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Racial profiling of African Americans dates all the way back to slavery to at least the 1700s for African Americans when many southern states had slave squads in which white men policed and hunted them down if they escaped. If they were free African Americans they had to show freedom papers or passes to prove they had gained their freedom and had permission to leave the plantation. These…

candidates have made the sales and ownership of guns a major discussion point in their political platforms. Earlier this year, retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens called the Second Amendment “one of the six great flaws with the U.S. Constitution.” Justice Stevens, called for the constitution to be amended to say, “gun possession was only for state militias, not individuals.” School and church shootings, police being shot, movie watchers being gunned down as well as a limitless…

a driver's license, passport, or military ID at the polls. Thought the Supreme Court has struck down other states’ bills that wanted to implement a law requiring a Photo ID in federal elections. “Photo ID bills were signed into law in seven states: Alabama, Kansas, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Wisconsin. By contrast, before the 2011 legislative session, only two states had ever imposed strict photo ID requirements.” Nearly a year ago the Supreme Court, “granted Texas'…

Times about Cory Gloe a driver who participated in a street race on Long Island that killed five other teenagers and was sentenced to six months in jail and probation. Justice Terence Murphy of State Supreme Court nevertheless granted Gloe youthful-offender status because he was 17 at the time of the crash. The judge said he thought justice would be better served by not sentencing Gloe to prison for what he called an error in judgment caused by “juvenile ignorance.” “It’s been offered that…

downfall of the United States economy. The Social Security Act of 1935 was created in the time period of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first term of presidency. Once all was reviewed, SSA 1935 was enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress as part of the Second New Deal, and signed in by Franklin D. Roosevelt on August 14th, 1935. This would make a significant…

myself, in an advanced graduate research study. Secondly, the fact that I would have the ability to go to a country that is an underexplored gold mine and study race relations has been a dream of mine. The issue of race has been something the United States, and the world for that matter, has struggled with for so long. This is a crucial time politically: we are given limited access to Cuba with an unclear climate of international relations between our countries. As a woman of color from Dallas,…

Islamic Terrorist Camps Terrorist camps in America are becoming a major threat. The United States is trying to be more aware of who and what these camps are, and also what could be watched for with these camps growing in population. Michelle Bachman, a former congress woman, said,”. . . [United States] national law enforcement agencies have a duty to secure the safety of the American people- that is the number one duty of the government” (SCARY). The terrorist camps are becoming a serious…

World War I was a senseless war, a conflict between two countries that spun out of control because of the systems of alliances. The United States should not have gotten involved in the war. The primary reason for the United States’ entrance into the war was the American citizens that were caught in Germany’s crossfire, but involvement in the war sacrificed far more American lives than those American citizens that died aboard ocean liners. A peace treaty created damaging problems in the Middle…

do not. In Children of the Alley, Mahfouz shows the struggle between poor people and powerful people that live in a society with no justice system. Mahfouz also critiques religion's role in trying to create justice, and equality. In other words, Mahfouz is critiquing politicized religion. Mahfouz shows there is a cycle of religious figures that create peace, justice, and equality within the governance of the alley but it does not last for long. While Mahfouz focuses on a larger struggle of…

opposite values between the United States and Soviet Union. The United States represented "capitalism, free market, private enterprise, individual liberty, and open political system"(Lecture#10). While the Soviet Union beliefs were "communism, state planning, state enterprise, community good, single party/limits on dissent" (Lecture#10). The United States and Soviet Union are both powerful nations in the World. The Cold War was different from other wars by the United States or Soviet Union did…