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- 1321: There Are No Children Here
- ... Are No Children Here, by Alex Kotlowitz, is about kids who live in the Henry Horner Projects. They live in extreme poverty and surrounded by danger. I live in Deerfield, where there is very little violence and for my family, money is not a problem. Even though there are differences in our lives we still go through the same emotions such as dreams and disappointment. In There Are No Children Here ...
- 1322: The Life of Ava
- ... back to her childhood home of Idlewild, Michigan, to spend the summer with her recently widowed sister before moving on to San Francisco. Once there, however, she finds herself embroiled in big-city problems--drugs, violence, teen pregnancy, and an abandoned crack-addicted baby, to name just a few, in a small-town setting. Ava also meets Eddie Jefferson, a man with a past who just might change her mind about ...
- 1323: Frankenstein: Rights and Responsibilities
- ... under his grasp, and Ernest might be dead at his feet." Although Frankenstein was disgusted by his creation, he was still obligated to make sure that it was not running loose to cause harm and violence on the general public. In many cases, the general public is the biggest concern during an experiment. They are the ones you are doing it for after all. If any chemical or other substances should ...
- 1324: The Piano Lesson: Characters
- ... are brash, foolish, and self-destructive. His hateful ways can offer no solution to the present state of racism. By choosing to be headstrong, the only achievement he may receive for his actions is death. Violence and outright disobedience is never a recipe for peace. The Reverend Martin Luther King,Jr. probably best understood the importance of devising a strategy that could combat racism and bring about peace among all races ...
- 1325: The Revolutionary War was an Economic Revolution
- ... threat to their businesses, the colonists reacted swiftly and crowds rioted in the streets. The Boston Tea Party was called “the boldest stroke which had yet been struck in America.” It marked the beginning of violence in the dispute. King George, demanded t hat the Americans be brought under control. As punishment, Parliament enacted a string of laws that colonists called the “Intolerable Acts.” The Boston Port Act was part of ...
- 1326: The Events Connected to the Louisiana Purchase
- ... River to the Lake of the Woods, some fourteen hundred miles farther, Spanish authority barred the path of American ambition. Of all the foreign powers, Spain alone stood in such a position as to make violence sooner or later inevitable even to the pacific Jefferson.”8 In June 1803, President Thomas Jefferson wrote to Meriwether Lewis, his private secretary and a U.S. army captain, instructing Lewis and hi expedition to ...
- 1327: The Sixties - Years of Hope, Days of Rage
- ... Neo-conservatives” felt relief and accusation free, “Old radicals” felt differences of regret, despair, pride, and resolution and continued on with their lives. “The Sixties” “receded into haze and myth: lingering images of nobility and violence, occasional news clips of Martin Luther King, Jr., and John F. Kennedy, The Beatles, and Bob Dylan retrospectives, the jumble of images this culture shares instead of a sense of continuous, lived history”(Gitlin,33 ...
- 1328: Letter From Birmingham Jail
- ... King Jr. was known as one of the leaders of the American civil right movement and a prominent advocate of nonviolent resistance to racial oppression. As a Baptist minister King knew better then to use violence to fight against the oppression. But this did not mean he would stop from voicing his opinion about the problems that were present. One example of the problems that Dr. King tried to bring to ...
- 1329: A Discussion on the Myth and Failure of Reconstruction Following the Civil War, and How This Failure Impacted and Changed America
- ... of Confederate dead."(Trelease 161) The idea caught on and the KKK spread rapidly through the south as an answer to the Loyal Leagues.(Tindall 468) Although the Klan didn't start out to use violence, it soon found that many Negros were not frightened by just words so they turned to beatings, lynchings, and even murders.(Tindall 468) The Klansmen murdered State Senator John Stephens of Caswell County, North Carolina ...
- 1330: Black Women and Their Push For Equality For African Americans
- ... concerning the correct measures necessary in order to ensure equality for African Americans. Some organizations adhered to strictly peaceful protests while others, such as the Panthers pictured above, favored peaceful means of achieving equality unless violence was necessary for defense. The lists of courageous men and women who struggled for equality can be quite long. However, it is obvious that the picture of the Panthers lack the presence of women. This ...
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