Contemporary R&B

themselves. However, not every war is a good war. There are always terrible costs after the war. The Vietnam war was an awful war because not only the costs of the war were terrible, but the causes of it were meaningless. The 36th American president Lyndon B. Johnson’s decision to go to war with Vietnam in 1964 was a horrible mistake for both the American and the Vietnamese people. The…

Oral History Project Norma Rowe was born in the early 1940s in Missouri. When she was a very young child, she moved to southern Indiana. She was interviewed about her life in the 1950s and 1960s. She discussed as much information about the topic that she could remember, The 1950s and 1960s were a very eventful time for all Americans. When she was a young adult she experienced events such as John F. Kennedy’s election and assassination. She also experienced how entertainment changed and…

All of the cases and people involved in fighting for equal rights for African Americans played an important role in the Civil Rights Movement. We learn about the famous ones who delivered speeches or changed laws but even the boy who participated in a sit-in or the girl who became friends with someone who wasn’t the same color as she was, played a big part in changing how our country view race and rights. One of the earliest faces of Civil Rights is Dred Scott. He was born into slavery in…

The people in the US opposed the war for many reasons. In the following essay I am going to talk about three representations that show opposition to the Vietnam War and explain which one I think is best. I am going to analyse the representations using the criteria of objectivity, completeness and accuracy. Representation 1 was written last year in 2015 by a website called factualworld.com which, since then, has been deleted so it is debatable on whether the source is reliable and the…

The 19th amendment, Title VII, Title IX, Roe v. Wade; while all of these are ratifications that the United States has implemented throughout its short history to transform itself into a nation whose ideals fall upon equality, there was a time when they did not exist and inequality was rampant among gender, race, and social class. It has taken hundreds of years to reach the societal equality we have today and it is all thanks to the first steps that were taken by women and slaves in the late 18th…

“Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions”: A Stance on Suffrage The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 is marked as the official start of the suffrage movement in the United States. In a chapel holding roughly two hundred women, Elizabeth Cady Stanton makes a stance with her speech “Declaration of Sentiments and Resolution” (Burns). Stanton makes bold statements in this piece about inequality and the oppressment of women by a government where men solely held office and calls for radical change.…

MRAs feel as though women have more reproductive rights than men. Women have multiple forms of birth control, plan B, and in some states, access to abortion, while men only have the male condom. MRAs would argue that this “gap” in mens reproductive rights is an issue; however, feminists would argue that these reproductive rights, such as birth control methods, put…

In 1969, World War 2 survivor Kurt Vonnegut published his anti-war novel, Slaughterhouse Five, which addressed the issue of supporting war in America, specifically the highly controversial Vietnam War which the US was currently embroiled in. By painting a vivid picture of the true nature of war Vonnegut builds upon his argument that states that the glamorized nature of war, causes soldiers to be unprepared for the repercussions it will have on their nature. This is seen in the devastating…

During the climax of the Cold War, newly elected United States president, John F. Kennedy, delivered his inaugural address and presented his political agenda for the upcoming years as president. Kennedy’s purpose in his inaugural address is to unite nations and peoples across world to promote worldwide peace and international security. To achieve his purpose and inspire the audience, Kennedy employed a variety of rhetorical strategies. Throughout his speech, Kennedy uses juxtaposition to…

In 1964 was the height of the civil rights movement. This was also during election time, (when John F. Kennedy was elected into presidency). Malcolm X is giving a speech to Cory Methodist Church in Cleveland, Ohio in April 3, 1964. The speech was given to warn African Americans that they must vote wisely in these elections that if could change legislature in regards of the Civil Rights Movement as well as black autonomy. His other purpose was to warn his enemies that if they could not gain…