...Julen Rivera Let Level 1 Miami Jackson SHS Miami, FL HOW JROTC DIFFERS FROM OTHER HIGH SCHOOL COURSES The Code of Federal Regulations states that JROTC is "designed for physically fit citizens attending participating schools. In public schools, JROTC is usually an elective course with membership limited to US citizens and legal foreign nationals, those who will graduate with their 9th grade cohort, and have not experienced an out of school suspension during the preceding six-month period. Often, students who participate for one year receive credit in lieu of a physical education class. Students who excel in the first year of JROTC can apply for a second year. Most schools offer three to four years of JROTC training. Boarding schools or (pre-college) military schools may offer JROTC programs, with some requiring participation as a condition for acceptance to the school. Some public military schools mandate JROTC as a class for all grade levels, and have a curriculum...
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...for the Confederates.(Spielberg) Abraham Lincoln had all sorts of logic. He was one of the first leaders in the world that thought all people no matter what race should be treated equal. Let’s say someone believed in a different religion they can do that, one should not be punished for that. If someone’s skin is a different color they shouldn’t be enslaved.(Spielberg) He also used his weaknesses in war to his advantage. If a large amounts of troops were dying in one location he would send and infantry that was in a different location to flank the confederates while they were off-guard.(Spielberg) Before Abraham Lincoln was the president of the United States of America he was a lawyer. He was a lawyer for 25 years in the state of Illinois.(R. J. Norton) In his presidency he used all of the useful logic he learned in that time of being a lawyer. Abraham Lincoln was probably the most influential presidents in the world....
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...These protests involved people giving speeches to large groups trying to fire them up. They even went as far as burying a copy of the Constitution symbolizing the US government “murdering the Constitution.” What started as a peaceful rally would soon turn in to violence and destruction. At night, students began to set fires in the streets, rebel against the local police by throwing rocks at them and bashing cars parked in streets. The mayor of Kent, Leroy Satrum, ordered a state of emergency and asked Governor James Rhodes for assistance. The next day the Ohio National Guard came to Kent to try and halt the violence. On Monday, May 4, Kent students organized another rally, but this time the University banned the rally. This led the students to want to have it even more. Around 3000 students gathered at the Commons, and with this crowd came 100 Guardsmen carrying military rifles. These Guardsmen tried to stop the protestors, but they students didn’t back down, so the Guardsmen took matter into their own hands. They fired around 61 shots in 13 seconds...
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...the 1950’s segregation was at its peak and African Americans began fight for their rights. During this process they were beaten, spit on, disrespected, and even killed for what they believed in. segregation policies were changed because of the immense effort that was put into the civil rights movement through people such as the Little Rock Nine (1957), and the actions of the Freedom Riders (1960’s). In 1957, a crucial event in the civil rights movement took place in a small town called Little Rock in Arkansas. Nine colored young children attempted to enroll in a school for white children. After being verbally/physically disrespected by the parents, students, and even the mayor, the president ordered them to be protected by the national guard while entering the school to get the education they had rights to receive. From then on they were famously known as the “Little Rock Nine”. These children sparked the beginning of acceptance of colored children to white schools in every town. Although all schools were ruled by congress to educate any child regardless of race in 1954, racist schools found different ways to continually discriminate and refuse African American children into the schools until ten to fifteen years later. Many white parents believed that if their child was to go to school with a colored child, their child would be badly influenced and or distracted from their studies. In the 1960’s an organization named “Freedom Riders” were people who were willing to be killed...
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...Kkk protested on blacks hispanics and whites sometimes. Jim crow laws were used to make fun of blacks. Protest were used on every one colored and whites. Activists used multiple strategies for achieving civil rights which had both success and failures. Paragraph 1: (strategies) Riots were used when people got mad or wanted something to change, and when they did not get it they wanted violence happen. when the blacks, were not to go to white schools, people would pick on them, so they had national guards, come out to guide them to school. The “March on washington” when they marched across the bridge and people got hurt, and when that happened, more people would gone in, and and people did not like it. People even whites would help blacks when they went to sit ins and when whites would tell them to move people...
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...Ruby Bridges spent her first year of primary school alone; she worked one-on-one with her teacher, played at recess in solitude, and was forced to avoid enjoying food from the school cafeteria in fear of the threats of being poisoned. For the duration of the school year, protests persisted. Bridges required the presence of the officers to guard her from violent outrages, such as signs that read, “All I want for Christmas is a clean white school.” The effects of this violence spread into her home life as well. Ruby Bridges’ father, Abon Bridges, lost his job, and her grandparents were evicted from their tenancy farm. The Bridges family was frequently refused service in almost all places and publicly slandered. However, their courage did not go unnoticed; the Bridges family received sufficient donations as aid from northern supporters. In coordination with Barbara Young and child psychiatrist Robert Coles, Ruby Bridges and her family overcame these tormenting hardships and emerged with perseverance against the objections of...
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...his cruel rule. “I have done the deed. \ Didst thou not hear a noise?” (2.2.14). Looking at how it responds to his wife and the killing, it can be determined that he realizes this may be the best way to rid of those who are a threat to his seat on the throne. Also, the fact that Macbeth and his wife framed Duncan’s guards with the murder would be an dark move. As expected, Macbeth carried out murders of those who posed a threat. In the next act, Banquo was ordered to be killed. Banquo had also visited the witches with Macbeth and learned that he would father a line of kings, which Macbeth sees as a problem. That is not the only reason Macbeth wants him dead, Banquo has been spreading his suspicion of Macbeth being the murderer of King Duncan. In the very beginning of the first scene of the act, Banquo talks about how Macbeth’s fates have come to be, yet his have not. Thou hast it now—King, Cawdor, Glamis, all As the Weïrd Women promised, and I fear Thou played’st most foully for ’t. Yet it was said It should not stand in thy posterity, But that myself should be the root and father Of many kings. If there come truth from them (As upon thee, Macbeth, their speeches shine), Why, by the verities on thee made good, May they not be my oracles as well, And set me up in hope? But hush, no more (3.1.1-10). At this point of the play, Macbeth does not seem to see an issue with killing off rather innocent people just to protect his power as king. Yet again, Macbeth’s darkness is used...
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...Eighteen months after starting this column, business leadership still hasn't reached perfection. Haven't they been reading? Why is good leadership still so rare? Maybe it's because we use a whacked-out definition of leadership. "Leader" has become code for "rich guy with an impressive title who orders others around." But leading by giving orders left and right with no accountability doesn't work. We're living in a world of low loyalty, high mobility, and extreme uncertainty. "Push" leadership will push people right out the door. We need leaders who inspire others to follow, who engender loyalty. We need leaders who practice "pull" leadership. Pull leaders don't give orders; they create social systems that inspire people to join They do it using principles that many people in official leadership positions wouldn't follow if their lives depended on it. Pull leaders take responsibility for the success of their organization and their people Responsibility isn't given; it's taken. The loss of faith in American business starting earlier this decade has been driven by a batch of CEOs who have chosen not to take responsibility for the consequences of their actions, even when the responsibility was required by law. Pull leaders take responsibility voluntarily, even when it's optional. You want to change how your company does business, but you're too junior to have an effect? So what! A corporate trainer saw students struggle with the company's product, so he wrote up the shortcomings...
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...students too. In 1957 Central high school integrated, Arkansas was at the time among the more known state for racial issues. The University of Arkansas School of Law was integrated in 1949, and the little Rock Public library in 1951. Before the Supreme Court ordered for integration at the little Rock School, the board of education over there wanted to integrate and had plants to begin that process in 1957 starting with the high school. Nine black students enrolled at Central high school which is located in Little Rock, Arkansas. On September 4th 1957 the first day of classes with the nine black students attending, the governor Orval Faubus who is known for his stand against Desegregation at Central high school, called in the State National guard to stop the black students from entering the high school. Then President Eisenhower was notified about this and he sent the federal troops to escort the nine black students into the school. “Because I grew up in Chicago, I didn't have an emotional relationship to segregation. I understood the facts and stories, but there was not an emotional relationship.” said by the Board of director of the Little Rock, Arkansas Chamber of commerce. In 1959 they had to fight in order to stop segregation and had to survive the segregate political world also. Moreover, President Harry S. Truman signed “Executive order 9481”, it established the President’s committee on equality of treatment in the military. In 1940 the US population was around 131 million...
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...The Angriest Man In America _______________ TERM PAPER Presented to Mrs. Richardson Billings West High School _______________ In Partial Fulfillment of the requirements for Senior English _______________ by Hunter Dixon 08 December 2013 Hunter Dixon Mrs. Richardson Term Paper Final Draft 08 December 2013 The Angriest Man In America Without a doubt, Malcolm X is one of the most iconic figures in the history of our country. He is best remembered for the passion and power he displayed during all of his speeches, but his legacy has roots so much deeper than just that. He was the self-proclaimed “angriest man in America,” and he even openly called white people devils. Malcolm spent his whole life preparing himself for an inevitable death (Malcolm X, A Leader of Black Pride). He wanted to get his message out to the world before his time came, and it came much too early for a man like him. Malcolm X will live on throughout history because he was so passionate in his beliefs; though they changed often, he always stood up for what he believed was right, and there is nothing more respectable than that. Even if the man’s beliefs were radical at times. Malcolm’s birth name was Malcolm Little. He was born in Omaha, Nebraska on May 19, 1925 to parents Rev. Earl and Louise Little, the fourth of eight children (The Autobiography of Malcolm X). When he was about a year and a half old, his parents decided it was best to move out of Omaha after a Klu Klux...
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...Most Significant Events The decades of the 50’s, 60’s 70’s 80’s and 90’s had many significant events that shaped America into the nation that it is today. The events of these decades shaped the United States into the nation that it is today. This paper will discuss issues that are relevant to each period in history beginning in the 1950’s and ending in the 1990’s. Exploring each period with due appreciation of what happened and what it accomplished in relation to the United States. It is written to awaken your thoughts of our past history. 1950’s Rosa Parks On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks (the "mother of the Civil Rights Movement") refused to get up out of her seat on a public bus to make room for a white passenger. Parks was arrested, tried, and convicted for disorderly conduct and violating a local ordinance. After word of this incident reached the black community, 50 African- American leaders gathered and organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott to protest the segregation of blacks and whites on public buses. With the support of most of Montgomery's 50,000 blacks, the boycott lasted for 381 days until the local laws segregating African-Americans and whites on public buses was lifted. Ninety percent of African Americans in Montgomery took part in the boycotts, which reduced bus revenue by...
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...Civil Rights Movement Marilyn Hemingway History 300 May 08, 2013 Dr. Goldstein African Americans have experienced racial discrimination in virtually every single area of their lives. America has come a long way since the 1800’s when slavery was common, but that road certainly hasn’t been easy or short for Black American. Not long after the Civil War ended, African Americans experienced a form of racial segregation called Jim Crow. The name "Jim Crow" originated from a character in an early nineteenth-century minstrel show song. A white minstrel blackened his face and jigged around while singing. The "Jim Crow" character regularly appeared in minstrel shows touring the South. Eventually, Jim Crow became the name of the racial caste system which operated primarily, but not exclusively, in southern and Border States. These laws legalized segregation from the 1860’s through 1967. The most widespread laws mandated racial segregation in schools and public places such as railroads, restaurants, and streetcars. Since segregation laws typically excluded African Americans from services, Jim Crow laws began as an attempt to move forward by providing separate services for blacks. These laws were adopted earliest in most southern towns and municipalities where diverse crowds lived. These communities passed vagrancy laws that controlled the influx of black homeless migrants. Many southern states during the...
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...Texas politicians to date. George W. Bush was the 43rd President of the United States a fact everyone knows, but before going to Washington D.C., there was an entire political and educational life that would lead to him becoming President. First born in New Haven, Connecticut on July 6, 1946, to father, George H. W. Bush, also President of the United States and mother, Barbara Pierce Bush. Being the eldest to four siblings his family relocated to Midland and Houston, Texas. He attended Yale, the alma mater of his Grandfather and Father and also Harvard universities, which he seldom talks about or references. After graduating from college, Bush was commissioned to the Texas Air National Guard where he served as a F-102 fighter pilot and finished active duty in 1970. After leaving the guard, Bush became a business man working in the Oil Field in Midland after graduating with a Masters in business administration. George W. Bush met his wife Laura Welch, a librarian, at a private barbecue. With a whirl wind romance, the couple was married three months later, and ended up having 2 daughters, twins, named Jenna and Barbara born November 25, 1981. His immediate family has stood by his side and have continued to support him in his retirement. Beginning his Texas political career George W. Bush put together a group of business...
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...“Jack” Kennedy is the best for our country and our mother tells my brother and I how we should pay attention and trust that he is the best for us! So I loved John F. Kennedy. “Can I go see the president when he comes through Dealey Plaza?” I ask mother excited as I read the newspaper clipping of the map where Kennedy will circle around for the parade. “Only if you clean the kitchen and help your father in the back yard.” I knew my mother would let me go. Dealey Plaza was only three blocks down from where my house was. It wouldn't be a long walk and my parents wanted to get some film of the motorcade going by. That afternoon I wasted no time cleaning up and getting everything done so I could see the president myself, instead of watching his speeches off a fuzzy tv screen which normally goes out in the middle of a speech. I couldn't believe it, JFK in Dallas? “Get over here and help me grab the tools.” I came back to reality and hurried over to my father. That evening seemed to go by really slow. Which only because I was too excited and anticipated to go tomorrow. My brother asked me “why do you want to go so bad, it's just the president.” Just the president I thought to myself. It was so much more, the lovely Jackie, seeing his secret service, and the motorcade and most of all the parade welcoming him in. “Why wouldn't I?” i snarled back at him. Our mother then separated us and told us to go to bed. I laid in my bed staring at the election posters and newspaper clippings of JFK wide...
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...Unit 9 Final Project Kaplan University Exploring the 1960’s: An Interdisciplinary Approach Unit 9 Final Project The year is 2325, and I, archaeologist extraordinaire, have been summoned to view the contents of a strange sealed capsule that was found buried outside what used to be our nations capital. I have seen these capsules before but have never had the opportunity to be the first to analyze what is in side. Many of the capsules that I have read about before have had a brief glimpse of history and how things used to be during a certain time period. The first item found when opening the time capsule from the 1960’s is The Vietnam War. The Vietnam War was waged from 1961 until 1975 ("Battlefield: Vietnam,"). The Vietnam War cost over $150 Billion and lost over 58,000 American lives (Van Buren, 1991). The Vietnam War was such a big part of the 1960’s; it is almost impossible to no it include it in any time capsule representing the 1960’s. The second item found in the time capsule is the civil rights movement. The civil rights movement was a movement started to create equality between white people and black people. The fight for racial equality started in 1954 is still going on today (Brunner & Haney, 2007). The Third item removed from the time capsule is the band The Grateful Dead. The Grateful Dead provided the sound track for the psychedelic movement of the 1960’s, creating 23 albums over 24 years ("Grateful dead discography," 2013). The fourth object...
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