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...

Malcolm X’s trip to Mecca have drastically changed the way he thought about people, the way that they interact with each other, his life and others like him in America, and religiously/politically. His trip to Mecca has made him come to a revelation about how...

Racism has been an imperative issue that has tormented the United States of America for quite a while. It has spread all through our country before the common war and still proceeds to today. Regardless of how far we have come, people are still bias...

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...

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...