The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, uses many events and many people from the 1920’s to entice his readers into reading a novel with an intriguing plot while learning bits from the past. Some of the references Fitzgerald makes in his novel are allusions. Allusions are references to other books, movies, historical events, or people that an author makes during the novel. The two most important allusions in The Great Gatsby are the references to prohibition and corruption in the 1920’s and
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The fourth amendment is like America’s nap, they don’t get to have it and everyone becomes cranky. The fourth amendment is what gives America the little amount of privacy and authority that they do have. The Bill of Rights in 1789 were then added into the constitution so that the government could not have a huge amount of control. The Fourth Amendment keeps the American citizens acknowledged with why they are searched or their properties may be searched. A warrant must be shown to the citizen, rather
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The president of the United States is chosen through a careful process that has many flaws and benefits called the Electoral College. The process of the electoral college is complex and has many components to how it works. The only power the people have over the electoral college is the ability to appoint our electors through the popular vote; however, the electors have free reign, without needing consent from the people, over who is in charge every four years. Within the Electoral College is a rich
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Montesquieu Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de La Bréde et de Montesquieu var en fransk filosof och författare under upplysningstiden. Han föddes 1698 i Chateau La Brede nära Bordeaux och dog år 1755 i Paris. Montesquieu ärvde ställningen som president vid Bordeauxparlamentet år 1716, men avsade sig år 1726 för att fokusera på studier och författarskap. Redan år 1721 skrev han satiren Persiska brev, vilket gav Montesquieu berömmelse. “Om lagarnas anda” skrev Montesquieu år 1748 och anses vara
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When author Richard Kim originally published his short story Lost Names in 1970, it was written as a fictional work infused with real characters and past events, which aimed to illustrate the historical Japanese assimilation of the Korean peninsula. In the novel, Japan’s gradual assimilation practices and wartime mobilization are viewed through the eyes of a young Korean boy. As the boy grows older, Japan’s assimilation tactics and wartime mobilization methods also grow in severity and pace. Furthermore
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People judge others by the color of their skin, their height, how they think and other characteristics they cannot control. Differences between people causes complications, but human beings must be able to overlook and accept the dissimilarity. No two human beings are perfectly identical in any way, but that should not mean people should underestimate or think lesser of others. Many people burn the American flag if they disagree with the actions of the government. The Supreme Court deemed that a
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In May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka court case that segregation of America’s public schools unconstitutional. Eisenhower did not like dealing with racial issues, but he could not avoid such matters after the Supreme Court ruled in 1954 in the case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. Eisenhower never spoke out in favor of the Court's ruling. Although Eisenhower did not endorse
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The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution affected the nations politics in the following ways. The Fourteenth Amendment guaranteed citizenship to anyone born in the United States. It also prohibited any efforts to violate the civil rights of “citizens” black or white, to deprive any person “of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law”; or to “deny any person the equal protection of the laws.” With the Fourteenth Amendment the federal government assumed responsibility
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The stated case evaluates the actions of Miss Papish, a 32-year old University of Missouri Journalism graduate student and her distribution of the newspaper, “The Free Press Underground”, on the University’s campus. The said newspaper contained images and captions deemed a violation of the institution’s bylaws of the Board of Curators by “containing forms of indecent speech.” (Alexander, 2017). The newspaper was authorized to be distributed on the University’s campus by the University Business Office
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mandatory drafting process, arguing that it was immoral. The government argued that it was a clear violation of the Espionage and Sedition Acts of June 15, 1917. However, the Espionage and Sedition Acts were unconstitutional and a violation of the First Amendment. The Espionage and Sedition Acts shouldn’t prohibit Schencks right to free speech. In the “Supreme Court Majority Opinion: Schenck
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