The Right Stuff

Firearms have been around since the Middle Ages. The potential of this type of weapon soon registered with military leaders as it required little or no training; just load and point in the right direction, preferably towards the enemy. This allowed for larger armies when soldiers were easier to train compared to the longbow or the crossbow. Just like any mass assault with projectile weaponry, if enough bullets are flying in the air, some will hit their targets. In the United States alone, an…

Women as a Minority Group I was surprised to learn that women as an oppressed group were being compared to the racial inequalities of Blacks. Of course I’ve always known the importance of the Nineteenth Amendment and how hard women fought for the right to vote but I never would have attributed those barriers to that of the African American suffrage. However I did not know that amongst scholars, scientists and doctors in the in Nineteenth and even into twentieth century, women were considered…

Throughout the Civil War, two common battles began to take form. These battles did not involve divisions of the North or South; instead they united a people who were wishing for their equality. Particularly, at the end of the eighteenth century, women and people of color were seen as inferior beings. They both were considered to be in need of guidance and were held to submission because of it. It was not until the end of the oppressive Civil War did these people get their chance to have their…

changing the life of a child or children so why are we so opposed to letting certain humans adopt. Homosexuals are just like heterosexuals, they have stable environments, deserve equal rights and qualify in all legal principles of adoption. One of many arguments for why homosexuals shouldn't be granted adoption rights is that they won't provide a stable environment for the child. The definition for stable is “not likely to change or fail; firmly established”, but what the people using this…

advocating for the #blacklivesmatter campaign, this seems to offend a few students and teachers. These two scenarios bring the question of whether schools should be able to limit online speech and how much this could violate a student’s first amendment right. While some may argue that anything outside the school is irrelevant to school; schools should limit free speech in schools for cyberbullying is very current with dramatic effects, leads to harassment in school, and violates the Office of…

states and the southern states. The northern states believing that slavery was not the right thing to do, and the south (who relied on the slaves for all of their agriculture) believed that we should keep slavery. 620,000 soldiers died due to the Civil War. In Brown vs. Board of Education (1954) the supreme court outlawed segregated public education facilities for blacks and whites at the state level and the Civil rights act of 1964 ended all state and local laws requiring segregation, finally…

You go to a restaurant right around the corner to enjoy a nice and quiet meal, you sit down about to take a sip of the refreshing water that the waiter ha just brought to you and BAM! The booth right behind you is filled with a group of obnoxious teenagers that are talking to loud, laughing at stupid jokes that don't make sense and/or on their phones listening to music that should be for their ears only. From my point of view Restaurants and other business should have the right to ban…

people who violate liberty of others. Liberty is freedom of restraint from use of people’s unalienable rights which are according to the U.S. Constitution are laid out in the Bill of Rights. Early Americans covenanted together to create our government, a government supposedly for the people by the people. This was done to protect people from oppression and violation of their unalienable rights. People were promised freedom, justice, and liberty for all and it was declared that all men are…

should be legal because it’s part of our civil rights, gay couples make good parents, and the banning of same sex marriage will created a second class of citizens. As part of the social contract we take upon being an American citizen, When our founding fathers wrote the constitution, they included the phrase “ We hold these truths to be sacred & undeniable; that all men are created equal & independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are…

America was on the trajectory towards cultivating the life of its citizens in the 1960s. Civil right movements were progressing and the government took an interest in providing assistance to those living in poverty. African Americans were benefitting the most from these tremendous amendments. In her memoir, Unafraid of the Dark, Rosemary L. Bray describes in great detail how these changes shaped her adolescent years. Born and raised in Chicago, Bray’s life was molded by being a product of the…