December

decided to wear black armbands to their school to protest against the Vietnam War. The school officials created a policy on December 14th, 1965 where students wearing armbands would be asked to remove them, if they refuse they would be suspended. Mary Beth Tinker, John Tinker, and Christopher Eckhardt disregarded this policy and wore the armbands to school anyway on December 16th, they were suspended. As a result, these three student’s fathers filed a lawsuit in a federal district court,…

was a big part of the progressive era, but for the majority of the U.S. population, it was a big part for the wrong reasons. Some homes would make and sell alcohol for many years. The 18th Amendment was prohibition of alcohol. It was proposed on December 18, 1917 by Congress. The 18th Amendment was ratified on January 16, 1919. Congress ratified the 18th Amendment. The 18th Amendment defined strict limits on beverages containing alcohol, ensuring that the content would be no more than .5%.…

Pablo Escobar was on of the most famous drug lords to ever walk the planet. At an estimated 30 billion, Escobar was also the richest criminal. On December 1st, 1949, the king of cocaine was born in Rio Negro Colombia. He started his life of crime in his early teenage years and after years of progressing, he ended up joining the notorious Medellin cartel in Colombia. By the early 1970's, he started smuggling huge amounts of cocaine to Mexico, Bahamas, the United States, and many other countries.…

written by Lloyd Kaufman: writer, director, producer, co-founder and president of TROMA Entertainment for Girls and Corpses Magazine. December 30th, 2015 was my saddest birthday. It was my 70th birthday and I was with the Guna Indians in very remote San Blas Islands when the news of Lemmy Kilmister’s death reached me. The loss of Motörhead legend Lemmy, on December 28th, 2015, had a significant impact on myself and Troma Entertainment. Lemmy was a regular actor on Troma movie sets for twenty…

Carrie Underwood joined James Corden on "The Late Late Show" on Wednesday, December 2, which can only mean one thing: another edition of Carpool Karaoke! She has joined the likes of rapper-songwriter Iggy Azalea, singer-songwriter Justin Bieber, record producer Mariah Carey, singer Rod Stewart and multi-instrumentalist Stevie Wonder, all of whom sat in the passenger seat as comedian actor James Corden's drove them around L.A. as part of "The Late Late Show's." The country singer was just the…

“Polite - or impolite - persecution, each form of discrimination bears its own dangers” (Editorial, The Catholic Times, 9th December). Even in science, education and a nativity scene spiritual warfare hides. Ben Stein’s DVD, “Expelled No Intelligence allowed” documents the academic persecution of scientists and educators who believe nature has design. Darwin’s theory, a bedrock of atheism/Russia/China and an increasing secular Britain rejects design. Sacked was a Christian when discovering…

American bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.The United State of America dropped a nuclear bomb on these 2 cities killing more than 300,000 people most of them children, women and old people. On december,7,1941 japan bombed Pearl Harbor in an attempt to disable the American army to give the enough time to take over the dutch east indies and use it’s resources to finish war.There has always been a debate on the necessity of the bomb, but its…

Union General William T. Sherman led 60,000 troops from November 15 till December 21 on a 285 mile march from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia. It was also known as the Savanna Campaign. The purpose was to scare the Georgia citizens out of the Confederate cause. After he lost Atlanta, the Confederates headed west into Tennessee and Alabama attacking Union supply lines as they went. Sherman's soldiers did not destroy any of the towns in their path, they just stole food and livestock, then burned…

St. Jude National and Global Impact St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital has made a huge positive impact nationally and globally. Locally St. Jude has brought more than 14,710 jobs nationally and has brought more than 70,000 visitors to the area (Park, 2013). St. Jude along with their charitable organization ASLAC that aids in fundraising, both entities employs more than 4,400 people (Park, 2013). With all of this, St. Jude brings contributions to the local economy. Globally, is even better.…

Audit Group Case 4, Billy’s Beats Billy’s Beats Inc. Completing the Audit Due Date: December 10 by 8PM Please read the instructions below carefully. Failure to follow these instructions may adversely affect your grade for this assignment. As outlined in the syllabus, the penalty for unexcused late assignments is 10% of the maximum points for each day that the assignment is late, and no assignment will be accepted after three days from its due date. • Read the case and the “Required” section…