World Organization of the Scout Movement

Prior to World War I, militarism was a movement whereby military ideals and virtues were enforced upon the people of a nation in preparation for war. Although the argument that varying degrees of military growth between the European powers can be used to contend that militarism could not have been a significant cause of World War I— since strong policies of militarism did not exist among all nations— it is this very discrepancy in military growth that contributed to the nationalistic feelings of…

neverwrote another book. Still, her influence has far outlasted most writers of her generation. For the high-schoolers reading To Kill a Mockingbird today, America is a very different placethan it was when Lee wrote her novel 50 years ago. Lee's story of Scout Finch and her father,Atticus -- a small-town Southern lawyer who defends a black…

The Women’s movement was one of the most important movements in America during the 1960s and 1970s. Women were seen as inferior, playing a secondary role in America. Their place was limited to the stereotypical house wife image. They had very little freedom and rights. This influenced feminist leaders to take a stand and raise awareness among women who were living in a time of social injustice, gender discrimination and political inequalities with in their society. A very well-known example of…

Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, Ozzie Smith, and Barry Bonds were all great baseball players with outstanding accolades, but where would they be without Jackie Robinson. He changed the world in a positive way. He broke the color barrier in 1947 and helped in the Civil Rights movement. Jackie Robinson was born January 31, 1919, in Cairo, Georgia. He was a star athlete at the University of California Los Angeles in four different sports, and he became UCLA’s first four letterman for his multisport skills…

This paternalistic theme continues in Lee’s work. This time, Lee denounces Northern liberalism. When Scout starts first grade she meets Miss Caroline, her new teacher who is implemented a new method of teaching that Jem incorrectly calls the Dewey Decimal system. While the Dewey Decimal system refers to the library classification, Crispino argues that the new method of teaching Scout is referring to the is the methods taught by John Dewey. Dewey has been described as "a philosopher who combined…

Elizabeth Stanton sparked the initial feminist movement in the United States in 1848 with the Seneca Falls Convention. However, the racial turmoil that approached the United States during the coming decades caused the tabling of gender inequality. The Progressive era of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries brought the resurgence of the Women 's Rights Movement. The organizations involved in the first wave of feminism focused on women 's suffrage and succeeded in 1920 with the ratification of…

The ‘Free the Nipple’ campaign has gained support from celebrities like Scout Willis, Chelsea Handler, and a few others, as well as gotten it’s own documentary and multiple trending tags on social media (Heawood). The director of said documentary, Lisa Esco, goes to question how such a “media-dominated society”, that is actually regulated by organizations like the FCC and the MPAA, is more able to tolerate “baroque violence,… brutalization, and death” in media than…

For many years Ijams Nature Center has been a beloved park. The Ijams family first offered Girl Scout camps back in 1923 and thousands of individuals and groups visited this special place during the 1920s through the 1970s. Since the 1980s, nearly every school-aged child in Knoxville and its surrounding counties has come to Ijams on a field trip. Hundreds of children have attended summer camp and learned to love and care for the earth. Thousands of visitors walk our trails annually and come to…

In this essay, I will be explaining the differences in gender and sex roles and the effects it has on us as a society and individuals. Gender; socially constructed through society about what is appropriate and what is not, based on the gender of the person, including personality traits and customs appropriate to that culture for that gender. Sex is a biological difference between a male and female. Primary sex characteristics are men and women having a vagina or penis and other bodily parts.…

In the beginning, Adolf Hitler wanted to create his perfect world. His ideal world was to have one master race. He needed a new generation. A generation that would share his beliefs. A society where they only believed that everything Hitler did was right. His solution was Hitler Youth (HJ). He swayed the whole nation into this project with propaganda. It was a way for people to have more faith in him. He grabbed the attention of the youth. He wanted the youth to know they mattered. The youth…