Equal Rights Amendment and its what its impact and chances for ratification might be if brought before the legislators today. The author argues that many political changes have taken place and the ERA might not be as well received, however, it would still be needed.
THE SAME NEEDS FR DIFFERENT REASNS

The Equal Rights Amendment assures that everyone will be treated fairly and equally. This was a needed amendment at the time of its inception for several reasons. At the time, there was gender discrimination in the workforce as well as other types of discrimination. Employers routinely refused to hire women or minorities. If they did, they paid them a lower wage than they paid to the white male employees. For many years this was an accepted practice and the ERA Before the ERA was put into affect people were at the mercy of the will of authority in work situations.…...

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One of the reasons the ERA may not pass today is that we have made the changes the ERA demanded we make. So much has happened politically and socially because of the strong arm of the ERA, that we now see the benefit of diversity and equality. Without the ERA ever being implemented, we would not be in the same place as we currently are. In addition, if we were by some avenue to reach this point and the ERA was introduced, we would ratify it because there are still areas that need the foundational support and protection. While we are basically a society that does not discriminate, there are still some who will if given the opportunity. We see news shows weekly about someone who has been discriminated against due to their skin color or gender. Lawsuits ensue and eventually the injured party prevails. However, if we did not ratify the ERA today, we would be sending a message to the world that discrimination was acceptable to us and it would most likely grow in its existence.

Our economic and political systems have changed drastically since the 1970's. These changes might affect a current attempt to ratify the ERA. Before its existence layoffs were conducted with women and minorities being the first to go. The premise was that white fathers had to support their families. Today there are many single parent homes. This means that the single parents are supporting the families and the non-custodial parents need the job to pay their child support obligations. Our society is much different today than it was three decades ago. The ERA would have a tougher time passing but in the end it would be ratified because we have the same needs even if for different reasons.

The Equal Rights Amendment came at a time in which America was evolving by leaps and bounds. Today we would not recognize what were considered accepted practices back then. However, the amendment still serves and will always serve to protect people against discrimination, therefore would indeed be ratified if it were to appear today.

Equal Rights
he one group of people in American society that has been systematically denied equal rights has been women. Women comprise half the population, but only received the right to vote in 1920. wo specific actions that have been taken to help women overcome inequity has been the suffragist movement, which helped lead to the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, and also the National Organization for Women (NOW). Second and third wave feminism has helped, from Gloria Steinem to Beyonce, but Americans have a long way to go. Although American society has become more egalitarian, there are still problems with gender inequality. Women can vote and hold public office, and yet there has yet to be a female president, most lawmakers remain men, and most people in positions of power in all sectors are also men. Men head corporations and thus control the genuine power in the country. here…...

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The government plays an active role in economic affairs, from the creation and maintenance of the Federal Reserve to the free trade agreements that govern international tariffs. Two specific actions that have addressed problems with the nation's economy have been the Sherman Antitrust Act and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). The Sherman Antitrust Act was passed in response to the growing concern over how monopolization of the market by mega-corporations was hurting, rather than helping, the economy. Economic growth depends on competition, which is why the government decided to step in and regulate business in an unprecedented way. The FDIC was also revolutionary in that the government offers protection to both business and consumers who rely on banks. Fewer people would use banks were it not for the FDIC.

Theme 14: Presidential Decisions

All presidents make at least one major decision during their tenure in office. One of the most important presidential decisions over the past 100 was Roosevelt's New Deal. The New Deal was a collection of programs and initiatives designed to respond to the crisis of the Great Depression. Programs included the Works Progress Administration and most importantly, Social Security. These measures helped individual Americans and the long-term economic growth of the company. The New Deal also inspired a new era in infrastructure development throughout the country. Another important decision was the Civil Rights Act of 1964, passed by President Johnson. This Act was long overdue, and had been drafted long before. However, Johnson made the ultimate executive decision to pass the Civil Rights Act, which made it more difficult for racists to get away with practices that were keeping the country down.

Gabrielle Jamela Hosein6(2002), on the other hand, holds that this is mainly a question of perspective.
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6. What Does Feminism Mean to Young Women? CAFA. http://www.cafra.org/article353.html

For some young women, according to this author, feminism means survival and a fundamental recognition of themselves as women with rights that are equal to those of men. This group of young women understand the need to struggle for their right to exist on their own terms. These women strive for equality under patriarchal and oppressive regimes, or even in Western societies where supposedly subtle forms of oppression are all too apparent.

On the other hand, there are the group of young women who see feminism itself as a mode of oppression or indeed a type of violent anti-oppression movement and therefore to be avoided. This demonstrates a fundamental misconception of feminism among a…...

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Elsie Hill defines equality broadly, to include all manner of equal protections under the law and equal access to opportunities and legally ensconced freedoms. According to Hill, women are not entitled to control over their own earnings and even over their own children. Women are also excluded from serving in public office, even though they are taxpayers. Hill calls for the removal of any and all forms of discrimination. The author proposes the Woman’s Equal Rights Bill, which would create a federal standard for gender equality, thereby precluding the rights of states to perpetuate their own misogynistic laws. Hill also claims that the passing of the Woman’s Equal Rights Bill would promote a parallel amendment to the Constitution guaranteeing the rights of women. Florence Kelley, on the other hand, opposes the Woman’s Equal Rights Bill, claiming that women need different laws from men because they are biologically different. Kelley assumes that…...

Male & Female Roles in Modern American Society
Being a Man

From time immemorial, the society has placed unnecessary pressure on men. There has been a great expectation on masculinity when compared to feminism. hereas there have been several advocacies for gender inequality, such has always been skewed towards the rights of women in the society. This has largely been successful in emphasizing the equal rights of women to men. However, the society has ignored the struggle for equal rights of men. Statements such as "be a man" are often used in society in reference to men. Such phrases imply that men have other physical, emotional and psychological abilities that women lack. The frequent use of such phrases in society serves to put men under pressure to behave and act in a certain way.

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Psychological Association of America. "Men and Women: No Big Difference." American Psychological Association. APA, 20 Oct. 2005. Web. 07 Apr. 2017

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ight to Privacy
Being a citizen of the United States comes with many benefits in comparison to citizenship in other countries. Through the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of ights we are granted certain rights -- the right to free speech, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, and freedom of assembly -- just to name a few. However, despite the 27 amendments the Bill of ights that guarantee American protections and liberties, there is no explicit law that guarantees protection to a citizen's right to privacy (Davis, 2009). It is more of an assumed protection, although most Americans do not realize it.

In 1928, Associate Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis referred to the right to privacy as the "right to be left alone" (De Bruin, 2010). This assertion is often supported with a citation of the 14th amendment which states: "No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge…...

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Davis, S. (2009). Is There A Right To Privacy? Pacific Philosophical Quarterly. 90(4), 450-475.

De Bruin, B. (2010). The Liberal Value of Privacy. Law & Philosophy, 29(5), 505-534. doi:10.1007/s10982-010-9067-9.

Doyle, C., & Bagaric, M. (2005). The right to privacy: appealing, but flawed. The International Journal of Human Rights. 9(1), 3-36.

ight to Life
For all human beings death is one of the most intricate truths to cope with. In spite of this, people take decisions to finish their lives, which in turn result in ending their pain and suffering. This practice is known as euthanasia, or even commonly called as assisted suicide by those who are against the practice completely.

However, whatever term we may use to label it, it is an issue that society should become more familiar with. For instance few countries like Switzerland have legalized the practice and extend great support to those who want to end their lives so as to get away from the detriment of their disorders. However, this practice is only legal and offered only to those who are going through terminal illnesses or vegetative states. Although there are many controversies that surrounds euthanasia, there are numerous religious activists and humanitarian groups that are totally…...

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Derksen, J. 2010. The Latimer Case: The Reflections of People with Disabilities - Murdered in the Name of Kindness. Accessed 11-11-11 from:  http://www.ccdonline.ca/en/humanrights/endoflife/latimer/reflections/kindness 

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Thompson, J.J. 2005. The right thing to do.

Representative Rosa DeLauro first introduced an identical bill in the House of Representatives on the same day. These Congresswomen have introduced identical legislation in their respective chambers annually since 2005. The Act was most recently introduced on March 6, 2007. (Absoluteastronomy.com, n.d.)
The Congress did not ignore the EPA's economic consequences on the salaries and employment opportunities for both men and women. First, as an amendment of the FLSA, the EPA is part of the same legislative structure that houses the federal minimum wage laws. The EPA acts as a wage equalizer between men and women for equal jobs, and has the potential of acting as a price floor on the salaries of men or women for particular jobs. As such, the EPA had the potential of causing some of the same problems observed by minimum wage laws: unemployment, and additional discrimination. (Absoluteastronomy.com, n.d.)

Litigation

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S. educational system. The impact of such law is very noticeable among teachers, students and even to the school administrators. However, there are a number of issues that have been continuously arising as people try to avail of their rights to education.
State legislatures attempting to comply with state Supreme Court mandates to reform their education finance systems should strive to meet the demands of both adequacy and equity. The experiences of some schools and/or states regarding the influx of enrollees suggest that regardless of the catalyst for reform, education reform can and should include elements of both equity and adequacy.

More so, it should be noted that whether a state is in the initial stages of implementing court-mandated reform, like the Equal Education Opportunities Act, or whether it has been in the process for decades, modern reform should incorporate the lessons of the last thirty years of reform efforts in sister…...

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g., juries that reflect the ethnic makeup of communities, another form of affirmative action). In the Crown Heights riots (1991) in Brooklyn, New York, Lemrick Nelson was on trial for violation of federal civil rights laws (he allegedly killed a Jewish student). The district court judge, Judge Trager, using "nontraditional" methods, attempted to create diversity on the jury by using ethnic criteria (blacks and Jews) in an attempt to reflect the actual ethnic makeup of Brooklyn (ilkenfeld, 2002). The Second Circuit Court, however, "struck down" judge Trager's construction of an ethnically reflective jury; the Second Circuit held that Trager's court "violated the Equal Protection Clause." The circuit explained that "...potential jurors' Fourteenth Amendment rights to be free from racially discriminatory state action preclude treating individual jurors differently based on a desire to maintain a certain aggregate jury composition" (ilkenfeld, 2002), according to an account in the Columbia Law Review.
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Scrutiny' Test in Historical Perspective." Journal of Supreme Court History 32.1 (2007):

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Equal Protection Clause of 14th Amendment
The equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment extended to protections of the Bill of ights to all Americans, including pregnant women. Therefore, it is fundamentally unconstitutional under the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to criminalize pregnant women who take illegal drugs for fetal abuse or neglect without applying the same conditions on pregnant women who endanger their unborn child by drinking alcohol, smoking, or otherwise failing to provide the best possible nurturing environment for the fetus. This paper reviews the relevant peer-reviewed and scholarly literature together with the precedential case law concerning these issues to support this view, followed by a summary of the research and important findings in the conclusion.

eview and Analysis

A growing body of research concerning fetal development together with innovations in modern healthcare technologies have provided researchers with new insights about what can harm or nurture babies in the…...

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Indeed, the cantankerous and authoritarian general would operate with what was necessarily a sense of his individual capacity to lead his men into battle. To Patton, leadership does require some degree of extraordinary confidence, if not outright vanity, if one is to engage organizational goals with the sense of entitlement to exact decisions impacting the lives of so man. Such is also true if one is to contend with the constant challenges, setbacks and opponents inevitable when in command of so many people and policies. However, as his comments show, it is Patton's position that the leader should never view himself as removed from any degree of labor relevant to these goals. As it were, he suggests that the great and natural leader will take as much proprietary pride in getting his hands dirty as in offering administrative oversight. This is the equation that figures into the 'right stuff,'…...

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The true spirit and meaning of the amendments, as we said in the Slaughter-House Cases (16 Wall. 36), cannot be understood without keeping in view the history of the times when they were adopted, and the general objects they plainly sought to accomplish. At the time when they were incorporated into the Constitution, it required little knowledge of human nature to anticipate that those who had long been regarded as an inferior and subject race would, when suddenly raised to the rank of citizenship, be looked upon with jealousy and positive dislike, and that State laws might be enacted or enforced to perpetuate the distinctions that had before existed. Discriminations against them had been habitual.
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Furthermore, while the Court's decision was based on Strauder's right to an impartial jury, the Court believed that all-white juries were discriminatory against the potential jury pool. It held that:

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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954).

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Gratz v. Bollinger, 539 U.S. 244 (2003).

These figures dwarfed what other big businesses paid for discriminatory practices. These businesses included Texaco, Inc.; Shoney's, Inc., Winn-Dixie, Stores, Inc.; and CSX Transportation, Inc. Critics saw Coca-Cola's settlement as signaling a major breakthrough among big businesses as coming to terms with diversity in the workplace (King). ecause the company has been a leader in many areas, these critics regarded it as setting an example of greater openness to promotions across races of employees (King).
Settlement terms included $23.7 million as back pay; $58.7 million as compensatory damages; and $10 million as promotional achievement award fund distributed to the complainants. A remaining $20 million went to attorney's fees and $36 million to the implementation of internal program reforms. Coca-Cola would also create an external, seven-member task force to insure that the terms were complied with and to oversee the company's diversity efforts (King).

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Several justifications for the continuous disparity in wages have been explained. It is obvious that women usually receive less and the central issue is to find out the cause. Men have attempted since decades to provide a justification by the help of hypothesis of various academic qualifications achieved by men or the various occupational responsibilities or vocations controlled by women as against those controlled by men. One reason is that women are featured in the remuneration gap equation, and a lot of these women belonging to a bygone period that continue to be dependent on the behavior and circumstances prevailing in the yester years. (Nash, 68)
Adversaries of uniformity in remuneration assert that preferences and not inequity is responsible for the disparity in the remuneration gap. People who are not in support of bridging the gap in remuneration between men and women think that the gap is present due to…...

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1. The Underground Railroad: Harriet Tubman's Journey to Freedom and the Network of Allies She Created:

Explore Harriet Tubman's personal journey to freedom from slavery and the obstacles she faced along the way.
Investigate the Underground Railroad, its routes, and the network of individuals who supported it.
Analyze Tubman's leadership and organizational skills in coordinating the Underground Railroad and facilitating the escape of enslaved people.

2. Harriet Tubman's Influence on the Abolitionist Movement and the Civil War:

Examine Tubman's involvement in the abolitionist movement, including her speeches, writings, and political activism.
Explore her role as a spy and scout for the....

I. Introduction
A. Background information on stuttering
B. Thesis statement: Stuttering is a speech disorder that affects individuals by disrupting the flow and rhythm of speech, leading to potential social and emotional challenges.

II. Causes and Types of Stuttering
A. Developmental stuttering
1. Risk factors and causes
2. Onset age and prevalence
B. Neurogenic stuttering
1. Causes related to neurological conditions or brain injuries
2. Differences from developmental stuttering

III. Symptoms and Impact of Stuttering
A. Vocal symptoms
B. Non-vocal symptoms
C. Emotional and psychological impact
D. Social consequences and challenges

IV. Diagnosis and Assessment of Stuttering
A. Evaluating the presence of stuttering....

Gender Equality in Contemporary American Culture: A Historical Perspective

Introduction:
In the tapestry of American culture, gender equality stands as a vibrant thread, woven amidst centuries of societal evolution and sociopolitical struggles. This essay delves into the historical trajectory of gender equality, exploring the shifts, triumphs, and ongoing challenges that have shaped its current status in American society.

Historical Roots:
The seeds of gender equality were sown in the early days of the American republic, with the signing of the Declaration of Independence (1776) and the Constitution (1789). These foundational documents enshrined the principles of liberty and equality, yet they fell short of extending....

1. The history of same-sex marriage rights in the United States
2. The impact of legalizing same-sex marriage on society
3. The intersection of religion and same-sex marriage
4. The psychological effects of discrimination against same-sex couples
5. The role of media in shaping public perception of same-sex marriage
6. The economic benefits of legalizing same-sex marriage
7. The challenges faced by same-sex couples when starting a family
8. The global perspective on same-sex marriage rights
9. The impact of same-sex marriage on traditional concepts of marriage
10. The ongoing fight for equal rights for the LGBTQ+ community in relation....