Description Details
...The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was ratified in 1948 by the United Nations General Assembly. It defines the fundamental rights of individuals, and exhorts all governments to protect these rights. The UN has translated the document into over thr...

Description Details
...The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a declaration adopted by the United Nations General Assembly (10 December 1948 at Palais de Chaillot, Paris). The Guinness Book of Records describes the UDHR as the Most Translated Document in the world...

Description Details
... at times I have gone overboard like in one particular opinion on Aarushi murder, where emotions and logic intermingled in an expanded narrative. Rights, especially privacy and equality, are my area of focus; therefore most of my opinions herein; i.e., the ones discussing Brain Research, NCTC, Sting Operations, LGBTs, Prostitution, SC/ST quotas, and AADHAR/NPR; are foc...

Description Details
...s take place within states. They have tragic feature in common, women and children suffer their impact disproportionately. The concept of children’s rights has widened and the international mandate to reinforce the rights of the child has grown over the years, with the mounting evidence of hardship and abuse suffered by the children. The principles outlined in the inte...

Description Details
...After an elongated period of economic deprivation; and human rights expropriation; by the reds; I accumulated enough strength; and courage to turn over the sandglass, and try to locate the relief valve from the autoclavic realm. Those were the times when humans lost the pecking o...

Description Details
...s first detective agency. Though events associated with the agency after his death have tarnished the name, Pinkerton himself was one of the original human rights advocates. He was a dear friend to John Brown, an advisor to Abraham Lincoln, and 80 years ahead of his time in hiring female detectives. He was also stubborn, irascible, and an egomaniac. The Expressman and the ...

Description Details
... have reviewed Travel Locales, Books, Movies & more. If you like the Reviews section, I am sure you will also enjoy reading my Opinions, ranging from Human Rights to Economy. Last but not the least; Philosophy…do read it if you liked my other writings. Enjoy Reading! Ankur Mutreja....

Full Text Search Details
...s advent of the Lord. Because he is too shrewd an observer of the spirit and aspects of human society to doubt that it is infidelity which is to pla... ...rving: Preliminary Discourse. Part II. -33- down the barriers of authority and law, human and divine, as to come sweeping in by every ancient ga... ...ssary to salvation? Then what matter how we think upon it?” This is the very height of human arrogancy, of intellectual apostacy. Thou worm man! Wh... ...ion, nor ever hath been, nor ever can be, concerning Christ’s personal re- appearance in human form upon the earth; although I perceive the faith of t... ...his m y idea of divine revelation; the one taken from the vegetable, the other from the human life. At first the word of God is as a seed, it may be... ... sting out of death, or to wrest the victory from the grave, who are chartered in their rights by the unalterable law of the Eternal, which is more s... ... to do so prior to such a view and examination, were a manifest violation of the sacred rights of nations. And in the first place, I take upon me to... ...s to maintain her dignity, her primacy over all the churches of the earth, and her true rights, which are in no way opposed by the prophecy of which ... ...e who produces in court, unto the judge, some of those authentic documents on which his rights and his hopes are founded. First Document. § 1. S IN...

Full Text Search Details
... to live for particular things, she would found her struggle on particular human interests, which would inevitably determine, in respect to her, the a... ...but multitudinous, of the loss of parents, brothers, sisters, almost every human appendage, all on a scale and with a sweep that had required the grea... ...exist for her princess in the form of any sharp or simple release from the human predica- ment. It wouldn’t be for her a question of a flying leap and... ...the pure taste of scenery. She was all for scenery— yes; but she wanted it human and personal, and all she could say was that there would be in London... ...t a question, in short, of the people the compatriot was after; it was the human, the English picture itself, as they might see it in their own 109 H... ...er; he fell back on the spot, and with a light enough movement, within his rights. “That’s all very well, but why in the world, dear lady, should she ...

Description Details
...Taking an unusual approach to its topic, “Principles of Anarchism” applies classical logic and deductive reasoning to the subject of human interactions and rights. Beginning with the assumption that all human beings are equal, a concept which is termed the human equality axiom, the author goes on to draw a number of conclusions from this postulate in the ...

Description Details
...Taking an unusual approach to its topic, “Principles of Anarchism” applies classical logic and deductive reasoning to the subject of human interactions and rights. Beginning with the assumption that all human beings are equal, a concept which is termed the human equality axiom, the author goes on to draw a number of conclusions from this postulate in the ...

Excerpt Details
...ute and daily circumstances of life, has never been accused of representing actual persons in the two or three thousand portraits which he painted of human nature....

Full Text Search Details
... actual persons in the two or three thousand portraits which he painted of human nature. In “The Great Man of the Provinces in Paris” some like- nesse... ...is one of Balzac’s remark- able and most famous pictures in the “Comedy of Human Life.” K.P.W. 4 Balzac BEATRIX I A BRETON TOWN AND MANSION F RANCE, ... ... immutability which science gives to zoological species is found in Breton human nature. Even now, after the Revolution of 1830, Guerande is still a t... ...llery, supported by what we must call brackets, each ending in a grotesque human head. This gallery has a balustrade of exquisite workmanship. From th... ...ertheless, to an observer enough remained of the imperishable forms of the human 17 Beatrix face which appealed to the soul, even though the eye coul... ...ed Calyste as if she felt that 31 Beatrix her intentions gave her certain rights over him; her plans seemed to authorize a supervision. Not that her ... ...ch is the fief of Les Touches, from which the Revolution lopped its feudal rights. The paludiers, however, continue to call it “the chateau,” and they... ...d them; you continue to be a person in the eyes of the world, which has no rights over you; you have your own free will, and I have lost mine. I am sp... ... a sister, a friend, a comrade, what you will of that kind; but we have no rights other than those of friend- ship upon each other. I took her for a w...

Full Text Search Details
...oo, one might hazard, Benham was dreaming when he thought the noble life a human possibility. Perhaps man, like the ape and the hyaena and the tapewor... ...eems but a horror-stricken child knew what was happening…. This picture of human indignity tortured Benham’s imagi- nation much more than it tortured ... ...ideas anyhow. They just pop—as God meant them to do. What stupid things we human beings are!” Her philosophical moments were perhaps the most baf- fli... ... us, so that it can never be arrested and dark- ened again, is the dawn of human possibility….” (White could also see his dead friend’s face with its ... ...rk. 80 The Research Magnificent This man Merkle seemed quite unaware that humanity “here and now”—even as he was engaged in meticulously putting out ... ...ot one universal moral law, but no effective reconciliation of the various rights and duties of a single individual. At any rate I find myself doubtfu...

Full Text Search Details
...missis —” “And besides, if you will I’ll show you my sore toe.” Jim was only human — this attraction was too much for him. He put down his pail, took ... ...it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it — namely, that in order to make a man or... ...a of his lesson, but no more, for his mind was traversing the whole field of human thought, and his hands were busy with distracting recreations. Mary... ...hes” — and so by that we know the size of his wardrobe. The girl “put him to rights” after he had dressed himself; she buttoned his neat roundabout up... ...his work with his left hand. For a time the girl refused to notice; but her human curiosity presently began to manifest itself by hardly perceptible ... ...m Aunt Polly’s cham ber. And now the tiresome chirping of a cricket that no human ingenuity could locate, began. Next the ghastly tick ing of a deat...

Full Text Search Details
..., toward “those who go down to the sea in ships.” “Free trade and sailors’ rights” just then expressed the sentiment of the country . In my cloth- ing... ...or it was not in the interior of the State, but on its borders, that these human hounds were most vigilant and active. The border lines between slaver... ...- self in these earliest years of my freedom. Notwithstanding the just and humane sentiment of New Bedford three and forty years ago, the place was no... ...d noth- ing which can be considered final as to these questions. The Civil Rights Bill and the Freedmen’s Bureau Bill and the pro- posed constitutiona... ...country than perhaps any one other political idea,—no general assertion of human rights can be of any practical value. T o change the character of the... ...y than perhaps any one other political idea,—no general assertion of human rights can be of any practical value. T o change the character of the gover... ...o be done is to make the government consistent with itself, and render the rights of the States com- patible with the sacred rights of human nature. T... ...and render the rights of the States com- patible with the sacred rights of human nature. The arm of the Federal government is long, but it is far too ... .... Slavery, like all other great systems of wrong, founded in the depths of human selfishness, and existing for ages, has not neglected its own conserv...

Full Text Search Details
...e was sitting on a limb right over me, looking down at me. I felt something of the same sense of humiliation and injury which one feels when he finds ... ...but it ain’t so; it’s the sickening grammar they use. Now I’ve never heard a jay use bad grammar but very seldom; and when they do, they are as ashame... ... may call a jay a bird. Well, so he is, in a measure— but he’s got feathers on him, and don’t belong to no church, perhaps; but otherwise he is just a... ...lk to me—I know too much about this thing; in the one little particular of scolding— just good, clean, out-and-out scolding—a bluejay can lay over any... ...discuss, a jay likes gossip and scandal, a jay has got a sense of humor, a jay knows when he is an ass just as well as you do—maybe bet- ter. If a jay... ...ed afterward, in Paris, but not for amusement; not with a motive of any sort, in- deed, but simply from a selfish indifference to other people’s comfo... ...th great respectfulness. She said, in good English, and in a deeply offended tone, that she had paid her passage and was not going to be bullied out o... ...passage and was not going to be bullied out of her “rights” by ill-bred foreign- ers, even if she was alone and unprotected. 283 A Tramp Abroad “But ...

Full Text Search Details
... for that matter 2056—may be none too late for that crowning revolution in human potentialities. And apart from this pro- crastination of over forty y... ...s. Only in one direc- tion is there any plain recognition of the idea of a human commonweal as something overriding any national and pa- triotic consi... ...f our fathers went on. From the beginning to the ripening of that phase of human life, from the first clumsy eolith of rudely chipped flint to the fir... ...ree thousand centuries, ten or fifteen thousand generations. So slowly, by human stan- dards, did humanity gather itself together out of the dim intim... ...arm river valleys, where food is abundant and life very easy, the emerging human overcoming his earlier jealousies, becoming, as necessity per- secute... ... of inventors. The law is concerned with the question whether these patent rights have the novelty the plantiff claims for them. What that admission m... ...ately to meet modern demands with devices and pro- cedures, conceptions of rights and property and authority and obligation that dated from the rude c... ... the table—and declare at once I don’t mean to haggle. It’s haggling—about rights—has been the devil in human affairs, for—always. I am going to stop ... ...ver realise that I am not only flesh and blood but an imagination—with its rights. I am a king in revolt against that fetter they put upon my head. I ...

Full Text Search Details
...y her that he saw and felt, it was the woman, the whole sex, an entire new humanity, strange and alluring, that he seemed to have discovered. How had ... ...onsciousness as a tree. She was frank, straightforward, a healthy, natural human being, without sex as yet. She was almost like a boy. At once there h... ...nd stared at Marcus with eyes full of trouble and perplexity. “If I had my rights,” cried Marcus, bitterly, “I’d have part of that money. It’s my due—... ...e cry. “Oh, look out, Miss Baker. Those two dogs hate each other just like humans. You best look out. They’ll fight sure.” Miss Baker sought safety in... ...s wide-open mouth there was nothing articulate. It was something no longer human; it was rather an echo from the jungle. Sluggish enough and slow to a... ...e that little brick-paved kitchen every morning, and to wash up and put to rights after breakfast, turning on the hot water at the sink, raking down t... ...id, “let them go till this afternoon. I don’t care when the room is put to rights, and I know Mac don’t.” She determined that instead of making the be... ...—the fact is, I’ve sold my apparatus; a firm of booksellers has bought the rights of it.” “And aren’t you going to bind books any more?” ex- claimed t... ...n the board flooring. He disappeared. Miser though she was, Trina was only human, and the echo of the dentist’s heavy feet had not died away before sh...

Full Text Search Details
... a literary turn, Mr. Moodie? or have you taken up the advocacy of women’s rights? or what else can have interested you in this lady? Zenobia, by the ... ...e of a life governed by other than the false and cruel principles on which human society has all along been based. And, first of all, we had divorced ... ... at them. Are they not warm with the beacon fire which we have kindled for humanity?” “The blaze of that brushwood will only last a minute or two long... ...nd that, though the ruddi ness of our window panes had tempted her into a human dwelling, she would not remain long enough to melt the icicles out of... ..., was fearful to the poor girl, heretofore accustomed to the narrowness of human limits, with the lamps of neighboring tenements glimmering across the... ...ontide walk along the cheery pavement, with the sug gestive succession of human faces, and the brisk throb of human life in which I shared; my dinner... ...ophecy, should I die before it happens—that, when my sex shall achieve its rights, there will be ten elo quent women where there is now one eloquent ... ..., however intellectually superior, so seldom disquiet themselves about the rights or wrongs of their sex, unless their own in dividual affections cha... ...can de grade himself by stooping towards what he loves. In denying us our rights, he betrays even more blindness to his own interests than profligate...