with the rights that they are entitled to, much like man is legally entitled to rights and liberties. ... It is premised on the idea that animals shall be treated well, and consideration shall be given to the instinctive behavior and natural needs of these animals, so that there is no risk of causing them unnecessary suffering (Tomaselli). ... Rather than focusing on rights for cats and dogs, [there should be a focus] ...

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American revolutionaries saw the freedom of language as a natural right, and how property can be claimed and then others can acknowledge that ownership as an aid in equality/inequality. ... The French felt that intuitions were corrupting the nature of man, and believed that starting over without them would be most effective in restoring order within the country. Rousseau argued that man and government were both good in nature, but were corrupted and made cruel by institutions, and that there would be no liberty without a good government protecting it. ... Although the ideas were utilized to ...

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Japanese Americans have developed no less than their own brand of civil religion"" (939). ... These stories also were meant to serve as a reminder that "never again shall any group be denied liberty and the rights of citizenship"" (945). ... Though the article has strong points, there are some limitations. ... She then goes on to state that the larger goal of the museum is to: "promote understanding and appreciation of America's ethnic and cultural diversity"" (949). ... As American citizens, the Japanese living on the pacific coast were put into camps and suffered for unjust reasons. ...

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Lincoln believed that whites were fundamentally superior to blacks and was opposed to them holding office, the right to vote, and the right to serve on a jury in the years before the Civil War. ... "I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of white and black races and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality" (Gienapp, 57). ... They believ...

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Whereas Obama, is somewhat responsible, admitting to the problems by stating that some emergency powers were necessary to make sure that America did not fall into another depression. ... Then Obama goes onto say that he has a clear four trillion deficit plan, which insures that children can afford to go to college and that there would be no tax break to overseas companies that are investing in America. ... Obama's health care policies are very appealing, the democratic view that "no Americans should have the security that comes with good health care, and that no one should go broke bec...

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In the beginning, people from England immigrated to America, and then other European countries followed. The American natives were treated as immigrants and forced to migrants into the western land due to Manifest Destiny in the 1860s. ... In the article, Citrin points out: The mean for the United States sample is lower than in a majority of the countries, but the confidence intervals suggest that there is no statistically significant difference between the US mean and those of many other countries.9 Thus, Americans' preferred level of immigration – that is, a lower level– is...

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The use of mercenaries has been historically a constant phenomenon till almost the end of the XX century, when their activities were criminalized by the international community. ... Private military and security companies fill the vacuum mainly left in three types of unstable situations: (i) in zones of low-intensity armed conflict (the new asymmetrical wars) where the armies are not fully deployed or in post conflict situations with a high level of insecurity; (ii) in armed conflicts when international organizations do not intervene; and (iii) in troubled areas in developing countries where t...

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Under the Jacksonians, government-sponsored internal improvements generally fell into disfavor, on the grounds that they were unnecessary expansions of centralized power, beneficial mainly to men with connections. ... Updating the more democratic pieces of the republican legacy, they posited that no republic could long survive without a citizenry of economically independent men. ... The people's best weapons were equal rights and limited government "ensuring that the already wealthy and favored classes would not enrich themselves further by commandeering, enlarging, and then plunderi...

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• Grade Level: Graduate