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African American quarterback in the National Football League. He played for the Chicago Bears. The Supreme Court, in Brown v. Board of Education 1954, declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional. Just three years later in Little Rock, Arkansas, troops were sent to Central…

Three years after the Scopes Trial, an Arkansas law was passed prohibiting state-supported or public schools from teaching evolution in the classroom. Nothing was said about this until, in 1965, Susan Epperson, a biology teacher, was presented with a textbook, which had been adopted by the school…

way that would persuade them to agree with him. For example, he uses the term “bigoted” to describe Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee’s opposition. The harsh consonants sounds used in the pronunciation of “bigoted” gives a negative tone. Due to this, before reading the information, the readers subconsciously make the decision that the following information is negative. They have determined that the Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is unqualified to make a reasonable statement. Although the majority of the…

“(What Did I Do To Be So) Black and Blue” The genre of Jazz has been subject to constant change and development throughout history. Drawing on the various cultural practices of the areas where it became popular, one of the most widely known was New Orleans Jazz. Considered the Birthplace of Jazz, New Orleans was home to a vibrant musical scene, influenced heavily by the combination of a traditional African musical texture and rhythms and key points of European harmony and form. Throughout…

The United States of America is a country beaming with individuals with diverse cultures, religions, values and languages. Despite this diversity, a sense of cultural division and indirect assimilation is still present in some aspects. An example of an area where some cultural division is visible is at schools where the English-Only law, the rule that requires students to communicate using English only, is implemented. Given the fact that children of different backgrounds populate schools, this…

We moved from Arkansas to Mississippi. Here we had the good fortune not to live behind the railroad tracks, or close to white neighborhoods. We lived in the very heart of the local Black belt. There were black churches and black preachers; there were black schools and black teachers; black groceries and black clerks" (Wright 3). Here, we see the segregation between Arkansas and Mississippi, where Mississippi is a state highly populous of African Americans as oppose to Arkansas where more white…

“God’s Not Dead 2” is coming to the box office after the financial success of its predecessor in 2014. While the previous movie was about a student who was targeted by his teacher for his faith, the upcoming film will feature a reversed situation. In “God’s Not Dead 2,” Melissa Joan Hart plays history teacher Grace Wesley, who faces court after one student asked her about the common denominator in the teachings of Jesus, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Mahatma Ghandi. Her answer gets her into…

of all the surveys I took, I think this Personality Assessment was the most useful. Not only does website show your results but also additional information on each career opportunity from job title, supporting majors/programs at the University of Arkansas, salary, and job family. My personality type is: creative, flexible, caring, supportive, and idealist. Some of the characteristics of my personality type are that I approach work and life with a positive concern for the people around me, I…

In February 1942, America had entered the war against Japan. President Roosevelt signed an executive order, ordering the relocation of all Americans of Japanese ancestry to concentration camps in the interior of the United States. The interior was a better place because it was feared that they might try to contact the Japanese submarines if they were on the coast. They were forced to leave their homes and farms and relocate to camps surrounded by barbed wire and guards. Almost two-thirds of the…

grow quickly and metastasize at an early stage; this most often become more developed in older people. Metastatic Merkel-cell carcinoma is often deadly and there is no effective treatment. Findings made by a physician-researcher of University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Ling Gao, M.D., Ph.D., about an existing drug that can exclude the patient’s stage four Merkel-cell carcinoma with a drug called idelalisib. An 86-year old female patient who was diagnosed with metastatic Merkel-cell…