B. F. Skinner

When we think about the Civil Rights Movement, the March on Washington, Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech and the passage of the Civil Rights Act are usually the images that come to mind. Yet we tend to overlook is that this was only a chapter of a global movement. Gaines argues that one should consider international independence movements and racial conflicts to truly understand the development of the civil rights movement at home. “American Exceptionalism” is a term US leaders…

Affects the Vietnam War had on Veterans The Vietnam War started on November 1st, 1955 and lasted until April 30th, 1975. There were 58,220 American casualties recorded to date, but there are so many more lives lost not on record. The U.S entered the war to stop the communist takeover of South Vietnam because we thought it would trigger “The Domino Theory.”The Vietnam War affected the soldiers who fought in it by causing long-term injuries, addiction, and P.T.S.D. The Vietnam War caused many…

When America was divided by color, white being treated as the supreme and colored being treated as the inferior, a Baptist minister from Atlanta, Georgia named Michael Luther king jr., arose fighting for the civil rights and freedom for all Americans from racial discrimination (Martin Luther King biography 2014). He later changed his first name from Michael to Martin during his lifetime. King’s dream was to make America a colorblind nation (Cross, 438). Even after years passed for the United…

One possible direction to press Cavell in a theological register is to read the centering of the ordinary as an explicit critique of the messianic, that is, of discontinuous eschatological formations of redemption. Cavell’s fear that we take too much for granted about our everyday lives—in what our shared language and therefore our shared world implies—certainly lends this pressure. Any sense of uncritical or one-sided otherworldliness threatens to perpetuate the failure of not taking language…

What did the United States lose in Vietnam? On November 1, 1955 the Vietnam War began. This was to become about a 30 year long war. After the rise to power of Ho Chi Minh and his communist Viet Minh party in North Vietnam, America got involved to stop his communist uprising. Immediately the U.S. begins to pour in more and more military into Vietnam each year from 1961 to 1972, and the number of military force increased incredibly from Nixon's presidency to Johnson’s presidency. Since these…

was asked to Cooper later joined the movement after becoming inspired after one of MLK’s speeches at Brown Chapel Church. Although minute details about events were accurate, many critics have been questioning if the representation of President Lyndon B. Johnson. In the film, Johnson is depicted as…

On a cold Sunday on the seventh of March in 1965 about 600 civil rights marchers headed east out of Selma to Montgomery on U.S. Route 80 for the fight to be able to vote. These people that were traveling to Montgomery are called “foot soldiers”. These black and white men and women were fighting for the rights of black civilians for all of the right reasons, but the rest of the community did not want these men and women protesting. This is the story of the famous “foot soldiers”. The “foot…

Many events have led to a decline in trust in the government, but the three most important events will be further discussed. Americans have grown disillusioned with the federal and state governments due to the Vietnam war, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and the Watergate Scandal. On March 8, 1965, America entered the Vietnam war, a pointless war with no known enemy. During the Vietnam war, Americans started to become less patriotic (Lecture). People did not volunteer to go to war anymore…

Women around the world have fought a long and hard road for equality between sexes. They have overcome many obstacles in the past fifty years so many men and women think that women have overcame everything, but that is not true. Their biggest and most profound march was in 1913 and it was called “The Suffrage Hike for Women’s Rights.” The biggest leading cause one of their march was for women to be able to vote. Their biggest achievements was in 1920 when they had won the right to vote. In 1920…

What does it mean to be a global citizen? If you want to see a prime example of one, just look at Louise Arbour, a huge spokeswoman for international justice and equality. Born February 10th, 1947 in Montreal, Quebec, Louise Arbour is the daughter of Bernard Arbour and Ruth LaBerge. She has one brother, Patrick Arbour, and is currently married to her loving husband Larry Taman, with whom she has three children. At the age of twenty-two, Louise attended the Université de Montréal and began…