Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

The Civil Rights Movement began shortly after the end of World War II. The United States took their largest stride with the Supreme Court’s decision in the Brown vs. the Board of Education case. This decision deemed separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. This decision sparked a revolution that would change America forever. Once the movement began there was stopping it, and Martin Luther King Jr. realized this. He preached a change that the African Americans…

James Howe, the author of The Misfits, is in support of the allowance of books: “Banning books is just another form of bullying. It’s all about fear and an assumption of power.” James elaborates that banning books is a different articulation of bullying. The definition of bullying and censorship do not differentiate abundantly. Bullying is using superior strengths to use force upon someone for their struggle of power. The definition of censorship is using superior strengths to condemn the…

upcoming events. After the May 10 book burning, many Jewish professionals saw what would be happening in the near future and took this as an opportunity to leave Germany. Mainly writers, artists, and doctors fled and tried to immigrate to the United States. Certain immigration…

What if the Constitution had been burned, and otherwise destroyed? There would be controlled chaos. This is a portrayal of a dystopian world, one example in particular is the futuristic version of the world called Fahrenheit 451. The constitutional rights of the people in the book Fahrenheit 451 have been infringed upon. The first scene is when the house owned by the old lady gets burned down, in this scene the 1st, 4th, and 6th amendments are broken. For example, the first amendment is broken…

There are many arguments about whether or not a book should be banned from public schools. Most school districts have banned books for many reasons like for containing racial topics, political views, and religious views. Some people believe that certain books include too much negativity. This is what caused The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to be targeted by some school districts because of the different controversial issues contained in it. However, there are also many positive things that…

Freedom Writers is a 2007 film based on the book The Freedom Writers Diary by a teacher named Erin Gruwell. The story was based on Woodrow Wilson Classical High School in Long Beach, California. In the beginning of the film, it showed violence between the law enforcement and protestors. A protestor was holding up a sign that said “No Justice. No Peace.” in Los Angeles, California in 1992. The film continued to show facts such as over 120 murders in Long Beach in the months following the…

dream came true because of his efforts and his resiliency through all the hardships. Slavery in the United States dates back as far as the 1600s. Private business companies would conduct slave trade throughout the Americas and “in 1648, the trade with North America, including the slave trade, was opened to private businessmen” (da Silva, 2011). Black slaves were brought over to the United States from African countries and sold to private owners. These black men and women would serve their…

practice that needed to be abolished. Through this biography we recognize what he thought led to the civil war. Slavery. Throughout Foner’s book we see how slavery not only affected President Lincoln, but also what it did to the Norther and Southern states. Each of the sides…

Cynthia Andrzejczyk, author of “Civil Rights vs. the Abercrombie and Fitch ‘Look’” and “The Limits of Free Speech in Academia,” dove into the world of free speech and civil rights. Eleven years ago, Ward Churchill found himself fighting for his First Amendment rights when light was shed on an article he wrote concerning the terrorism attack by Al-Qaeda that occurred on September 11, 2001 in New York (Andrzejczyk, “The Limits of Free Speech in Academia” 111). Churchill had accepted a symposium in…

What does being an American in the United States mean? To some it means serving their country, or supporting the ones who do. To others it means standing up for what they believe in. For others still it’s about freedom. For Colin Kaepernick it means expressing his feelings about being American by, not standing during the playing of the National Anthem. The Media has obsessed over his story. Kaepernick stated to NFL media, “I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that…