Warren G. Harding

Robert W. Straub was born in San Francisco, California on May 6, 1920. He received his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Science degrees in Business Administration at Dartmouth College. During World War II, Straub served as a second lieutenant in the United States Army. In 1994, he married his wife Pat, who was influential during his governor years, and had five children. Him and his wife moved to Oregon in 1946 and Straub became a builder and developer in Eugene. Straub is not only known as a…

Detour Detour is a 1945 film noir directed by Edgar G. Ulmer starring Tom Neal and Ann Savage. The film starts off by a piano player Al Roberts drinking coffee at a diner while hitchhiking east from California and song plays on the jukebox which reminds him of his former life in New York City. In the flashback, we learn that Al was bitter about his talent going to waste in a cheap nightclub and so was his girlfriend, so she decided to seek fame in Hollywood, leaving him behind. Later, he decides…

In 1973 the Supreme Court made abortion legal in the United States via their landmark Roe v. Wade decision. Before, when abortion was illegal, it was common to get “back alley” abortions” were they could die or lose fertility. As such a controversial topic, the United States can't make abortion illegal. Instead, states would chip away at the legality of abortion. This “slippery slope” will eventually make abortions de facto illegal. We need a constitutional amendment legalizing abortion fo it…

Eric Arthur Blair; was a man of strong opinion who addressed political movements like imperialism, fascism and communism. As an English novelist, essayist and critic this man played a big role in politics in his time. Through his novels Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four he spoke stories of his life and political issues in early and mid 1900’s (“George Orwell”). In Motihari, India on June 25, 1903, Eric Arthur Blair was born. As a son of a British civil servant he spent his first years in…

Since the beginning of time, humans have been making natural formed settlements to survive. However, society has become more advanced through time. As society advances, more laws are enforced. In Lois Lowry's novel, The Giver, they have created a futuristic society under an Utopia/Dystopia theme. Literary experts explain that the Greek meaning for Utopia means “no place”, this shows that the Greeks thought that Utopia couldn’t be real or possible. Lois’s experience with her father's aging and…

The court case I chose to write about was Roe v Wade. Roe v Wade was a Supreme Court case on the issue of abortion The Supreme Courts decision overturned a Texas abortion law and make abortion legal in the United States. Now at the time, abortion was considered a common crime in the United States. The court ruled that it was a woman's right, under the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment, to decide to have an abortion for any reason during the first trimester without any legal restrictions.…

Though Roe v. Wade established an improved precedent for women’s reproductive healthcare, it did not effectively improve the conditions faced by women seeking abortions due to increased stigma and unaddressed financial concerns. Grace Herdelin AP United States History Mr. Reader 6 June 2016 Women have struggled for the right to proper reproductive healthcare for decades, particularly for access to birth control and abortion. However, birth control was not readily available…

Roe vs Wade, 410 U.S. 113, 93 S.Ct. 705,35 L.Ed. 2d 147 91973) FACTS Roe was a pregnant single woman that challenged the Texas criminal abortion laws, which had made it a crime for a mother to get an abortion unless the life of the mother was threatened by said pregnancy. Roe claimed that these laws were unconstitutional and violated her right to privacy, which is the 14th amendment. A married couple (the Does) also attacked the law based on alleged injury on the possible future contraceptive…

Though humans have been attempting to achieve the utopian ideal, they have been failing miserably. Today’s world does not resemble a utopia because humans are still subject to inevitable negative aspects of life. Furthermore, increases in dangerous weaponry and technology have allowed the rise of institutions that hinder the progress towards utopia. These groups have put society in a vulnerable position that ends in pain and suffering; effects that are not seen in utopian societies. Possibly…

The timespan between 1960’s and the 70’s was a period in the United States when immorality and relativism poisoned American culture on a large scale and allowed the attitude towards sexuality to be corrupted. The authority of the Catholic Church had been neglected as ideas of radical liberalism spread throughout the western world. This led to many practices, at one time recognized as atrocities, becoming commonplace and accepted in society; the most notable of which was abortion. Jane Roe was…