Gun ownership is a right given to American citizens under the second amendment in the Constitution, or often stated “the right to bear arms”. However, the misconduct of these weapons has been the primary cause of hundreds of mass shootings, high profile murders and thousands of deaths. Gun control has been a debate in the […]
In considering whether gun control is an effective method of deterring crime, the most important aspect to examine is what has worked historically, and what has not. In past instances, whenever governments have prohibited a population from engaging in a particular activity, it has almost always backfired and resulted in higher rates of the unwanted […]
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Get startedGuns in America have been a great part to their culture and history thanks to the second amendment which enables the right to use and keep arms. There’s has been an almost non-ending debate on gun control whether if there should be more bans, laws and regulations or not. The common malpractice of guns resulting […]
Today, sports are no more inconsequential dawdling, sports are a business, and school sports are the equivalent. Division I school sports give a monstrous wellspring of universities’ compensation. The school gets money from ticket bargains, television contracts, and diversion related stock, nearby various distinctive amusements related wage makers. The contenders on the other hand, get […]
Even though it has been around for decades, through recent years police brutality has been the topic to talk about, with the recent killings of innocent people how could it not be? This issue truly does have a negative effect on society many people relating the topic as a hate crime because it’s mostly colored […]
Every 7 hours in the United States an individual life is taken by a police officer. Police brutality is defined as an aggressive overuse of power given to them as a status of a police officer. A 395 pound 6’2-foot man named Eric Garner was held in an illegal chokehold by officer Justin D’Amico. Eric […]
Cruelty has been poisoning the earth for as long as we can remember. More effort has been applied to creative punishments rather than addressing the problem. Since the eighteenth century man has found reason to execute human beings. For many years this execution process has come with numerous difficulties, and recently has become more of […]
According to a report by the Prison Policy Initiative, Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2018, 2.3 million people in the U.S. are in the prison system (Prison Policy Initiative, 2018). The criminal justice system is an expensive, inadequate government program that fails to provide equal justice, especially to the poor and people of color. Equally […]
There are many different views on the death penalty. Some believe it’s right some believe it’s right some believe it’s wrong. Some believe that it should be extinguish all together and some believe that only certain really bad people should have to deal with it. Over the last few months I’ve done a lot of […]
The United States of America is currently the only Western country to continue to permit the death penalty in this day and age. 137 countries have abolished the death penalty. 31 out of 50 American states use the death penalty, as long as the government may allow. The death penalty may have been the most […]
To summarize the current situation in the United States with respect to capital punishment for minors suggests that most of the 38 capital punishment states puts minors in a position to be subject to the death penalty and bypassing adult criminal court. Many believe that minors shouldn’t be held to same standards as adults, even […]
In 1620, pilgrims from England boarded the Mayflower to come to America to have freedom.The freedom they wanted was the freedom of religion. One question asked by many Americans today is, “Even though we are stated as a free country, are we totally Free?” Three of the most effective tools for keeping freedom for our […]
Research shows that in 2019 alone there have currently been 4,149 incidents involving gun violence. The number of reported deaths is currently 1,152. Studies have shown that when a ban was placed on assault weapons the number of deaths have decreased. Once the ban expired the gun violence increased. It was also shown that states […]
According to the “Gun Violence Archive”, there were 418 mass shootings in 2019. Only 5 years ago in 2014, there were 269 mass shootings (“Past Summary Ledgers”). This uptick in gun violence is an objective indicator that there is a problem with gun violence in the United States worth solving. Gun violence in America has […]
In the United States, illegal aliens have been a major controversial topic. Many citizens have their own opinions based on accepting or declining illegal alien’s stay in America. Not much information that citizens bring up about this topic is factual based, which is not backed up by real facts and data. Are illegal aliens welcome […]
Immigration is typically defined as the global movement of individuals into a destination nation of which they are not inhabitants or where they do not own nationality or residency so as to live or settle there, mostly as permanent inhabitants or enfranchised residents, or to take up job as a migrant employee or provisionally as […]
The national anthem of America says, “the land of the free,” but have we lived up to this value? Although there is a lot of emphasis on the values listed in the Declaration of Independence, not all people of the United States are actually able to achieve the goals that these values infer. Three important […]
In 2016, during the Presidential Election, the political Blue Wall was breached in the Great Lakes, granting Trump a series of critical, razor-thin victories in Pennsylvania, Minnesota and Wisconsin. It was in the Great Lakes that Trump saw just enough of an increase in support to break the Blue Wall. Turnout increased statewide in Pennsylvania, […]
Counter-argument can be defined as the act of going against another person’s argument or an idea by casting out possible claims that support your argument. In short, the author of an essay devotes the whole of his or her article to the work of refuting allegations put forward by someone else. This type of argument […]
During the first years of the United States of America, there were numerous people that helped shape the government and politics as we know them today. Although most of the development of the American Government was slow and conservative, there were certain people who brought big changes, which turned out to be the most important […]
After the discovery of America, many Europeans made it their goal to save up enough money to travel across the Atlantic and start a new life. Long after many colonies had been established, the King of England, King George III, decided that he should heavily tax the colonists because he didn’t like the idea of […]
The U.S. Constitutions ensure against the burden of unbalanced criminal punishments. The Excessive Fines Clause and the Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause of the eighth Amendment deny the use of disproportionate of sentences. The eighth Amendment disallows the central government from forcing unforgiving punishments on wrongdoers which now and again can wind up questionable. With […]
Today on August 18, 1920, as I am sitting in the breakfast shop, I hear cheering and celebration outside as I take a sip of my coffee. I walk outside and hear “Yay, we finally got it!” Looking at the woman next to me, celebrating along with the crowd, I inquire of her what are […]
Picture this, it is 1790 BCE and you live in Babylonia under the just rule of Hammurabi. Your town is full green crops and farmland, people like slaves, landowners, and free men with no land, and the most important thing, black stone Steele for all to see. The Steele shows the rules of the land. […]
The cruel and unjust treatment of people during McCarthyism, the Crucible, and Japanese people during WWII demonstrated that fear betrayed each group, ultimately causing a great deal of harm in the end. During McCarthyism, many people were falsely accused of communism in America. Likewise, during the Salem Witch Trials, numerous teenage girls accused innocent people […]
Before the civil rights act of 1964, African Americans were constitutionally discriminated against. Although the thirteenth Amendment ended slavery and servitude. The fourteenth Amendment gave anyone born in the United States citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws. The Fifteenth amendment gave men of color the right to vote. The Fifteenth Amendment to the […]
My name is Albert Williams I am of the Third Estate, many of you may be wondering what exactly the “Third Estate” is so here it goes, the Third Estate is the French bourgeoisie and working class that went on before the French Revolution. I and my people of the Third Estate were treated like […]
Those components are; planning and having the right government, having a well developed plan and goal, and having the resources to keep your people safe, healthy, and alive. If you are planning on starting a revolution and you have these three main components, then you’ll be setting yourself up for success! Make sure you think […]
The start of the revolution • During the Estates General, every Estate created a list of their grievances, known as cahiers. • All the Estates believed that there needing to be liberty of the press, a constitution, and a removal of internal trade barriers. • The groups disagreed on many more topics, though, as the […]
The French Revolution came about after the famine and the people’s resentment towards the King and Queen’s lavish lifestyle while they all were starving. France was in debt, harvests were poor, the people could not afford the rising cost of bread, all while the royal monarchy was living in a palace and ignoring the famine. […]
