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¶ … pursuit of Justice
Paine's ideas, as compared to Golda Meir's memoir, must first be regarded with respect to time and the centuries in-between. As we can see, Paine wrote in the 18th century, in political and social conditions somewhat different from those in the mid 1900s when Golda Meir gave his considerations on new nations and independence. If we consider the world as it was in the 18th century, international law, where the state is the main subject of law, was but at the very beginning. We had already seen the evolvement of powerful nations (France, Great Britain, Holland) in the previous century, states who had already gained their independence and, even more important, their suzerainty. These were the players of the international political stage, noticeably very few. This context was proper for the evolvement of new nations and new states, as many of these had already founded colonies in other continents. As such, Paine's ideas of...
The first idea, that all man are equal as they were all made by God, who made no distinction between them, excepting the gender distinction ("male and female created he them"). This idea can and is transposed to state and nation level in international law, giving birth to a principle that says that all countries and states are equal on the international politics stage. In this sense, every state has the right to fulfill its own ideas, in an environment regulated by international law principles.
The second important idea we should draw from Paine's text with regard to nations and peoples is that every nation has the right to self-determination. In this sense, every nation has the right to form a state where…
Notice that the government, in Paine's text, is someone who represents the people, the people choosing to delegate some of is natural rights to the government, who can best achieve and enforce these rights.
Starting from this, we can discuss Golda Meir's memoir and his famous statement according to which "there are no Palestinians (...) only Arabs." If we consider the state of affairs in the Middle East at the time (and it is also applicable to the present), the Palestinians have constantly asked, ever since the proclamation of the state of Israel in 1948, for a territory. Having talked about the main elements of a state (territory, population, government), the Palestinians needed a territory to form a state, because they already had an established Palestinian population. The question that needs to be asked here is whether this demand for a territory is just. Thus, the answer to such a question is directly related to whether the Palestinians do form a nation. If one denies their existence as a nation, the question of territory needn't even be asked, because they have not fulfilled the first condition.
Thus, Golda Meir finds and applies the easiest mean to deny the right for a free Palestine by denying the existence of the Palestinian nation. In this sense, the underlying principles on which the new states are founded and indeed, the principles which will subsequently lead to the foundation of a new state, do not exist if the existence of the nation itself is denied.
What was particularly ironic was that soccer had always been a game for whites only: blacks were specifically not included. Of course, the movie had a happy ending when South Africa won the World Cup. But the World Cup didn't completely change South Africa. There is still high violence, prompted by economic conditions and a newly released set of citizens. A high percentage of residents also have Aids, another very
Apart from literary arts, individualism is also most evident in the field of education. The development of educational institutions, spearheaded by the Florentine Academy, an informal organization of humanists, helped celebrate human reason in combination of mathematical and moral truths. The conceptualization of an educational institution as the formal venue for human reasoning and thought to be cultivated began with Plato's concept of the Academy. As Renaissance thinkers and humanist
pursuit of education in a wide variety of area. Two areas of educational pursuit apply to the criminal justice and security management fields. Criminal justice can best be described as ensuring that criminal acts do not go unpunished while the perpetrators of these acts receive the quickest, most efficient and fairest scrutiny of the crimes and are judged accordingly. In determining what is criminal justice and how does society determine
.....ethics cannot avoid claims to universal truths, political philosophy cannot avoid the efficacy of universalism. Relativism is too convenient a response to resolving conflicts of interest and divergent views of governance. However, an alternative to the universalism versus relativism debate lies in Rawl's concept of justice as being the fundamental tenet of a constitutional democracy. Rawls also bases his concept of justice and political philosophy on the underlying importance of
Obstacle Women Face in Pursuit of Equality When it comes to overcoming obstacles, two essays, "Ain't I a Woman" and "Watching Oprah Winfrey" from Behind the Veil," clearly show that women are encountering hindrances in chase of impartiality all over the world. However, although both essays touch on the same type of injustice which is gender inequality, they each have different themes. For instance, one delves into a country where the
IV. BARRIERS to 'JUSTICE 'FOR ALL' There are barriers that stand in the way of all individuals experiencing the same level of justice as other experience and these barriers may include those which are structural and socio-economic as well as other barriers to justice which include gender, race, and ethnicity. In other words, there are barriers effectively in place barring individuals from being on the receiving end of an equal level