Denis Johnson

Throughout American History, the government has put forth effort in providing for people in need. This idea of providing security and safety to people in poverty later created the American welfare state, wherein the national government created programs designed to promote economic security for all Americans- programs not specifically for poor people. These programs were made to help people with an illness, disability, temporary unemployment, and mainly the elderly who are struggling financially.…

his time as a Civil Rights Activist, Martin Luther was put in jail many times, 30 times to be exact. Many of the times he got arrested was because of unjust reasons such as acts of civil disobedience, for driving thirty miles per hour in a 25 miles per hour zone. Other times were for the protests that were going on. He was sent to Reidsville State Prison Farm when he got arrested. August 28, 1963, over 200,000 americans came together in Washington D.C. for the “March on Washington” rally. The…

When we think about the Civil Rights Movement, the March on Washington, Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech and the passage of the Civil Rights Act are usually the images that come to mind. Yet we tend to overlook is that this was only a chapter of a global movement. Gaines argues that one should consider international independence movements and racial conflicts to truly understand the development of the civil rights movement at home. “American Exceptionalism” is a term US leaders…

Affects the Vietnam War had on Veterans The Vietnam War started on November 1st, 1955 and lasted until April 30th, 1975. There were 58,220 American casualties recorded to date, but there are so many more lives lost not on record. The U.S entered the war to stop the communist takeover of South Vietnam because we thought it would trigger “The Domino Theory.”The Vietnam War affected the soldiers who fought in it by causing long-term injuries, addiction, and P.T.S.D. The Vietnam War caused many…

When America was divided by color, white being treated as the supreme and colored being treated as the inferior, a Baptist minister from Atlanta, Georgia named Michael Luther king jr., arose fighting for the civil rights and freedom for all Americans from racial discrimination (Martin Luther King biography 2014). He later changed his first name from Michael to Martin during his lifetime. King’s dream was to make America a colorblind nation (Cross, 438). Even after years passed for the United…

Numerous noteworthy speeches use logical fallacies as well as logos, ethos, pathos in order for an effective communication of the issue. For example, Obama’s Inaugural Address, incorporates an unforgettable slogan that reiterates throughout the entirety of the speech to make for a more powerful and effective address. During Obama's Inaugural Address, he reused the expression “We will” at the start of various sentences. He supposed, “We will build the roads and bridges, the electric grids and…

After John Wilkes Booth escaped from the heavy locked-down Washington D.C. and the Northern army, on the night of the assassination of President Lincoln, JWB headed to Texas and there he took the alias: John Saint Helen. This Friday, October 27th, 2017 the, supposedly, last of the withheld records associated with the John F. Kennedy assassination are set to be released. With the many, many coincidences between these two murders, one more seems to be ready to hit the consciousness of millions of…

We want nothing for ourselves—only that the people of South Vietnam be allowed to guide their own country in their own way.” President Lyndon Johnson, 1965. This statement, at first, was what we fought for. In the beginning there was some sort of purpose or will to fight in Vietnam. But towards the middle and definitely at the end there was nothing else to win. America couldn’t even complete the…

Cooper later joined the movement after becoming inspired after one of MLK’s speeches at Brown Chapel Church. Although minute details about events were accurate, many critics have been questioning if the representation of President Lyndon B. Johnson. In the film, Johnson is depicted as…

On a cold Sunday on the seventh of March in 1965 about 600 civil rights marchers headed east out of Selma to Montgomery on U.S. Route 80 for the fight to be able to vote. These people that were traveling to Montgomery are called “foot soldiers”. These black and white men and women were fighting for the rights of black civilians for all of the right reasons, but the rest of the community did not want these men and women protesting. This is the story of the famous “foot soldiers”. The “foot…