Roger B. Taney

sat on his side of the aircraft, fumbling with his fingers. “Eugene, Leone, Andrew, was this how you felt, when you were serving the army?” Antonio asked himself nervously. At this time it was 1962 he was 23 years old the current president, Lyndon B. Johnson. “We will be there in a few moments, get ready to disembark!” ordered…

The Vietnam War is a violent and drastic war that is highly frowned upon. The United States is losing many lives and much confidence from this event. Some still question whether getting involved is a smart decision or a severe mistake. This war is lasting for roughly 20 years and has such a great impact on America. The U.S. wants to protect Southern Vietnam from being under a communist government which escalated to a war with Vietnam and many lives from both countries being lost. The U.S. should…

M and M approaches to achieving Social and civil Rights The various approaches to achieving social and civil rights were expressed by numerous writers in unit 4, however, Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X are the chosen writers for this assignment. Martin Luther King Jr.’s approach was to gather a mass of people and to speak publicly as the voice of the people, with the outcome of peace and nonviolent. Malcolm X’s approach was to speak to the youth’s allowing them to choose by giving them…

of women in the United States. Even at an early age, Stanton showed her desire to excel at things that men usually did. She did this to prove her worth and abilities to not only her father, but to everyone. Although, she is not as well known as Susan B. Anthony, who was also a women’s rights activist, Stanton was a very important contributor to all the rights women have today. Even though she had always been aware of the mistreatment of women during her time, it was probably the exclusion from…

Statues have been used for so long to commemorate and celebrate key societal figures in several countries and regions. They also serve as a memorial for the great men and fathers who led the society to a path of hope, victory, change and as such is regarded as a symbol of reference for many generations that follow them. These statues are created out of various materials as the artist might so wish to convey a lucid message as it regards the figure depicted therein. The images are normally cast…

Throughout the years, America and our country as a whole has changed. Our basic ideas of what's right and what's wrong and what is socially acceptable has continued to shift throughout history. The way that our ancestors may have decided to do something may be completely different to how we may choose to do now, and the way some may have treated others beforehand, we may now have found just inhumane and wrong. A prime example of this would be what we refer to as Jim Crow Laws. These laws were a…

wanted to read all the time. During this time I read lots of books by Dr. Seuss, such as Green Eggs and Ham, and Oh the Places You’ll Go. When I was in 1st and 2nd grade I started reading small chapter books, and my favorites were Junie B Jones and Judy Moody. Throughout elementary school, my reading level got much higher and I advanced in my interests. A little later on, I immensely enjoyed Nancy Drew and loved to see the way the mysteries played out. One series I…

“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal. ” These are the words of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, at the Seneca Falls Convention, when she read the Declaration of Sentiments. This document marked the beginning of women’s rights. Stanton wrote the Declaration of Sentiments because she wanted equality for women. That Convention held in the Wesleyan Chapel at Seneca Falls on the 19th and 20th of July, 1848 discussed the social, civil and religious condition, and…

mob, has been recorded throughout history; since the dawn of man. Whether you look at the mob that sent Christ to the cross or the pogroms in imperial Russia in the 1800s, this method of justice is timeless. In the piece “Lynch Law in America”, by Ida B. Wells, Mrs. Wells presents to the audience, a problem. This piece was released in January of the year 1900, in the city of Chicago. Mrs. Wells brings forth an emotional, graphic, history on lynching that tugs at the moral…

In 1955, tensions between the political stance of the democratic South Vietnamese versus the communist Northern Vietnamese rise. Because of this, the United States of America enters the war to keep political democratic interests within Vietnam and fighting off the red communist terror. However, the United States lacked a consistent amount of voluntary troops, so president Franklin Roosevelt signed the Selective Training and Service Act. This act would pick men between ages eighteen to…