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Harriet Tubman was one of America’s very first civil rights activists, escorting 300 of the estimated 60,000 slaves that escaped the iron grips of slavery. These missions made her one of America’s most iconic heroes. In her time period, this was a title unheard of for women and blacks, making this an achievement especially astounding for Tubman. The influence she built through many efforts in the fields of equality dissipated through America and contributed to a fight that paved the way for the…

Co. v. Nat’l Fire Ins. Co., 988 F.Supp. 2d 530, 534 (D. Md. 2013). In that case, the District of Maryland recognized that Maryland appellate courts had yet to articulate the outer penumbra of interests that constitute “actual, lawful, and substantial economic” interests. Id. at 535. Nevertheless, the court emphasized that that a broad interpretation of § 12-301 was…

Bullying is a longtime problem that has troubled almost all K-12 schools. It comes in all shapes and sizes, and no child is fully protected from it. However, the common notion accepted in society is that as children mature, bullying tends to disappear. This unfortunately is incorrect; bullying is still prevalent on many university campuses. Factors like drugs and alcohol, wanting to fit in, and social media sites that are prevalent on many college campuses often exacerbate this issue. Yet many…

arbara Percival In Preparation of an AFL-CIO Exhibit This past semester, I conducted my field study within the setting of an academic library working with the university archivists at the Hornbake Library at the University of Maryland (UMD). Due to unforeseen circumstances, my field study had to be cobbled together rather quickly and therefore consists of a patchwork. For example, there have been two projects in my field study with two different supervisors in two different departments.…

The founders of the United States created a new nation on the idea and principal of rule by the people. The colonies had come to staunchly oppose to the concept of a powerful centralized government. “The conflicts between Great Britain and its American colonies between 1764 and 1775 arose from the efforts of colonial leaders to protect local privileges from the invasion of imperial authorities to impose order on a region they had been created to govern.” During this time period the colonial…

Communication is the essential foundation for a thriving civilization; it can take many forms like the verbal religious sermons that shepherded the Middle Ages and of course, the copious amounts of written text printed by the Gutenberg’s printing press. The dissemination of information in these forms had many influences, one of which was the Church. According to Mr. Broedel, during the Middle Ages, if an individual was not a part of the clergy, they were more than likely illiterate (Broedel,…

changed; I still had few peers to interact with, still had a father that I disagreed with, still had a mountain of schoolwork to do. But something had changed in me, even from when I had first moved to Maryland. For the first time, I felt as though I had truly grown up. When I first came to Maryland, I felt that growing up would mean breaking away from my loved ones, carving out a path on my own, never relying on others for anything. I wanted to make my own friends, but not need them; to feel…

In the court case of McCulloch v. Maryland the Chief Justice John Marshall made the decision which would give even more expansion to the Federal power. This gave the Federal government the right to collect taxes and the power to charter a bank. In a document, it was determined this “Sparked the even broader issue of the division of powers between state and Federal government” (McCulloch v. Maryland). The Second National Bank was created to control the unregulated currency…

an English Language Learner since he was born in Thailand and the first words he learned were in Thai. I was overseas in the Army when my son attended preschool. My son primarily spoke Thai with his mother at home at that time. In kindergarten in Maryland my son had an ESL teacher who tutored him and a few of his classmates several times a week. When we moved back to Delaware, my son tested out of ESL when he enrolled in first grade. For this post, I interviewed my wife who grew up in Thailand…

In Young v. New York City Transit Authority, the courts used different tests and relevant precedents to determine if begging and panhandling should be protected under the freedom of speech doctrine. The two-prong test was developed by the Supreme Court in Spence v. Washington to determine if expressive conduct was protected as a form of speech under the First Amendment. “The first prong of the test requires a court to determine whether there exists an intent to convey a “particularized message.”…