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Organized Crime / Counterterrorism
AL CAPONE OR AL QAEDA?:
ORGANIZED CRIME AND COUNTERTERRORISM
AS LAW ENFORCEMENT PRIORITIES IN 2014
Should law enforcement in America prioritize fighting counter-terrorism or fighting organized crime? A full exam Continue Reading...
He never surrendered and continued the struggle. "I want to be out there on the firing line, helping, directing or doing something to try to make this a better world, a better place to live," he said in 2005 ("Historian John Hope Franklin Dies at ag Continue Reading...
Social Contracts:
Media Articulation Of The Rites Of
HETEROSEXUAL vs. HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAGE RIGHTS
In the Land of the Free where the Bill of Rights is supreme, all marital unions between consenting adults should be accorded the same level of societ Continue Reading...
South Vietnam, it believed, could be a base for the desired ability to mount military and economic operations throughout the globe and regardless of the insidious presence of communist influence, a premise which stood in direct contrast to Ho Chi Mi Continue Reading...
N. In the 1960s had backfired. Generations of schoolchildren had practiced the useless "duck and cover" exercise under their desks in case of a nuclear attack, and thousands of families still had the remnants of a bomb shelter in their basements or b Continue Reading...
" According to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). A "national security letter" (NSL) is basically a written demand by the FBI or other federal law enforcement agencies for a group or organization to turn over records or data or documents, wit Continue Reading...
World War II (WWII) Transformed the United States Domestically
World War II was a global military conflict that, in terms of lives lost and material destruction, was the most tragic war in human history. It started in 1939 as a European conflict be Continue Reading...
Diversity in the workplace has been one of the more active fields of study in human resources over the past several years. There are essentially two components to the discussion. The first is the business case for diversity, and the second is the eth Continue Reading...
This is because our authority figures are tainted by the same prejudices and discrimination that affect everyone. Thus, preventing these events would have only been possible if the police in the Rodney King instance didn't act in this manner toward Continue Reading...
Representations of Women
The concept of slavery in America has engendered a great deal of scholarship. During the four decades following reconstruction, despite the hopes of the liberals in the North, the position of the Negro in America declined. A Continue Reading...
He wanted the Black people to "cast their buckets where they are." (Parish) The Atlanta Compromise was significant because it made Washington extremely well-known and well-liked among Whites and it helped him in getting a lot of money for his establ Continue Reading...
Strategic Diversity Management
Diversity management is a stratagem which contributes actively in encouraging the conception, recognition and implementation of diversity in the operations of different corporations and institutions. This whole notion Continue Reading...
Conservatives, on the other hand, have many passions and one of them is a color-blind government. Most of them believe that all policies of discrimination should be discarded. They view these policies as unwise, immoral and unconstitutional. Three c Continue Reading...
Sixties in America
60s in America
Debating the Reasons for the U.S. Entry into the Vietnam War
From 1960s to late 1970s, American army experienced the Vietnam War, which was not well understood irrespective of lasting for many years. There were n Continue Reading...
Due Process and the Significance of Interpretation
The concept of "Due Process" is a uniquely American one, the significance of which has changed as much as has the societal and political times of the American nation. Today, some critics argue that Continue Reading...
With Brown's plans found at the location, it had been clear that the rebellion had been premeditated. This meant that Brown had committed a capital offense, making it impossible for him to be charged with murder in second degree. It did not take mor Continue Reading...
During the 1850s, Truth moved to Battle Creek, Michigan. At the outset of the American Civil War, Truth collected supplies for black volunteer regiments; in 1864, she traveled to Washington, D.C., where she worked to integrate streetcars (she was r Continue Reading...
A few thousand people gathered at the venue that evening, and when Dr. Martin Luther King took up the mike and spoke that he was 'tired' of being discriminated against and segregated all the time and that it was time to start changing. The principl Continue Reading...
Slavery [...] true picture of the relationship between slavery and Americans of both regions, including the impact of racism on the thinking of all white Americans of this era. While slavery was dominant in the South, and less dominant in the North Continue Reading...
Sing America Metaphors
The Use of Metaphor in I, Too, Sing America
In the poem I, Too, Sing America written by Langston Hughes, the author takes the reader on a journey through the experience of the discriminated African-Americans in the Jim Crow Continue Reading...
The fact that so many people believed that dependency of any kind was a serious threat to the development of the nation did develop into anti-racist sentiment as race seemed to be the defining character, in soc many situations of the labor force bei Continue Reading...
Crime rates do not drop with restrictions on gun control because crimes have been shown to be intent driven rather than means driven. Which simply means that those who are interested in committing crimes will usually do so given any access or restri Continue Reading...
Though the color boundaries were frequently blurred and the circumstances for all were divergent and difficult, there was a clear sense of the morality of the eras not completely dictating the events and eventualities. In a sense the Jim Crow era sp Continue Reading...
But if Houston insisted that Plessy be enforced that is, if the NAACP sued a state to make its schools for black children equal to those for whites which Plessy did require then he could undermine segregation. (Jomills Henry Braddock. A Long-Term Vi Continue Reading...
They both spent their lives working for the rights of African-American women and challenging anything that got in the way.
As the women built stepping stones for each other, each women in the Black Freedom Movement began the next logical course of Continue Reading...
Feminist Movement of the 1970s
Ending the "The Problem with No Name"
The Golden Age of marriage and family, the 1950s, was statistically a time when most women married and few divorced (Smith, lecture notes). On the surface, American society seemed Continue Reading...
Slavery in the Caribbean: Effects on Culture, Race and Labour
Origins of slavery
The Caribbean slavery began in the 16th and 17th century during the emergence of piracy. The basis for the modern Caribbean dates back to the slave trade and slavery. Continue Reading...
Souls of Black Folk: a Call for Ultimate Liberation
Published in 1903, Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois remains to be one of the most important and a pioneering book on political, economic, social, and cultures lives of African-Americans in Ame Continue Reading...
science, history, and advances in technology many of the myths and misconceptions that justified racism are gone. We now know that all humans are biologically the same both physically and mentally. We also now have a reliable scientific theory as to Continue Reading...
In his proposal letter to Confederate President Jefferson Davis, he stated, "Our army consisted of a superior quality of soldiers, but it was in no condition to divide in the enemy's country.
Lee recognized their lack of supplies, which would hinde Continue Reading...
For example, unequal protection may result from land-use decisions that determine the location of residential amenities and disamenities. Unincorporated, poor, and communities of color often suffer a "triple" vulnerability of noxious facility siting Continue Reading...
Thus, the term "a new start" came to embody a lofty ideal and it was considered to be more important from the simple fact that the respective period in history dealt with the particular issues addressed by people such as Thomas Paine. For instance, Continue Reading...
America 1945-1960
The book, The Crucial Decade and After: America 1945-1960, published in 1966, is about the transformation of the post-World War II peace into the globalization of the Cold War. It was first written in 1956 and then edited and more Continue Reading...
Black Power Movement and Cinema of the 1960s and 1970s: A Discussion of Overlap
As many scholars agree, all art is a product of its time. The social tensions, trends, patterns of thought and political issues of an era can’t help but influence t Continue Reading...
TIMELINE
Historical Development Of Nursing Science
Timeline: History of nursing
Florence Nightingale publishes her Notes on Nursing, which includes her thirteen canons of nursing. This book was the first book to establish nursing as a unique profe Continue Reading...
Walton's leadership style is very subtle, he relies on his core integrity and solid beliefs to promote value within his employees and gains the trust of his customers. Sam Walton's stores never had more than 20% mark up on products, because he beli Continue Reading...
African-Americans Breaking Barriers in World War II
Barrier Breakers
African-Americans and Non- Combat Jobs
First General: Benjamin O. Davis, Sr.
Howard Perry
Doris Miller: "The Hero"
Tuskegee Airmen
Phyllis Mae Daliey
African-Americans Break Continue Reading...
These different elements are used to provide balance, scale and proportion through illustrating the natural movements / actions that are taking place. Repetition, variety, rhythm and unity are demonstrated based upon the way the image is represented Continue Reading...
Colonial Hispaniola
Citation (Primary source)
Las Casas, Bartolome de. "Brief account of the devastation of the Indies," 1542. From Human
Rights: An Anthology of Texts. Warsaw: The Office of the Commissioner for Civil
Rights Protection, 2008. Ac Continue Reading...