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    lack of civil rights, limited knowledge, and how censorship affects everyone. Our civil rights are our rights to political and social equality. Some examples of civil rights are our right to vote at the age of 18, freedom from involuntary servitude, and freedom of speech, press and assembly (US Legal). Censorship deals with the freedom of choice, specifically freedom of choice of literature. American Library Association’s President Roberta Stevens says that “not every book is right for each reader

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    How the Declaration of Independence Reflects key American Ideas The Declaration of Independence is one of the essential documents of the American Founding, as it articulates a set of political principle about the purposes of the new, independent republic. It is essentially a formal statement that describes the reason for America wanting freedom and separation from Great Britain. It reflects key American ideas, including liberty, individualism, self-rule, limited government, equality, and the American

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    The idea of human rights has been altered and been highly debated in the United States. Often our citizens, and even our own representatives, are stuck arguing over hot-button topics such as new gun control laws, access to universal healthcare in poverty-stricken communities, and even free speech, especially that of a controversial nature. The ambiguity of what our founding fathers believed our inalienable human rights as citizens under the United States constitution should be today is closely tied

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    protection, and severely limited our rights of privacy? History has answered these questions for us: no. But before these changes even occurred, Thomas Jefferson asked the same question in regards to the laws of our land. After all, it was the inability of the long- standing British parliament to govern the people that lead to its colonial downfall, the Declaration of Independence, and creation of the United States. From these

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    Irham Adhitya S 3617798 “Acknowledging National Tobacco Strategy through Social Democracy Lens “ Introduction Australia is the world leader in tobacco control, as they became the first country that implemented plain package policy. Since December 2012, all tobacco products which are traded and brought to Australia must be in plain packaging in order to implement the National Tobacco Strategy (NTS) 2012 – 2018. (National Tobacco Strategy, 2012, p.27) The range of policies including health signs

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    When watching a TED talk you automatically know your going to leave with some new profound thought or have your ways of thinking changed slightly. The primes behind TED talks is “Ideas worth spreading” right there in their mission statement is what persuasive speech is. In Ms. Alexander’s TED talk she did just that, she spread the idea to her audience of what the future of race in America will look like if we don’t seek to change the social, economical, and political policies that almost certainly

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    set of fundamental rights. These freedoms, known as civil liberties, are outlined in the bill of rights in order to inhibit the government from taking these rights away from the American people without justified means. On the other hand, civil rights are when an individual or group’s rights and equality are at risk and the government does everything in its power to protect their rights. The two related topics greatly affect the people of the United States. However, civil rights have a much larger

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    shunned and shamed by the citizens of their society and seen as outcasts and treated as such, having little to no equal rights. Historically, women weren’t seen as equal partners when it came to their male counter parts. In fact, they weren’t seen as an actual person at all. Only as an object that was to be possessed by the men of society. In chapter twelve of A Vindication of The Rights of Woman, by Mary Wollstonecraft, she speaks a great deal on national education and how important it is in shaping

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    controversy concerning the extent of freedom of speech and moral rights. The cultural diversity has provided a basis to crossover the cultural, racial, and even gender boundaries that have allowed a sense of equality in society. In hindsight, this front has promoted the decline in moral obligations leading to inaccurate accounts of cultural diversity in the interest of generate societal appraisal. Therefore, freedom of speech and moral rights has become intertwined at

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    country. Easterly instead advocates increasing the individual rights of the people in underdeveloped nations in order to catalyze free development. He uses 3 debates—the blank slate vs. learning from history, nations vs. individuals, and conscious design vs. free development—to support the free development side of the overarching debate of the novel: authoritarian vs. free development. Easterly comes to the conclusion that individual rights are the most important factor in development, saying, “we must

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