Courthouse

Fill the Shoes- Mr. Cunningham The moment everyone anticipated was before us. The sound of the gavel striking the wood filled the courtroom, it rang in my ears like a fire alarm. The decision was announced. The verdict was ruled guilty, with sweaty palms and shaking legs I stood up with the feeling that my heart had dropped into my stomach. I couldn’t begin to make sense of the arousing situation around me. Each step I forcefully took, I contemplated the case in my mind. Everyone around me was…

We have just left and we are going to follow the south side of the Platte River. We have to cross the river in about 170 miles. We have heard from other settlers that it's too wide to bridge so we have to use the sandbars to get across. That has been a stressful thought, hopefully no one has any troubles. It's also very shallow which could cause problems because the current will be going at a high speed. After 6 days of travel we have finally met the river crossing. It's current was…

Judgment, influence, corruption. Three killers of mores and values that a society can bring to the table. Atticus Finch realizes this, so he keeps his own opinions and morals with him, and hopes to pass that theory along to his kids. This novel is based on a town in Alabama during the 1930s, a time where being racist was “the norm”. Slavery was abolished after the civil war, but the feelings of where black people stand to southerners was still there. There was a great division between…

In Tehran, Iran in July of 1979, revolutionaries who were followers of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini forced the Iranian monarch, Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlavi, commonly referred to as the Shah of Iran to disband his government. The Shah then fled to Egypt. In October of 1979, President Jimmy Carter agreed to allow the Shah to come to the United States for cancer treatment. Because of this and other reasons, on November 4, 1979, a group of Iranian students seized the United States Embassy in Tehran…

Everyone has a different opinion on how people should protest. Some say peaceful, violence, or not to protest at all. But either way, there's always going to be someone that's going to disagree with that opinion. If the Government is taking advantage of the power that they have, the people should protest peacefully, if that doesn’t work; they should use violence. Which would the citizens most likely be persuaded with peace or violence. Most people would choose the peaceful option, they wouldn’t…

Brutal Mistreatment: The main concern with pregnant inmates is that it is not possible for a woman to have a safe and healthy pregnancy while incarcerated. Why should we care about the treatment of pregnant women behind bars and have policy makers have this issue on their agenda? Some may argue that women who broke the law should deal with the consequences and such consequences are shackling, inadequate food, living in an uncomfortable cell, so on and so forth. However, yes the women did…

Since the very first day of America, voting was the soul of the nation, a direct power of people to keep the country growing and create a government base on the words: “we the people”. The matter of voting rights in the United States has been argumentative through United States history. The voting right in the United States first was made only for white people who own land in 1776. But though out the history, it was given to every citizen. But the trust in government people still very low,…

“You’re the Devil’s man” (Miller 194) to John Proctor. If Mary was strong and could hold her ground, she would’ve gotten the girls to confess when the talk of witching first came out. She also would’ve never been put in the situation with John at the courthouse. Mary could’ve told John no or held her ground and made the girls admit they were all faking it. Mary Warren is a big part of John Proctor’s death because she is weak and she falls to Abigail’s power because she is afraid of…

During the 1930's, segregation towards African Americans were prevalent in the South. The novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, illustrated the theme of taking a stand when Atticus Finch stood up for Tom Robinson during a court case in which Robinson was accused for raping Mayella Ewell, Bob Ewell's daughter. Atticus shouldn't have taken a stand in this situation because it put people who had relations with him (including himself) in danger and people's opinions about him changed for the…

Domestic violence and abuse can happen to anyone, yet the problem is often overlooked, excused, or denied. Noticing and acknowledging the signs of an abusive relationship are the first step to ending it. It is an epidemic affecting individuals in every community, regardless of age, economic status, sexual orientation, gender, race, religion, or nationality. It is often accompanied by emotionally abusive and controlling behavior that is only a fraction of a systematic pattern of dominance and…