Pledge of Allegiance

Reconstruction of the South The key objectives of Reconstruction were to readmit the South into the Union and to characterize the status of freedmen in American culture. The Reconstruction period was checked by political, not savage, clash. Some authentic myths are that the South was exploited by Reconstruction, and that the different arrangements of Reconstruction were degenerate and unjustifiable. Really, the arrangements were very lenient, upholding military principle for just a brief time of…

Is Mandated Equal Funding Ethical? Is it ethical that some children have more funding and better opportunities than others? Freddy Simmons, Jason Riggins, Jose Martinez, Gloria Renteria, Jessica Remy, Jamal Jones attended high school in East Detroit, MI until each of them dropped out. East Detroit is one of the more poverty-stricken cities in America with the highest welfare rates therefore little to no property tax revenue for funding it’s K-12 public school system. Just a few towns away…

In the early 1950s, the New York Board of Regents twice recommended that school boards of the state approve a new resolution that would call for the reading of the Pledge of Allegiance, along with a prayer, in classrooms before the before the start of the day. The prayer did not specify any certain faith, but required the students to recognize their dependence on an “Almighty God”. By July of 1958, the Union Free District Number 9, Town of North Hampstead, adopted a resolution that stated the…

what that word means!) We are learning to sort and graph using a variety of objects. We have sorted and graphed shapes and fruit loops, and next week we will be graphing M&M’s! We are ready to learn our second math game! We are learning the Pledge of Allegiance and why it’s important. In Art class, the students are reviewing art room procedures, and they created their own…

Alienation of these professional sportsmen comes as a result of being promised greener pastures. This lures them away very easily considering the fact that they are after making money and being famous. Even those who pledge their allegiance to their teams are easily manipulated and convinced to join other teams. Modern capitalism has taken root in the world of sport to an extent of match fixing for the purpose of making money through betting. Post-capitalistic advances should…

I consider myself to be a poor public speaker based on my past public speaking experiences. From freezing up when reciting a poem in front of a huge crowd during an assembly to messing up on the Pledge of Allegiance during the Memorial Day ceremony, I have a lot to learn. 
 One thing that I need to keep in mind is to be concerned with information honesty. There were numerous times when I didn 't tell my audience the truth or even dragged on a speech because I didn 't research the topic…

What is virtue? Is it a physical possession, an emotion explicitly felt, or behavior meant to elicit feelings from someone? Is it the guidelines of which a person lives their day-to-day life? Maybe it’s something more broad and germane to a specific race, or imposed of on a select group of individuals. According to Oxforddictionaries.com virtue is, “Behavior showing high moral standards”. This definition encompasses Confucius’s Five Constant Virtues: Ren, Yi, Li, Zhi, and Xin. These constant…

Each council member gave their opinions and views about the project very briefly before it was opened to the public. Each council member agreed that the project must be moved forward and put into action because this will be good for the entire community. One council member mentioned how he like to see every different sport present in the room at the time and I thought that was very interesting for him to give credit to the kids for showing their support about the issue. The head councilman…

candidate and soldier, John mccain reminisces of his times during the vietnam war in the notorious war camp, the hanoi hilton, tells the story of a man so loyal, “He was making the flag because he knew how important it was for us to be able to pledge our allegiance to our flag and our country” (#). As a true patriot we express love for those away fighting for us and we appreciate them for what they do, laying down their life to uphold our lives, for that, as an american, we appreciate them and…

already view them as criminals and cannot feel sympathy for what happened to them. Instead, they use their preconceptions about the victim based on their skin color rather than looking at the situation as a bigger picture. Historically, the justice system is biased towards people of color. With cases that date back to fifty years such as Emmett Till and more recent cases such as Trayvon Martin. These are cases when there is more than enough evidence to convict the defendants, but the verdict is…