Washington, D.C.

“I Have A Dream” speech was delivered on August 28, 1963 at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., by Martin Luther King, Jr. The speech reflected on the Emancipation Proclamation: a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863. It purported to change the federal legal status, which was complexed of crooked white supremacist; the proclamation was mean to remove more than three million African-American enslaved people in order for them to…

We hear that America is the land of the free, and that it is a place governed by the citizens of this country for the citizens of this country. Furthermore, we are taught as children the idea that no matter what race, gender, or sex you are that we could aspire to be whatever we desired in life. Alternatively, however, that telltale proves to be distorted in America due to prejudice based upon the very factors claimed to be nonessential but it is still an ideal goal of which Americans live and…

September 11, 2001. Four airliners were hijacked by 19 al-Qaeda militants. Three of the planes hit their target. One plane hit the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. The other two were flown into the World Trade Center. Over 3,000 people died as a result of these attacks. It was a terrible, horrific event. And what makes it worse is the fact that these American deaths were in vain. Because the terrorists won. This not because of the body count. This is because they were able to terrorize America and…

The Attacks on September 11, 2001 On the morning of September 11, 2001 a series of terrorist attacks occurred in the United States and Washington, D.C. The purpose was to weaken the United States’ economy by hurting it’s most important centers of income and power. The plan of the terrorists were to hit Wall Street, the Pentagon, and the White House. In the end, the planes attacking the Pentagon and Wall Street were successful for the attackers, but devastating for America. The total number…

The Electoral College is the system used to elect the president and vice president of the United States to office. The system awards a number of electoral votes to each state based on the population of the State. Each party with a candidate selects a number of men and women to be an electorate. Majority of states will have all their votes go to one candidate or the other in order to strengthen the voting power of the state. A candidate needs to have majority of the electoral votes in order to…

On the day September 18,2001 the first anthrax attack happened only one week after the attack on the twin towers. “The Anthrax attacks started on the east coast around Boston then traveled throughout the country.”(Alex Collins 1)The first guy died a couple days after and the world realized that anthrax was deadly and was coming for the country.”A terrorist attack in the United States on our home territory”(Alex Collins 2). A panic went off in every nook and cranny in the country. Most biomedical…

As a personal safe haven, the average American citizen desires the protection of their homes through the placement of security measures around their property. Some people place surveillance cameras and motion sensors around their houses and businesses to protect themselves from theft and unwelcome visitors. The surveillance cameras violate a citizen’s freedom of privacy for the safety of the citizen’s home because it watches the citizen without their permission. Similar to the telescreens in…

On October 14th my class went to Springfield IL the capital of Illinois. We enjoyed a 3 hour bus ride to Springfield and when we arrived we saw some awesome museums and even Lincoln's house! But, the coolest thing that I believe we did was seeing Lincoln's tomb. As we rounded the bend and the anticipation was growing we finally saw the giant monument in his honor; it was magnificent. But, as if that wasn't cool enough their was a giant Lincoln head! Strangely the statue was quite dirty except…

Paul Breines was a freedom rider at the age of 20. He was born in Queens, NY. The College he attended was The University of Wisconsin where he received his PhD in Modern Europe Intellectual History specialization in philosophy. Now he is the professor of Boston College where he has worked for 35 years. Mr. Breines created the first LGBT history class at Boston College. During the speech he talked about many events happening in 1961. He brought up a book called “ Breach Of Peace”…

Podcast Script This photograph was taken in an era where the most defining characteristic of America; freedom, was barraged by the daggers of communism surfacing around the globe. In the 1960’s, American soldiers fought a raging war in Vietnam to protect liberty and freedom on the home-front. With Americans liberties protected, they were able to pursue the American spirit with full force. This image is part of a series called the “Freedom Riders” that Danny Lyon captured and produced. He…