Joseph Smith, Jr.

In many recent occurrences, American citizens have demonstrated their ignorance towards the definition of civil disobedience by rioting and looting. In order to protest issues in an effective manner, the definition of civil disobedience must be known. Many high ranking historical and modern day figures tend to agree that civil disobedience must have a just cause, it must be an action that disrupts the status quo in some way, and finally, the civil disobedience must be proportional to the impact…

Leaders do not always have all the answers, and thus should be ready to accept any advice given to them that makes sense. For example, while creating ‘Downton Abbey’, the famous Maggie Smith would invent new ways to shoot a scene. She would ignore the script and explain to the directors that it would make more sense to complete the scene one way than how it was on paper. The directors would take her advice into consideration and then reconstruct…

The Civil Rights Movement was a time of utter chaos in American history. It was a period of protests and demonstrations against the racist policies that were governing the lives of African Americans. Alice Walker does a wonderful job of providing an up-close view of just how difficult this period was in her novel Meridian. This book shows the amount of unnecessary violence, segregation, and denial of rights towards African Americans that existed during that time. Meridian truly helps us to…

Plato defines knowledge as finding beauty itself (P., & Reeve, C. D. 2004). The right to receive a proper basic education is free in the United States. It is the right of the child to attend school everyday, however after the age sixteen they are not forced to go anymore. There’s always the agreement about how proper is the public education provided to our children. Children in the United States go to school from about the ages of five till about the age of eighteen, in which they learn basic…

History often repeats itself, especially in such a nation of the United States of America. The first 10 amendments knowledge that all citizens have rights and freedoms here in the U.S. However, that wasn 't the case. Minorities were included in these rights, they didn 't have equal rights like a white person would have this type of inequality is what fueled the civil rights movement. The civil rights movement have three main components. These components consist of how it began, who was involved…

Setting: Nana and Papa’s house, it is a natural setting that the child is comfortable being in. He has a routine when he comes to the house. He has his own toy area and knows where his toys are. He has his own chair that he brings out when he comes over. There is a large room that is full of plants that he likes to play in, but isn’t allowed to touch the plants. He does anyways. He likes to play in the dirt. I imagine that he thinks it’s like a jungle. The house is a walk through house,…

When it comes to history, black history is already talked about at a bare minimum. Black history is disregarded as if it has no importance in American history. So when it comes to being black, which already targets someone as a threat, and gay the history is not taught unless the initiative is taken to obtain that knowledge. History is important to who it affects, so at first look I would say black LGBTQ history is not important, but in the same breath I would say how important African American…

Mental illness can be a wretched biochemical disease, in which no individual or family is immune from the roller coaster effects. Mental illness affects the individual and the people in their lives. With the knowledge we have gained in the medical and psychology realm, we now know the disease can be genetic and sparked by environmental factors. As we begin to understand the brain and develop our knowledge, the mysteries of mental illness are unfolding. Although facilities were constructed…

“I Can’t Breathe”, I don’t have a Gun-Stop Shooting”, “It’s not real”, “Please don’t let me die”, “What are you following me for”. What do all these quotes have in common? They all had their lives taken based on the color of their skin. The editorial board of the New York Times is compiled of sixteen journalists with an extraordinary range of expertise. They published an article in 2015, “The Truth of Black Lives Matter”, In this article they adopt an informative and persuasive tone while…

Annette Lemieux’s Left Right Left Right, consists of thirty black and white photographs nailed to wooden pine poles, depicting raised fists. Some of the images include the fists of important societal figures such as Martin Luther King Jr., Richard Nixon and Jane Fonda. The other images include anonymous fists of a sailor, a preacher and a concertgoer at Woodstock. Together, the fists raised in unison suggest the idea of a protest, while the use of the poles convey the idea that the photographs…