In the United States, a woman is more likely to be assaulted, injured, raped or killed by a male partner than by any other type of assailant (Fact sheets 1991). Violence will occur in two-third of these women's marriages (Fact sheets 1991). Domestic violence doesn't discriminate. This crime hap...

Schaller, writing of Martin Luther King's expression of civil disobedience, claims it was " in the language and spirit of Christian forbearance," and later notes Black "frustration at the limited successes of nonviolent tactics." Sitkoff likewise notes the frustration of Bl...

Have you ever wondered what effect the United State\'s laws, written many years ago, have on its citizens today? Television, magazines, Internet sites and articles all tamper with opinions concerning these debatable laws. When addressing the controversial issue of gun control and whether stronger ...

Virtually every major program designed to address the underlying causes of violence and to support the poor, vulnerable, powerless victims of crime is being cut even further to the bone... In this context, the proposition that the death penalty is a needed addition to our arsenal of weapons lacks cr...

Society is constructed into a hierarchy of social classes; poverty is what separates the social classes apart. The elite rich are at the top of this hierarchy, at the center are the middle-income families, and at the bottom are the low-income families and homeless. Traditionally the rich exploit...

Yes, Canada should ensure that no ones rights and freedoms can be taken away unjustly. Everyone, regardless of their gender, religion, race, sexual preference or age has rights and freedoms that are guaranteed by the Charter. Canada has done an excellent job of upholding its citizen\'s rights via th...

Imagine the next time you step into the voting booth your ballot only lists one candidate to choose from. Or perhaps your ballot lists four candidates, but they are all from the Liberal party. Dictatorships are one party political systems that are ruled by one leader or an elite group of people unde...

My Voice On Liberty Society has been swinging back and forth between liberal and conservative trends since the early twenties, and government has imposed new rules on our freedoms since the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. If the trends continue, we may see more and more encroachment on o...

As we all know the government has some sort of control over the people living in the United States and play a role in our every day lives. They give us rules to live by even though we are guaranteed our freedom in the Declaration of Independence. These rules we are expected to live by are said to...

For more than 200 years the American Constitution has served as much more than a framework of government. Our belief in the great document's guarantees of freedom, justice, and equality has come to define what it means to be an American. From 1787 to today, in times of both tragedy and triumph, Amer...

Racism - The Future Racism People see it everyday across America. A group of whites burn down a black church, someone gets hurt or murdered from a racial slur, or fights break out at school or in public. These are the extremes of racism. Racism is definitely not a good thing, it's a power t...

How and with what success did the black SA's resist the Gov Policy of Apartheid in the peiriod 1948-76?(Boycotts, alliances among black orgsanisations and groups ,Non violent and violent protests and strikes)During the peiriod 1948-1976 South African blacks resisted the Apartheid policies of the NP ...

RacismPeople see it everyday across America. A group of whites burn down a black church, someone gets hurt or murdered from a racial slur, or fights break out at school or in public. These are the extremes of racism. Racism is definitely not a good thing, it's a power that has taken over through the...

Is Technology Always for the Better?Where would America be without the technological advancements of our age? Would we be a third world nation? Maybe not even a nation at all. Is there such a thing as too much advancement? Technology has integrated itself into our society. It affects how we work...