Dwayne Johnson

Martin Luther King Jr. once famously said,“I have a dream that one day right there in Alabama little black boys and little black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers” (Martin Luther King Jr.). During his I Have a Dream speech, King talks about his dreams for an integrated society where race is irrelevant when determining one's character. Racial prejudice and segregation were two negative effects of jim crow laws in the south that…

During the 1960's, one of the most important events in history was taking place: the civil rights movement. Martin Luther King Jr, the leader of this movement, is famous for his success in maintaining nonviolent measures to resist the harsh treatment him and fellow African Americans were receiving at the time. In an article located in a religious magazine written by Cesar Chavez, a labor union organizer as well as a civil rights leader, Chavez reminds his audience of Martin Luther King's…

n 1974, President Richard Nixon resigned from his second term in the Oval Office. President Nixon was involved in a scandal at the Watergate complex in Washington D.C. The Republican president Nixon was believed to have ordered the burglars to go to the Democratic National committee for a crime of wire tapping and stealing documents. President Nixon tries to console, defending his honor, and remind the public all that has been accomplished. Richard Nixon tries to console the public by using…

Kennedy-Lyndon B. Johnson election. During his campaign, Obama was compared to Kennedy through their ability to easily speak to people. They were both young, charismatic men when they ran for President. Each of them made history as Obama was the first African American President while Kennedy was the first Catholic President. Obama and Kennedy were sitting U.S. senators when they won the presidency. Obama and Biden were the first to be elected from the Senate since Kennedy and Johnson. Also, they…

When you hear the words, “My fellow Americans” what do you think about? The courage and power of presidential speeches and campaigns in the ‘50s and ‘60s are what give the current presidents inspiration even to this day. They strike fear into our enemies and hope into our citizens. President Dwight D. Eisenhower was the president that campaigned for the Republican Party in 1952. (Eisenhower Library) According to the Eisenhower Presidential Library, one of his biggest points for his…

gain the right to vote. President Lyndon B. Johnson at the time desired to change America by encouraging Congress to pass the Voting Rights Act. He expressed his desire by delivering his speech, “We Shall Overcome” to Congress on March 16, 1965. Johnson strived for this bill to pass and by doing so, he exceeded the boundaries set by his predecessors. The speech is directed to the members of the Congress for their support in passing the Bill however, Johnson also infers to an implied audience of…

Analyzing the speech from an action model, first we have to determine who the sender is, what the message is, what channels are being used, what kind of noise there is, and who the receiver is. The sender in this speech is none other than John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Kennedy is challenging the American people by asking them to think about what they can do for their country, and not what their country can do for them. Kennedy is speaking in a serious tone, with little facial expressions. He wants…

A Tet is a major Vietnamese holiday and the Tet Offensive was when North Vietnam did not respect the Cease fire and launched missiles at every major city, capitol, and army base. The goal of the Tet Offensive was to destroy South Vietnams government and it would be taken over by communists. After the Tet Offensive the US divided themselves into two realities. The first reality was that Tet was a victory for the US because the Vietcong were wiped out by the military because it was a…

JFK was the president of the United States of America in 1960. That was 100 years after lincoln was elected. JFK was killed in 1963. That was his third year of being the president. JFK died in a car during the parade on a friday in November. His wife was sitting right next to him in the car when this happened. His wife picked up a piece of his brain after the third shot. The first shot hit Kennedy from behind. The second shot hit the governor from the rear. The third hit Kennedy from the front…

In 1961 President John F. Kennedy introduced affirmative action as a response to the various struggles and setbacks faced by minority groups. For decades following the Civil War, the rights of African-Americans were blatantly disrespected and ignored. Discrimination against African-Americans and other minority groups prevented them from achieving the same level of success as their white counterparts. Even though they possessed strong dedication and willpower, minorities were still unable to…