Essays on Equality

This essay attempts to give an overview, briefly, about human rights and how these rights have been violated in the given scenario. Particular context will be given to women and children. The reader’s attention will be drawn to the human rights instruments which are in...

Formal equality is inadequate in promoting fairness and justice in society. It states that substantive equality would be the answer in fully eliminating discrimination. This essay will demonstrate that this statement is true to an extent. Formal equality is too simplistic in nature for it...

The majority of today’s society believes that total equality is worth the fight. “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut focuses on hindering an individual’s greatest qualities to achieve an ironically equal society. Better looking people were forced to wear masks to look uglier, smarter individuals had...

The idea of equality is advocated and incorporated within Rousseau’s arguments which have made his political thinking differ from other philosophers. The universal definition of equality is the practice of treating everyone fairly and exercising the same rights no matter the race, class, ethnicity, gender...

Political philosopher Thomas Hobbes starts Chapter XIII by saying human beings are all basically equal. Today we are all familiar with the idea of equality, it’s a very powerful moral idea today. People believe in equality, it is obviously in the declaration of independence, all...

The Constitution of the United States of America is the document upon which our government is built. It includes the Preamble, the Articles of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and Amendments eleven through twenty-seven. The facts stated in the Constitution are currently being foolishly...

Freedom is an extremely far reaching thought and it changes with the difference in time and different things, for example, standpoint, physical conditions, state of mind and so on. By freedom one need not mean just political or some other’ specific sort of freedom. The...

America is filled with many opportunities for everyone. No matter who you are or what your background you come from, you will always have the chance to live the American Dream. If someone were to ask me how I would describe America in three words....

Social justice is the equal access to wealth, opportunities and privileges within society. The concept of social justice began in the early 19th century which happened to be during the industrial & Civil Revolution in Europe. The concept of social justice arose with the aim...

One of the growing issues in our country is discrimination on the LGBTQIA+ ( Lesbian , Gay, bisexual , Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual). One of the latest news that the government is focusing on is a transgender, GRETCHEN DIEZ, who is not admitted by the...