Emmett Till

Rosa Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley in Tuskegee, Alabama, on February 4, 1913, to Leona, a teacher, and James McCauley, a carpenter. She was of African ancestry, though one of her great-grandfathers was Scots-Irish and one of her great-grandmothers was a slave of Native American descent. She was small as a child and suffered poor health with chronic tonsillitis. When her parents separated, she moved with her mother to Pine Level, just outside the state capital, Montgomery. She grew up on a…

Former heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson commented that,“I came to see that I was a fighter and he was history” (Remnick 299). Patterson and Ali were rivals in boxing and even had personal conflict, but even he could see that Muhammad Ali was more than a boxer because he was a nonconformist committed to breaking the expectations that society put upon him. He was one of the first public figures to speak out against the draft for the Vietnam War, he was a member of the nation of Islam, and he…

Kant’s conception of duty, as focused on in the ground work Metaphysics of Morals, enlightens us about the morality of the black lives matter movement. However, the concept of duty can be abstract based on apriori ideas. So we need to follow Kant, by creating a maxim and testing that maxim in the context of the categorical empirical. Racial profiling by law enforcement Nationwide is wrong and our maxim must guard against such immorality. Therefore, to uphold the universal human rights,…

The Cold War brought a powerful impact and anxiety towards the American Society between 1945 to 1975. The Cold War developed due to the opposite values between the United States and Soviet Union. The United States represented "capitalism, free market, private enterprise, individual liberty, and open political system"(Lecture#10). While the Soviet Union beliefs were "communism, state planning, state enterprise, community good, single party/limits on dissent" (Lecture#10). The United States and…

Willie would be considered just another African American that was unjustly killed like Emmett Till, Mike Brown, Tamir Rice, and thousands more. In this paper I argue that seemingly not much has changed in today’s society. There are still clear racial inequalities that plague American minorities today that could become worse with the upcoming…

My mother drove me to the airport, the windows rolled down and the 75 degree air mixing in the car. I was wearing a white sleeveless shirt and a pair of light blue shorts. I had a small jacket in my bag for when I got off the plane, some books and my small iPod. I was moving to Forks; a small town in the north part of Washington state. I haven’t been there in years, not since I was 13 to be exact. It was the town where my dad (Charlie) lived, I used to spend summers with him, but I haven’t in…

Affirmative Action Needs To Be Put To Rest For years, men have worked hard for their wealth and power, and as a result, men like Bill Gates enter the world and conquer its riches. The thing about him, however, is that he is considered to have an advantage that everyone doesn’t have, he’s white. Because of this advantage, the push for Affirmative Action has become an uproar in our society. People fail to see that others, minorities specifically, have made a name for themselves without “special…

At the beginning of this semester, students were asked to read three memoirs in order to have a better understanding of “the American Dream” with the intention to learn more about the American history. These memoires were Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska, Growing Up by Russell Baker and Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody. The three memoires provide readers with stories explaining the struggle that each main character had to go through while chasing “the American Dream.” Due to the fact…

1.) Some of Anne Moody’s most important early childhood experiences were her uncle (who wasn’t much older than her) watching her and her baby sister, Adline. Her uncle, George Lee, would abuse the two children, mainly Essie Mae. George Lee would abuse the children because he wanted to play out in the woods rather than watch babies all day long. He burned down the house accidentally after telling the two young children “I’m goin’ to burn you two cryin’ fools up. The i won’t have to come here and…

Throughout history, society has tried to limit our rights, tell us what we can and can’t do or tell us what is wrong and what’s right. In the story “Like Mexicans” by Gary Soto, the author describes one idea that was very much frowned upon through the eras: interracial marriage. The love between two people of different races or cultures has been looked down on for decades. How society views interracial couples has changed during the past couple generations. In each generation, the number of…