Scottish American

Braveheart is the American epic war movie directed, in 1995, by Mel Gibson which is based on the War I of Scottish Independence against the England and is led by the warrior of Scott named William Wallace. The film is not only trying to show a historical story but also a man who was trying to fight and earn their freedom against the adversity. In the movie, the inspirational speeches of William Wallace deliver took him to the mouth of death and was eventually murdered. This movie explores the…

Thomas G. Andrews book, Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War, merges labor and environmental history in an breakdown of the half century leading up to the most fierce and violent labor unrest of the post civil war era, which is the Colorado coal-miner strike of 1913-1914, the Ludlow battle/massacre and Ten Day Coalfield War. Thomas Andrews argues in his book that these incidents cannot be seen in isolation or as separate events, but as the climax of half a century of struggle within…

“We never sleep” was the motto of Allan Pinkerton’s detective agency. Pinkerton led these spies in the South where they “Didn’t sleep”, discovering more and more tactical information on the South’s plans to win the Civil War. In the USA a great war would soon begin a war that would separate the young nation, and would create the North and the South (Confederacy). The war would begin on April 12, 1861, and the main reason for this war was slavery. Spies such as Allan Pinkerton and the…

about their race. This has been an ongoing problem in the African American community in the U.S. There have been incidents that have occurred that have been made internationally known like, the beating of Rodney King in 1991 and more recently the murder of Trayvon Martin. These events cause fear in the African American community when the police are involved. In the Rodney King beating consisted of a videotape of an African American male being beat continuously by four police officers during…

there is a dramatic difference in the risk of incarceration for persons who do not complete high school. Research by Bruce Western and Becky Pettit shows that 68percent of African American male high school dropouts had served time in prison by the age of 34 (Western & Pettit, 2010). Consider this: African Americans make up an estimated 15 percent of drug users, but they account for 37 percent of those arrested on drug charges, 59 percent of those convicted and 74 percent of all drug…

What am I going to eat tonight? How am I going to help my family out? Questions like these often creep into our minds as well. I’m fortunate enough not to have these problems first hand but some of my teammates struggle in eating every night because they just don’t have money to always buy food. Not everyone on the football team is on scholarship, we have a good amount of walk-ons on our team and after practice we eat dinner, but just the guys on scholarship. It sounds really harsh but that is…

Martin Luther King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” is an excellent example of an effective argument; it was written in response to an editorial addressing the issue of Negro demonstrations and segregation in Alabama at the time. He writes in a way that makes his argument approachable; he is not attacking his opposition, which consists of eight Alabama clergymen who wrote the editorial. This is illustrated in his opening sentence: “My dear Fellow Clergymen” (464). King was an activist for…

Lorde implies that protecting and providing for them the best that one can should be a priority that is acted on, not just talked about. Speaking about putting them first and doing it are two very different things as are "...poetry and rhetoric...." (1030) Poetry is metrical composition in verse that uses figurative language, symbols, metaphors to help express aspects of internal and external realities in some meaningful way. The key is the meaningful way. Poets, as well as all artists, want…

January 25, 2011, from The Arizona Republic: Retrieved from http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2009/07/07/20090707jailpopshift0707.htm Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, L. C. E. F. (2011). Justice on trial. in racial disparities in the American justice system. Retrieved from http://www.civilrights.org: Retrieved January 28, 2011. MacDonald, H. (2010, May 14). Distorting the truth about crime and race. City Journal, 21(1). Retrieved January 25, 2011, from Retrieved from…

I, however, believe this to show Malcolm X’s sense of urgency toward the civil rights situation at hand. Countless times in this address he calls to his fellow African Americans to inform themselves to the “ballot” or political atmosphere of their community. In place of violence, Malcolm X believes “that the black man should control the politics and the politicians in his own community”. He wants his fellow black citizens to better themselves and improve their communities using political…