Pledge of Allegiance

You, who lives in this country as much as I do, who watches the fireworks on the Fourth, celebrates the freedom we have thanks to thousands of men and women who have fought for such things, who stands with their hand on their heart to say the Pledge of Allegiance, if I were to speak to you against what is best for this country, some may call it treason. The opponent, Hillary Clinton, believes in much more heinous things; such as supporting Planned Parenthood, a pro-choice…

Baseball Magic by George Gmelch discussed superstition and the use of “magic” in baseball. Baseball Magic did not give definitions for ritual, taboo, or fetish, but one can derive their meanings from context and the examples given in the reading. A ritual is an action or behavior performed to produce some sort of effect such as: improved fertility or increased luck. A taboo is an object or action that is avoided in fear of transgressing or producing some undesired outcome. A fetish is an object…

The Ku Klux Klan started in the Pulaski, Tennessee, which is in the south of the United States during the year of 1865. The majority people who became part of the Klan were white people from the south. The KKK was regarding white people that wanted to have white sovereignty. According to Fryer et al. (2012), the Klan “is the most prominent hate-based organization in American history.” The two accounts of the Ku Klux Klan were not quite the same because the one account written by John Zerzan…

This site is OK for background but it’s misleading. I always used to wonder what was it about Jews that made people throughout history despise them. If they were indeed "God's chosen" I thought, they had to be the unluckiest people in the history of the world. Why were they persecuted throughout history? Why had the Nazis herded them into cattle cars and taken them to "extermination camps" to dispose once and for all of the "Jewish problem?" I suddenly recognized that if Hitler had developed a…

Mandatory vote is a system in which voters are obliged to vote in elections or attend a polling place on voting day. In “Mandatory voting guarantees ignorant votes: Column” Trevor Burrus argued that compulsory voting was not just, but also unconstitutional. Burrus stated that mandatory voting violated the first and tenth amendment, but there was barely enough information to support his argument. For his second argument Burrus stated that letting ignorant voters was an unwise choice because they…

We all know that the “establishment of religion" clause of the First Amendment means at a minimum that neither a state nor the Federal Government can organize a church. Neither can they permit rulings which give encouragement to one religion, support all beliefs, or favor one belief over an additional belief. Neither can it neither force nor influence a person to go to or to stay away from religious dwellings in contradiction of their free will or coerce them to acknowledge a belief or distrust…

over flock to talk to, and see Joan of Arc. Among those who come are two of Joan's brothers - Jean and Pierre - who came to join her and to bring their parents' blessing, and the knights Sieur Jean de Metz and Sieur Bertrand de Poulengy, who pledge their allegiance to Joan. These happenings encouraged the young girl and she petitioned the governor again, but was met with another refusal. Finally one…

They pledge their allegiance to the flag, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. So if this were true, would there not be justice for all? Pro Life believes that “The fetus is a human being from the moment of conception; this means abortion…

From the Bill of Rights to the Pledge of Allegiance that students stand to pledge every morning, the ideal of equality and justice are filled the life of typical American. The ideal of individual rights were deeply embedded into the history of America. The Bill of Rights and the amendments to the United States…

AQAP. As Farrall describes “AQAP is often referred to as an al-Qaida franchise, but it is better described as a branch. It was created by, and continues to operate under, the leadership of core al-Qaida members”. Unlike AQIM where Droukdal swore allegiance to bin Laden in order to be absorbed under the al-Qaida umbrella, from the beginning AQAP has answered directly to the al-Qaida core. AQAP is not a large organization. In 2010, its size was estimated to be between 100-600…