Based specifically on the assigned readings on Mendez v. Westminster and Brown v. Board of Education, please respond to the following questions. Each of your answers should consist of one paragraph comprised of 5-7 sentences. It is recommended that you download the document in Word, type your responses directly into the document, and print it out. If you choose to handwrite your responses, PLEASE WRITE LEGIBLY, in black or blue ink. This handout will be graded on a scale of 1-25, with 5 possible
1) Plaintiff- Homer Plessy Defendant- John. H Ferguson 2) Case Facts- Homer Plessy, a self described half black man decided to sit in a coach reserved for white citizens only on a Louisiana railcar. He was jailed, subsequently however during his trial he appealed to the court on the grounds that the Louisiana statute that forbade him to sit in this section of the coach was in clear violation of the both the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution. An 1883 case found that “as
little significance. But there is little agreement over when the twentieth century c.e. arrived, and there were several points both before the year 2000 (the collapse of the Soviet Union, the reunification of Germany, the surge of globalization from the mid-1990s) and afterward (9/11, or the global recession of 2008) when one could quite plausibly argue that a new era had begun. A compelling case can be made for viewing the decades of the global scramble for colonies after 1870 as a predictable
The term constantif, which Metz borrowed from Austin, should be rendered by "constantive" and not by "ascertaining" (p. 25). Finally, "actor" to translate Greimas 's concept of actant is misleading and actant is usually kept (see Ducrôt and Todorov, Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Sciences of Language