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It was not until the rise of Christianity that same-sex relationships and marriages were considered a sin. In Assyria homosexuality was recognized and according the History News Network at George Mason College Roman Emperors were in same sex marriages more we’re considered gay or bisexual. But it wasn’t until 32AD in the Theodosian Code that prohibited marriages and relationships and those who took part were sentenced to execution (Frakes). Even in 2015 the country of Iran hold executions for…

“You are too young to understand it,’ she said, ‘but sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of—oh, of your father’… ‘There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.” (Lee, 1960, p. 60). Harper Lee grew up in Alabama, a state that, according to Anderson, was made famous during the civil rights movement (Anderson, 2007).…

Beyond this mostly factual depiction of the past is something far more powerful. Cinema. The modern movie screen is a medium that recreates all sorts of era’s, landscapes and scenarios, from the daily life of an ant, to the farthest reaches of the universe. In Robert Zemeckis’s Forrest Gump, we are given a look into America during a time of radical change. Through the eyes of a simpleton, Forrest Gump, Zemeckis guides us through the social and political goings on of the 1960’s. Within his…

wants to take advantage of it. Location holds a huge part on the different varieties of schools. The Brown v. Board of Education court case said that every student no matter what the reason shall be that every school shall be desegregated. Within Tuscaloosa nearly 1 in 3 black students attend desegregated schools while others are still in all black schools. Why are these students treated so differently? What makes the black students/kids so different from the whites when it comes down to…

For the majority of our nations history we have struggled with racism and segregation. Whether it be the brutal segregation in the 1950’s or further back slavery. After the civil rights acts were created many people believed that these issues had been eradicated. However, that is not true we still face racial issues everyday whether it be in politics, the workforce, and especially schools. There are many statistics showing how black students are less likely to attend college and have a much…

These could be a few reasons why Mr. Radley did not want Boo Radley to live in an asylum. Mr. Radley shows his repulsion for asylums when he states, “no Radley is going to any asylum,” when it was suggested that Boo Radley should spend a season in Tuscaloosa (Lee, 13). Unfortunately, the asylum that was meant to be helpful for Boo was filled with problems. In To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee mentions that there was a problem with asylums, which leads to Mr. Radley’s need to keep Boo Radley…

Her father died four years after being diagnosed with lupus. She was in her mid-twenties when he died. In her short story, “The Life You Save May Be Your Own,” it says, “I can’t wait. I got to make Tuscaloosa” (O’Connor). The abandonment of Lucynell Crater might relate to the death of O’Connor’s father. She might have felt abandoned by her father. When Mr. Shiftlet says that he can not wait, it relates to O’Connor’s father because he was not able to…

1968: Music As Rhetoric In Social Movements In 1968 social movements sparked rhetorical discourses which occurred in many nations and on hundreds of colleges and in communities across the United States. These rhetorical discourses ultimately changed the direction of human events. Sometimes these points of ideological protests shared views on specific issues, especially demonstrations against the Vietnam War, but each conflict was also its own local conflict. There is no evidence that any…