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Can one man be the main destruction of an entire nationality ? During the mid 1800’s through the mid 1900’s Jim Crow was that man and along with Jim Crow there were segregation laws, Inequality, and unfair voting rights towards African Americans that has given America a dark history. Dating back to 1865 when segregation first begin to rear its ugly face in American society with miscegenation laws which tried to prevent black and white marriages. Those who did marry had to face life in prison.…

Lasting two decades of the 20th century, the Vietnam War was undeniably the longest and the most horrendous war in the history of America. The United States supported South Vietnam and resisted communist North. Based on our study, it was my contention that as one of America’s most controversial wars, the Vietnam War had far-reaching impacts on American citizens’ perceptions of government and military for years. Firstly, the credibility gap between the American government and the American…

Who Really Killed JFK? John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963. John F. Kennedy was born is Brookline, Massachusetts. On November 8, 1960, he became the youngest president at age 43. He was the 35th president of the United States. While he was on the street riding with the top down with his wife, somebody shot and assassinated JFK. Later that day they arrested Lee Harvey Oswald for the shooter, but others think it was somebody else, but they don’t know for sure…

Can one truly respect and appreciate a person or group of people without having accurate knowledge about what they have endured or contributed to a society? For me the answer is no, no such emotion is conceivable with a regard toward another human being without knowing about their past experiences. The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley, shines a light on the adversities African Americans are faced with and how, in spite of those hardships, we have made a lasting impact. .…

Equal rights are important to the country. This is important because women think they can do whatever the man can do. The letters are about the Vietnam war and what is going into the war. “I did what was expected of me as an American. I did not run away from my duty” (Memories of Vietnam: War in the First Person). Martin Luther King Jr. was important because he brought peace in the country. Another reason why he was important because he wrote a speech. He wrote “I have a dream” and spoke to…

The 1960s: The Age of Paradox The term “the sixties” is a misnomer. The period did not merely span the decade of the sixties but instead stretched from the Brown Decision in the 1950s until the Fall of Saigon in 1975. This sixties was a paradoxical time in the United States, on the one hand it was a time of great prosperity while on the other it was a time of great unrest. The quality of American life was better than it had ever been, with more students in college and more individuals working…

When the United States was in its infancy, debates raged over concerns of how and where power would be distributed throughout the new government. The first proposals for a system of government, led by the father of the Constitution, James Madison, favored a strong national government composed primarily of a legislature based upon representation by population. His proposal, however, was significantly weakened by the cries of delegates from smaller states insisting that checks on the national…

“Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air we all cherish our children’s future. And we are all moral.” John F. Kennedy. November 22 ,1963, is a day that will be marked down as one of the worst murders in history. There are many conspiracies that are associated with with the murder of our thirty-fifth president, John F. Kennedy, some believe that one single lunatic is responsible. Others believe there is more to it, that there was a deeper plan…

Bill Clinton’s “I Have Sinned” speech has become a popular speech and became nationally known. He performed this speech on September 11, 1998 at the White House’s annual prayer breakfast in front of hundreds of religious leaders. Bill’s purpose for this speech is to ease the turmoil that plagued him over the couple of weeks before the speech, which involved sexual relations with another woman. Bill uses examples of ethos, pathos, and logos all throughout his speech. This speech became famous…

The phrase “hippie” has been widely used as a derogatory term that describes individuals who are drug addicts, unwilling to obey authority, and are unpatriotic towards their country. In the book Hippies A to Z by Skip Stone describes what the common characteristics that a “hippie” stands for and how the “hippies” were very passionate about opening the debate to many specific issues that were important to the hippie counter cultural movement. Stone establishes in the first chapter that those who…