People of the Black Hills War

– it turns people against each other and has no basis except ignorance and thirst for power. Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man” approaches this problem through the eyes of a young black man, at the beginning of the twentieth century in America, an invisible entity without a voice in a divided society, in which political decisions are made by the white people in power. The main character is appropriately given no name, being an epitome of all black people in America. After the Civil War and the…

Robert Franke CRJ 410 12/5/2015 Final Paper Justice Clarence Thomas was born in 1948 in Pin Point, Georgia, which was a mainly black area that was founded by freed slaves after the Civil War. He was the second ever black judge, in the Supreme Court and was at first not thrilled to working as a judge. As Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States his views are typically from a conservative stand point, and usually wants a solution that limits the power of the federal…

all her life she worked to improve to lives of other people. She fought for what she believed and what she believed was right. She made such a big difference in the world. Shirley Chisholm is remembered for her fight for change in the 20th century. Shirley St. Hill was born in New York on November 30, 1924. She was the oldest of four daughters and youngest of four brothers of Charles St. Hill, a factory laborer from Guyana, and Ruby St. Hill, a seamstress from Barbados. When Shirley was three…

of the Oglala Sioux. This leader is known by many as Crazy Horse. Many people may not know the story behind Crazy Horse, but this Oglala leader, who possessed different leadership traits than most Oglala leaders, suffered the same fate as most Indians did in the 1700 and 1800’s and that inevitable fate was death. For most of Crazy Horse’s life war surrounded him. Crazy Horse also had killed countless times in his early war life and I think this attributed to his warrior leadership role later…

specifically on the advancements in civil rights, both gender and race based, the heightened freedom of speech and protest, and the anti-war and environmental movements. As the majority of the hippie movement’s impact came from the values associated, much of the political change that occurred during the 1960s was in part due to values such as non-violence, anti-war, equality, and environmental consciousness. During the ‘60s, political change came in the form of multiple movements, being the…

showed that white individual between the age of 18-25, we’re using Marijuana for recreational use more than Black individuals between the same age bracket. Yet, white individuals only led by a minute amount. However, the incarceration rate were flipped, though less Black individuals used Marijuana for recreational use, they were more likely to get incarcerated for recreational use of Marijuana. Black individuals are roughly 1.6 times more likely to get incarcerated for Recreational use of…

discover new and wonderful things. From the Andaman Islands we step onto the mainland of India. Our first stop here is a lovely town Darjeeling, located in the West Bengal State of India in the Himalayan foothills. It is well-known for its distinctive black tea that is grown on plantations doting the surrounding slope. The town’s backdrop is Mt. Kanchenjunga, among the world’s highest peaks. The region’s most famous monastery is Yiga Choling Gompa. You can see impressive old murals and it’s…

What was also different was their childhood. “His house was a dugout: a one room home built into a hill, with walls made of sod, or soil. He shared this room with his parents and eight siblings.” this was stated on page 7. They also had black rollers where they lived that could funnel as high as 10,000 feet. Catherine was never that poor when she was a child. Yes these are different people and different places each one took place but they both saw a huge dust…

Britain forced upon the new thirteen colonies. The Civil war was also inevitable because the north and south wanted the nation run under different government and state rules. The difference between a Civil war and a revolution is that a Civil war is a war between states with in a country. A revolution is a profound change in society and the social structure, especially when made suddenly and is followed by violence. Something that both the Civil War and The American Revolution have in common is…

America was first colonized, the people immigrating to the colonies deemed themselves the rulers of the “new” land. However, to millions of Native Americans the land was not new at all. After Custer’s death, President Grant ordered all of Custer's “assailants” to be arrested. These aggressors included any Native Americans that were caught, no matter if they were personally involved or not. The underlying agenda of this decision is that the U.S. wanted the Black Hills and they did not think…