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As I sit and type, while I can think of a million reasons why I need to be more careful and not speed, there are two reasons that seem to stick out at the top of my head. The first reason is, I need to be more careful because I could cause harm to myself…

On the day of May 29th of 1917, In Brookline Massachusetts, Our 35th president of the United States was born. He was brought into this world by his mother, Rose Kennedy, and his father, Joseph Kennedy. Kennedy grew up as the second to oldest in the family. He grew up in a Irish Catholic household…

In the 1900’s, the struggle for African Americans to gain social equality in the United States, intensified during the life changing Civil Rights Movement (1954 – 1968). This progressive social movement would eventually end segregation, in the public environment and the workforce, granting equality to the oppressed citizens of color. Martin Luther King Jr. is…

In America, a woman is raped every two minutes. The act of coercively forcing someone into having sexual intercourse against their will, reaches far beyond the “pleasure” of sex, but rather into the feeling of dominance and supremacy. Rape has existed as a never-ending issue in which a contingent of victims have feared talking about….

Zinn, from the observations I’ve made reading his book, is an extraordinary man that isn’t afraid to scratch the surface of details left out of history books. Zinn discusses historical events from the point of view different from other historians, political leaders and governments. In his book “A People’s History of the United States” Zinn…

The national congress of American Indians is an organization in the United States that was established in 1944 to counter hostile laws and federal termination policies that were detrimental to the American Indian nation. It is devoted to the reinstatement of the exercise of the tribal government capabilities. The organization is the largest and oldest…

John Calvin is one of the most famous reformation theologians of the 1500’s. One of his most decorated works is the Institutes of the Christian Religion: A book rich of Christian theology and the manual for reformed protestants. A topic not widely associated with Calvin is politics, yet he offers a unique perspective on government…

Almanac of Policy Issues, Gun Control, 2002 viewed on March 28, 2010 from http://www.policyalmanac.org/crime/archive/crs_gun_control.shtml Almanac of Policy Issues focuses on the adverse effects of increasing the amount of handguns owned by civilians so as to stress on the need for implementation of restrictive licensing laws. This article agrees that federal laws have the ability of…

Have you ever looked back at old memories and wondered how did you get to where you are now? Some are good and some aren’t very pleasing but a person’s life is a journey filled with bumps, detours and dead-ends while the route is shaped by the people, places and experiences that litter the path….

Making a Problem of BrutalityCrime is a problem that preoccupies the news and the public. As the nation has engaged in “wars” on crime and drugs over the past several decades, crime has become an ever-more prevalent staple of news reporting. A variety of studies of media content have estimated that as much as 25…