Lafayette

Cheerleading injuries can result in serious problems and in some cases death (Shields). Over 66 percent of girls high school injuries are accounted from cheerleading. Just like other sports, cheerleaders must go through concussion testing. Jeannie Bennitz, Lafayette cheer coach, says, “With the amount of training that they have to do and the level of activities that they do now, it really should be a sport.” Captain on the cheer team, Emily Fauver, expresses her feelings by saying, “We work just…

racial identity is what provides the power of hiding to those individuals. Without the determined visual properties of a racial identity, there would be no ability for light skinned and white individuals to closet their problems. In order for the Lafayette family to be successful in their lives and not worry about their underlying problems constantly, they rely on their whiteness to shield them. Their light skin makes their white identity apparent to everyone around them and therefore they…

President James Monroe is known for his numerous contributions to the United States of America as a political leader. Monroe was the fifth President of the United States, and he was the last President to be named as one of America’s Founding Fathers. Monroe is known for his Monroe Doctrine which states that the United States cannot be influenced or changed by the powers of any other country. Of course little is ever said about the life of James Monroe before he began his political career. It…

In the 1960’s racism was a huge problem. Race today is still an issue when it comes to white and black people. In today’s day and age the race problem has decreased a lot since the 60’s. In the 60’s the people that were not considered “white” were not considered as normal humans. If a white man did something that was not right or illegal they knew saying it was a black man was the easy way out. Not all white people were against black people. Bob Dylan is a man who was not racist at all…

Gun control is back as an important topic in the United States after the recent shootings at Oregon’s Umpqua Community College and at a movie theater in Lafayette, Louisiana. Public safety while protecting the Second Amendment is a difficult task for lawmakers, especially after a tragedy. The public is looking towards our government for answers to this issue. Public option should be a consideration for new laws and regulations being created. The United States addressed the issue of gun control…

Washington just loss at Battle of Brandywine and had to retreat. He was getting his army to regroup. Luckily for Washington, British General Howe stayed in Brandywine celebrating his victory. Four days after Howe learned the Americans were only ten miles north of him. He prepared and sent his army after them. Washington intercepted a message that said Howe was planning an attack and ready his troops. On September 16th, both armies stood across from each other on either side of a valley. Once the…

laws and background checks are not an efficient deterrent to crime. The article “Will Recent Shootings Influence Gun Legislation”, by the Ethan McLeod writes about shootings in four cities. Chattanooga Tenn. Charleston, S.C., Chapel Hill, N.C. and Lafayette, L.A. were where…

An engraving by famous English engraver H.B. Hall in 1778 titled “Valley Forge” depicts American revolutionaries in the dead of winter. Marquis de Lafayette and George Washington stand stoically above their soldiers, who are huddled next to a small fire in the dead of winter. It is the Revolutionary War, which started three years prior, in 1775, and won’t end for another five, in 1783. All the soldiers…

A hurricane may seem like the end of the world for a community. It can completely destroy a person’s life. However, the hurricane that struck St. Croix in August of 1772 did the opposite for Alexander Hamilton: a hopeless orphan. The intelligent, young boy wrote an excellent paper describing the hurricane in detail. Hamilton was immediately recognized for his natural talent (Groom 12). This natural disaster was not so disastrous for Alexander, as this was the turning point in his early life.…

Thesis and Title: Animal cruelty, abuse, and neglect are a huge problem. In the US pet ownership has traditionally been a choice and a right of every citizen. The abuse of this privilege has to lead to activism on the part of people who care that these animals are helplessly mistreated and abused, even killed on a daily basis. The ASPCA says, "Animal cruelty can be either deliberate abuse or simply the failure to take care of an animal. Either way, and whether the animal is a pet, a farm…