Civil Rights Movement Even though the American Civil War did finally bring the abolition of slavery, unfortunately enough there was still a harsh system of white supremacy that long persisted throughout the years. The 1960s Civil Rights Movement includes social movements in American whose main goals were to end racial segregation and discrimination against African Americans. African Americans in the South were utterly banned from associating with whites. Segregation existed everywhere—schools,…
Unspeakable Words People love to talk about any topic to others but, there are certain topics that are too horrible to talk about. However, some people have the guts to open up. The Nazi Party was led by Adolf Hitler and his purpose was to create a pure Aryan race for the world. Hitler declared if he sees a group as Non-Aryans, he will exterminate them because he considered them as a threat to the world. To set an example for the world to see, Hitler used the Jews as his scapegoat. Hitler also…
The startling question you have to ask yourself from reading Peter Fritzsche’s book Germans into Nazis, is what made the ordinary man in the crowd into the “Führer of the Third Reich”. In one of the most famous pictures in the European history you will see a young Adolf Hitler standing in the enormous crowd of people in the “August Days” celebration in Germany 1914. In this celebration you will see the everyday German anxiously waiting to hear the Kaiser speak. This is happened to take place a…
america offers. With such a diverse demographic the american population has seen the good that can come with refugee acceptance, like economic diversification, etc. Politically, a major advantage to allowing them in would be the new voters that the party who have advocated for their acceptance, the Democrats, would likely receive. As the decision to allow or deny the Syrian refugees, who are attempting to escape a life of terror that is current throughout their homeland because of terrorist…
Throughout the Progressive Era in America, the rapid build of industrialism lead to harsher distinctions between immigrant laborers and skilled, specifically, American workers and the continued unjust treatment of African Americans. As millions of people piled into cities, accounting for 42.1 million Americans living in cities by 1910 compared to the less than 20 percent who lived in urban areas in 1860, conditions in both the workplace and at home, worsened for those apart of the lower classes.…
President. Democrats continued to expand their control in the House of Representatives, and a nearly filibuster proof majority was established in the Senate, creating what is referred to as a “supermajority”. Despite all of this, the rise of the Tea Party Movement in 2008, caused a rapid shift in public opinion, and this electorate influence was observed once again in Congress. Republicans won 63 new seats, and again took control of the House in 2010, making John Boehner their speaker. These…
Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Revolutionary Action Movement, and The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense Organization of Afro-American Unity ("Civil Rights & Black Liberation Organizations and People"). Many of these groups participated in extreme methods in order to get what they wanted. The Black Panther Party of the 1960’s went as far as to carry loaded guns through the California State Capitol building and read Executive Mandate Number…
No matter your stance on President Obama or his administration, many would agree that he can passionately deliver a great speech. With 2016 being the finale of his 8-year term, the upcoming State of the Union address will be the last one of Obama’s presidency. As he prepares to address the country on Tuesday, January 12 at 9 p.m. ET, many Americans from all sides of the political spectrum are preparing to watch the President’s final formal speech online. The word on the White House streets is…
After observing the rhetoric of Master of None’s fourth episode and reading Aziz Ansari’s article from New York Times, one can see the elaborate ways the author of these two different types of media has used in terms of describing the perspective of an Indian American. Master of None’s “Indian’s on TV” predominantly used a verbal rhetorical device to showcase racism towards Indians that offend Indian Americans. On the other hand, Ansari’s article used narrating to describe his experience in…
The American dream has long been defined as the basic ideals for Americans to believe in such as freedom, equality, and opportunity for an American to achieve life but over the years that has changed for many people. “...USA Today calculated that subsidizing the American Dream costs approximately $130,000 annually, meaning the dream is only within reach for about 1 in 8 American families...I hope these numbers show us something else: the American Dream as we know it is dead, and good riddance”…