Alfred Russel Wallace

1954 Brown vs Board of Education was a big court case about segregation. Right after Brown won the court case America was in a hell hole. Then in 1963 two speeches that were about segregation will never be forgotten. Staring with governor George Wallace and his “Segregation Now, Segregation Forever” speech, then 6 months later Doctor Martin Luther King gave his “I HAVE A DREAM” arguing against Wallace’s speech. Both having Logos, Ethos, Pathos and Kairos, these two speeches can…

Eighner. Wallace Stegner writes about a dump as more poetic and exciting than people in “The Town Dump.” All three have in common the use of one device; figurative language. It is used to both enhance thematic and stylistic essence and convey attitude towards the subject matter. When looking at a dump for…

Democratic Harry S. Truman and they would finally receive a Republican in office after a long period of time. The election had six candidates but only four were important which included Harry S. Truman, Thomas E. Dewey, J.Strom Thurmond, and Henry Wallace. The parties that were included were Democrats, Republicans, States’ Rights which were also known as Dixiecrats, and Progressives. All of the other candidates parties really wanted Truman out of office, but he fought hard and ignored them and…

William Wallace He stands in front of his small army, gazing at them. Many of these men have heard mystical stories about him, such as being six or seven feet tall and having a very large sword (Wallace 700 2005). Stories have even said he could crush a man’s skull with his bare hands. As he looks at them, to prepare them for battle he says, “They may take away our lives, but they’ll never take away our freedom (Braveheart)!” Wallace probably never said these words in such a dramatic fashion,…

Harry Daniels was an honourary Métis member, leader, social activist, author, and actor who was born September 16, 1940, in Regina, Saskatchewan. Daniels spent over 40 years in the national and international Aboriginal political arenas, fighting for the rights of Canada’s Aboriginal peoples. Influenced by the Labour Movement and the Civil Rights Movement, he was one of the founding members of both the Saskatchewan Métis Society and the Native Council of Canada. He served as Vice President of the…

George C Wallace also known as “the fighting little judge” was born in the state of alabama in 1919, grew up as a farmer and took boxing when he was a young boy. He later than went to the university of alabama for law and graduated with a law degree in 1942. After school, he decided he wanted to join the u.s army air corps and fought in the world war 2 and then later being disabled from war. He fought in the war but then decided to return home to his wife and start his political life again. He…

The movie I picked was The Trench written and directed by William Boyd. It was released in the United States November 22, 2000, and starred Paul Nicholls, Daniel Craig, and Julian Rhind-Tutt. The movie starts off in the summer of 1916 and shows the British Army getting ready for the Somme Offensive. It opens up with some information on the setting, “while hundreds of thousands of soldiers massed in the rear, a small force was left to hold the trenches” (The Trench). The movie gives us an…

The Harlem Renaissance was a time when black artists and authors both expressed their cultural ways. Though Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp A Butterfly, is more of retaliation to the way people depict black culture today. In 1929 Harlem Renaissance author Wallace Thurman wrote a story titled The Blacker The Berry, about a black girl that his judged because she is told that she is too black, even by other black people. Kendrick Lamar also wrote a song with the same title and it is mainly about how black…

Cultural Diversity in Elementary Education According to the Alabama Course of Study, cultural diversity is imperative when it comes to the success of the scientific community. People from all different ethnicities, religions, nationalities, groups, and races have contributed to the world of science and the many groundbreaking discoveries over the course of many centuries. In order for science education to be successful in the elementary classroom, students must find relevance in what they are…

had to fight racial injustice. The civil rights became a controversial topic in the early 1960s, and up to this day is continues to be controversial, it started a war: white versus color. In August 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. replied to Governor Wallace segregation speech, when he addressed to the nation with his famous, “I Have a Dream” speech. King supported the civil rights and believed that racial equality needed to happen in order for our country to move…