In Great Expectations, Charles Dickens depicts men and women as existing within different social spaces. With the exception of Estella, who travels from Satis House to London, all of Dickens’s female characters are contained within the home. Men, on the other hand, have a social existence which their female counterparts lack. Pip, for example, constantly moves between the private space of the home and the public space of London itself. Joe Gargery, though often confined to the forge, has a social existence at the Three Jolly Bargemen, the local tavern. Unlike Dickens, Elizabeth Barrett Browning does not confine her female characters to the home in her novel-poem Aurora Leigh. Aurora is a woman who lives independently in London and whose writing earns her a space in the public world. Marian Erle is likewise independent and not confined to the local space of the home. Despite these different depictions of men’s and women’s spaces in the social order, Barrett Browning’s notion of womanhood and femininity resembles Dickens’s more than it differs from it. We shall explore how, for both Dickens and Barrett Browning, the ideal woman is a moral repository, a being whose function is to infuse men with spirituality and to protect them from the evils of the social world.
Although this is not a news article it shows the point of the expectations of the genders. In the essay Levi?s, the little girl wanted to wear her brother jeans and do all the things that her brother could do. Just like in the story Great Expectations the womens role and the mens role are clearly defined. The women do the work in the house and rarely leave the home, while the men go to work and socially interact on a daily basis the jobs and earn the money. The young girl in the story did not understand why she had to do the girly things when she wanted to play with the boys. “You don’t look African. I can tell African people when I see them,” says the West Indian woman behind the counter. She pushes my change into one hand and my patty and pop into the other. Then her eyes skeptically examine my features. My first instinct is to ask her exactly what an African looks like and how an African’s features would differ from hers or those of other black people throughout the world. But, with a line up behind me, I simply pick up my food and leave. A few weeks later I am sitting in the salon having my hair braided into neat cornrows. Surprised by my quiet disposition and the fact that I say please and thank-you, the Ghanaian hairdresser says, “You aren’t loud and rude like most of those West Indians, especially the Jamaicans.” Hoping she’d recant such an obvious stereotype when called on it, I ask this seemingly intelligent businesswoman to repeat herself.
The Essay on What Do Women Want From Men
Where did all those romantic fellas go? With all that can be, all that is within us, romance lives forever! So why not take advantage of it. Did you ever look around and wonder why a woman will chose another man over you? Maybe you are more handsome, intelligent, richer and so much more than that other plain fellow what's his name. But he's romantic and obviously knows how to treat a woman and ...
She insists, “Those people are so bad. They have no manners.” As the daughter of a Barbadian mother and a Ghanaian father, I’ve witnessed a number of similar incidents. It seems that many black people discriminate against their own brothers and sisters if they spring from different parts of the African Diaspora. Yes, the unfortunate truth is that stereotypes within the black community come from more than the coffee colored complexion and caramel skin tone wars. Many West Indian women refuse to date educated, hardworking African men because they “can’t stand his accent,” or he simply “looks too African.” For many, the phrase “going back to my roots” doesn’t mean much more than not relaxing new hair growth. The irony is that many of these same women, so discriminating in who they consider acceptable as a potential partner, adore celebrities like Tyson Beckford, Malik Yoba and Taye Diggs whose calling cards are their dark skin tones and strong African features. On the flip side, I have been ignored in businesses owned by Africans simply because they assumed that I was a West Indian. However, after hearing one of my friends (or my father) call me by my Ghanaian first name I received excellent service and often a discount.
The Essay on The West Indian Festival
Carnival was the largest, most colorful and vibrant ethnic cultural festival I had ever experienced in my life. Carnival is what the West Indians call this outrageous event. Carnival is only one aspect of the Caribbean Culture. Every year this event takes place on Blue Hill Ave in Dorchester, Boston. All the streets surrounding Blue Hill Ave. are closed for this annual special event.It was a hot ...
For many Africans, associating with West Indians outside of the workplace is seen as putting yourself in bad company. And to marry a West Indian would be taboo. Given my background, it might seem that I am caught between two worlds…but I am not. My shared ancestry enables me to see common themes among African people that many overlook. The Caribbean way of life derives from Africa. At the core, the lifestyles are not very different. Wherever African people have been dispersed, they enjoy the same staple foods, (yam, plantain, cassava, banana, rice etc.), the same music and most importantly the same history. I feel a sense of pride when I see my beautiful African sisters dressed in their kabas (traditional African dress), or when I hear about Ghanaian students receiving high honours for their academic achievements. I also enjoy reading about the accomplishments of West Indian people living right here in our city when I flip through the pages of Share Magazine or Caribbean Camera. I am proud of my rich heritage. I am now aware that we must not allow misconceptions about our differences to prevent us from learning more about who we are as a people, and what we share culturally. After all, before we can criticize our classmates and co-workers for not being able to understand or appreciate our differences, we have to come to terms with them ourselves. In this article the ties of racism to the essay Finishing School couldn?t be better. The lady in the article is just buying a simple drink or is just simply getting her hair done and someone tells her that she doesn?t look like or act like a black person so she can?t be black. That is the way society is today. If someone is not exactly what we want them to be, we are just flat out mean to that person or even to that race as a whole. In Finishing School Maya Angelou writes from a personal experience she has as a child.
The September release of Margaret A. Salinger’s Dream Catcher: A Memoir (Washington Square Press), detailing her life with parents Claire and J.D. Salinger, has been swamped with controversy. It’s a tell-all, and one that some critics consider highly subjective and loose with facts. Many do not appear to appreciate her writing either; Sven Birkerts, in the New York Observer, wrote: ”I would invoke — or propose — the worthiness law: that the memoirist ought to be, in some core perceptual way, the equal of her subject. It seems evident that the lesser cannot comprehend the greater … Ms. Salinger should have let matters be.” Because Margaret Salinger wrote a book detailing her life with her parents indicates she probably maintained a diary or some record of her life during her childhood. The only problem is that it appears that her writing may not be factually correct, just like Didion in the essay, On Keeping a Notebook. Didion wrote this essay about her childhood encounters from a notebook that she had written in the past, and is now trying to decipher its meaning. Overweight girls who are teased about their weight may be at greater risk of developing an eating disorder, researchers report.
The Essay on Eating Disorders Paper People Celebrities Anorexics
Eating disorders are increasing every year, and can be found in girls from as young as 6 or 7, as well as adult women. It does not help when celebrities flaunt their trimmed and toned bodies all over television and newspapers, receiving so much praise for looking "good." Teenagers are the most likely group to develop eating disorders: many of them look up to celebrities and believe they too have ...
Study findings suggest that heavier girls were more likely to be teased by classmates and report that they were dissatisfied with their bodies compared with slimmer girls. As a result, these girls also showed more restraint while eating. Restrained eating–severely controlling the amount of food intake–is considered to be a sign of disordered eating. Katarina Lunner from Uppsala University in Sweden, and colleagues in Australia and the US, interviewed 260 eighth-grade girls from Sweden, 210 eighth-grade girls from Australia, and 159 seventh-grade girls from Australia. The average age of these girls was 12 to 14 years. More eighth-graders from Australia said they had tried to lose weight in the past (59%) compared with the other groups. This group also had a higher rate of bulimia. Among Australian seventh-graders, 38% had tried to lose weight, as did nearly 48% of Swedish girls. Younger girls tended to be more satisfied with their bodies than eighth-graders from either country, according to the report in the International Journal of Eating Disorders. Girls from Australia in both grades were more likely to be teased than girls in Sweden, Lunner’s team notes.
The Essay on The Effects of Eating Fast Food
Americans have been choosing fast food as a replacement for classic homemade meals for many of years. It is fast and convenient, but the negative effects outweigh the good effects by a long shot. Eating fast food daily affects Americans’ health, diet, leaves a hole in their pocket, and even changes their everyday mood. The effects might not be seen right away, but after time they will start to add ...
The findings indicate “a strong effect of teasing on body dissatisfaction and of body dissatisfaction on eating disturbance,” the authors write. “It is essential that treatment and prevention programs begin to address methods to reduce the negative social stigma and its correlates (i.e., negative feedback in the form of teasing) that accompany obesity,” they conclude The article is about girls that are overweight and the teasing they endure while at school which may lead to an eating disorder. The ties of the article and essay is the fact that what you eat represents what you are and how you think of yourself. If you eat too much and do not exercise you will be overweight. If you do not sit around and eat all day then you will live a healthy lifestyle and will like yourself. The author in Grub describes that he doesn?t eat greasy foods, and that the foods people eat describes their character. The CNN anchor was a study in euphemisms. As Headline News went “around the world in 30 minutes,” returning inexorably to the O.J. Simpson murder trial one October day, writers presented anchor David Goodnow with a new way around the word that rocked the trial.
The slurs from retired Los Angeles detective Mark Fuhrman did not flow easily from the mouth of CNN’s on-air talent this day. It came out as “n-word” or “racial epithet.” At one point, Goodnow said the officer had hurled his insults at a group of “n’s.” This wasn’t the first time journalists had to figure out how to say “nigger” without offending people. But Fuhrman’s titillating, slur-laced tales of corrupt policing in Los Angeles combined with Simpson’s international celebrity to force the issue into the face of media decision-makers across the country and around the world. The result was a mixed bag of euphemisms and dashes with a healthy dose of real life. How, news organizations wondered, do we allow viewers, listeners and readers to feel the full impact of a racial slur while not perpetuating the injury that such words can still cause? Like most ethical dilemmas, the paths to a conclusion were many. In the article the author talks about how the word ?nigger? was used in the O.J. Simpson trial. That word is referred to as ?the word that rocked the trial?. The word was used as a racial slur against Simpson in the trial.
The Term Paper on Home School Schooling Children Child
Home schooling is another way for a child to receive his or her education. It is one of many alternatives to regular schooling (classrooms and schools). It is the oldest alternatives to regular schooling and one of the most effective. There are many true stories proving that home schooling is an effective and often successful way to teach you child. But first lets talk about home schooling began ...
In the article the author refers to the word nigger in different forms because he doesn?t feel comfortable using that form of the word. In the book the boy asks his mom what the word nigger means. She explained to him that the word could be used in certain context, and if it was used the wrong way then consequences would be paid. But the world has shifted, regular consumers are now calling the shots, and Microsoft is doing its best to adapt. “We used to test our products through a process known as ‘eating the dog food,’ ” says Cole. “But we are no longer the same people as our customers, so eating our own dog food doesn’t work anymore. We’ve got to get our friends and families to eat the dog food.” Well, you know what he’s getting at. This article is not necessarily about a certain person eating dog food, it is about everyone eating dog food. This article refers to the fact that companies, such as Microsoft, no longer have to test the new programs that they make, the company relies on the public and people who want to buy that product to ?eat the dog food?.
CNN) — “Beautiful” is yet another tale exploring the strange little subculture of American beauty pageants. But instead of just looking at the overall milieu of women competing for tin tiaras, it focuses on one woman’s heartfelt and funny journey in search of what beauty really means. “Beautiful” stars Minnie Driver and is helmed by first-time feature film director (and two-time Academy Award winner) Sally Field. Driver plays Mona Hibbard, a gutsy young woman determined to will herself into becoming a beauty queen, escaping her unhappy childhood and her decidedly unglamorous life in the process. Like Don Quixote, who followed his impossible dream in “Man of La Mancha” (1972) with assistant Sancho Panza in tow, Mona is assisted by her own Panza: her childhood chum Ruby, played winningly by Joey Lauren Adams. You may remember Adams for her breakthrough role as the whiny-voiced Amy in “Chasing Amy” (1997); thankfully, she doesn’t bring that voice to this role This article explains of a movie coming out about women who are only beautiful on the outside, just like the essay The Importance of Being Beautiful. In the essay it talks about how society views a women. In the article it explains that most women that are competing in beauty pageants are the women who are just out to look their best to win something but deep down something is wrong with them.
The Term Paper on School Uniform Requirement Uniforms Wear Children
It's official -- the largest school district in the U. S. has adopted school uniforms. Over a half-million elementary-school students in New York City will have to adhere to a dress code by the Fall of 1999. The president of the school board said the policy is 'important to diminish peer pressure and promote school pride,' but that it's not 'an act of magic to transform schools overnight... It ...
In Japan Nice Guys (and Girls) Finish Together KUJI, Japan — Ask Kinichi Kuwabara about his future, and he just shrugs. “I don’t really care much about it,” said the 15-year-old, who hasn’t gone to school for six years. “Everyone says, ‘The future, the future,’ but …” He shrugs again. Kinichi may not be very concerned, but his elders are. Japan is distraught over its troubled youth. Schools are struggling with rising absenteeism, violence and bullying. Juvenile delinquency and teen prostitution are growing problems. Teen suicides are up. Beyond the headlines are other quiet but foreboding signs: young people with trouble forming friendships, a deepening rift between parents and children, and splintering respect among kids for school and family. “While we have high hopes for our youth, today we cannot deny that the problems facing young people … are grave,” the government said earlier this year in a 580-page report on young people. The forces behind these changes are being fiercely debated. Some blame Japan’s group-oriented society and conformist education system for being out of step with a more individualistic age.
Others say modern wealth and doting parents have created an unruly brood of brats. Whatever the reason, the youthful turmoil has been hard to understand for many Japanese, who largely expected that the hard-earned wealth of the postwar years would give their children happier, more comfortable lives. “Society has changed so fast a generation gap has opened,” said Keiko Okuchi, director of Tokyo Shure, an alternative school for dropouts. “Children feel misunderstood, and parents can’t figure out what their kids are thinking.” Kinichi is one of those kids. In a country that pushes children to get a good education above all else, this son of an elementary school teacher stopped going to school in the fourth grade. He tried junior high once — and lasted a week. “There was no time to play; the food was bad. I just couldn’t see the point,” Kinichi said, strumming a guitar with friends at a club for other “school-refusers” in Kuji, just outside Tokyo. Kinichi is not your average Japanese teen. Most children here are busy doing what they’re expected to do — without the school shootings and rampant drug use that afflict peers in the United States.
“It’s the people who can’t work together in groups that are getting all the attention,” said Takayuki Otsuka, 17, a high school junior in Shin-Urayasu, a suburb of Tokyo. Still, that stability is showing signs of erosion. One area of deep concern is crime. The number of people between the ages of 14 and 19 arrested in Japan ratcheted up 14 percent in 1997, and rose an additional 3 percent in 1998. Unrest is also growing in Japan’s schools. “School-refusers” like Kinichi — young people who miss 30 days or more of class, or don’t go at all — are on the rise, though they still only account for 2 percent of youngsters. School is mandatory through elementary and junior high, but authorities don’t lean too heavily on those who don’t attend. “If you talk to these kids, you realize they’ve totally lost confidence in themselves,” said Hiroyuki Nishino, head of Tamariba, the club where Kinichi and other young teens spend their days. The article discusses about the children of Japan and how they seem to be falling apart. The children are dropping out of school or rarely show up.
The teen death rate and teen prostitution are on the rise. In the article it says the total opposite. In the essay Kristof talks about how the children get along and how the children are raised perfect. As discussed before, how accurate is the authors sources or did she just research one family? Teaching morals and values in the public schools has been a frequently discussed topic in the past few years. Interestingly, most of the discussion has come from members of the religious right and individuals associated or sympathetic with their point of view. For example, Secretary of Education William Bennett recently urged conservative activists to join him in a fight to restore a “coherent moral vision” to America’s public schools. Speaking to leaders of Phyllis Schlafly’s Eagle Forum, he declared that “We can get the values Americans share back into our classrooms,” and “Those who claim we are now too diverse a nation, that we consist of too many competing convictions and interests to instill common values, are wrong.” Bennett said that children should be taught such values as patriotism, self-discipline, thrift, honesty, and that there is a moral difference between the United States and the Soviet Union.
Gary Bauer, a deputy undersecretary in the Department of Education and an outspoken advocate of right-wing religious ideals, told the American Federation of Teachers that “The teaching of values and ethics in our public schools should be an integral part of the curriculum.” Bauer laments that the values “on which there is wide agreement, for example, honesty, courage, humility, kindness, generosity, and patriotism have been eliminated from many texts.” Perhaps the clearest example is from our President, Ronald Reagan, who had this to say about education’s basic purpose: “We’re beginning to realize, once again, that education at its core is more than just teaching our young the skills that are needed for a job, however important that is. It’s also about passing on to each new generation the values that serve as the foundation and cornerstone of our free democratic society–patriotism, loyalty, faithfulness, courage, the ability to make the crucial moral distinctions between right and wrong, the maturity to understand that all that we have and achieve in this world comes first from a beneficent and loving God.” In this article it talks about children of the United States and how moral character has been removed from the curriculum at the schools and is no longer being taught to young people.
I guess I was one of the last students who was taught, because in my earlier grades teachers taught morality to students. Today?s society should now more than ever because of the way society is with broken families and crime rate. If the parents or that schools do not teach young people how to behave who will? In the essay Abalone, Abalone, Abalone the father tries to teach his son of collecting shells and tries to tell him that the shells are important and he ties that into life and how you are to live. ATLANTA (CNN/SI) — This isn’t the first time collegiate sports — or even Northwestern — have been linked with point shaving. Here’s a list of past scandals:Arizona State, 1997: Two players plead guilty to point shaving; the inquiry, dating back to games in 1994, shows that 15 of 22 fraternities turned up in records of illegal gambling ring on campus.Boston College, 1996: Thirteen football players are suspended for gambling on games; two players are found to have bet against their own team.Maryland, 1995: Five athletes, including the starting quarterback on the football team, are suspended for gambling on sports.Northwestern, 1994: Two players, one a starting tailback on the football team and the other a starting guard on the basketball team, are suspended for betting on college games.
Bryant College, 1992: Five basketball players, who had built up $54,000 in gambling debts, are suspended and a former player and student was arrested and charged with bookmaking.Maine, 1992: Thirteen baseball players and six football players are suspended for gambling on games.Florida, 1989: Four football players, including star-QB-to-be Shane Matthews, then a redshirt freshman, are suspended for betting on football games. 1947-1950: Thirty-two players at seven schools are implicated in a plot to fix 86 games. Included in the scandal are players from City College of New York and Kentucky, including Ralph Beard, Alex Groza and Sherman White.Here are some other major point-shaving investigations: 1959-61: Thirty-seven players from 22 schools are implicated in point-shaving scandals, including Connie Hawkins and Jack Molinas.1978-79: Organized crime figure Henry Hill and New York gambler Richard (The Fixer) Perry mastermind a scheme to fix nine Boston College games in concern with BC players Ernie Cobb, Rick Kuhn and Jim Sweeney. Kuhn, the only player convicted, serves two and a half years in prison for conspiracy to commit sports bribery and interstate gambling.1984-85: Four Tulane starters, including John “Hot Rod” Williams, and one reserve are accused of shaving points in two games.
Two of the five players, Clyde Eads and Jon Johnson, are granted immunity and testify that the others also shaved points in exchange for cash and cocaine. Williams was acquitted and none of the players did jail time but the university shut down the program until the 1989-90 season. The essay Clean Up or Pay Up is about college sports and how college players go against NCAA rules and take money from people, take shoes from major companies, or even take the shoes from the colleges and sell them to make some extra money. The article discusses scandals from the past on collegiate students who have done one of the above and have gotten caught and suspended by the NCAA. The most recent scandal is the one with students from the past that were caught four years later. They were involved in a point shaving.
Random acts of kindness are a wonderful way to reach across time and space to touch the life of another being. Publicizing and raising awareness of the significance of human kindness undoubtedly makes the world a better place. At every step along the path of expanding awareness there is the opportunity to go deeper; to explore more of the potential of our divine humanness. So it is with kindness. Acts of kindness are really not difficult. An intention is formed, and you carry it out. It makes you feel good. Holding kindness and compassion in our hearts, and integrating them into the complexity and stresses of daily life, every day — now there is a deep challenge! Parents can learn to discipline kindly, remaining firm, yet doing so with love and warmth. Teachers can learn to remain patient and forgiving, no matter how frustrated they might feel with a particular student. Employees can choose to cooperate and remain positive about employers, rather than going into polarity. They can preserve their integrity, leaving the job if they must. Employers can honor the individuality and dignity of each staff member, placing the significance of the human over the material. Men and women can choose to focus on what is beautiful and special about the opposite sex, rather than battling for superiority.
Children can learn to let everyone play, rather than setting up exclusive games. We can all begin to celebrate adolescence and help teens to feel proud of themselves, rather than raising our eyebrows in disgust. Teenagers can learn to be patient with and accepting of adults in spite of our limitations, instead of raising their eyebrows in disgust. Drivers can realize that there is enough road to share, and time to get there. Allowing a spirit of kindness to permeate our collective lives would be a quantum leap, from an evolutionary standpoint. Eliminating meanness, pettiness, gossip, criticism, judgement, polarity, and blame would be a superb act of kindness. It is also a fundamental step along any spiritual path. Those negative qualities reflect a very dense, heavy energy, vested solidly in ego, and they block the light of the spirit. Random acts of kindness amidst the darker energies are certainly a positive start. We can do more. Much more. We can resolve to be kinder, gentler beings. All day, every day. We can treat those closest to us with the same respect and politeness that we reserve for friends and colleagues. We can refuse to litter the lives of others with negative energy.
If we do this, we will be doing our part to create a world in which kindness is never a random act, but rather a way of life The article discusses the random acts of kindness that employees can do in everyday work, or acts of kindness that kids can do for their parents or vice versa. In the essay, the people in the streets would perform random acts of kind things to the girl and her mother. At the time the mother thought the people were being rude by whistling at them as they walked down the street. What she didn?t realize at the time is that the people were not being rude, that is just the way that the people in the Canary Islands act. Random acts of kindness would make this world a better place if they would happen more often. WASHINGTON — As the national civics lesson continues in Florida, it is worth reflecting on how long it took the United States to get to the point that all votes were created equal. The right to vote was not in the Constitution until the 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868, women were not guaranteed that right until the 1920s, and most blacks were not able to vote until the 1960s. All the Constitution said, in Article 4, Section 4, Article 4, was that the new federal government must “guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government.” All that meant was that some landowners had the right to send representatives to a state capital and to the national capital.
In the beginning, only Vermont allowed citizens without property to vote. All the other founding states restricted the vote to white male property owners over the age of 21 — and sometimes, as in the choosing of U.S. senators, the vote was restricted to a few dozen men sitting as a state legislature. This is how they felt about it then, as written in a letter by John Adams in 1776: “Depend upon it, sir, it is dangerous to open so fruitful a source of controversy and altercation as would be opened by attempting to alter the qualifications of voters; there will be no end of it. New claims will arise; women will demand the vote; lads from 12 to 21 will think their rights not enough attended to; and every man who has not a farthing, will demand an equal voice with any other, in all acts of state.” I know these things because I’m reading a wonderful new book, “The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States,” by Alexander Keyssar, a professor of history at Duke University. It certainly is the right book at the right time if you are engaged by the drama of these times. The counting in Florida is an epilogue of this work — and the work of millions of Americans to give those folks in Palm Beach and Tallahassee enough to count.
“For millions of Americans, these legal changes had concrete consequences as simple as they were profound,” writes Keyssar. “A poor black woman who could not set foot in a polling place in 1958 could pull a voting machine lever for a black candidate in 1972. A Puerto Rican-born resident of New York who failed the English-language test in 1960 would receive voting information in Spanish in 1980. Eighteen-year-old soldiers who were sent to Vietnam during the Tet offensive of 1968 could not vote in that year’s tempestuous election, but their 18-year-old counterparts during the Gulf War could cast ballots wherever they were stationed. These were not small changes.” Indeed. But the book is not a work of American triumphalism. Keyssar demonstrates something we prefer to forget, that the overwhelming majority of Americans had to fight to get the right to vote. Some of the fighting was literal: Expansions of the electorate tended to coincide with war, when the leaders of the country needed expanded political support. As it was said, if you wanted to send regiments out to fight and die, you’d best get regiments out to vote. Well, then, God bless Benjamin Franklin, whom as you may remember had a gift for getting to the point, unlike, say, George W.
Bush or Al Gore. This is what he had to say on the other side of Adams’ argument: “Today a man owns a jackass worth fifty dollars and he is entitled to vote; but before the next election the jackass dies. … The jackass is dead and the man cannot vote. Now, gentlemen, pray inform me, in whom is the right of suffrage, in the man or in the jackass?” In 1850, when voting rights were an issue in the writing and rewriting of state constitutions, a man named Norton Townshend rose in the Ohio convention to say: “I was looking the other day into Noah Webster’s Dictionary for the meaning of democracy, and I found, as I expected, that he defines a democrat as ‘someone who favors universal suffrage.'” Going to Webster’s Collegiate to see how “democrat” is now defined, I read: “One who practices social equality.” Think about that. Keyssar does. He ends on a sobering note, writing: “No political system can claim to be democratic without universal suffrage, but a broad franchise alone cannot guarantee to each citizen an equal voice in politics and governance. … The current debate over campaign financing and the use of soft money can be viewed as the latest battle in the two-centuries-old war over the democratization of politics in the United States; at the moment anti-democratic forces are winning the battle, and in so doing, are undercutting the achievement of universal suffrage.” In the article above the argument over equal rights was in controversy then and is in controversy now.
The article says that the most dangerous right, right now is the right to vote. With the presidency situation right now, some Americans are saying that they wish that they would not had voted now. It was not until that women were allowed to vote until the 1920?s and blacks in 1960?s. If the Declaration of Independence says that all men should be created equal then that is how every American citizen should be treated. Another major controversy right now is should the overseas ballots count? Well if they are American citizens then they should be treated equally and their votes should count just like everyone else.
