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    Political parties are at times ignorant to what is happening and will go against movements that have been on the uproar just because they believe something isn 't happening. Women have been denied equality for hundreds of years, yet in present day that inequality has been taught at a young age. Since my early years of education at Monte Vista Elementary School, I was always brought attention to for my clothing being provocative. How provocative could a child 's clothing be? I wore a knee length school skirt

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    Women and African-Americans aren’t being treated as bad today, but they’re still being treated worse than the white males of society. Even today, when white males are typically the leaders of society, it’s not always race and gender that creates inequality; sometimes it’s money that creates the issue. Not just from past evidence, but from present

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    Angelica Schuyler’s Duel Against Inequality A key aspect in which Hamilton brings to light is the values of inequality. Women, while are making strides, they are still not equal to men. As seen in Hamilton women are just as capable to perform the same job as men and, in many instances, do the job better. Whether it is inequality with slaves, even leading to some hypocrisy, or with women, some of the key values within Hamilton are revolve around the fact of equality. In the play, if all people where

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    What is government? What is our government? Our government the united states is a nation state with a federal system in place. The government is a group of people who control the state and the state is a collection of various institutions. Theres also liberalism which is belief in representation that someone represents the will and or inherit the wants and the needs of society this garteners the illusion that the world can only be this way only and prevents the people from coming together on

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    In Alice Walker’s story “Am I Blue”, the author illustrates the suffering animals go through, and compares it to how similar their suffering is to the suffering people are facing and have faced in the past. Walker begins by describing where she and her husband had been staying in the countryside. It was when she first moved in that she saw Blue, the horse of a neighbor, and uses vivid imagery to describe such. Not only of Blue, but to show the countless Walker has spent with Blue. The author then

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    The word equality has always been intended to have the same meaning, “the state of being equivalent, especially in status, rights, and opportunities.” Another important fact to note is that at any given point in history, all people have wanted their own form of equality, and the constant changing of what is right or wrong has led to a fluid definition of this unique word. The definition of equality therefore is never really correct, no matter how I it write down, so I will try to most accurately

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    Today in the educational system, I think one of the most looked down upon inequalities are students with an attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, also known as ADHD. Especially in high school, living with ADHD is extremely challenging because students have a harder time concentrating during class, understanding the material given to them, or even taking tests and doing homework unlike other students. It seems the school system, and even society judges students based on what level they are on

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    the law” and against the constitutionality of separate schools. Equality concerns are fundamental to our lives as human beings. Each human being has a natural engagement with what equality requires and a capacity to make arguments about seeming inequality of treatment. In the context of Sumner’s case, the principle of equality before the law- as opposed to what the principle requires- is beyond question. The principle of equality, and specifically equality before the law, provides an obvious element

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    Like a sharp cutting knife, segregation separates races while bringing unfairness and inequality along with it. For example, in A Raisin in the Sun, the setting of the Younger’s house shows us how unfair and unequal the living conditions were for African-Americans. Three generations of the Younger family share a two bedroom, run down apartment. This shows that segregation leads to unfairness and inequality portrayed by Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun through conflict between the setting

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    by primitive people or by philosophers and the states man, so women and children did not take role in this establishment for their societies. No one of the novelist had mentioned that women and children took role in this part. Furthermore, this inequality in Plato’s society cause to revolutions and conflict, so it was very big danger in that time, and this big danger was recognized by Phaleas of Chalcedon, who was the first person that asserts that the all citizens of the state which contain men

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