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- 111: Anger & Renewal In Indian Country
- Anger & Renewal In Indian Country Now I believe the rising anger and determination by native peoples towards land claims and equal rights has created a situation which must be addressed immediately. Man has come a long way in time, as he has learned to master the powers of fire, and to hunt ... imposed upon them. 4.-The Mi'kmaq and Malaseet of Nova Scotia are involved in a dispute with the provincial government, which are trying to restrict ancient hunting and fishing rights and that has recently been confirmed by the Supreme court of Canada. 5.-The Innu of Labrador invade a NATO airbase in protest against low level flights by jet fighters that threaten the animal population on which they depend on as a source of food."(1.) Many of these struggles have shaken Canadians. In fact thousands of Canadians, especially those in the environmental ...
- 112: Horse Slaughter
- ... kept from the public. Horses are inhumanely transported and held, for no other reason than enjoyment of those in other countries. What can be done to end this violation of animal rights, and why has it been allowed until now? These are the questions racing through avid horse fans' minds. Exposed to the eyes of the people is the slaughter of pregnant ... pain with every step. This is the start of the trouble. Mares, geldings, all types of horses wait in one stall, scared, and uncomfortable: fights start. Sates Temple Grandin (noted animal behaviorist) "The number-two thing (largest problem) is horse fights." (Lehr,1) She was subject to view the many horses, of which had large cuts, knocked out eyes, bite ...
- 113: How the Government May Have Created AIDS
- ... respected physicians, like Dr. Robert Strecker, Dr. William Douglas, Dr. Cantwell, Dr. Hazeltine, Dr. Alonso, who all agree that the AIDS virus could never have occurred spontaneously in Nature. That animal viruses cannot jump species, as we are being told they did, as we are being asked to believe happened -- when allegedly, a green monkey bit an Africa and precipitated the ... Nathanson N. Human Exposure To SV40: Review and Comment American J Epidemiology 103:1-12,1976. REQUEST Allison A C Beveridge WIB. Cockburn E C. et al. Virus-Associated Immunopathology: Animal Models and Implications for Human Disease Bulletin WHO 47:257-263, 1972. Amos D B Bodmer W F. Ceppelini R. et al. Biological Significance of Histocompatibility Antigens. Fogerty International Center ... Leukemia Virus to Chimpanzees Veterinary Microbiology 1:351- 357,1976. PRODUCTION: RELATIONSHIP OF AIDS TO VISNA VIRUS Alizon M and Montagnier L Lymphadenopathy/AIDS Virus: Genetic Organization and Relationship to Animal Lentiviruses Anticancer Research 6:403-412,1986. Sonigo P Alizon M Staskus K et al. Nucleotide Sequence of the Visna Virus: Relationship to the AIDS Virus Cell 42:369- ...
- 114: Human Nature and the Declaration of Independence
- ... Declaration of Independence is a document co-written by the founding fathers in order to declare their independence of the Crown of Britain. They belived this to be within their rights indowed upon them by their Creator. Believing that they were under religious persecution and certain forms of "absolute tyranny" from Britian the founding fathers felt it was necessary to break ... one from The Declaration of Independence , "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights..." The founding father's saw the deliberate purpose of a Creator in nature where Aristotle sees mankind on par with plants and animals. Aristotle explains that we have a natural desire to leave behind an image of ourselves. Man is an electrochemical machine that operates simply on what happens around him and, like an animal, finds a suitable mate and joins himself to her to make furthur offspring of himself. Following this kind of thinking, governments join themselves together just for the purpose of ...
- 115: The 1800s Were A Tumultuous Time for the US
- ... supreme court decided that slaves weren't citizens so they didn't have the right to sue. The supreme court also decided that slaves were property, and the bill of rights protected property therefore congress couldn't outlaw slavery in any of the territories. This decision in the Dred Scott case pleased many southerners they felt that now the new states ... make any speeches. This worked nd he was elected as the first Republican president. The election of Lincoln made southerners angry. They felt that a Republican would not respect their rights. They believed that their only hope was to seceed from the Union. On December 20, 1860 South Carolina became the first state to break away from the Union. When it ... in his position during a crisis. The election of 1860 was a major factor in starting the civil war. In his inaugural speech LIncoln said that he would respect the rights of the south despite this the civil war began six weeks later. At the start of the Civil War it appeared that the south would have no chance of ...
- 116: The Trancontinental Railroad
- ... 400 foot right away through public lands, and alternating grants of 10 square mile sections of land per mile of track” (Faragher 683). The two companies would also receive mineral rights on adjacent land. The total land grant from the government amounted to over forty-five million acres. The companies were authorized to build a line Westward from Omaha, Nebraska to ... by advertising sightseeing excursions. One of the highlights of the trip was a buffalo hunt. During these hunts, buffalo would be shot at through open train windows. If shot, the animal was left to die and to decay. They also made elaborate brochures that circulated in America and Europe. The brochures promoted the settling of the West along the railroad track ... pocketed the money. The Indians had other reasons to dislike our nation. The trains ran through hunting grounds and scared away prey. Workers also killed buffalo, which was a sacred animal to the Indians. This was the main food source for the plains Indians. Buffalo would cause damage to roadbeds and would uproot telegraph poles trying to scratch their winter ...
- 117: Australia's Future
- ... white, female over male, cripples over healthy and sexually perverted over normal. While in blatant contradiction of the non-discrimination policy is the enforced official racial discrimination known as Land Rights. Of all citizens, only aborigines may make land claims, thereby creating a privileged class of citizen based on race. Claiming one thing while doing the opposite confirms the insanity of ... very different creature - its opposite. Loud, forward, strident, hysterical, arrogant, and ruthless; unrestrained by any sense of morality. The fanatics of the forthcoming tyranny are already apparent in Women's Rights, Gay Rights, Animal Liberationists, Ecologists and Anti-Smokers. These humourless self-appointed guardians of truth are the same mob that shouted Liberty, Fraternity and Equality as they raped, murdered and looted. ...
- 118: Industrial Revolution
- ... is defined as the degree of well-being felt by a person or a group of persons. It is concerned with a citizen’s consumption of goods and services, human rights and the environment. The industrial revolution have produced great wealth to many citizens that influences their state of well being. Others may argue that the changes and advancements in society ... diseases and pollution among it’s people. Rather the opposite is true, the positive effects that the revolution have introduced such as the high availability of employment, food, and human rights and the opportunity for future growth overpowers these problems. Therefore it is accurate to say that the benefits of the industrial revolution have improved one’s quality of life. One ... believe that the substitution of machines for human labor have created high rates of unemployment for many nations. Before the revolution, jobs were very limited because work was accomplished through animal power and hand labor. Also many tasks required men with considerable skills which could only be accomplished through long hours of work and practice. In the past and in ...
- 119: Hollywood's Attack on Religion
- ... Ken Wales, former vice president at Disney studios. Even with such strong opposition from these respected groups and people, the studio refused to listen and stood behind its First Amendment rights. MCA/Universal was even supported by the Motion Picture Association of America, which stated that "The . . . MPAA support MCA/Universal in its absolute right to offer to the people whatever movie it chooses" (41). However, Medved rebukes this statement, arguing that "absolute right" wasn't the issue; the issue "concerned the movie company's choices, not its rights" (41). He supports this argument further by indicating that the MPAA would never support a film portraying Malcolm X as a paid agent of Hoover's FBI or portraying Anne ... other religious figures in uncharacteristic situations that would never be associated with these historical figures. This is supported by past experiences when movies were edited so as to not offend animal rights activists, gay advocacy groups, and ethnic organizations: Leaders of the motion picture business showed more concern with possible sacrilege against the religious traditions of a single Hopi village ...
- 120: Fredrick Douglass 2
- ... character of southern slaveholders and the institution of slavery itself. Douglass realized that racism was also prevalent in the north and so his intent was not trying to achieve equal rights but basic human rights. Douglass hoped to gain compassion for those still held in slavery by relating experiences such as being separated from his mother when he was an infant and not knowing whom his father was, how slaves were treated as if they had less value than an animal, and the fact that slaves were brutally beaten and sometimes killed without it being considered a crime. Douglass also hoped to tarnish his northern white readers view of southern ...
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