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when you hear “Si Se Puede?” Spanish for “Yes, it can be done,” the phrase is attributed to the Visionary and Ethical Leader, Cesar Chavez. Through his transformational leadership and inspirational motivation, Cesar led a movement across the United States to bring about social change for migrant farm workers in California. He called his movement “La Causa” or “The Cause” and used honorable strategies to transform their struggle into a…

Evan Gardiner Gardiner 1 English Ms. H. Bodanis Effectiveness of Gun Control: From Australia to the United States of America On April 28th, 1996, Martin Bryant entered the Broad Arrow café, in Port Arthur, ate a meal and slaughtered 12 people. Port Arthur is a former penal colony on the southeast coast of Tasmania. He committed this atrocity with a semi-automatic rifle. He then left the café and continued through a gift shop, parking lot and finally to a gas station killing 22 more…

is probably one of the most important contributors to the success of East Asian countries (McNicoll, 2006). There is a constant debate between the government and market on the behavior of consumers and workers. One side emphasizes the important of state interventions that affect the norms, attitudes and behavior of families and individual through health programs, schools, and family planning schemes. The other side draws attention to a change in family economic conditions, and expectations…

frequently lured by false promises of education, a lucrative job, a loving relationship, or stability. In the United States, victims can be men or women, adults or children, foreign nationals or U.S. citizens. “Children under age 18 induced into commercial sex, adults aged 18 or over induced into commercial sex through force, fraud, or coercion, and children and adults induced to perform labor or services, through force, fraud, or coercion” (www.polarisproject.org). “The International Labor…

need of reparations. With the assault against the United States, Japan had planted a seed of fear in the minds of all Americans; fear directed towards anyone with Japanese heritage. As a result, the Japanese- Americans were forced to leave the lives that the knew and were relocated to internment camps in the interior of…

Dr. Martin Luther King was a great leader and political activist. Many of his views and opinions on American racism and the issues blacks face as a nation are still extremely relevant today in 2015. The sad reality is that they will still continue to be relevant for years to come. One thing we talked about in humanities was the idea of power majorities and minorities. A power majority being any characteristics like: whiteness, being a male, wealth, or being straight, these people control a…

American involvement in the “War to End all Wars” was a long awaited arrival for the Triple Entente, yet anticipated by the Germans. Due to political turmoil between Washington and Berlin and military actions by Germany involving the reinstated the use of unrestricted submarine warfare, America declared war on Germany on April 4, 1917. However, the U.S. Army and Navy had never participated in a war that was outside of their own borders and their soldiers lacked the training that would help them…

there is not much attention given to certain issues related to the discrimination of Black people in the United States. For example, the brutality of police against Black people is still the common problem; there is not really a serious action taken in this. The government and our society see this problem as normal and they do not do much to stop it. As we are told that every American has civil liberties but those who…

events starting with United States foreign policy during the Cold-War era. When the Soviet Union pulled out of Afghanistan in 1989, a vacuum of power was left behind. During the Afghan-Soviet war, the United States funded billions of dollars to the Mujahideen to prevent Afghanistan from becoming communist. In the 1990s, members of the Mujahideen formed the Taliban to impose stability and rule of law. Osma Bin Laden, the founder of Al Qaeda, was once backed by the United States because of his…

Between 1942 and 1945, thousands of Japanese Americans, regardless of United States citizenship status, received orders to evacuate their homes and businesses. Sparked by rising fear and anxiety of the American people after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a United States Naval base in Hawaii, the U.S. government relocated Japanese Americans to remote areas on the West Coast and in the south, isolating them in internment or relocation camps. With no actual evidence supporting the creation of…