Brownsville

organization started as American Birth Control League in 1921 by Margaret Sanger. According to Rachel Galvin, the author of the article named “Margaret Sanger’s Deeds of Terrible Virtue”, “Sanger opened the first American birth control clinic in Brownsville, Brooklyn, on October 16, 1916...The clinic was in direct violation of laws prohibiting the distribution of contraception by anyone outside the medical profession and for any purpose other than disease prevention” (2). Many women like Sanger…

My experience in the United States Although the United States can be a harsh place. My experience in the United States is definitely different than most can say. From digging up bones under an ancient mansion, to playing hide and seek inside of The Dawes arboretum’s letter bushes, my childhood is not an everyday find. It was significantly influenced by my Grandmother and my mother. Hmm. My childhood, how do I say this right? There is a reason that as of today I am majoring in Forensic Science.…

The Dangers Posed by Reader Bias: A Reader Response Criticism of The Science Fiction Novel Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein Few modern authors have had as profound effect on their genre, society, political debate, or literature in general as Robert Heinlein. Science fiction author Ken Macleod suggests that the world was having a dialogue with Heinlein, unfortunately, one of the unintended consequences of dialogue is misunderstanding, some of which is caused by reader bias (Macleod, James, &…

The Great Depression of the 1930’s: a dismal time that most people associate with the stock market crash, severe unemployment, poverty, the Dust Bowl, creation of the New Deal, and the less distinguished Second New Deal, under the courageous President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. There has been many disagreements about the Works Progress Administration and the Social Security Act, which are key programs in the Second New Deal. The main arguments against the WPA are that it hired lazy people, spent…

As a member of Hilltop Leaders, I recently took the Gallup Report Strength Finder to find out my signature themes which represent the five most dominant themes of talent I have. In ranking of order, first I am an achiever. An, “achiever describes a constant need for achievement.” My second is learner because, “The subject matter that interests you most will be determined by your other themes and experiences, but whatever the subject, you will always be drawn to the process of learning.” My third…

In the articles “Why Gender Equality Stalled,” “Women’s Rights In Colombia,” and “Famous Firsts in Women’s History,” all of the authors discuss topics involving women’s rights. Within these articles their topics vary from traditional gender roles, violent acts of crime towards women, as well how gender equality has either changed or stayed consistent over time. Women in the United States have made a substantial amount of progress regarding obtaining women’s rights and gender equality, whether it…

first and may be the last interview of my life,” and she started to laugh. She was sitting in her bed with a purple dress and black slippers. She is a very happy and friendly lady, she loves to make friends and talk to everybody. She was born in Brownsville, Texas in January 7, 1923. Mrs. Mathis, married to John Gable in the year of 1950. They had 4 children, but unfortunately one of them passed away when he was a baby. She misses her grandkids and she wishes to see them more often. She got up…

able to build their collective identity. This has led to law enforcement agencies in cities like New York, Chicago and Toronto using social media to investigate and solve gang-related crimes. For example, in 2012, 43 gang members in NYC gangs in Brownsville, Brooklyn were detained for participation in numerous fatal shootings because they bragged about the event on Twitter (Prokupecz et al.,…

Texas has a long and rich in history, Texas was part of the Spanish Empire, also part of Mexico but in 1836 Texas acquired independence from the country. Since Texas was part of Mexico, there is many Hispanic influences that have been shaping Texas culture. But most of the important figures do not only come from Mexico, but from Spanish-speaking countries. According to pewhispanics.org the Texas population consists of 38% Hispanics, 88% are Mexican and 12% are non-Mexican. A total of 9,794 000…

The year was 1955. An African American boy lay asleep in his uncle’s house in a small town named Money, Mississippi. Around 2 a.m., two white men came knocking on the door. The men demanded to see the boy who had “done the talkin’ in Money.” The men walked the boy to their car and asked a woman sitting in the backseat, “Is this the boy?” “Yes,” she replied. The boy was shoved into the front seat, and the car sped off. The boy’s body would be found mutilated by a fisherman three days later…