Martha Washington

Over the years people have been overusing the First Amendment as source of defense. Since the first amendment entitles people the freedom of speech, people like to use it as an excuse to express their emotions about a certain situation knowing that the first amendment protects them. Therefore, they take less responsibility for their actions and blame the constitution for their slip-ups. In Free-Speech Follies by Stanley Fish, Fish addresses the First Amendment issue. Fish states that people use…

Does Family and Culture Outweigh the Problems of Reservation Life? The first Indian reservations were created by the United States government in 1851 as places where Indians can live and have their own tribes. For a lot of Native Americans, the Indian reservations hold a strong sense of community and culture and they feel like it is home. However, in many cases, such as in the case of Sherman Alexie in his personal narrative The Absolutely True Story of a Part Time Indian, Native Americans feel…

What Motivates People to Do Good? The American author Kurt Vonnegut once noted, “Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.” Puritanism stems from Puritan ideals while Humanism stems from Enlightenment thinking. The Puritans, God fearing people, focus more on the afterlife and godly approval. Humanist, God respecting people, believe that humans can gain God’s graces through commendable acts towards others. In today’s…

“The more you know about the past, the better prepared you are for the future” stated by Theodore Roosevelt. Throughout history in America from 1865-1940’s, America has strived to reconstruct the brokenness of America’s North and South, to get African American right to vote as well as women’s rights and minorities. The railroads being an important key for trading in America and immigrants coming to America for fresh new start. The First World War as well as the Great depression and the New deal…

The opinion of people determines whether the interest group is beneficial or whether the interest group is detrimental because if special interest groups do not have the support from people they will not grow and the group will not gain any power. This is what makes the special interest groups either beneficial or detrimental and when the group is not showing anything that people would like to support that would not give any power to the interest group and if the mass liked what the interest…

Pericles’s and Lincoln’s funeral orations both reflect the use of constitutive rhetoric as they use persuasive speech to build up the community. As funeral orators, it is both Pericles and Lincoln’s job not to make the pain go away, but rather bring the grieving community together through overcoming the divide within their respective communities both deaths and civil wars cause. Although providing s successful rhetoric for a grieving community often seems impossible, both Pericles and Lincoln…

essential to the well-being of the entire nation. As Washington points out in his farewell address, “... those entrusted with its administration, to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding in the exercise of the powers of one department to encroach upon another… necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power, by dividing and distributing it… ” (paragraph 3). Being the first president, Washington had set the precedent of appointing the heads…

Martin Luther King Would Impact Today’s Society Greatly Martin Luther King Jr. said “Let us all hope that …in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.” With today's political and social climate, Dr. Martin Luther King would be the most successful in persuading our society beliefs, laws, and ethics. Rather than Patrick Henry because he uses appeal to emotion, appeal to reason, and a…

Benjamin Banneker was born on November 9th 1731, in Baltimore, Maryland. His father’s name was Robert and his mother’s name was Mary Banneky. Robert was able to buy his own freedom and the freedom of Mary Banneky. Both his mother and father were freed slaves. It is said that he had only African blood in his veins. Although it has been said that his grandmother on his mother side was white. Benjamin grew up on his father’s farm with his sister, this place is where he was taught to read by his…

Funeral orations are usually consisting of praises and admirations to the people who passed away. However, there were two famous funeral orations that not only praised the people who sacrificed, also gave an important inspiration about democracy and equality. Both Pericles’ funeral oration and President Lincoln’s Gettysburg address were spoken for the soldiers who died in the battlefield. Moreover, many people claimed Lincoln imitates the ideas of Pericles’ funeral oration. Nevertheless, both…