In today’s time, people like to make it very obvious that in their useless opinion we are getting loose or careless with our morals/ values. When I think that’s the complete opposite, yes, we aren’t as conservative as we once were but that doesn’t make it a bad thing. When I think about discrimination many things come to mind, gender, race, sexuality, physical ability, mental ability, income, even down to possessions. and some people are even relentless enough to attempt and sometimes succeed to act upon it. These actions are called hate crimes and are a worldwide phenomenon that continues to ravage the hearts of loved ones. Over the course of 50 or so years hate crimes have been very prominate in modern society, the serious ones mainly coming
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Though Congress passed legislation designed to stop Klan terrorism, the organization saw its primary goal drove by the Democratic wins across the South. After a rapid downfall, white nativist groups rejuvenated the Klan in the early 20th century, burning crosses and staging rallies, parades and marches disapproving immigrants, Catholics, Jews, blacks and organized labor. At the end of the Civil War radical members of Congress tried to take down the white power assembly of the Rebel states. The Freeman's Bureau was established by Congress on 3rd March, 1865. The bureau was meant to protect former slaves. This involved helping them to find new jobs and help educational and health services. In the year after the bureau spent $17,000,000 launching 4,000 schools, 100 hospitals and providing homes and food for former slaves. Efforts by Congress to spread the powers of the Freemen's Bureau was vetoed by President Andrew Johnson in February, 1866. The election of 1866 increased the number of Radical Republicans in Congress. The next year Congress passed the first Reconstruction Act. The South was now separated into five military districts, each under a major general. New elections were to be held in each state with freed male slaves being permitted to vote. The …show more content…
Matthew Shepard was an American college student at the university of Wyoming, he lived a decently normal life. However, since he was young he was targeted because of his lack of athleticism and his small stature. Saudi Aramco hired his father in the summer of 1994, and Shepard's parents then lived at the Saudi Aramco Residential Camp in Dhahran. During that time, Shepard attended the American School in Switzerland, from which he graduated in May 1995. There, he joined in theater and took German and Italian courses. He then attended Catawba College in North Carolina and Casper College in Wyoming, before moving to Denver, Colorado. Shepard became a first-year political science major at the University of Wyoming in Laramie with a minor in languages, and was chosen as the student representative for the Wyoming Environmental Council. He was defined by his father as "an optimistic and accepting young man who had a special gift of relating to almost everyone. He was the type of person who was very approachable and always looked to new challenges. Matthew had a great passion for equality and always stood up for the acceptance of people's differences." In February 1995, Shepard was beaten and raped during a high school trip to Morocco. This triggered him to experience depression and panic attacks, according to his mother. One of Shepard's friends feared that his depression had driven him to become
Though Congress passed legislation designed to stop Klan terrorism, the organization saw its primary goal drove by the Democratic wins across the South. After a rapid downfall, white nativist groups rejuvenated the Klan in the early 20th century, burning crosses and staging rallies, parades and marches disapproving immigrants, Catholics, Jews, blacks and organized labor. At the end of the Civil War radical members of Congress tried to take down the white power assembly of the Rebel states. The Freeman's Bureau was established by Congress on 3rd March, 1865. The bureau was meant to protect former slaves. This involved helping them to find new jobs and help educational and health services. In the year after the bureau spent $17,000,000 launching 4,000 schools, 100 hospitals and providing homes and food for former slaves. Efforts by Congress to spread the powers of the Freemen's Bureau was vetoed by President Andrew Johnson in February, 1866. The election of 1866 increased the number of Radical Republicans in Congress. The next year Congress passed the first Reconstruction Act. The South was now separated into five military districts, each under a major general. New elections were to be held in each state with freed male slaves being permitted to vote. The …show more content…
Matthew Shepard was an American college student at the university of Wyoming, he lived a decently normal life. However, since he was young he was targeted because of his lack of athleticism and his small stature. Saudi Aramco hired his father in the summer of 1994, and Shepard's parents then lived at the Saudi Aramco Residential Camp in Dhahran. During that time, Shepard attended the American School in Switzerland, from which he graduated in May 1995. There, he joined in theater and took German and Italian courses. He then attended Catawba College in North Carolina and Casper College in Wyoming, before moving to Denver, Colorado. Shepard became a first-year political science major at the University of Wyoming in Laramie with a minor in languages, and was chosen as the student representative for the Wyoming Environmental Council. He was defined by his father as "an optimistic and accepting young man who had a special gift of relating to almost everyone. He was the type of person who was very approachable and always looked to new challenges. Matthew had a great passion for equality and always stood up for the acceptance of people's differences." In February 1995, Shepard was beaten and raped during a high school trip to Morocco. This triggered him to experience depression and panic attacks, according to his mother. One of Shepard's friends feared that his depression had driven him to become