United States counties with African American majority populations

the Death Penalty. Those with who suffer from a mental illness, are juvenile offenders, are under 18, or have raped a child and death was not a result nor was intended, are not punished with the Death Penalty. ("States and Capital Punishment) According to Bob McCulloch, a St. Louis County Prosecutor, cases similar to one where a six foot six, 300 pound man butchered his girlfriend and her two-year-old baby into pieces and gutted them receive the Death Penalty. (6) That case was heart-breaking,…

Fundamental rights are granted through the Constitution of the United States, and are a part of our liberty and freedom. Also, The Ninth Amendment reads, “The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. In other words the right to bear arms should not be taken away from anyone. Opponents of gun control consider the right to bear arms in some sense a fundamental right, and having those rights taken away is…

He was determined to establish, for all time, that the people’s republic could not be reduced to an “absurdity” because of an arbitrary secession of one or more of the states (McGovern 48). Believing that suppression of rebellion was first and foremost an executive function, Lincoln then took a series of unprecedented actions that may not have been strictly legal in the absence of congressional action or oversight, but…

Rights (ICCPR) which states, “all persons are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to the equal protection of the law. In this respect, the law shall prohibit any discrimination and guarantee to all persons equal and effective protection against discrimination on any ground such as race, color,…

Redistricting/rezoning Across the United States majority of students attending public schools are assigned to them through the process of school districting. But in places where housing patterns are heavily racially segregated schools have shown just this. Many public schools across New York have produced racially and economically isolated schools. District lines often are drawn in a way that displaces those that have been systemically disenfranchised in many ways, which often includes our…

President of the United States after Kennedy’s assassination. LBJ’s presidency is defined by his aspiration for a Great Society through measures like the Civil Rights Act and War on Poverty. However, Johnson’s Great Society fail because Johnson had no clear direction for Vietnam and he intertwine the War with his Society, dooming both monumental pieces of history. However, Johnson did have one chief success in his Great Society and that is passing the greatest Civil Rights Act in American…

born and reared. In United States socialization consist of four major agents which are: the family, the school, the peer groups, and the mass media. The family is mostly considered to be the most important agent of socialization. The family is the primary focus for offspring from generation to generation and socialization. Each family has his or her own belief, values and norms. The school also plays a major role of the agent of socialization because now most of the population of children…

vaccination is usually the only practical method of controlling them” (Introduction). Vaccines are not always effective. There is a small chance that a child receiving a vaccine will not be protected if contact with the disease occurs. When the majority of a population is immune to disease and one child gets sick, that child will most likely not be able to spread the disease. This is what is meant by the term herd immunity. Since the child will be around others that are immune to the…

this may be a correct thought, there is so much more detail about their interpersonal relationships under the surface. The Antebellum Period in American history was a period before the civil war, also known as “pre-war” from 1820 to 1860. This was a time of very significant changes that took place in the United States under expansion and division in the states. Changes such as the institution of slavery spreading south and the cotton era had begun. As slavery spread to the south there was an…

natural disasters, and conflict. Their work is multifaceted as they work in countries where people need support to recover from a crisis, respond to help countries stabilize and assist people in rebuilding their lives, and resettle refugees in the United States in effort to help them succeed. The IRC provides many different services; they provide economic well-being, education, health, housing, employment services, legal services for citizenship, power, and safety. Before the refugees’ land we…