Washington, D.C.

comfortable for 100% of the community it serves. The fed has failed us as it has hundreds of times before, and as it will continue to unless we stop it. People Power is the Real Power and People Power will prevail. For our biggest oppressors lie not in Washington, but within ourselves, it is our inability to take action, to take control, to take power, and to create the best world for ourselves…

Facts of the Case - Prior to President Nixon's re-election, seven men broke into the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters. It was suspected that the Nixon administration was involved in this breach. - After President Nixon's re-election, the Senate began investigating this incident. Witnesses testified that Nixon and other high-ranking officials were aware of the plan to break-in to the DNC headquarters and the subsequent cover-ups. When it was discovered that Nixon had a secret…

The controversy of whether or not offensive Native American mascots and sports team names should be changed has been up for debate for a few years now. The sides are mostly the same: those who want to keep the names and mascots and those who believe the names and mascots are offensive and should be changed. However, Hayley Munguia in her article for FiveThirtyEightSports, “The 2,128 Native American Mascots People Aren’t Talking About,” shows readers that there are more than those two…

John F. Kennedy once said, “The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.” Our founding fathers birthed this nation with the importance of freedom at the top of the agenda. This freedom that they fought for has been kept alive throughout the entire life of the United States and it will continue to stay strong in the future. However it is quite clear that citizens have begun to take…

The America I believe In The America I believe in includes individual freedom, self-reliance, equality of opportunity, the American dream, and hard work. America is the country people go to, that allow them to gain the life they are wanting. They go for the chance to succeed in life, to give their family a better way of living. Today’s president candidate, Donald Trump, is wanting to take that right away from the individuals and families that are wanting to come to America. America is one of…

The future of North America is heading south when chaos happens. Panem rises from the ashes of North America like a phoenix. There are 13 districts but when district 13 tries to rebel against the capitol, a group of prissy, superior people causes the capitol to destroy district 13. President Snow, the president of Panem, decided to create a horrible game called the Hunger Games. In these games 1 boy and 1 girl will be sacrificed from each district to fight to the death until only one…

Voting in a presidential election is one of the key duties of a citizen in the United States, but the method for choosing the president is outdated and unnecessary. The current method, the electoral college system, contains various flaws that can be solved by changing the voting system. In the electoral college system, there are 538 electors in total. This number comes from the 438 members of the House of Representatives, and the 100 members of the Senate. Each state gets one elector for each…

Friday and Wednesday’s gallery walk was a huge learning experience. I learned so much about topics that I didn’t know anything about like Kent State, The Space Race and the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. When I was presenting I loved seeing how interested people were in my topic as was I. People had so many questions and it was great to be able to know so much and answer them. My topic was the John F. Kennedy assassination. Going into this project I knew of the assassination but I didn’t know much…

What does freedom mean to you. To me freedom means to be able to act and live the way you want, or to be able to talk to whoever you want or say whatever you want and we are also able to go to school with both boys and girls. In America freedom means to be able to do whatever you want but, while doing that you must follow the laws. Freedom means to be able to act and live the way you want. So for example you can wear any type of clothing, or shoes that you'd like, you may work at any type of job…

Monuments are an effective tool in solidifying a person or event in the memory of a nation. Monuments are most effective when they are well designed and memorable. Some of the factors that should be considered when memorializing an event or a person in the creation of a monument include the location of the monument, and the cost of building and upkeep of the monument. Location is one of the most important factors to consider when creating a monument. If the location of the monument isn't…