Richard Branson

Throughout history, there have been numerous monumental speeches that either changed public perception or brought forth a new era of thinking. From Abraham Lincoln’s “Gettysburg Address” to Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, these orations have all had their own unique effects on the United States’ history. Among those most famous and sacred speeches, one must include John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address. On the afternoon of January 20, 1961, Kennedy delivered one of the most powerful…

future of our great nation. During this period of change a group of individuals arose that would become a legacy to later represent the ideals and aspirations of our country. These individuals would be known as John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Richard Nixon and it would be these men’s decisions and influence that would define and shape the…

Richard Nixon’s time as president quickly became one of the most debated and controversial times in American history. An incident of burglary involving the president rose to national exposure in what became known as the Watergate scandal. At first, Nixon and his administration stood behind a curtain of lies in order to save their reputations. However, evidence revealed crimes committed by the president in which led to Supreme Court involvement. Eventually, resignation was the only option for…

single American citizen on the status of each candidate. Although there is a mute button for the television, unfortunately, there is no mute button for politics. Ever since the first televised presidential debate in 1960 between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, the use of television in politics has grown enormously. Time seems to have frozen in a time and place in which the television is feeding the minds of the American citizens with the information they want to hear – or even worse…

Richard Wright is an African American writer and poet that is known for his great and moving short stories and poem about life as an African American growing up in the early and mid-1900’s. He was born in Roxie, Mississippi and schooled in Jackson, Mississippi what was known for one of the biggest racial states in the south. Wright was a son of a sharecropper and raised by his mother in a single parent household, and was the grandson of slaves. The upbringing of Wrights childhood brought him to…

Though Muhammad Ali was not one to skirt with the concept of breaking the law and resorting to aggressive means to ensure his survival outside of the ring, but he was known to stir controversy when his opinions, often strong, were to clash with the established norms and issues of the time. One of the most notable examples was his eventual arrest and conviction upon refusing to serve in the armed forces during the Vietnam War. An institution that was one of the primary elements of the…

something I will either back away from the situation or will attack the source of my fear. Multiply this fear by millions of people and society has events like lynching’s and burning of blacks, methodical starvation of the Irish or the Holocaust. Richard Wright’s novel Native Son is imperative to history and the lessons we should learn from the events of slavery and the Jim Crow laws. Unfortunately, those who need to learn from history usually are the ones who turn a blind eye and create their…

His music, according to Mark Berry was used and abused by the Nazis and before that Beyreuth Idealists [pg 664 Richard Wagner and the Music Drama]. Many people now associate Wagner with Hitler, and for good reason. After annexing the Rhineland in 1936 Hitler said “ 'Out of Parsifal I am building my religion”[Adolf Hitler Wagner connection pg 99] Porat also notes that…

becoming exceedingly prominent. Many of these so-called memes appear to be harmless and tend to generate various chuckles, although many of them can be considered offensive or even disturbing to some viewers. The word “meme” was first introduced by Richard Dawkins in his 1989 book The Selfish Gene, and his intentions included spreading an element of a culture or system of behavior that is to be passed from one individual to another by nongenetic means or imitation (Dawkins, 1989, p.1). Dawkins…

Conservatism is usually defined as a reaction against reform or revolution, this research paper will explore the conservative reaction against the social movement for reproductive and abortion rights. Abortion is relevant, albeit sometimes overdone topic. This paper is not meant to argue the morality of the issue, only to examine the contemporary political movements and political theory behind the issue as a case-study on modern conservatism. Abortion rights movement stem from the liberal…