Civil Society Essays (Examples)

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The History Of Dorothea Dix

Pages: 7 (2009 words) Sources: 6 Document Type:Essay Document #:92748970

… work of women like Clara Barton, the founder of the American Red Cross and known as the Angel of the Battlefield during the civil War, as she never hesitated to visit soldiers to comfort them and bring whatever aid should could, even though she was only a … ethnic background.
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This paper provides a description of the historical figure in nursing, Dorothea L. Dix (1802-1887). She was a civil War era nurse and served as the Superintendant of Army Nurses. One of her major contributions to the field of nursing was to ……

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Brown, T. J. (1998). Dorothea Dix: New England Reformer (Vol. 127). Harvard University Press.

Darraj, S. M. (2009). Mary Eliza Mahoney. Infobase Publishing.

Fantel, H. (1974). William Penn: Apostle of Dissent. NY: William Morrow & Co.

Gollaher, D. L. (1993). Dorothea Dix and the English origins of the American asylum movement. Canadian Review of American Studies, 23(3), 149-176.

Hardy, S., & Corones, A. (2017). The nurse’s uniform as ethopoietic fashion. Fashion Theory, 21(5), 523-552.

Hathway, M. (1934). Dorothea Dix and Social Reform in Western Pennsylvania, 1845-1875. Western Pennsylvania History: 1918-2018, 17(4), 247-258.

Howard, A. & Kavenick, F. (1990). Handbook of American women’s history. New York, NY: Garland.

Modak, T., Sarkar, S., & Sagar, R. (2016). Dorothea dix: A proponent of humane treatment of mentally ill. Journal of Mental Health and Human Behaviour, 21(1), 69.

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Rights And The French Revolution

Pages: 8 (2520 words) Sources: 14 Document Type:Research Paper Document #:58574164

… for granted. As Lynn Hunt points out, one of the big questions over right was the issue of voting—the distinction between political and civil rights: “Political rights guaranteed equal participation; civil rights guaranteed equal treatment before the law in matters concerning marriage, property, and inheritance.”[footnoteRef:4] Nowadays, the assumption is that people should have both … rights guaranteed equal treatment before the law in matters concerning marriage, property, and inheritance.”[footnoteRef:4] Nowadays, the assumption is that people should have both civil and political rights and that these are part of their basic human rights—but such was not the notion in France. Certainly it was … Old World institutions blocked and opposed on principle because the leaders of the Old World knew if naturalism ever got a toehold in society, society would reject the Old World institutions out…[break]…best remembered for bringing into existence the Reign of Terror, and it is that which……

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Abbe Sieyes. \\\\\\\\\\\\"Preliminary to the French Constitution.\\\\\\\\\\\\" In The French Revolution and Human Rights: A Brief History with Documents, 2nd Edition, edited by Lynn Hunt, 78. Boston: Bedford, 2016.

Cook, Malcolm. Elections in the French Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

“French Constitution, Rights of Man and Citizen,” Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, accessed November 8, 2019,  http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/d/55 

Higonnet, Patrice. “The Harmonization of the Spheres,” The French Revolution and the Creation of Modern Political Culture, vol. 4, The Terror. Emerald Publishing, 1994.

Hunt, Lynn. \\\\\\\\\\\\"Introduction: The Revolutionary Origins of Human Rights.\\\\\\\\\\\\" In The French Revolution and Human Rights: A Brief History with Documents, 2nd Edition, edited by Lynn Hunt, 1-31. Boston: Bedford, 2016

Jones, Colin. The Great Nation. London: Penguin Books, 2003

Lembcke, Oliver, and Weber, Florian. “Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès : The Essential Political Writings.” 1 st ed. Vol. 9

Montesquieu. “Montesquieu on Government Systems (1748).” French Revolution, January 18, 2018. Accessed November 4, 2019,  https://alphahistory.com/frenchrevolution/montesquieu-on-government-systems-1748/

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Racial Equality And Justice

Pages: 5 (1742 words) Document Type:Essay Document #:751873

Racial injustice is a part of American history. In spite of legislation like the civil Rights Act of 1964, racial injustice remains rampant in the United States. Police brutality is one of the most visible areas in which … of such instances and are also stopped and arrested more often than their white counterparts, shows that racial bias is endemic in American society.
This sample essay provides an example of how to write about racial equality and justice in America. Several topics will be discussed in … this essay, including George Floyd and the riots in Minneapolis. A discussion of Black Lives Matter and Antifa will also show how the society is responding to racism in America. Additionally, this essay will show how the George Floyd incident led to a public discussion about defunding … with murder. 

The deaths of innocent African Americans in the United States at the hands……

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Black Lives Matter (2020). Retrieved from: https://blacklivesmatter.com/about/

Cole, B. (2020). Minnesota asks Trump to declare ‘major disaster’ over riots damage. Newsweek. 3 July, 2020. Retrieved from: https://www.newsweek.com/minnesota-riots-tim-walz-clean-george-floyd-1515335

Glover, S., Richards, C., Devine, C., et al. (2020). A key miscalculation by officers contributed to the tragic death of Breonna Taylor. CNN. 23 July, 2020. Retrieved from: https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/23/us/breonna-taylor-police-shooting-invs/index.html

“History of Juneteenth,” (2020). juneteenth.com. Retrieved from: https://www.juneteenth.com/history.htm

Ray, R. (2020). What does ‘defund the police’ mean and does it have merit? Brookings. Retrieved from:  https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2020/06/19/what-does-defund-the-police-mean-and-does-it-have-merit/ 

“Seven Things You Need to Know About Antifa,” (2020). BBC. Retrieved from:  https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/X56rQkDgd0qqB7R68t6t7C/seven-things-you-need-to-know-about-antifa 

“Who Are Antifa?” (2020). ADL. Retrieved from :  https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounders/who-are-antifa 

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How Religious Beliefs Affected Colonial Social Structure In America

Pages: 6 (1917 words) Sources: 7 Document Type:Research Paper Document #:51981649

… banned Catholicism (Laux). In short, there was little religious unity broadly speaking, but religion nonetheless played an important role in the structuring of society and class when it came to local organization. Hawthorne and Melville—the two premier authors of the 19th century—described this experience of social stratification … as a means of dividing the social structure into classes and pockets of power so that the religious institutions determined the organization of society from top to bottom.
As Pyle and Davidson point out, “religious adherence was in the allocation of power, privilege, and prestige during the … power, privilege, and prestige during the colonial period” (57). Those who wanted to secure for themselves a position of power and privilege in society necessarily had to abide by the rules of the religious institution of the community. The Quakers had rules about swearing, gambling, drinking and … under the Protestant Crown in……

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Fantel, Hans. William Penn: Apostle of Dissent. NY: William Morrow & Co., 1974.

Graham, Michael. "Posish Plots: Protestant Fears in Early Colonial Maryland, 1676-1689." The Catholic historical review 79.2 (1993): 197-216.

Holton, W. Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1999.

Laux, John. Church History. New York: Benziger Brothers, 1933.

Melville, Herman. Clarel.  https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015005201424&view=1up&seq=9 

Milder, R. Herman Melville. New York: Columbia University Press,1988.

Pyle, Ralph E., and James D. Davidson. "The origins of religious stratification in colonial America." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 42.1 (2003): 57-75.

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Coronavirus COVID 19

Pages: 9 (2907 words) Sources: 4 Document Type:Essay Document #:604304

… to help contain and stop the spread of what is now a pandemic, the epidemiology of the disease, and how it has impacted society and culture.

Signs and Symptoms

One of the more mysterious characteristics of COVID 19 is that one can be a carrier of the … lack of evidence one way or another, however, does not allow for a conclusive answer to be given.

What is certain is that society is going to be permanently change for good or for ill no matter what.  Whether people suffer from economic depression or from psychological … face masks become required in public places, whether digital monitoring using chip implants becomes a staple of American life, whether more freedoms and civil rights are given up in the name of safety and security, and whether the divide between the Right and Left reaches a point … given up in the name……

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Chen, N., Zhou, M., Dong, X., Qu, J., Gong, F., Han, Y., ... & Yu, T. (2020).  Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of 99 cases of 2019 novel coronavirus pneumonia in Wuhan, China: a descriptive study. The Lancet, 395(10223), 507-513.

Kekatos, M. (2020). Ventilating too soon. Retrieved from  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-8201783/Some-doctors-moving-away-ventilators-virus-patients.html 

Myers, S. L. (2020). China Spins Tale That the U.S. Army Started the Coronavirus Epidemic. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/world/asia/coronavirus-china-conspiracy-theory.html

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. (2015). Improving diagnosis in health care. National Academies Press.

Oliver, D. (2020). Coronavirus genetic material stayed on surfaces for up to 17 days on Diamond Princess cruise, CDC says. Retrieved from  https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/cruises/2020/03/24/coronavirus-diamond-princess-cabin-surfaces-contaminated-cdc-report/2905924001/ 

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Should Reparations Be Paid To Native Americans And African Americans

Pages: 6 (1855 words) Sources: 10 Document Type:Term Paper Document #:86662683

… The wrongs done to these two…[break]…they are completely innocent of these activities and are only subject to the harms caused by the mainstream society for the country’s first centuries of existence. In sum, critics or reparations maintain that not only is the formula involved far too complex ……

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Bradford, W. (2004). Beyond reparations: An American Indian theory of justice. Ohio State Law Journal.

Flavin, F. E. (2002, Winter). A pox on Amherst: Smallpox, Sir Jeffery, and a town named Amherst. Historical Journal of Massachusetts, 30(1), 1-5.

Forrester, K. (2019). Reparations, history and the origins of global justice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Gilmore, B. & Adams, H. (2019). The case for a reparations clinic. Michigan State Law Review.

Howard-Hassmann, R. E. (2004). Reparations to Africa and the group of eminent persons. Cahiers d’étudesafricaines.

Lenzerini, F. (2007). Reparations for indigenous peoples. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Lockhart, P. (2019, June 19). The 2020 Democratic primary debate over reparations, explained. Vox. Retrieved from  https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/3/11/18246741/  reparations-democrats-2020-inequality-warren-harris-castro.

Loewen, J. W. (1995). Lies my teacher told me. New York: The New Press.

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Hip Hop History And Culture

Pages: 7 (2134 words) Sources: 9 Document Type:Essay Document #:24988404

… Furious Five and the Origins of Hip Hop
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This paper examines the manner in which the hip hop grew out of the civil Rights Movement and became a way for disenfranchised black youths, marginalized by society, to express their thoughts and feelings on a world that did want them to rise up. The history of hip hop and its ……

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BBC. “The birth of hip hop.” BBC.  https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04s04nk 

Best, Steven, and Douglas Kellner. "Rap, black rage, and racial difference."  Enculturation 2.2 (1999): 1-23.

Brown, Jake. Tupac Shakur, (2-Pac) in the Studio: The Studio Years (1989-1996). Phoenix, AZ: Colossus Books, 2005.

Decker, Jeffrey Louis. "The state of rap: Time and place in hip hop nationalism." Social Text 34 (1993): 53-84.

Fluker, Walter. The Stones that the Builders Rejected. Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 1998.

Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. “The Message.”  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PobrSpMwKk4 

Jones, E. Michael. Libido Dominandi: Sexual Liberation and Political Control. South Bend, IN: St. Augustine’s Press, 2000.

Pareles, Jon. “Hip-Hop Is Rock ’n’ Roll, and Hall of Fame Likes It.” The New York Times, 13 March 2007.  https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/13/arts/music/13hall.html

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Ethical Issues Conflicts Of Interest

Pages: 4 (1232 words) Sources: 10 Document Type:Essay Document #:89213693

… attempted representing the same couple in a divorce case (Legal Dictionary, 2018). Conflict of interest is a manifestation of structural failures of any society. The practice touches on a wide range of societal elements, including legal, political, and administrative aspects. Once public officers engage in acts of … the same time, some people do not realize that there is a problem when there is a conflict of interest, the bar for civil people demands that society disapproves of the violation of ethical behavior and moral decorum (Pathranarakul, 2005).
Distrust of the judicial system
The genesis of societal distrust towards … Claus Offe (1999), institutional distrust arises because of their incoherence involving the allotted resources. Trusting institutions are driven by the assumption that the society where they exist is aware of their primary norms and function, visa-a-vis the normative values for which they were established in the…[break]…in resolving … informed……

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Alterio, E. (2011). From judicial comity to legal comity: A judicial solution to global disorder?I-CON, 9(2), 394-424. doi: 10.1093/icon/mor036

BrainMass. (2019). Correctional officer subculture: Ethics. Retrieved from  https://brainmass.com/law/familylaw/correctional-officer-subculture-ethics-165895 

Filgueiras, F. (2011).Transparência e controle da corrupção no Brasil. In: Corrupção e sistemapolítico no Brasil, edited by Leonardo Avritzer and Fernando Filgueiras. Rio de Janeiro: CivilizaçãoBrasileira.

Kindregan, C. (1975).Conflict of interest and the lawyer in civil practice. Retrieved from  https://scholar.valpo.edu/vulr/vol10/iss3/2 

Legal Dictionary. (2018). Conflict of interest. Retrieved from  https://legaldictionary.net/conflict-of-interest/ 

Lilles, H. (2002). Circle sentencing: Part of the restorative justice continuum. IIRP. Retrieved from  https://www.iirp.edu/news/circle-sentencing-part-of-the-restorative-justice-continuum 

Montes, A., Mears, D., &Conchran, J. (2016). The privatization debate: A conceptual framework for improving (public and private) corrections. Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice. 32(4). Retrieved from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305418634_The_Privatization_Debate_A_Conceptual_Framework_for_Improving_Public_and_Private_Corrections

Off, C. (1999). How can we trust our fellow citizens? In: Democracy and trust, edited by Mark Warren. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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Effects Of Domestic Violence On African American Women

Pages: 5 (1381 words) Sources: 10 Document Type:Research Paper Document #:75342722

… and nothing more—so that when the satisfaction wears off the male feels he has the license to react violently—a theme found…[break]…end of the civil Rights Movement, blacks have been persecuted by the criminal justice system. They have been exploited by Big Media and projected in a thuggish ……

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Adorno, T., & Horkheimer, M. (2007). The culture industry: Enlightenment as mass deception. Stardom and celebrity: A reader, 34.

Bandura, A. (2018). Toward a psychology of human agency: Pathways and reflections.  Perspectives on Psychological Science, 13(2), 130-136.

Bent-Goodley, T.B. (2001). Eradicating domestic violence in the African American community: A literature review and action agenda. Trauma, Violence, and Abuse: A Review Journal, 2,316-330.

Franklin, D.L. (2000). What\\\\\\'s love got to do with it? Understanding and healing the rift Between Black men and women. New York: Simon and Schuster

NCADV. (2017). Statistics. Retrieved from  https://ncadv.org/statistics 

Institute for Women’s Policy Research. (2017). Violence Against Black Women – Many Types, Far-reaching Effects. Retrieved from https://iwpr.org/violence-black-women-many-types-far-reaching-effects/

Jones, F. (2014). Why Black Women Struggle More With Domestic Violence. Retrieved from  https://time.com/3313343/ray-rice-black-women-domestic-violence/ 

Lee, C. (2017). Inside Whitney Houston’s Violent Marriage to Bobby Brown. Retrieved from  https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-whitney-houstons-violent-marriage-to-bobby-brown

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Impact Of Class Gender Ethnicity Culture And Politics As They Relate

Pages: 2 (676 words) Sources: 5 Document Type:Essay Document #:33285446

… for they still wished to deny the Negro his fair share of equality. Slavery persisted for nearly another century and it took the civil War to bring that issue to the fore, with the Great Emancipator finally taking the first steps in freeing slaves in states still … did not establish equal rights for blacks and Jim Crow laws sprang up in numerous states. It would be another century before the civil Rights Act would finally ensure protection under the law for all.
Women, too, did not enjoy the kind of “equality” that the Declaration ……

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Declaration of Independence. (1776). Retrieved from  http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/compare.html 

Guelzo, A. C. (2000). Lincoln and the Abolitionists. The Wilson Quarterly, 24(4), 58-70.

O’Sullivan, J. (1845). Annexation. United States Magazine and Democratic Review, 17(1), 5-10.

Paine, T. (1791). The rights of man. Retrieved from  https://www.ushistory.org/Paine/rights/ 

Van Voris, J. (1996). Carrie Chapman Catt: A Public Life. New York City: Feminist Press at CUNY.

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