Lau v. Nichols

Lau v. Nichols, 414 U.S. 563 (1974) Historical Setting In the early 1970s, a U.S. federal court demanded that the San Francisco school system become integrated, bringing almost 3,000 Chinese students into the public school setting. Although nearly 1,000 students were provided courses in learning English, around 1,800 students received no such instruction. Kinney Kinmon Lau and other non-speaking Chinese students brought suit against the San Francisco Unified School District, stating that the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment had been violated. The U.S. District Court of Northern California denied that there was any wrongdoing by the school district. Although the plaintiffs appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals, the court ruled in favor of the San Francisco school district on the grounds that each person brings their own educational background into the school setting that is separate from any learning that school can provide. A petition was filed and granted with the U.S. Supreme Court. Although the original suit was defended on the basis of the Fourteenth Amendment, it was actually the Civil…

father. Mendez v. Westminster: Mexican Americans successfully challenged Southern California’s segregated school policies, which became an important precedent in 1947. Brown v. Board of Ed: The NAACP attack on segregation through the courts was extremely successful. When its case against public schools in Topeka, Kansas and other districts was decided by the Supreme Court in 1954, it marked a landmark in American social policy. Brown gave momentum to the development of the Civil Rights movement.…

“He enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1988 and proved to be a model soldier, earning a Bronze Star for bravery in the Persian Gulf War” (“McVeigh”). While in the Army, he became friends with Terry Nichols and Michael Fortier. “On the second day of the Twenty-one day tryout for the Green Berets, he quit and left the army altogether” (Collins). In spite of this, he became familiar with a book called the Turner Diaries. This book goes into specific “details about the overthrow of the U.S. Government by…

Oklahoma City bombing occurred on the morning of April 19, 1995 at 09:02amTwo men, Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were to blame for the attack. That morning, McVeigh parked a Ryder rental truck in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building filled with powerful explosives. At 09:02 McVeigh detonated the explosives and leveled the building’s north wall. The death toll was 168, which included 19 children at the daycare in the building. There were countless injuries in addition to the deaths.…

The Graduate (1967) is the pioneer for the modern Hollywood film, which is cooperated by the director Mike Nichols, the composer Paul Simon and Dave Grusin. It has developed new conventions for presenting song in film, conventions that ‘build upon traditions established by the “classical” Hollywood musicals of the studio era’ (Berliner, 2002). The American popular rural folk in 1950s created the old classical song "the Sound of Silence", and it aids The Graduate (1967) to achieve a magnificence…

There’s a sci-fi subplot verbalized by Nichols. First, on a small note, Nichols tends to repeat himself that he has failed (he says this about three times). He relates that Ryan needs to save the world. Daryl finds some futuristic device and refers to “Starburst”. One understands it’s a set up for a possible future novel. Adding a sci-fi element is an artistic choice. It definitely can work in a novel, but if it’s going to be set up, then provide just a brief payoff near the end, even if it’s…

critical or life threatening injuries. Some people were left so maimed that they could never walk again. One of the most horrible parts of the bombing was finding out that the side of the bombed building had been a part of a daycare. Out of a many of children only 6 came out alive (Sherrow, 1998). Planning. Planning the bomb took them 2 years to finish. McVeigh choose to become a member of the US Army in 1988 where he met his partner for the bombing. They said he was so talented with guns that…

atruck-bomb set off by a man known as Timothy McVeigh and his co-conspirator, Terry Nichols(history.com staff). According…

Tragedy in America, homegrown terrorist bombing has had a tremendous impact on the lives of Americans. Do you remember approximately twenty and a half years ago when domestic terrorist attacked America? On April 19, 1995, the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, was blown up by domestic terrorist and ex-Army decorated soldier, twenty-seven year old, Timothy McVeigh and his co-conspirator and ex-Army buddy, Terry Nichols. McVeigh raised in western, New York…

rest of her days wishing she would have been born earlier so that she could have lived in the nineties. April 19, 1995 at 9:02 am the United States was taken by surprise. A truck bomb exploded near the north wall of the Alfred P. Murrah Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. “I remember it like it was yesterday, such a sad sad day in Oklahoma well in the U.S. It will be a day no one will ever forget.” Was what Verla Rowe said when she was asked about that day. Many ask who could have done such a…