As people, we take basically everything for granted. It just comes naturally. Every day, we see, have, and can do many things without realizing their true importance. I bet whenever you've voted for s…
Human rights
The experience of citizens in the United States has varied greatly over the past several hundred years. Though we like to think of our liberties as having the same definition and strength as someone…
The Bill Of Rights and Its amendments have influenced how America has operated culturally and politically since it was founded. However, the most influential part of it is most definitely the first am…
On several occasions, texts like The cylinder of cyrus, written in 539 B.C. are intended to express that human justice is well required, and thus how to achieve such scenarios that do not discriminate…
Governments should not be given the authority to restrict free speech for a variety of logical reasons. Many ideas and thoughts would not be heard if the government restricted free speech, and the wor…
There are a lot of rights in the first amendment. The right to assembly, freedom of the press, the right to petition, freedom of speech. The question that must be answered in all of our minds is, whic…
In the Declaration of Independence signed in 1776, the founders of America promised equality to the people of America by writing the words, "We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are cr…
Imagine a 15-year-old sharing the same prison cell as a 40-year-old who is serving a life sentence for murder; this is a reality in some states around the U.S. The juvenile justice system is set in pl…
Privacy is a very subjective concept as it depends on person to person as to what they want others to know and what they want to keep to themselves. It is something that depends on an individual as to…
"The past, the present, and the future are really one: they are today." Harriet Beecher Stowe was an abolitionist and author who believed in changing the future by influencing the present. As an autho…
In his argument against slavery, Douglass masterfully uses the rhetorical strategy of pathos to evoke pity into the reader for him and the other slaves while exposing the unimaginable treatment of sla…
The importance of Respect in any relationship is so key. Whether your in it or looking from the outside relations deserve respect. Looking at the pros of Interacial dating can be eye-opening and help …
With a vote of 96 to 3, Ruth Bader Ginsburg became the second lady in U.S history to become a supreme court justice and paved the way for other women alike. Ruth Bader Ginsburg showed grit in times of…
John Lewis was born in the deep south of the United States in 1940. Segregation and racial discrimination were a large adherence during his childhood and he knew that he wanted to change the gravity o…
What is Justice and Equality? These words have numerous definitions to countless numbers of people, but when somebody gets right down toward a simple definition that creates the same idea in what this…
Quickly following the Common Conflict, African Americans were confronted with incredible segregation and languishing. The recently free slaves were confronted with the issue of cutting a specialty in …
The implicit bias towards certain races and nationalities has created havoc in every aspect of our nation, but some more specifically than others. The court of law has demonstrated prejudice on variou…
Dear Thomas Jefferson, It's been a while since we have last seen each other and I have been wanting to share my thoughts on this "Declaration of Independence" you dropped off on my doorstep. I think …
Throughout the early twenty century, over 50,000 Aborginal children were forcibly taken from their homes and forcibly enslaved for decades before finally achieving freedom. Regardless of abounding att…
Imagine you are an elite track star and compete on the women's track team at your school. And during the finale of a 400m run, a woman who happens to be transgender beats you to the finish line. Do th…
Firstly, it's a human right that every woman has access to provide free menstrual products. It's not a woman's choice to bleed once a month since it's something we can't control. Did you know how expe…
African- Americans had very different living conditions from Whites. African- Americans were discriminated against and had a worse way of life than whites. People were concerned for the progression of…
The two sociologists that I agree with are Karl Marx and Max Weber. The reason I agree with these sociologists because their perspective on society exemplifies class struggle that is relevant today. …
In 1905, Florence Kelley gave an emotional and convincing speech regarding child labor and the conditions of working women. Her speech was a cry for change and reform to a corrupt system. The emotion …
Assata Shakur was a key figure in the black liberation movement that started in the 60s. However white America condemns her as a convicted murderer, refusing to acknowledge how and who got her to that…
Equality is a way of creating good health in society, every individual must hold the same share of value as anyone else. In the United States, the Criminal Justice System is an organization that ensur…
In 1897, a little girl with the name Amelia Earhart was born into a world where a woman's career as a pilot would be considered commonplace. However, it was not long before Earhart grew to become not …
Maya Angelou once said that "'Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccessible'". The author, Ernest J. Gaines, who created A Lesson Before Dyin…
On February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, AL, Leona and James McCauley gave birth to their only daughter Rosa. Rosa has a younger brother Sylvester who was born in 1915. Shortly after their births, James and …
"I'm Sick and tired of being sick and tired." Fannie Lou Hamer often said these words when she was a black sharecropper in Mississippi. She spent years in the cotton fields doing backbreaking labor an…
