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December 18, 2014 Charles Hunter Day History 110 Final Paper Under imperial rule by the British, colonists in America were being smothered. Their basic human rights weren’t being met and they were forced to bow down to a government that ruled from across the Atlantic Ocean. The American Revolution gave the United States an opportunity to create a nation the likes of which had never been seen before. Through radical changes in the government, the citizens of the newly formed United States of…

Students are not allowed to chew gum in the classroom, but in Southern states, teachers are allowed to carry guns in a room full of young children. Mass shootings have been occurring in the United States for centuries, but recently school shootings have become disturbingly frequent. Some schools believe that putting dangerous weapons in the hands of teachers will prevent or stop a mass shooting and an armed intruder. Teachers should not be allowed to carry guns in their classroom because guns…

Autism and the Anti-Vaccine Movement Vaccines are vital to the health of all people. After all, vaccines are designed to protect people from major, and often deadly, diseases. For example, smallpox was a disease that during the twentieth century alone killed ten times as many people as died in World War II. After a worldwide vaccination campaign starting in 1966, smallpox was completely eradicated by 1980 (World health organization). Today, vaccines can prevent many serious illnesses, such as…

Americans as being inferior...and not worthy of equal treatment.” This expresses that whites were nowhere near ready to accept the fact that African Americans were human beings just like them and deserved equal rights. In addition, the white senator of Mississippi, Senator James K. Vardaman made it clear that “wherever the negro is in sufficient numbers to imperil the white man’s civilization or question the white man’s supremacy the white man is going to find some way around the difficulty.”…

controversial topics today because of the morality that goes along with it. As of July 1, 2015, thirty-one states including; Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky,Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington and Wyoming have made capital punishment legal leaving the other…

Introduction This paper discusses the culture in many aspects on my chosen interviewee. Throughout this interview we discussed many aspects throughout his culture from how he grew up, rituals he inherited growing up as well as his own rituals he developed for himself to include throughout his day, family traditions, issues of racism and discrimination, and his opinion on different things within his culture. This interview did not take up the full hour, but with me giving my interviewee the…

All through history, women of color have faced racism and prejudice. In the early 1900s, women were treated as slaves to their husbands and fathers. Many were raped by family members or people they were close with, leading to unhealthy mindsets and difficulty forming further relationships. Women would turn to eachother for comfort and support in these terrifying times. These are actions that were present during the time the novel was written, and still today. Alice Walker uses her childhood and…

While immigration is a necessary function for both the country and people wanting to immigrate, the issue needs to be approached with the country’s interest, capacity, and political climate in mind. Often it seems as though the issue comes down to the humanity of the situation. Often times immigrants come over talking about a new chance for themselves and their dream of that country. This plays at the heartstrings of the public and often tips the favor of immigration and immigration reform to…

1968: Music As Rhetoric In Social Movements In 1968 social movements sparked rhetorical discourses which occurred in many nations and on hundreds of colleges and in communities across the United States. These rhetorical discourses ultimately changed the direction of human events. Sometimes these points of ideological protests shared views on specific issues, especially demonstrations against the Vietnam War, but each conflict was also its own local conflict. There is no evidence that any…

preached everyone had duty to become rich. - Andrew Carnegie’s article “Wealthy” argued wealthy had a God-given responsibility to carry out projects of civic philanthropy to benefit society & he even gave out over $350 mil to support libraries, universities, & public…