Human Rights Essays

History and Impacts of Slavery
Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2020
Introduction: Slavery Working for long hours, starving, and being tortured to death had been reasons why people who once had hope led to broken spirits: “Slavery not only inhibited family formation ...

Ethical Analysis of Deporting Illegal Immigrants
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Introduction: The question of whether it is ethical to deport illegal immigrants has been asked for decades. On one hand, they did come here illegally. On the other, they are humans looking for safety. Is it s...

Role of Religion and Morality in the Debate of Slavery
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Introduction: Role of Religion and Morality in the Debate of Slavery Racism has been a major issue in the United States of America. This issue can be traced back to the slavery era, where slave owners...

Modern Segregation in a Post-Segregated Era
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Introduction: Modern Segregation in a Post-Segregated Era The term “systemic racism” was first introduced in a 1967 book co-authored by Charles Hamilton and Stokely Carmichael titled Black Power: ...

Impact of Native Indian Children's Forced Boarding School Experiences
Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2020
Introduction: At the end of the 19th century, Native Americans Indian children attended government boarding schools.  Native Americans families were forced to send their children to these schools, and the...

Status of LGBT Minorites in America
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Introduction:  America is a dangerous place to be a minority, and it’s unfortunate that in 2019, it is a traumatizing experience to be anyone or anything besides a white man. Anybody who looks diffe...

Disobediance as a Form of Protest
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Introduction: Disobedience “Zinn’s body of work that examines the role disobedience plays in the human potential to contribute to the common good. Over forty years ago, Howard Zinn identified ...

Annotated Bibliography: The Refugee Crisis
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Introduction: Source Check #2 Alipui, Nicholas, and Nicole Gerke. “The Refugee Crisis and the Rights of Children: Perspectives on Community‐Based Resettlement Programs.” New Directions ...

Impact of the Lord’s Resistance Army
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: The Lord’s Resistance Army, also known as the LRA, is a militant rebel group responsible for Africa’s longest and most violent conflict. They have been in operation for the past 30 years and ...

Nativism in America: The Truth Behind their Fears
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: It was the morning of October 24, 1871 when the dead bodies of three Chinese men hung from places near the heart of downtown Los Angeles. One hung from the wooden awning over a sidewalk, another ...

Importance and History of Liberty in the US
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Introduction: Give Me Liberty Introduction Liberty is the ability of a person to do what pleases him or her. However, in politics, it consists of economic, social and political freedoms which...

Is Water a Human Right or a Commodity?
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Introduction: Water: Human Right or Commodity?   Introduction Water is a vital natural resource that humans are unable to survive without, human society is dependent upon and so...

Housing as a Civil Right in Operation Murambatsvina
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: Everybody Belongs Somewhere   “There is no Zimbabwean without a rural home.”[1] This was the phrase Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF government used to justify Zimbabwe’s Op...

Women and Genocide in Rwanda
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Introduction: The small east African country of Rwanda is most commonly known for being the setting of one of the most brutal and efficient genocides in modern history. Traditional narratives of the Rwandan ge...

Anti-Semitism and the First Amendment
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Introduction: Thesis statement: Any form of anti-Semitic hate speech in the United States should not be given First Amendment protection as it has proven to cause violence. Introduction: The...

Huey P. Newton's Political Activism
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Introduction:    Huey P. Newton: An Argument Against “The System”  Historical evidence brandishes the massive dilemma of the unresolved and unjustifiable lynching of innocent v...

Are Human Rights Universal or Culturally Specific? Evualtion of East Asia
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Introduction: The discussion of human rights always remains a critical and sensitive issue in the world, East Asia in particular. Controversial debates, regarding the practices and ideologies of different stat...

Human Experimentation During the Nazi Regime
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Introduction: Introduction The Nazi plan to exterminate whole populations in Eastern Europe based on an ideology of racial superiority gave rise to the use of human experimentation on a prison populat...

Being Transgender in the Military: Trump’s Ban
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction:  In today’s society, one very controversial or highly debated issue is …. Transgender serving in the military. President Trump had issued a ban on transgender joining the military, and G...

Pan Africanism Research and Reading
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: Harriet Washington (2006), Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to Present illustrates the history of medical experimentation with...

Historical Background of LGBTQ Rights
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Introduction: History of LGBTQ Persecution The LGBTQ community has been persecuted for quite some time. They were viewed as bad and mentally ill throughout history. The police, the people that keep th...

The Implementation and Enforcement of Human Rights: CYC
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: Abstract This papers primary focus will be on the enforcement of children’s rights in Canada, and how implementation can be supported by the Child and Youth Care (CYC) practitioner. Ma...

Evaluation of Canada's Student Refugee Program’s (SRP) Services
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: The United Nations Refugee Agency data reveals that 59.5 million people are displaced around the world, the highest level ever recorded (unhcr.org). In a report released in 2015, fittingly titled...

Gender Based Violence Against Rohingya Women: Before and After Arriving in Refugee Camp in Bangladesh
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: Introduction: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) reports 65.6 million individuals have been forcibly displaced worldwide as of 2017 due to conflict, violence, and viol...

Racism, Nationalism, and International Bystanders as Contributing Factors of War and Atrocity
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction:  The twentieth century was a period of growth and expansion that changed many aspects of everyday life across the globe. New technological advances made mass production possible, women’s m...