Charleston

Imagine enjoying a movie at the cinema, eating a meal at a restaurant, or even sitting in High School while people all around you are carrying loaded guns. How do you think that would make you feel? Would you feel protected by the fact that you knew that people were carrying handguns? Or, perhaps threatened by the thought that anyone could get hold of a gun if they tried? Whilst in England you need a license even own a gun, in the USA it’s legal to carry a gun into public places (in some states)…

In 2014, Charleston, South Carolina police officer, Michael Slager was arrested and charged with shooting and killing Walter Scott. Scott, age 50, was shot in the back eight times by Slager before collapsing a few hundred yards away. Again and again, incidents like…

In October 1773, seven ships carrying East India Company tea were sent to Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Charleston. Americans learned the details of the Tea Act while the ships were on the route to these colonies and people began to get furious at the details. The Sons of Liberty began a movement to raise cognizance and to convince or compel the consignees to resign. The movement that climaxed with the Boston Tea Party was not a disagreement about high taxes. In fact, the price of legally…

for the long hours on your feet. Most job openings are glad you receive a certificate from college but to be known as “registered” students must pass the American Registry for Diagnostic Medical Sonography. As of today there is a job opening in Charleston, South Carolina for a registered sonographer. Places all over the world are in need of sonographers. A normal day for a sonographer mainly consists of seeing patients all day or seeing patients on and…

In the movie “Separate but Equal” this movie take place in 1950 in Clarendon County, South Carolina.This where black children must walk as much as five or six miles to get to and from their run-down, segregated elementary school called Scott’s Branch Elementary. The black people started losing their jobs, and the KKK started to threaten them. The white people were doing everything in their power to make the black people feel inferior and to punish them for going against the whites. The…

They always stayed with each other and supported one and another “The four of us were crouched in azalea bushes bordering the alley behind the Charleston Public Library. It was 12:42am” Their relationship reminded me humans should stick together and support each other. An example of when the virals stayed together was when they were escaping people trying to kill them, Hiram was the last to leave…

constitutional right to think and act for himself. He also vilified the artisans of Charleston, who wielded substantial power in the nonimportation movement, as unqualified to participate in the “difficulties of government.” Drayton’s unpopular stand made him a pariah in South Carolina but won him approval from the…

The Confederate Soldier statue was built on the grounds of the Loudoun County Courthouse, which was built in Leesburg, VA in 1758. It has been a part of Loudoun history since then; serving as a jail, courthouse, legislature, and executive office. The statue, erected in 1908, depicts a confederate soldier aiming a rifle. Its purpose was to “serve as a memorial to the many Rebel soldiers who died fighting for the cause in which they believed” (as stated by Loudoun.gov). In fact, the courthouse,…

The Berwick Church in Charleston, England houses some of the most notable pieces of art manufactured by Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant from the mid-twentieth century. The two were part of the well-known Bloomsbury Group, and their home in Charleston as well as their work on the Church constitute the remaining evidence of the group's involvement with each other outside of London. Grant's painting Christ in Glory sits above the Berwick altar, demonstrating how the Bloomsbury Group took traditional…

Expansion of the truth allows us as humans to closely examine the individual truths of a situation and hence better understand the whole. Colson Whitehead’s novel The Underground Railroad utilizes embellishment of the truths of pre-Civil War America to help us as the audience better understand this era in history, through describing the fictional account of Cora, a runaway slave, and her adventures to freedom through an actual underground railroad. However, there is an extent to which fiction…