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It was the end of the 1920’s, and modern America as we know it was in full swing; Consumerism was booming and everyone- from business tycoons to janitors- poured their savings into stocks. Once the stock market peak was matched with a decline of production and a rise in unemployment, stock prices were left costing…

The Second Amendment of the United States Constitution reads: “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.” The Second Amendment was part of the Bill of Rights that was added to the Constitution on December 15….

Since the ratification of The Second Amendment in 1971, Americans have been proudly housing firearms. It is no question that this a basic constitutional right that grants Americans the means to protect themselves under the law, however, due to recent controversy around violence as a result of the use of firearms, lawmakers have been prompted…

The Boston Massacre was and is still a debatable Massacre. The event occurred on March 5, 1776. It involved the rope workers of the colonial Boston and two British regiments, the twenty-ninth and the fourteenth regiments. Eleven people were shot in the incident; five people were killed and the other six were merely wounded. The…

Over the years the United States has become one of the most powerful countries in the world but is the only one that cannot explain its healthcare system to the public and how this one functions. Many people do not have an absolute idea of how this structure works or what they need to do…

The United Nations stated that ‘everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expressions; without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.’ In Isabel Parkers ‘We the People’ she shares actual examples that provide concrete, tangible evidence to how censorship in school’s harms students…

President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law in March 2010. This law made many contraceptive methods affordable to many women in the U.S. This was the first law to be enacted that set requirements for preventative health care across all the markets (L. Sobel, A. Salganicoff, I. Gomez; Mar. 29,2018, Women’s Health policy)….

There are many issues we must face when discussing inmates with mental health disorders, there are many barriers which stand between our current application of Corrections within the United States, and a future of improving our society to provide proper medical and mental health care. Yet, understanding where we are at with treatment of inmates…

From a shoemaker’s apprentice to a highly respected and important figure of the American Revolution, the life of George Robert Twelves Hewes in The Shoemaker and the Tea Party is thoroughly chronicled. Fundamentally divided into two parts, this book by Historian Alfred F. Young described Hewes’ experiences during his participation in perhaps the most important…

Freedom is the power to act, speak, or think as one desires without any curbs. In 1776 the Declaration of Independence was written to declare to Great Britain that the colonies wanted to be an autonomous nation that was completely free from British rule. In 1789 Olaudah Equiano published his autobiography titled “The Interesting Narrative…