Dwayne Johnson

statistics of the American society, America isn’t completely fair. Minorities are treated unfairly compared to white people. Minorities such as African American are deny the opportunities to shine and accomplish things. Like what President Lyndon Johnson once said “You do not take a person, who for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say ‘you are free to compete with all the others,’ and still believe that you have been…

Opposing Forces The people in the military is the weaker force in the documentary and the society is the stronger force. The weakness in the society is become vulnerable if the military stops taking care of them here in American by going other countries to fight. The goal of the weaker is survive and come back home after being expose to war. Signifiers The first signifier is the large amount of pictures with messages that were in the walls after 9/11 attack. This means that the other people were…

I was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia. Originally named Michael King Jr, but later changed it to Martin. I am both a Baptist minister and civil-rights activist, I would like to believe I have a seismic impact on race relations in the United States. It all began in the 1950’s. Among many efforts, I headed to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Through my activism, I would like to have the idea that I played a pivotal role in ending the legal segregation of African-American…

Out of The Blue: The Search for Truth The question has existed since man has walked the earth; are we left to exist in the universe alone? In this review, I will explore Mr. James Fox’s approach to this question and whether I think Mr. Fox has any validity in his documentary with the evidence he puts forth. Our journey starts with the Drake equation formulated by astronomer and astrophysicist Dr. Frank Drake in 1961, which states that there are 10,000 communicative civilizations in the milky way…

In order to truly understand the history of an era, one must first gain a sense of the people who lived it. In the introduction to their book The Century, Todd Brewster and Peter Jennings wisely note that experience, not the simple act of memory, constitutes a living history. They also observe that true history is not made up of the noted people but from the unknown masses. During the years between 1960s and 1970s society experienced great loss and pride. The Vietnam War, the Kennedy…

The air was electric, waiting for a reaction to the obvious. They were all there as promised. Lining the streets, crawling through cracks in the pavement, like dandelions – bold and unappealing. They were poised, minds set in protest. It was the war that was why they were all there. To stand against the waves of pain evaporating off the country’s decisions. Vietnam. That was their reason, a protest, standing against war and pain. Against all the suffering that comes with combat. So they all…

Why Affirmative Action is Wrong Jack has just sent in an application to work in electrical engineering, he made the best grades in college, is the most qualified, and has five more years of experience than every other applicant. However, he gets denied because of the required quotas of Affirmative Action. In 1961 President John F. Kennedy used Executive Order number 10925 put Affirmative Action into place. This required contractors to “take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are…

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…