for Peace and Freedom. At this same time she worked on the American Civil Liberties Union. She then moved from Montana to Georgia and returned to her legal residence every summer. During her time in Georgia, Rankin lobbied for many different organizations such as those to end child labor. Also in 1935, she was given an opportunity to be the Peace Chair at a college in Georgia but shortly after was accused of being a communist. Rankin spoke in 10 states and gave 93 different speeches before…
Henry David Thoreau was an American author, philosopher, professor, naturalist, transcendentalist and historian. He is known as one of the best American authors for his great ideas. During his life, Thoreau’s writings were not so significant. He fought for the abolition of slavery in United States of America in 19th Century. People who claimed Africans’ slavery thought that they did not have souls. In their view, Africans are some merchandise. Thoreau’s most famous writings are…
football. In this essay I will discuss interesting football occurrences that happened in the Roaring Twenties. These topics include Notre Dame, The Galloping Ghost and the Four Horsemen, and finally “Wrong Way” Riegels. The University of Notre Dame was an…
American man that was born on January 31, 1919 in Cairo, Georgia (Witherbee 1). In 1938, Robinson was accepted into college at the University of California in Los Angeles. There at college Robinson showed his athletic ability in sports such as track and field, football, basketball, and baseball (Witherbee 1). Robinson also became the first African American athlete to earn four varsity letters in a single academic year (Witherbee 1). There in college, Robinson was given a name for playing…
voters decisions and hold a significant weight over the future of many Americans, youths in particular. The debate over free community college education has been one dissected by politicians, educators, and concerned citizens to weigh out the benefits and challenges that reshaping an entire educational system entails. The process of transitioning our community colleges into offering free post-secondary learning has to include a well thought out program that addresses government spending and…
The Family Tree to My Dreams In my eyes, my culture is all the aspects behind my family and the people that help define who I am. This may include the events that have happened to past generations, behaviors of my relatives or beliefs that have been passed down to me. In the book, Is everyone really equal?, the authors, Sensoy and DiAngelo, define culture as “the norms, values, practices, patterns of communication, language, laws, customs, and meanings shared by a group of people located in a…
elements that determine authentic assessment. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 39(2), 205-222. Kevin Ashford-Rowe is at the learning and teaching center at Australian Catholic University. Janice Herrington is at Murdoch University in Perth, Australia and Christine Brown is a researcher at the University of Wollongong in Australia. This study sought to establish the significant elements of an authentic learning activity, design them into an appropriate framework and then use this…
and the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at Texas A&M University, and her work is on the rhetorical legacies of second-wave feminism in both political and health frameworks (Dubriwny, 2013). Dubriwny has various publications, including a book, teaching experience in her field at two universities, has given presentations at conferences on topics related to her research interests as stated in her curriculum vitae in the Texas A&M University Department of Communication’s website (TAMU).…
2013. Web. 13 Feb. 2016. The Guardian is a team of US-based journalists who cover American and international news for an online audience. Chloe Spencer, a contributing writer for the site is an “avid student” with aspirations to study English at a university. In this article, Ms. Chloe discusses her own opinion on the matter as her school seems to be reverting to a formal uniform as known as a shirt and blazer, rather than, as she describes, her “old jumper and polo…
I am not a local but international student from South Korea and I’m currently attending at South Seattle College. I didn’t have any vision or specific goal before I came here but getting AA degree to transfer to 4 years university. Since I spent more than a year in US I’ve seen a lot of people who are international students and there’s a several reasons why they decided to study abroad in foreign country. For example, learning various kind of cultures, improving English ability, different…