The leader I chose is my father, Larry Regan. He is the Vice President of Teamsters local #142.…
All public positions no matter the jurisdiction come with a great deal of scrutiny that their appointees have to endure and this is no different for the Sheriff of Spartanburg County. Chuck Wright was elected to be the 40th Sheriff of Spartanburg County in 2005 and he put himself in position to managing a large and complex government bureaucracy. The Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Department is a goal directed organization, tasked with protecting the citizens within the County.…
“No one should ever be locked away simply because they share the same race, ethnicity, religion, as a spy or terrorist. If that principle was not learned from the internment of Japanese Americans, then these are very dangerous times for our democracy” (Korematsu). Those were the words of Fred Korematsu, a Japanese civil rights hero who fought courageously in 1944 against the United States on the Internment of Japanese Americans. Korematsu’s actions sparked a movement in national history and at the time, no one could ever defy or rely on the government for help towards minorities. Japanese Americans committed no actoricies to be mass incarnated away from their homes, so why were they automatically outed for being a threat to mankind? Easily, social and racial attitudes in America had shifted after the Pearl Harbor attack executed by the Japanese on December 7th, 1941. Americans easily evolved into a whole chaotic cesspool of fear, violence, and outright racism was subjected to Japanese Americans. Anti-Japanese sentiment was rising on the edge such as signs marking “No Japs Allowed!” and soon Franklin Deleanor Roosevelt, 32th president of the United States was pressured into creating executive order 9066, which was effective in…
Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass: An American Slave is a narrative autobiography written based on Fredrick Douglass’s experiences as a slave. He wrote this book with the purpose of revealing the injustice institution of slavery and to make the statement “slavery is unfair.” Fredrick Douglass supports his arguments about slavery by using pathos, or the appeal to the emotions of the audience, where he attempts to persuade the audience through gain of sympathy. This emotional appeal to the audience can be best shown through the examples of the treatment of his grandmother, the separation between him and his mother, and the beating of his brother.…
“Success is to be measure no so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.” No one exemplified or understood this statement more than its author, Mr. Booker T. Washington. Washington was born a plantation slave on April 4th, 1856. Until the emancipation proclamation was issued by Abraham Lincoln in 1863, Booker lived as a lowly, unknowing slave boy on Franklin County, Virginia. After he was freed from slavery, Booker began seeking education. Although he was a poor man who hardly knew how to read, Booker was able to save just enough funds to attend the school established for the purpose of instructing African Americans hungry for knowledge. This place was Hampton University. Eventually after he graduated Hampton, he was invited back to teach, and he thrived. While teaching at Hampton, another opportunity was presented to him during the year of 1881- To fabricate his…
Richard Stockton was born in Princeton, New Jersey on October 1, 1730 and died on February 28, 1781 at the age of 50 in Princeton, New Jersey. Stockton, a continental congressman, was an American lawyer, jurist, legislator, and a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence. Richard Stockton represented the New Jersey colony that was split evenly in the sense of sides during the revolutionary war. One-third supported the rebels and were patriots, one-third supported England and were loyalists and the other third remained neutral. New Jersey was an important state during the Revolutionary War because of its location near the center of the thirteen colonies and between New York City and Philadelphia. Because of this, more battles were fought in New Jersey than in any other state. The Americans and British fought 100 battles, both large and small, here. The tension between the Colonies and the mother country caused Stockton much concern, as shown in his letters and published writings. When the rupture drew near, he adopted the cause of the Colonies, at considerable sacrifice to himself, and separated himself from the Royal Council, all but two of who were Loyalists or neutral, and to who, as individuals, he was attached to. In 1774 he sent Lord Dartmouth "an expedient for the Settlement of the American Disputes", in which he proposed a plan of self-government for the Colonies; and applied an alert opposition to the British measures, until actual bloodshed began. Stockton was appointed by Congress, along with fellow signer George Clymer, to an exhausting two-month journey to Fort Ticonderoga, Saratoga and Albany, New York to assist the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War. On his return to Princeton, he traveled 30 miles east to the home of a friend, John Covenhoven, to evacuate his family to safety, and away from the path of the British army. While there, on November 30, 1776, he and Covenhoven were captured in the middle…
Fredrick Douglass was born in Tuckahoe in the late 1810s, he never truly found out when his real birthday was or found any records that would inform him of it. He was born to Harriet Bailey and all he knew about his father was that he was a white man. Despite the rumors of Douglass’ father possibly being his master in a way his story is similar to the stories of Mary Prince and Gustavus’, all slaves tied down by the forces of slavery and trying to find a way to break free and receive their freedom. Douglass’ constant determination and perseverance to strive for a better future rewarded him with a life that was filled with meaning and lessons meant to be shared with the world. Douglass said it best when he expressed knowledge is power and the key to set slaves free.…
A successful way in keeping a person ignorant is to make sure to keep him or her illiterate. This was a strategy used to keep slaves from realizing how inhumane they were being treated. Fredrick Douglass had to learn this on his own. He went through many trials and tribulations to find his own identity. African American slavery, brought about by lack of social justices is the most important political issue in this essay.…
The author’s main point is that we disregarded Crosby’s wrong doings so long because to acknowledge them would mean to acknowledge that he is corrupt. This presents a serious problem for individuals and society as a whole. If Bill Crosby is a corrupt human being, then all the noble things he has accomplished for the world in terms of racism and sexism, all of his ideas, and everything that he stands for is possibly misguided and built on deceptions.…
In two short years after is founding The Black Panther Party for Self Defense grew into a national organization with substantial social influence amongst blacks all over the country. In October of 1968, The Black Panther Party for Self Defense was founded in Oakland, California as a community based organization committed to directly improving the lives of blacks through autonomist black action. (Hanes, 33) The founders of the party, Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton, authored a ten point doctrine which marked the beginning of the party and served as the groups manifesto throughout its…
The militant Black Panthers were founded in 1966 in Oakland, CA, by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale. They were originally advocating violent revolution as their means of achieving black liberation, and they called on blacks to prepare themselves for the liberation struggle. In the late 1960s many members became involved in a numbers of violent controversies confrontations with the police and court cases, some resulting from direct shoot-outs with the police and some from independent charges. While controversy raged over…
John Forbes Nash Jr. (born June 13, 1928) is a mathematician who worked in game theory and differential geometry. He shared the 1994 Nobel Prize for economics with two other game theorists, Reinhard Selten and John Harsanyi.…
In Oakland, California, October 1966, persons Huey Newton and Bobby Seale established The Black Panther Party (BPP). Huey and Bobby met in the early sixties whilst at Meritt Junior College in West Oakland (Wood 1, Rajguru 2, The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense). Both of these men were active in Black politics for several years before they came together to form the Panthers. (same site as previous sentence). The “Black Panther Party for Self Defense” was formed to protect Black individuals and neighborhoods from police brutality (ushistory.org). This party was based off of the Black Power Movement. The Black Power Movement was also formed in 1966 and was rooted from the ideas of Malcom X who was a very insperational person to the Black Panther Party. This movement stressed the self-sufficiency, self-assertion, and Black pride (13.3 US Packet). During the time of the 1970’s the black power movement had a great social impact on minorities because the Panthers showed that they were supporters amongst Blacks in the major cities by 90% (Wood 1, Rajguru 2, The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense). During the March Against Fear in Mississippi in 1966…
The Battle of Kasserine Pass proved to be a shock both to American military forces in the field and to the American public at home. The defeat of the Allied forces in the battle put doubt into the minds of many. The defeat suffered by the Allies had nothing to do with right versus wrong, however, but was very much a product of a number of operational shortcomings on the part of the Allies (Carr). Poor logistics, failures on the part of American leadership, lack of unity of effort on the part of the Allies, the lack of combat experience, and inferior equipment all combined to contribute to the failure at Kasserine. Despite the setback at Kasserine Pass, the Americans proved quick learners and applied the lessons of the North African experience to the remainder of their campaign in the European theater.…
Three years later on 4th April, 1968, Martin Luther King Junior was also fatally shot. At the time of these deaths President Johnson was in power. His response to the tragedy of Martin Luther King 's death was:…