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- 1931: Jury Nullification and Its Effects on Black America
- ... articles have been composed on the many facets in which discrimination, or at least disparity, is obvious. Even whites are forced to admit that statistics indicate that the Black community is disproportionately affected by the American legal system. Controversy arises when the issue of possible causes of, and also solutions to, these variations are discussed. Although numerous articles and books have been published devising means by which to reduce variance within ... able to keep a large portion of Black males out of prison. Although several commentators have voiced criticisms with the ideas of Professor Butler, most of these criticisms focus on what is best for the American legal system, what legal precedents dictate, or as is most often the case, on what is "right." It is, however, negligent to simply focus on these issues when examining the proposal of Professor Butler. Instead ... the death penalty, disparities between punishments for white-collar crimes and punishments for other crimes, more severe penalties for crack cocaine users than for powder cocaine users, and the high rate of incarceration of African- American men.2 All arguments regarding Butler's thesis must be framed within the context of these problems, if not directly addressing them. Although Butler lists it last, he does note that the problem of ...
- 1932: Mein Ghetto: Black Racism And Louis Farrakhan
- ... of a particular race; prejudice based on this or antagonism towards, or discrimination against, other races, especially as a result of this. (Goldberg, P. 58) Racism, as it applies to Blacks against Whites, in North American society, has its roots in several hundreds of years of oppression and racism by Whites. In this sense, black racism almost qualifies as reverse discrimination (e.g. affirmative action plans established by governments and foundations ... an off-shoot of, the civil rights movement and the emergence of groups such as the Black Panthers and the Nation of Islam. Louis Farrakhan is a leader of a group of extremist. An African-American "preacher", he has founded his own movement of black radicalism, based on Islamic fundamentalism, and incorporating his own brand of hatred against whites and other racial or religious or special interest groups. This essay will ... will destroy America by the hands of Muslims." He also has a belief that self-help is the key to black redemption and he seeks to restore conservative cultural values in black families and in American society. His beliefs about black determination are rooted in West Indian Marcus Garvey's separatist doctrines, and his desires to create the black ethnitopia are rooted in Garvey's notion of black self-help ...
- 1933: Children of the River
- ... with no help, and she was only 13. She was a young girl and it was hard to do the right thing in America with the Cambodian ways. Then there is Jonathan. Jonathan is an American boy who falls in love with Sundara, but she is not allowed to be around because he is white. Jonathan does anything he can to be with Sundara and it all worked out at the end. Soka is Sundara’s aunt, but now she has Sundara as a responsibility. Ravy is Sundara’s Cousin. He falls quickly into the American ways. Yet, no one stops him. Mr. and Mrs. McKinnon are Jonathan’s parents. Mr. McKinnon saved Ravy’s life when he came to America. Sundara also teaches him Cambodian language, so he can go ... life and her feelings. They are almost the same, but they are different. Questions 1. Why are Sundara and her family considered political refugees? They are considered political refugees because they don’t follow thr American ways. 2. How did Sundara’s background and understanding of life conflict with her new American culture? Sundara’s Backround and understanding of life conflicted with her American ways because she was not alowed ...
- 1934: Charles Dicken's Novels: Literary Criticism
- ... Jarvis Lorry, who, in the beginning of the book, is on his way to retrieve the doctor from the prison (Constable 13). Another group of readers will believe that this book is about the French Revolution. Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities starts out in 1775 while the Revolution was still in its underground preliminary stages. The book covers eighteen years ending with one of the bloodiest battles, the Reign of Terror in 1973. Although most of the major revolution events take place off stage in the novel, they do have a major effect on the lives of the characters in the story. It would certainly be no error to say the events of ...
- 1935: Laura Secord
- Laura Secord was originally an American. She was born in Massachusetts on September 13, 1775. Her father was Thomas Ingersoll. He was a major in the American army. They were well known because Laura's father was a clever man. In her family there were inventors, mechanics, merchants, magistrates, teachers and soldiers. Laura had three sisters. When she was eight her mother ... the moment when I first set foot on Canadian soil the feeling of strangeness went, for I knew myself to be not only amongst friends, but amongst fellow countrymen." Even though Laura was born an American, she felt her patriotism for Canada and her friends in Canada. Ursula K. LeGuin once said, "it is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in ...
- 1936: Animal Farm
- George Orwell's novel Animal Farm does an excellent job of drawing parallels from the situation leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917. Animal Farm is a satire that uses its characters to symbolize leaders of the Russian Revolution. The animals of "Manor Farm", the setting of this novel, which symbolizes Russia, overthrow their human master after years of mistreatment. Led by the pigs, the farm animals continue to do their work, only with ... the future. He is the main animal who got the rebellion started even though he died before it actually began. Old Major's role compares to Lenin and Marx whose ideas would spark the communist revolution. Lenin became the leader and teacher of the working class in Russia, and their determination to struggle against capitalism. Like Old Major, Lenin and Marx wrote essays and gave speeches to the working class ...
- 1937: Internet Censorship
- ... place in regards to people under the legal age. As well, it is difficult to completely delete speech once it has been posted, Meaning that distributing materials that are obscene are banned becomes easy The American Library Association (ALA) has a definition that states censorship is “the change in the access status of material, made by a governing authority or its representatives. Such changes include: exclusion, restriction, remove, or age/grade ... keynote address said that "[Cyberspace] is about protecting and enlarging freedom of expression for all our citizens...Ideas should not be checked at the border” Another person attending that conference was Ann Breeson of the American Civil Liberties Union, an organization dedicated to preserving many things including free speech. She is quoted as saying "Our big victory at Brussels was that we pressured them enough so that Al Gore in his ... against the U.S. Department of Justice and Attorney General Janet Reno to make certain that the First Amendment of the U.S.A. would not be compromised by the CDA. The plaintiffs alone, including American Booksellers Association, the Freedom to Read Foundation, Apple, Microsoft, America Online, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Commercial Internet eXchange Association, Wired, and HotWired, along with thousands of netizens (citizens of the Internet) shows ...
- 1938: The Bill of Rights
- ... provide basic legal protection for individual rights. The terms also applied to the English Bill of Rights of 1689 and the Canadian Bill of Rights 1960, and to similar guarantees in the constitutions of the American states. From the perspective of two centuries, it can be said that Madison chose well among they pyramid of proposal sin the state. he included all the great rights appropriate for constitutional protection. The US Bill of Rights contains the classic inventory of individual rights, and it has served as the standard for all subsequenent attempts to sage guard human rights. The first American use of the term was in 1774 when the first Continental Congress adopted the declaration and resolves, which was popularly termed the Bill of Rights because it was an American equivalent of the English Bill of Rights. Two years later came the Virginia declaration of rights, which contained the first guarantees for individual right single gully enforceable constitution. The distinctive feature of the provision ...
- 1939: The Joy Luck Club Anthro
- ... marriage. You find out in the movie that she had left Harold and is going out with a young Chinese man that respects and loves Lena and her mother Ying-Ying. I am a Chinese-American 2nd generation. Meaning my mom and dad are Chinese but they grew up in America. I look at my family and culture and it seems like the American way has somehow covered the Chinese way. I look at the way that my grandma is and compare it with the way my mom is and see some resemblance in it. But then there are ... new family. Lindo realized that this is not the kind of life that she wanted and she gets a rail ticket to Shanghai. Waverly on the other hand was grew up in America where the American customs have influenced her way of thinking. Waverly wanted to please her mother and she even married a Chinese Man. But still this didn t please her. When Waverly divorced him she thought that ...
- 1940: Legalization Of Marijuana
- ... because their is no hard core evidence that proves that marijuana is a effective drug as a medicine. In twenty years of research have produced no reliable scientific proof that marijuana has medical value. The American Cancer Society , American Glaucoma Society,the National Multiple Sclerosis, the American Academy of Ophthalmology , or the American Medical Association , say that their is no evidence that marijuana is a medicine. The agencies also argues that no other drug prescribed is smoked and that knew findings ...
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