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most money have the most influence. According to OpenSecret, a website that tracks the money spent to lobby Congress and other government agencies, for the past eight years over 3 billion dollars have been spent on lobbying in America. In Washington D.C., special interest groups have access to everyone. They work closely with members of Congress to draft bills that support their interests, and they also attempt to influence members to support or reject bills that would either help them or hinder…

On May 4, 1961, a group of six whites and seven African Americans departed from Washington D.C. to begin their fight for Civil Rights. Their goal was to end segregation in bus terminals and in all transportation stations. These people were called the Freedom Riders. They fought to prove that “separate but equal” was not truly equal. They wanted to end the Jim Crow laws, and this was just one of the many ways they fought. In 1986, the Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court case enacted the “separate…

The Significance Of The USA Patriot Act And The Effect On American Society Today The United States of America took a devastating blow on September 11, 2001, when the many parts of the country were under attack such as New York City and Washington D.C. The United States took immediate action to prevent further attacks and protecting their citizens by enacting the U.S. Patriot Act. Despite the attacks on American soil, the resilience demonstrated by the American people that day was remarkable.…

The freedom riders were “A group of northern idealists active in the civil rights movement.” (“Freedom Riders” 1) “The Freedom Riders, who included both blacks and whites, rode buses into the South in the early 1960s in order to challenge racial segregation. Freedom Riders were regularly attacked by mobs of angry whites and received often belated protection from federal officers.” (“Freedom Riders” 1) Due to the freedom riders efforts, supporters of segregation inflicted viscous violence against…

The Hunger Games is a movie and also a novel written by Suzanne Collins and had already publish in 2008. There are three trilogy of this novel and this is the first trilogy of the Hunger games, followed with The Catching Fire and The Mockingjay. This novel written with Katniss as the main character and she narrates the whole story. In this essay, I will talk about the theme colonization in all districts. This theme is needed because it is a part of the novel that tells us how the district people…

The United States of America is a country built upon fairness and equality. The constitution was written to ensure that the population had some form of regulations to adhere to. Amendments were continually added in to covey the rights of the American people. One of the amendments added to the constitution that has been widely disputed for many years is the second amendment. The right to bear arms is granted to individuals and state militias in the second amendment, but it is stated in an obscure…

The Electoral College, a topic hotly debated today, is a ridiculously unfair system for choosing the next president. As the Founding Fathers were drafting the Constitution, they had to reach questionable compromises; one of them being the Electoral College. The Electoral College is an unfair system used to decide the nation’s next president. The people at the Constitutional Convention wrongfully feared that the people of the nation would vote for a bad candidate, and decided to delegate the task…

From Segregation to Integration: Rhetorical Appeals in “I Have a Dream.” Martin Luther King Jr’s, “I Have a Dream,” speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. is not just a speech. It speaks to men and women of all races. It addresses the issues of racism and how nothing has changed in over 100 years. It reiterates the work that Abraham Lincoln once tried to install with the Emancipation Proclamation. King knew the works of Aristotle with his thought of pathos, ethos, and logos, and he…

Monument contradictions In Kirk Savage’s “Monument Wars”, he discusses the idea and importance of monuments in Washington D.C. Specially, where they are located, how the idea of having a monument for a particular person or people came to be, and what they stand for politically or historically. Savage discusses the “transition of the national mall” and several monuments in this piece and the opinions that others have had about them. Savage begins the chapter of “Conscience of a Nation” by…

apart, it is easy to see that the architects of from Texas were definitely inspired by the neoclassicism that inspired those that created and designed the US Capitol Building. Following in the design of the United States capitol building in Washington D.C., the capitol building of Texas in Austin, brings together balance, symmetry, and scale into awe inspiring buildings. The US Capitol Building, and city design, was tasked to Charles Pierre L’Enfant, who, in Italian style, chose to place…