Landmark

most influential and successful people to be on the planet earth. She fought for gender equality and helped make america a better place. She won awards for contributions to gender equality and cicil rights. In 1996, Ginsburg wrote the Supreme Courts landmark decision in United States V. Virginia military institute could not refuse to admit women. She is the sole reason women are treated the same as men…

or just hanging out. There are places like Madison Square Garden and Barclays Center (in Brooklyn) where sports are played or concerts are put on. For those who are interested in historical landmarks, there are places like the Statue of Liberty, Brooklyn Bridge,…

passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Fair Housing Act of 1968. Jones v. Mayor Co is also a “landmark United States Supreme Court Case,” which worked to prevent racial discrimination, (History). These cases were crucial to defining Civil Rights, because they proved that the target goal was to protect individuals from unfair…

attraction (Legend 1). The original Elizabeth Van Tassel house was located which is now the northeast corner of Hamilton Place and North Broadway in Tarrytown (Legend 2). Van Tassel was one of the main characters in the book Legend of Sleepy Hollow. The landmark Condominium building is on the site that was the Washington Irving High School until the 1920’s (Legend 2). Washington Irving was the author of the book Legend of Sleepy Hollow. The marshy area where Ichabod first saw the horseman has…

a rich brown color on its top side, and it has a creamy white breast heavily streaked with brown.”(statesymbolsusa.org) The brown thrasher is a species of thrashers that lives in thickets and heavy brush. Landmarks I am going to show you one of Georgia’s landmarks. One of Georgia’s landmarks is the fox theater. “Right now the fox theater is priceless and it would be impossible to rebuild it.”(foxtheatre.org) There are so many seats in the fox theater that 4,678 people could sit in the there.…

Name: Emma Meyer Book title: Summerlost Author: Ally Condie Genre: Realistic fiction “Summerlost” has an incredible story about 12-year-old Cedar Lee, who has moved to Iron Creek, Utah, for the summer with her mother and younger brother, Miles. As this family tries to come together again after the car accident that took both Cedar’s father and her other younger brother, Ben, this book follows their journey through it all. Outside of Cedar’s new house, she quickly meets…

to a deep sacrifice. Monuments of people may be unnatural landmarks but they honor great achievements made in the U.S. Some problems that people may face when it comes to sculptures of a person is that there may be no actual photographs of the person but the meaning behind it is still powerful. Mount Rushmore for example, is a beautiful . “The Crazy Horse Memorial has some of the same problems: it is most definitely an unnatural landmark.”(Downes). Though is monument may be unnatural to some…

The issues in education throughout the 1970s and 1980s revolved around educational opportunities. A renewed focus on inclusion and equality advanced opportunities, while reforms focused on educational achievement. Politics and the Social Pulse of the 1970s and 1980s Americans began to protest the Vietnam War in the early 1970s. The cost of the war was expensive, causing budget deficits resulting in high inflation that spanned Jimmy Carter’s presidency. The 1970s were considered a liberal…

Materiality and Identity Megan Holmes’s “Miraculous Images in Renaissance Florence” examines many of the ramifications of materiality. The materiality, an image’s physical properties, has direct impacts on the expression and popularity of immagini miracolose. These sacred images are subjects of miracles throughout the late 13th to 16th centuries. Two of the most important ramifications of materiality include the accessibility of the religious images and manifestation of the miracles. In this…

Marbury vs. Madison is one of the most significant cases in history. This case is cogent because it is the aboriginal archetype of the Supreme Court appliance judicial review analysis to account an accouterment of federal law as getting invalid. This accommodation set into abode the article of judicial review. During the 1800s, the Supreme Court accept dealt with abounding abundant cases in American society. During this time John Marshall served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. The case…