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in poverty are denied these by oppression and injustice that drives the wedge that attacks the basic ideals of a republic. As stated by BuisnessDictionary.com,…

Supreme Court ruled schools couldn’t censor a student’s rights to speech unless it causes a substantial interruption of school operations, infringed on the rights of others, or if was determined to be vulgar, profane, or obscene. (Cornell University Law School, n.d.). This precedent prevented public educational institutions from arbitrarily censoring a student’s Free Speech Clause rights under the First Amendment. However, it strengthens their authority to exclude artwork from public displays…

made during his presidency had to do with the War on Poverty. Johnson decided on the name “War on Poverty” because “of the mobilizing power it promised and how it connoted strong possibilities for victory” (Shaw 68). This topic was first originally brought up in Johnson’s State of the Union Address in response to the poverty in America. In his State of the Union Address of 1964 Johnson stated, "Our aim is not only to relieve the symptoms of poverty, but to cure it and, above all, to prevent it"…

people on the planet who have a million more ways of going about their everyday lives, fulfilling their everyday needs. Humans are obviously not perfect beings, everyone does something wrong once time in their life, some more than others. . The more laws our society creates, the more lawbreakers there will be. Criminologists have been trying to find out what the driving force behind human nature for the temptation to commit crimes. What Chicago Sociologist Clifford R. Shaw and Henry D. McKay…

League, Asian American Justice Center, Hindu American Foundation, Human Rights Campaign, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, National Center for Transgender Equality, National Council of Jewish Women, National Disability Rights Network, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, National Organization for Women, Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund, The Sikh Coalition, Southern Poverty Law Center, and many others.…

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) a nonprofit legal advocacy organization that promotes tolerance revealed the truth behind many Confederate statues. They said, “There were two major periods in which the dedication of Confederate monuments and other symbols spiked — the first two decades of the 20th century and during the civil rights movement.” Dutifully noted the first period occurred during the South’s implementation of the infamous Jim Crow laws, which illegally restricted…

these? These illegal immigrants are contributing to the rise of the economic level in the nation. They work hard in low payment jobs, support their families and pray in the same places that we do. The argument regarding illegal immigrants, often center on two things: that illegal immigrants are causing a lot of unemployment for Americans because, they are willing to work for low wages. Due to this, businesses have replaced a lot of Americans with immigrants, legal and illegal, at much lower…

Catholics, liberals etc but most hatred was directed against the poor black families in the South who were very vulnerable to attack.” (Cohen). The Klan would be responsible for thousands of deaths, and would help to weaken the political power of Southern African Americans and Republicans. Throughout its notorious history, factions of the secret fraternal organization…

Corporations have many options when it comes to displaying statistics, including the ability to change the x and y axis between increments of thousandths, millions, or whatever they choose. These corporations can also choose to display total statistics or per capita statistics, or homicides vs, all gun deaths in the case of gun violence, leading to stats on the same two countries but completely different results. For example, while America includes every homicide that it can confirm occurs in…

Jim Crow laws were state and local laws used to enforce racial segregation in the Southern United States. These laws lasted for decades until their ban only 52 years ago in 1965, but their presence is still felt today. After the Jim Crow laws were banned, a new wave of segregation took over with the Separate but Equal Act. Although the name of the act makes it seem as if all races were on the same level of social, political, and economic equality, the harsh reality is the exact opposite. Black…