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A recent hot topic in the media and society is whether same-sex partners should be allowed to get married. Some people believe that it is a civil right protected by the United States Constitution for same-sex partners to marry as they are just like everyone else, not second class citizens, but others feel marriage is meant to be a union between a man and woman. Despite which side of the topic people take, it is interesting to look through past judicial cases and see the progression that has…

Have you ever been forced to do something that you feel is unnecessary? The “One-and-Done” rule is a rule created by the National Basketball Association stating that a player is not aloud signing with the NBA until the age of 19. This means that the players must complete one year of college basketball before entering the draft. I, along with many others, believe that the “One-and-Done” rule should be abolished because it creates injury risk for players, it wastes the players time, and it has…

the Unions were in control ar Charleston Bay, South Carolina. Lincoln brought Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas into the Confederacy. In 1861 West Virginia separated from the state Virginia. Slavery was still present in Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland and Delaware they never decided to leave the union. On May 1861, Lincoln announced Martial Law and had the entire board of police including the Baltimore mayor. Lincoln was imprisoned many Congressmen including the Supreme Court…

politics, and reform movements. The economic development during the Jacksonian period helped it live up to the title the era of the “common man.” In 1830 Jackson vetoed a congressional measure to a proposed road in Kentucky for he thought it was unconstitutional because it only laid in Kentucky and had nothing to do with “interstate commerce.” He also thought it was an unwise extravagant expenditure…

In the case of Roper versus Simmons, the question at hand is whether the execution of a human being who was17 years old when he committed a murder violated the Eight and Fourteenth Amendments pertaining to cruel and unusual punishment (Elrod and Ryder, 2014). These Amendments forbid the obligation of the death penalty for those who suffered from a mental disability and who were insane should be prohibited from a sentence of capital punishment (Elrod and Ryder, 2014). According to the Eighth and…

Some people think that homosexuals are horrible persons that don’t deserve to be treated with the same respect we treat heterosexuals. Truth is that we are all equals and sexual orientation does not matter when comparing the skills we all have as individuals. There are a lot of differences made in our society which includes sex, gender, race, ethnicity, and religion. Among these differences, sexual orientation is definitely an important point to be discussed knowing that same-sex marriage has…

In John Calipari 30 for 30, he and his former Kentucky basketball players spoke on how he was the only coach that came to their homes and visited them while he was recruiting. Former player of Calipari John Wall grew up in a bad part of Raleigh, North Carolina and lived in poverty most of his life said…

gender stereotyping is a prominent issue in current society. Males are unrealistically depicted as the dominant sex in advertisements, considering this, males can be also portrayed as egotistical and more intelligent than women. Throughout the 2012 Kentucky Fried Chicken advertisement males are depicted through multiple settings as egotistical. A tracking full shot is effectively used to emphasise the woman’s struggle in carrying the heavy object while also perpetuating that she is in a…

Kingsolver using the book the Bean Trees to show how this and how this specifically affects females. This book is about Marietta, how changes her name to Taylor at the beginning of the book, decides to leave to leave her hometown to go west from Kentucky. But not long after she goes out on the adventure, she gets stuck with a baby, due to a woman giving it to her, and her plans start to get complicated.Kingsolver’s depiction of the bean tree functions as an analogy for female friendship,…

have little or no sway on their decisions.” (para. 3). In addition, the Courier Journal researched the two prominent schools in the state of Kentucky to see if subconsciously athletes are drawn to schools based on their apparel. According to Jones (2014), “since the 2010 recruiting class, 75 percent of recruits signed by the Nike-sponsored University of Kentucky came from Nike-backed travel programs. During that same period, 43 percent of signees at Adidas-sponsored U of L came from Nike clubs.”…