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Since 1776, America has been the land of the free and the home of the brave. As the land of freedom, we have the rights of power to act, speak, and think as we want without restraint. For years presidents have been addressing the rights we have as American citizens and working to protect them. […]

Human Rights – SOSE AssignmentJack Campbell The ‘Human Rights’ were created on the 10th of December 1948 by the United Nations to prevent. The human rights aim to establish equality to every person in the world. Everyone has the same rights despite; Gender, skin colour, spoken language, thoughts, religious beliefs, owning more or less, social […]

In the beginning of his speech Martin Luther King references Abraham Lincoln and his emancipation proclamation speech. Lincoln was the president of the United States during the Civil War and he lead a great civil rights movement during that time. By referencing this speech, King using one of the greatest presidents in the history of […]

Around 1976 there were about 21,000 operational nuclear weapons around the world. Divided amongst six countries, almost 95% of the world’s nuclear weapons were in the possession of the United States and Russia. Nuclear weapons are very powerful and dangerous but most countries want to possess for their forces. However it is, debatable if having […]

The nation’s immigration laws have hash penalties for residents convicted of simple possession of marijuana offenses (Cunning, 2015). There is limited protection for the personal use exception for residents that are noncitizens with less serious marijuana convictions and falls outside of the protection from deportation (Cunning, 2015). “Additionally, marijuana convictions can prevent noncitizens from obtaining […]

Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Road is a gripping tale of survival in a post-nuclear holocaust world full of marauders and cannibals. A man and his son travel the United States in search of food and shelter, all the while hiding from (and occasionally battling) the marauders. As one might expect, the novel is very dark. […]

Drown is a compilation of short stories written by Junot Diaz. Throughout the book there is a common narrator, Yunior, who tells his stories with jumps around from one time period in his life to the next. The stories in the book cover many different themes, including drugs, latin itendity, family, and violence. The characters […]

Jeffrey SernaMr. RiosHistory 1301 – S5905 December 2018P.R Journal Article Review “”Our Very Pronounced Theory of Equal Rights to All”: Race, Citizenship, and Populism in the South Texas Borderlands” by Greg Cantrell and “”Another White Race :” Mexican Americans and the Paradox of Whiteness in Jury Selection” by Clare Sheridan are both informal yet interesting […]

My thesis is that the United States Constitution most closely reflects the views of John Locke (1672-1704) as compared with the views of Thomas Hobbes and Patrick Henry. The Constitution does reflect some of the views of Hobbes and Henry, but it mostly aligns with Locke’s. Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) writing in his book “Leviathan”, emphasized […]

This promise of great changes, and hope for a new beginning had been the single inspiration that kept a lot of African Americans from giving up completely. With the end of the civil war, and Union becoming victorious, African Americans hope that now they would be allow their whole and complete freedom. Almost a hundred […]