Vagrancy

Issues of privacy and policing intersect in concerns about the practices of police forces across the country being increasingly driven by technological innovations. The legality of government surveillance and the threat its spread poses for the future of privacy has been a hotly debated topic in recent history, but another quieter threat to individual liberty lingers. The technological revolution has also brought along sophisticated data-mining systems that can analyze the locations of past…

During the nineteenth century, things weren’t so great for blacks in the South, not saying things were ever good for them in previous years because it wasn’t. Whites in the South really didn’t care for people of color, they didn’t want them to have the same privileges or anything that whites had for that matter. As a result, they came up with something called the Jim Crow system, changing the lives of blacks. Before the age of Jim Crow, slavery made its mark on both blacks and whites. It…

problem of homelessness and specifically the complications it presents for homeless children and youth - the hidden homeless. Homelessness has been a problem throughout history. Until the late 1970’s homelessness was associated with “transiency, vagrancy, vagabond, and disaffiliation with the mainstream society” (Mizrahi & Davis, 2008). With the passage of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Act of 1987 a clear definition was adopted. Within this act homelessness is referred to as; individuals…

* Phony War * Period between 1939- 1940 * there was very little combat as both sides built up their armies and arsenals * Axis * Alliance between Germany, Italy and later Japan * The 'Blitz' * in September of 1940, bombings of London and other major cities occurred in what the British called `the Blitz` * Italian Campaign, 1943 * in July 1943, Canadian, British, and American forces launched an assault on the Italian island of Sicily * by…