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…Blind Nation The color of our skin automatically makes us a suspect in today’s stereotypical world. “Despite the civil rights victories of 30 years ago, official skin color prejudice is still reflected throughout the Criminal Justice System.” (Racial…

…their lives would take a drastic turn. In December, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white person on a Montgomery bus. This would in turn mark the beginning of Martin Luther King’s initial involvement with the Civil Rights…

…the context of this poem. August of 1968 was one of the most turbulent times in the United States as far as the civil rights movement is concerned. Earlier in the year, Martin Luther King had been assassinated, and race riots were erupting around the country…

…attracted the fringe elements of society and remained more of a status than a resistance movement. As the civil rights movement gained force in the late 1950s and as resistance to integration began to diminish throughout the South, the Klan continued to offer…

…, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, or they did not mean it at all. The Constitution has survived two World Wars, a Civil War, and even slavery. This piece of paper was written to limit government in our lives and proclaim our rights as individuals…

…What happens when war comes? In Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War, war brings along with many negative elements for a society. These negative effects are seen very clearly in Athens during the Plague and in Corcyra during the civil war…

…"The Power of the Conch" William Golding uses many objects as symbols throughout the novel "Lord of the Flies". The Conch is a symbol for all the values and morals bread into civilized man. Amazed by the appearance and ability of the conch…

…conquistadors to not only discover, but conquer the two main civilizations in the area. While no one main reason can be cited as the cause for the tremendous Spanish victory, several small factors combined to formulate this monstrous conquest. Disease, military…

…to policy of isolation right after the Civil War and included: "The Secretary of State Seward negotiated purchase of Alaska and the annexation of Midway Island" and "France forced out of Mexico as the U.S. considered France to be violating the Monroe…

…Tim Moorstein Sociology 393 Fall 2001 Guns: Safety or Right "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed" (Bill of Rights, Article II…