The Declaration of Independence is an important document in American history, because without it the United States would not be the nation it is today. ... The ability to persuade and convince the colonist to revolt with logic is Jefferson's most valuable writing skill, but Jefferson did not only convince Americans, he convinced France to send them aid in the war for independence against Britain. The Declaration also plays a significant role in our world today and in recent history. ... The Declaration of Independence is filled with rhetorical devices that reinforce that it is one of the...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Throughout history, women have had abortions, whether legal or not even if it meant risking their lives with unsafe methods. ... In terms of organizations the Catholics know the Catholic church forbids abortion This may be true but the Catholic church has a history of dealing with the issue of abortion, Church teaching on abortion has varied continually over the course of its history. ... An abortion has never been easy throughout the history of the human race, and may never be. ... The combination of these two drugs together may cause, Excessive bleeding, abdominal pain, diarrhea, nausea, vom...

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• Grade Level: High School

Genocide Bahutu The historical background to the Bahutu people (also known as Hutu) is important. Burundi achieved independence from Belgium in 1962. It had a population estimated at about 3.5 million in the 1970's and a land area of slightly more than ten thousand square miles. The original i...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

For example when the confederation was being formed, the Quebecois (French speaking colonies) would only enter into the confederation if their "distinctive rights were incorporated into the constitution alongside guarantees to civic equalities." ... Ignatieff, has done an excellent job in outlining the history and facts of the Rights Revolution. ... This was after he had given examples, and recounts prior events in history. ...

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This essay will look briefly at the history of the document including articulating a clash of 'Western' and non- 'Western' ideas and a conceptualisation of 'human'. ... Egon Schwelb (1946) argued that the basis for the UDHR is in the legal and political thinking between the seventeenth and twentieth century, from France, England and the United States. ... This gives weight to critics who see human rights as a 'Western' construct because the very notion of 'human' and therefore the influence within human rights has been created from a histor...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

Europe has a great number of minority languages that are under pressure to disappear and are co-existing with majority languages like English, French or Spanish. ... Throughout the history of the struggle to improve human rights and individual freedoms, there have been a lot of agreements to improve and support the treatment of the minority languages in the different countries. ... Catalan is spoken in Andorra, the Spanish region of Catalonia and other parts of eastern Spain, the Balearic Islands, and the regions of Sardinia in Italy and Rousillon in France. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Each document, despite their similar purpose, sets its own standard of rights and has its own distinctive features which have all emerged from their past history. ... The idea behind human rights has been around since human existence but what events in history led to the creation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and made it into the important document it is today? ... This bill of rights was to be modeled after the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, and the United States Bill of Rights. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate