Rockwell put such effort and diligence into making his paintings that he created art in such a way he was able to send an important message subtly. This was a very uncommon technique during the time period which he painted. ... Norman Rockwell enlisted in the navy during World War I, and used the war and post war as the subject of many of his paintings. ... The Problem We All Live With is one of Rockwell's most famous illustrations concerning civil rights; it embodies the hardships that black children went through during the period of desegregation in schools. ... This set of four m...

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Genocide Bahutu The historical background to the Bahutu people (also known as Hutu) is important. ... A feudal society had, apparently, bred a docile and politically muted people. ... Attacks on Bahutu leaders and people continued for more than a year. Eighty-six high-ranking Bahutu officials were executed in late 1965; in all, between twenty-five hundred and five thousand Bahutus were killed during this dress rehearsal for a more horrendous genocide of the Bahutu people by Watutsis. ... The threat to civil peace was over, but the killings of Bahutus by the Watutsi authorities continue...

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In the United States, prejudice has led to the lynching of blacks, bombing of synagogues, the massacre of Native Americans, the illegal imprisonment of Japanese Americans during World War II, the harassment of homosexuals, and other violent acts against minority groups. ... Even people with no prejudices may nevertheless discriminate in their behavior. ... Supreme Court ruled that the states could not deny basic civil rights protections to homosexuals. ... On November 21,1991, the President George Bush signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1991. ... Wage differentials are especially importan...

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Modern human rights discourse and language, as well as its implementation and applicability within international law was borne out of the 'Western' response to the atrocity and trauma experienced within humanity not only by the Nazi and other Fascist, totalitarian regimes during World War II but within the wider 'West' too. ... During the UDHR negotiating process however, non-Western views and traditions were taken into account, such as the Chinese, Marxist, Latin American and Islamic although Africa and Asia were hugely under-represented (Forsythe, 2000). ... Tharoor (19...

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Our government was created by the people and for the people's interest. ... They also should ask anyone how they felt about their tax dollars being used to pay congress during the shutdown when it was congress who let the shutdown happen in the first place. ... So it is ok to spend what I imagine would be a lot more than $596 million on traditional marriages and legal civil unions but not every other federal employee in a civil union? ... What this issue should solely be about is civil rights. ... We are illegally denying them their basic civil rights, and common decency as a human being...

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Language is one of the most important choices that allows humans to develop their rights as a primary mark of identity. ... Wars, earthquakes, tsunamis and such kinds of natural catastrophes can shift the balance between languages. ... People should prefer to use their mother tongue to communicate with the people they are closest to and because they feel more comfortable using it. ... The Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the European Charter of Human Rights all refer to language as an ...

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