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…The readings "Foul Shots" by Rogelio Gomez and "Civilize them with a Stick" by Mary Crow Dog reflects on the discrimination and prejudice experienced in places of education. In "Foul Shouts," Gomez examines the shame and anger he felt as a teenager faced…

…After the Civil War, we had new laws, reconstruction plan but most of all we forgot about the women's rights. The lives women living in the US changed dramatically. They faced continuing hardships. But this struggle against material deprivation…

…. Politically a civil war, militarily it was actually a conflict between two hostile nations- two peoples divided by an unbeatable difference of opinion on the right of secession.'         The question whether slavery should be permitted enter the territories…

…"Letter From a Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr. and Henry David Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience" both display their authors' views on justice in their respective periods of time. King believes that one has the right to break a law…

…         The purpose of this essay is to show what was happening in pre-Civil War time. To show the reasons for the war. To show the differences between the Northern, and Southern states.                  The antebellum period…

…his mind. He became a huge part in the abolitionist and black civil rights movement. Douglas believed that "the American people must stand each for all and all for each, without respect for color or race." He spent most of his life trying to portray his…

…soldiers. In the end the Youth accepts himself as a man, a human who is capable of weakness, and forgives himself for his previous self. I think this book was a good view on how a person could be during the time of civil war. When you have death staring right…

…It is indeed ironic that despite having fought to defend the rights of Parliament in the Civil War of 1642-46, Cromwell forcibly dissolved the Rump in 1653, a mere 4 years after the execution of the King and establishment of the English Republic…

…) According to the dictionary, an individual is unique and therefore should be able to be set apart from others without much difficulty. The question at hand now is, does civilization remove the identifying aspects of unique individuals and mesh them into one…

…to form civil society. For this to happen people must be willing to surrender our individual rights to the community has a whole. Each person must give himself absolutely to the whole. Individuals do not retain any rights. According to Rousseau, you surrender…