Picketing

Ronnie has found his roots, accepting and participating in Chinese customs. Benjamin states, “Brother, I’m just trying to find what you’ve already got.” Ronnie answers with, “What do I got?”, to which Benjamin responds, “A home. With your people. Picketing with the laundry workers. Taking refuge from the daily slights against your masculinity in the noble image of Gwan Gung.” Benjamin continues to assume that Ronnie identifies as…

As stated before in our first lecture, dance is a living and fleeting art form. I believe that dance is a living art form because it is a three-dimensional picture to art. What I mean by this is that, art is normally seen on walls or as sculptures, but dance is an amazing opportunity to view art while in movement. If you are anything like me, when I look at a painting of two people or many, I always wonder what it would be like to see them actually dancing, singing, or even laughing. By…

The movie Iron Jawed Angels was a very intriguing movie. It taught a lot about women's suffrage and times in the early 20th century. I did not know much on this topic before. In the movie, as the characters fought for the right for women to vote, we saw the slow process they took to eventually reach their goal. After 64 years of fighting they had only gotten 9 states to allow women votes, but at the end of the movie we see the harsh and diligent steps the members of the National Women’s party…

films for fear they would be regarded as communist propaganda. In 1952, the release of Limelight, by Charlie Chaplin was hurt by a pressure campaign led by the American Legion. Chaplin was accused of both immorality and Communist sympathies. Picketing of other films in the 1950’s put fear into the studios, and led to restrictions on subject matter in Hollywood studio films. Anything to do with social issues, concern for minorities, or criticism of big business, or sympathy for the underdog…

The Fight for Women’s Rights in The United States Inspiration for the fight for women’s right sprouted from the fertile soil of the abolition movement. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, both abolitionists, attended the 1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention in London and found that as women they were barred from the convention floor. The two women thought it outrageous and ironic, because as they were fighting for the equality of African Americans it became clear that women also…

Samuel Anthony Alito, Jr. is currently a Supreme Court justice and considered to have a rather conservative take on things. He is well known to lean towards making decisions that align with the ideals of a libertarian. On April 1, 1950, Samuel A. Alito Jr. was born in Trenton, New Jersey. He was raised in Hamilton, New Jersey. His father, Samuel A. Alito, emigrated from Italy and both of his parents were school teachers. Alito’s strong views on immigration originate from his father. Even through…

debate. But, like all things in life, the proposal to raise the minimum wage will carry some baggage—both good, and bad. What is the proposed minimum wage increase? We all remember seeing images splashed across social media of low-skilled workers picketing outside of fast food chains, demanding the minimum wage be raised to a whopping $15 per hour. While it’s vital to ensure that all Americans have a chance to succeed in life, few things make sense about this kind of wage…

One definition of civic rights includes the right from harm by another party. The Fourth amendment of the constitution guarantees citizens the right from intrusion by government agents, on a state or local level. Much of the law in criminal code has been written with the interest of extending the rights of citizens from harm by other citizens. This view of the right from harm has also informed the aforementioned Supreme Court Cases, Miller v. California (1973) and Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire…

through hardships and trials to get the amendment passed for women to vote. The women not only face judgement by men, but also by their fellow peers. In the movie, they showed how after the war was announced, everyone expected the women to stop picketing at the president’s door, and to focus on their duties as citizens. The women refused to back down and were imprisoned falsely for their actions. However, it is through their torture and imprisonment that the country is finally made aware of…

Fred Phelps and six of his relatives belonging to the Westboro Baptist Church traveled to Maryland to specifically picket Marine Lance Corporals funeral services to communicate their beliefs that God hates the United States in reference to the military, the Catholic Church, and homosexuality. The church group picketed 30 minutes before the funeral within 1000 feet of the funeral service on public lands in compliance with local authorities [1]. In Snyder v. Phelps, 09-751 S. Ct. 1 (2011), the…