1. Antigone - Feminist or Activist?
Jefferson is trying to talk on the same level as a king to boast his arguments which is shown with his repetitive and rhythmic choice of word placement and sentence structure. ... For example, the website http://mail.baylorschool.org/ writes "The long list of grievances reads like hammer blows because of the parallel structure and anaphora, the vilifying verbs, and the choice of other words that arouse the emotion of the audience....
She accepts that marriage is an important social institution and it fosters the recognizable family structure. ... She emphasized that legalization of gay marriage is not erosion of a family but instead it is more inductive protection of families which include two individuals and children.7 In The Case for Same-Sex Marriage, the author William Elkridge expresses argument parallel to Gomes. ...
Defining gender violence as a violation of human rights is a relatively new approach to the problem. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the global feminist social movement worked to introduce this idea to the human rights community and by the early years of the 21st century, succeeded in establishing the right to protection from gender violence as a core dimension of women's human rights. This is another example of the process described in Chapter 2, in which a social movement defines a problem and generates support from legal institutions and states. After describing how gender viol...
A great number of people would argue that there are very few things, which our American society holds dear. However, after the events on September eleventh just over a year ago, it became abundantly clear that the one thing we revere the most is our freedom and ability to choose in a democratically...
Parallel to that phenomenon European States, during their colonial expansion over all continents, authorized two other forms of similar violence by non state actors: the corsairs and the colonial merchant companies, such as the East India Company or the Hudson Bay Company. ...