Christa B. Allen

There are many people in this world we call leaders. If they are leaders they will go above and beyond for any circumstance. Leaders are usually remembered for what they have done and what they will do. I have two particularly in mind. The two leaders I am speaking of are Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., presented a speech titled “I Have A Dream”. “I Have A Dream” is a public speech delivered by American Civil Rights August 28, 1963.…

established when US President John F. Kennedy showed support of South Vietnam, whose neighbor, North Vietnam, was trying to take over and convert them to communism. Three different presidents were in office over the entirety of the war, JFK, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Richard Nixon. With the most controversial decision-making coming from Lyndon Johnson, whose presidency by 1968 saw 30 billion dollars spent on the war a year and large numbers of…

Many students, both men and women, had been protesting the government that is continuing to fight the war in Vietnam. The protesters believed the government was corrupt and something needed to be done. They thought that the best thing they could do was to protest, and that's what they did. All of these protestors had been getting furious with the war in Vietnam. From the early 1960s and 1970s, there was over 450 colleges protesting Vietnam around the United States.(history.com) There was a…

The cold war was one of the longest international conflicts of the twentieth century, in which capitalism and communism fought to rule over each other. Within this conflict lots of wars and battles where held in order to try and solve the different issues, although none of this wars took place neither on the United States or the Soviet Union. So the satellite states that each of these nations had been used for this purpose. The Vietnam War was one of the cases in which the Cold War turned into…

Author: Marie Gouges (7 May 1748 - 3 November 1793) was one of the first women to fight for equal rights. Although she was born Marie Gouges, she went by the name of Olympe Deauges because she did not want to be recognize as a widow when she got married and wanted to start another life in Paris with a different name that she choose from a combination of her mother and father’s name. Born in Montauban, Quercy in the south of France, De Gouges was not your typical woman. She shorty found…

Bernard “Bernie” Sanders Bernie Sanders is an American politician and currently the junior Senator of Vermont. He is a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States. Bernie, born Bernard Sanders, was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1941. Some of Sanders’ policies include immigration, abortion, gun control and problems with racism. Throughout Bernie’s life, he has supported many controversial topics. In the 1960’s when racism was at one of it’s primes, you see Mr.…

The Vietnam War In times of war there are generally three people, the people in the war, the people watching the war, and those who don’t care. Photojournalist Larry Burrows happened to be two of those people. Larry Burrows died when his helicopter was shot down over laos while collecting photos of this gruesome war that claimed thousands of lives. Originally written January, 25th,1963 the Times article “America in Vietnam, 1963: Deeper Into War” provided a much deeper out look into the…

Edward Estlin Cummings was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts on October 14, 1894 to Rebecca Haswell Clarke and Edward Cummings. He attended public schools in Cambridge and graduated from Harvard University where he earned a BA in 1915 and an MA in 1916 for Classical Studies and English. During World War I, because he was a conscientious objector, Cummings volunteered for the Norton-Haries Ambulance Corps as an ambulance driver in Paris, France. Five months after receiving his assignment, he…

the tragic lynching was Ida B Wells-Barnett, “There was the pioneer organizer of the crusade against lynching, an African-American woman named Ida B. Wells-Barnett. Almost alone, she rallied anti-lynching sentiment in the United States, exposing the barbarity of lynching.”(“Duluth’s Shameful” n.pag.)Wells-Barnett spoke out against lynchings and got supporters to create an anti lynching law. Since the law was passed people cannot legally lynch people anymore thanks to Ida B Wells- Barnett and her…

“So you young men and women in this room tonight, and in thousands of other rooms like this one about the earth today, have the power to change the world, rid it forever or war and injustice and suffering, provided you know how, know what to do.” On May 28, 1951 William Faulkner gave a speech to the graduating class of University High School, in this speech Faulkner enables many feelings of hope and courage for the future. He brings about a sense of confidence as well, that this generation has…