William B. Sandys

place. This required contractors to “take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed and employees are treated during employment without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin”. Then, five years later, President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Executive Order 11246 made Affirmative Action affect women. It also established the…

Throughout American History, the government has put forth effort in providing for people in need. This idea of providing security and safety to people in poverty later created the American welfare state, wherein the national government created programs designed to promote economic security for all Americans- programs not specifically for poor people. These programs were made to help people with an illness, disability, temporary unemployment, and mainly the elderly who are struggling financially.…

his time as a Civil Rights Activist, Martin Luther was put in jail many times, 30 times to be exact. Many of the times he got arrested was because of unjust reasons such as acts of civil disobedience, for driving thirty miles per hour in a 25 miles per hour zone. Other times were for the protests that were going on. He was sent to Reidsville State Prison Farm when he got arrested. August 28, 1963, over 200,000 americans came together in Washington D.C. for the “March on Washington” rally. The…

When we think about the Civil Rights Movement, the March on Washington, Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech and the passage of the Civil Rights Act are usually the images that come to mind. Yet we tend to overlook is that this was only a chapter of a global movement. Gaines argues that one should consider international independence movements and racial conflicts to truly understand the development of the civil rights movement at home. “American Exceptionalism” is a term US leaders…

Affects the Vietnam War had on Veterans The Vietnam War started on November 1st, 1955 and lasted until April 30th, 1975. There were 58,220 American casualties recorded to date, but there are so many more lives lost not on record. The U.S entered the war to stop the communist takeover of South Vietnam because we thought it would trigger “The Domino Theory.”The Vietnam War affected the soldiers who fought in it by causing long-term injuries, addiction, and P.T.S.D. The Vietnam War caused many…

When America was divided by color, white being treated as the supreme and colored being treated as the inferior, a Baptist minister from Atlanta, Georgia named Michael Luther king jr., arose fighting for the civil rights and freedom for all Americans from racial discrimination (Martin Luther King biography 2014). He later changed his first name from Michael to Martin during his lifetime. King’s dream was to make America a colorblind nation (Cross, 438). Even after years passed for the United…

Numerous noteworthy speeches use logical fallacies as well as logos, ethos, pathos in order for an effective communication of the issue. For example, Obama’s Inaugural Address, incorporates an unforgettable slogan that reiterates throughout the entirety of the speech to make for a more powerful and effective address. During Obama's Inaugural Address, he reused the expression “We will” at the start of various sentences. He supposed, “We will build the roads and bridges, the electric grids and…

One possible direction to press Cavell in a theological register is to read the centering of the ordinary as an explicit critique of the messianic, that is, of discontinuous eschatological formations of redemption. Cavell’s fear that we take too much for granted about our everyday lives—in what our shared language and therefore our shared world implies—certainly lends this pressure. Any sense of uncritical or one-sided otherworldliness threatens to perpetuate the failure of not taking language…

After John Wilkes Booth escaped from the heavy locked-down Washington D.C. and the Northern army, on the night of the assassination of President Lincoln, JWB headed to Texas and there he took the alias: John Saint Helen. This Friday, October 27th, 2017 the, supposedly, last of the withheld records associated with the John F. Kennedy assassination are set to be released. With the many, many coincidences between these two murders, one more seems to be ready to hit the consciousness of millions of…

What did the United States lose in Vietnam? On November 1, 1955 the Vietnam War began. This was to become about a 30 year long war. After the rise to power of Ho Chi Minh and his communist Viet Minh party in North Vietnam, America got involved to stop his communist uprising. Immediately the U.S. begins to pour in more and more military into Vietnam each year from 1961 to 1972, and the number of military force increased incredibly from Nixon's presidency to Johnson’s presidency. Since these…