City of Clarence

On the day of June 11,1962, three inmates at Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary took to action their escape. Frank Morris, John Anglin, and Clarence Anglin used tactics such as dummies , the removal of ventilator covers, and the construction of tools to help plan their escape. However, to this day it remains a mystery as to what happened to the three and if they carried out their escape successfully. Frank Lee Morris, who led the escape attempt out of Alcatraz, has been planning out their escape…

The 1920s could arguably be the era that brought America into the modern world since it was responsible for establishing the beginning of women’s rights, African American rights, mass production through assembly lines, and challenging the orthodox ways of living. However, not every citizen in America embraced the new modern way of living, especially in the south. The 1920s was a historical time period in which the orthodox south and the modern north in America clashed as they confronted the new…

Chief Justice Rehnquist was appointed by Richard Nixon, in part as a response to the Warren Court’s liberal streak, which he used as a campaign issue. During his confirmation he was met with controversy as it became apparent he in fact disagreed with the precedent set in Borwn v. Board of Education. As an associate Justice he began as states’ rights advocate, which often not only placed Rehnquist not only in the minority, but as a lone dissenter. As time wore on the Court began to become more…

these laws and policies”. Justice Kennedy supports this claim by stating that “enumeration is the essential device used to make the duty not to discriminate concrete and to provide guidance for those who must comply”. This implicates that the various city ordinances were properly combating discrimination against those of varying sexual orientations by enumerating their protection and that the revocation of this enumeration, as purported by Amendment 2, would be counterintuitive to maintaining…

Gary is coming home from a brutal day at the office. He had just worked through the weekend to finish a big presentation and even missed his girlfriend’s birthday party for work. After he presented he was immediately fired for a mediocre job on the report even though he put his heart and soul into it. His three best friends decided to take him out to help him get over this tough time. Three hours later, Gary was in a great mood and looked to be over the hardships he had just faced. Then his…

Robert Stroud, gangster Al Capone, and the “Birdman of Alcatraz”. Of all of the felons that had been through the prison and attempted to escape, very few had ever managed to actually get off of the island. Frank Morris along with brothers John and Clarence Anglin were three of the few men to initiate the escape of the prison. In June 1962, the three…

Rough Copy Aumio Islam The play Inherit the Wind is a fictionalized account of the 1925 “Scopes Monkey Trial”. Inherit the Wind was written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee and premiered in 1955. In the play, Matthew Harrison Brady, the prosecuting attorney, has three characteristics that negatively influence his conduct during the play. These three character traits are intolerance, conceit, and ignorance. The first of the three traits that…

different to them. Veterans, scientists, parents, and teachers can be honorable, it all just depends on your personal criteria of honor. Clarence Birdseye was an American inventor and entrepreneur born in Brooklyn, New York on December 9, 1886. Clarence’s parents, Ada Jane Underwood and Clarence Frank Birdseye, had nine kids and he was six of the nine. Clarence attended Amherst College in Massachusetts with interests in becoming a biologist, but only for a short period of time. In 1908 he…

the water, which had bite marks in it assumed to stop the air from escaping. Also discovered was a home made paddle. The boat had a small opening and the air started to escape and they went down. The FBI identified photos of the family of one of Clarence and John Angland. Amongst the pictures there was a list of addresses and phone numbers. They wouldn’t just leave this stuff behind. The prisoners must have drowned. (video 4, the…

Quick summary The Scopes Trial, formally known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case in 1925 in which a substitute high school teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which had made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school. John T. Scopes John Thomas Scopes came to Tennessee after college. In his first year in Dayton he was a teacher and a…