University at Buffalo Law School

of the argumentative essay “Two Cheers for Brown vs. Board of Education”. Born in Buffalo, New York; he is an educated scholar who specializes in African American and civil rights history. Carson’s essay is summarizes how Brown affected the outcome of desegregation in public schools. Brown is a Supreme Court decision that ruled public schools to allow African American children to attend predominantly Caucasian schools. The argument the author states in the essay, (in the first paragraph), “we…

hope to accomplish what I accomplished last class, which is learning important information that we help me understand the history of our country’s military. I have taken many history courses, but none that specifically focuses on military. My major is Law and American Civilization…

ways, a cliché American. I’m a kid from Buffalo who loves chicken wings; a New Yorker who loves the Yankees; and don’t even get me started on Beyoncé. Like thousands of other Americans, I also happen to sport a beard and a turban. My…

Theodore Roosevelt was born on October 27, 1858 in New York City. He had two sisters and one brother. He was educated by tutors until he went to Harvard at the age of eighteen. In 1880, he graduated from Harvard College. He went to Columbia University Law School for one year, but he dropped out to enter public service. Teddy married a woman named Alice Hathaway Lee and had one child with her. She passed away and Theodore was remarried to Edith Kermit Carow. They had five children together and…

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Transmuted America is a 2003 non-fiction book by Erik Larson. Mr. Larson relishes to embroider the past. So he relentlessly fuses history and regalement to give this nonfiction book the dramatic effect of a novel, consummate with abundant cross-cutting and foreshadowing. Mundanely these might be alarming tactics, but in the case of this material they do the artifice. Mr. Larson has indicted a dynamic, enveloping book filled…

The purpose of this study is to examine the intersectionality of race and gender for African American women working at predominately white institutions as faculty, staff, and/or administrators. Many Black women working in higher education often experience marginalization, social exclusion, and lack effective mentoring in academia. Using a theoretical approach, I will use the critical race theory and black feminist thought as the framework to explore the effects race and gender has on African…

Crime scene investigation is a vocation that is slowly becoming more popular. Forensic science is a career that has been becoming more known thanks to shows like Dexter, CSI, Law and Order, and many others. However, although these shows are very entertaining, they are very dramatized. Forensic science in reality is much different from television shows. It is much more complicated than portrayed. Crime scene investigation is a vocation that should be pursued by a person who enjoys a challenging…

Calkins returned back to Smith as a senior and graduated in 1885 with a double major in the classics and philosophy. In 1886 the Calkins’ family went to Europe for sixteen months. After studying languages on the trip in institutions such as the University in Leipzig, located in Leipzig in the Free State of Saxony, Germany, Mary decided that she would return to tutor students in the Greek language. Once returning to Massachusetts her father organized an interview with the President of Wellesley…

sports throughout the academy. Consequently, this would cause colleges to go bankrupt to afford compensating the gargantuan amount of athletes that play for the school. Although college athletes could benefit from compensation, the funds would be better used on academic programs that support and help build up the integrity of the school. An academy can only admit a certain number of students and athletes every year. But most do not realize the favoritism athletes get in that selection…

My senior year in high school was in Charlotte North Carolina, growing up I would never have guessed that I would be graduating down south. I am originally from Buffalo New York, I moved to Abingdon Maryland around age six and then lastly to Charlotte about halfway through junior year. Moving to Charlotte was a huge transition for me in the aspect of a culture shock as well as different level of maturity. As much as I hated moving to Charlotte I am thankful because It changed a lot about me for…