He won an election, and 50 million people died as a result of that election in World War II, including 6 million Jews. So what I learned as a little kid is that politics is, in fact, very important.”(Feldmann, 2015) Bernard Sanders was born September 8, 1941 in Brooklyn New York. His Father Eli Sanders, was a Jewish Polish immigrant that worked as a paint salesman. His mother Dorothy Sanders was born in New York, to Jewish immigrant parents from Poland and Russia. Dorothy was a housewife. Bernie’s upbringing was significantly influenced by the paycheck to paycheck lifestyle, mentioning that there was always tension about money in his family “I do know what it’s like when the electric company shuts off the electricity and the phone company shuts off the phone—all that stuff. So, for me, to talk to working-class people is not very hard.” (Talbot, 2015) Bernie had an older brother named Larry, and they both attended public schools in New York City. Sanders grew up in a three bedroom apartment in a community of immigrant families “I grew up in Brooklyn. Many of the families were immigrants and they understood the importance of education.” (Barkan, 2015) Some relatives of Eli Sanders died during the holocaust. This childhood experience had a significant impact on Sanders ideologies. He understood at an early age that his religiousness was…
Although he remained in the colonies for only twenty-two months, he saw to the laying out of Philadelphia. With this, he saw to the sound and permanent establishing of the government, the attracting by advertising, the movement of thousands of colonists from Holland and Ireland as well as from England to Philadelphia, and peace with the Indians. William Penn’s sense of democracy later formed the basis of the American Constitution. William Penn’s influence on America was fantastic. He worked…
Agency/Organization Description and Qualifications Agency Mission and Services Legacy Treatment Services is a nonprofit organization that employs more than 700 employees, and offers services to 13 out of New Jerseys 21 counties (Legacy Treatment Services, 2016). This organization’s mission is: “To change the behavioral health and social service outcomes for people of all ages from surviving to thriving” (Legacy Treatment Services, 2016). Legacy Treatment Services is the result of a 2014…
political science from the University of Chicago. After he graduated he started becoming more active in activist movements such as the civil rights movement and march on washington.(where he walked with Martin Luther King.) His participation in the movements had led him to go to israel to live on a kibbutz(A farm). While in israel he was inspired to “take care of the weak” said Albert Ely who was on the kibbutz with Sanders. Once Sanders returned to the United States he started participating in…
African-American spirituals are religious folksongs that developed from experiences of enslaved Africans in the American South during the colonial period. During that time, slaves were deprived of their freedom, language, families, as well as their connection to African culture. In fact, slaves owned by Christians were forbidden from practicing any religion, except Christianity (“African American Spirituals- Folk and Traditional Styles,” n.d., para 2). As Africanized Christianity became a part…
Technology, and media specifically, can distort what we see as reality. The news, television programs and articles make our society think outside their own values. The media can have a huge impact on our behaviors such as violence, sexual behavior and stereotypes. The impacts that the media has I feel are primarily negative. Yes, they can have a positive impact, but generally I feel it portrays the wrong idea, causing a very negative impact on those viewing. The media has a huge impact on our…
Stevan Jakovljevic Professor Avdeev Law 2010-05 Fall 2016 Case Brief Term Researched: Duty of Care Case Name: Howard D. Brunson (Plaintiff-Respondent) v. Affinity Federal Credit Union Legal Citation: 954 A.2d 550 (N.J. Super. App. Div. 2008) Date Decided: May 05, 2009 Legal History: Howard D. Brunson the plaintiff filed a four count complaint in the Supreme Court of New Jersey against Affinity Federal Credit Union and Wilcox for being liable to him for malicious prosecution (Count 1); That…
his take on how the loved ones would feel as they opened up these letters, “ Open the envelope quickly, O this is not our son’s handwriting, yet his name is sign’d, O a strange hand writes for our dear son, O stricken mother’s soul! All swims before her eyes, flashes with black, she catches the main words only, Sentences broken, gunshot wound in breast, cavalry skirmish, taken to hospital, At present low, but will soon be better” (Shoptaw, 2010). I can see through this passage that he often…
student body of Seneca, have the ability to change your future by making some small changes right now. Carli Anne Lloyd was born on July 16, 1982, in Delran, New Jersey. After learning to play soccer at age 5, she developed her natural abilities by playing pickup games and practicing for hours on her own at her local field. Lloyd went on to star at Delran High School, where she was twice named the girls' High School Player of the Year. Remaining close to home playing for Rutgers University,…
felt as if she was part of more than just the "little dark room" in which she would spend her days in (Mansfield 257). Referring to the band as if listening to family, Miss Brill would listen to the band play every Sunday. Miss Brill visits the park so often she notices when the conductor wears a new coat. Miss Brill would "listen as if she wasn't to others conversations" (Mansfield 255). Miss Brill sense of eavesdropping helped her feel included and to "[sit] in other people's lives for just a…