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Documents 2,3,5,6 illustrate the positive responses. Documents 1, 7,9,10 illustrate negative responses. Documents 4, 8, and 11 show that cause of the revolts were about money and greed. Toward the final stages of the revolts, Emperor Charles V’s officials gave a Diet about how they are going to stop these revolts and create peace once again in Germany (doc

The criminal justice system is meant to protect the innocent, and punish those who are guilty of a crime. However, no system is perfect, and as a result, sometimes the innocent become victims of the system that was meant to protect them. How exactly do these innocent people become victims of the system? Sometimes the person gets framed, and the crime scene is staged to point a finger at them. Sometimes, there is no strong physical evidence against them, yet circumstantial evidence is used by the crown to put them away. This happened to a 17 year old boy named Adnan Syed in Baltimore, Maryland, who was imprisoned for life, for the alleged murder of his ex-girlfriend Hae Lee. Throughout the Serial podcast, Sarah Koenig is able to critically analyze information which proves Adnan’s innocence. Firstly, Asia’s letters gave Adnan an alibi for the time of the murder. Secondly, Adnan’s innocence can be demonstrated through the lack of any strong evidence and the prosecution’s use of circumstantial evidence which can be disproved. Thirdly, Jay’s constantly changing testimony is not credible evidence of Adnan’s guilt, making him innocent.

The Serial podcast, hosted by Sarah Koenig, is about the murder of young Woodlawn High School student Hae Min Lee. Hae was a smart, ambitious, and outgoing young lady taken from this world too soon. Sarah Koenig and the podcast takes us through the ins and outs of typical and unusual teenager behavior to try and uncover something unseen in this case. Adnan Syed, the now convicted murder, and Jay Wilds, the state’s only witness, are the key people of this story. I believe Adnan’s innocence should be maintained because Jay’s story should not have been used for evidence, there was not enough evidence to even arrest Adnan, and Adnan had a trustworthy alibi.

Workers picketed and protested until they received their rights (Doc 4). Unions that were formed made demands for the well-being of workers. People continued

In the early days of trade unionism, there was a direct need for workers to be represented, in areas such

These movements frightened many upper class citizens, as they saw the anger of the middle and lower classes. Therefore, some businesses began to meet with their disgruntled employees through the collective bargaining system. This system saw the negotiation between the owners of corporations and workers for various issues regarding hours and pay. Although the workers did not always get want they wanted, it was a good start as they were finally being heard and treated

However, a small percentage of industrial laborers joined labor unions or protested against their company and many feared their jobs would be replace by immigrant workers. Also, larger labor unions, such as the American Federation of Labor and the Knights of Labor, differed on the registration of members and actions taken during strikes and resists. The change in opinions weakened the movement overall as smaller groups formed from the main labor

With incompetent leadership and an unhappy nation, the German people began to realize that their country was in a vulnerable situation and began to look for stable alternatives to democracy. Hitler’s

We don’t see much of Jay, rather, we hear quite a lot. What we are hearing from Jay

WIth the power going to their head, their attitude reflected their beliefs that employers were on a higher level that their workers in every way. So they had a strong distaste towards their employees banning together against them because they were challenging their superiority.Many employers gave them an ultimatum, either you sign a contract similar to the Western Union Telegraph Company’s, promising you wouldn’t have any affiliation with the unions, or you lost your job (Document E). In 1883, in a testimony before the Senate Committee on Labor and Capital, a machinist said that "100 men are able to do now what it took 300 or 400 men to do fifteen years ago" in trying to explain his insignificance to the company he worked for (Document D). Due to the fact that they indeed did not necessarily need as many men as they did in the past, employers had no problem firing them if their protests went too

Firstly, some people believed the government should intervene. For example, Ferdinand Laselle, who is a political activist, gave a speech in Berlin saying that the state should carry on the

My thoughts after listening to The American Life podcast was, as bad as it sounds I didn’t even really know that there were still all black and all white schools. I didn’t know that kids were still separated in that way. I think it’s sad that still after so many years people can’t all come together as one, they have to separate themselves based on skin color. Which is just wrong. The part where they talked about students that we behind. They were correct. If you’re someone who is already way behind where you should be and you are then given bad resources and unskilled teachers you are either going to stay where you are, or get worse. If you are on a classroom with a bunch of kids who are advanced, you are more likely to catch up. The kids that

Ronald Reagan, in his speech, (“Berlin Wall”, 1987), the former governor and President of the United States and at the time of the Cold War, “ the most magnetic public figure in the nation”(encyclopedia.com) elucidates to his audience the consequences of residing under the influence of the Soviet Union. Reagan supports his assertion through the use of various rhetorical devices to generate logos, ethos, and pathos. His purpose is to incite a feeling of an injustice done to the people of Berlin and Soviet Allies and to bring down the Berlin Wall as “the most visible symbol of the decades-long Cold War”(History.com) between the Americans and the Soviets during the Cold War. Reagan writes in perfervid tone generated toward the people of Berlin and other Soviet allies in hopes of bringing the Cold War to an end and it is reported by CBS News that he successfully “bolstered the morale of the pro-democracy movement in East Germany”(Brinkley).

The first real thing that stood up against the rest of the marches/peaceful riots happened in May of 1989. During this time the annual elections for government were being held. In the days that worked up to the voting, word had spread to vote no to the Soviets. Most of the Germans did so, and when the votes came up that 98.5 % of the Germans had sided with the Soviets, It was known that the elections had been messed with. Then on September 4, 1989 people started to protest against the government with the confidence that the Church they had been preaching too in Leipzig, were supporting them. After the first rally, it became a weekly thing known as the “Monday Night Demonstrations.” A month afterwards, the few hundreds had changed to over 70,000 people that were taking the street. A week later, there was 120,000, and then 320,000 the next week. Then on November 4, only one month later, there were more than a million people in the streets, asking for an end to the soviets reign. 5 days later on November 9, the East German government announced the opening of the border, allowing the East Germans to have their right of travel back. This also held true for everything else that the East German government and Russia were restricting from the East Germans. The two sides of Germany were united once more, and communism was shut out. Democracy was the new form of government in East Germany. East Germans could now practice any religion they wanted, and

While these thoughts and considerations continued to swirl around in the minds of those on the West side, the people of East Germany, including East Berlin, along with the citizens of the other nations controlled by the communist Soviet Union, grew increasingly dissatisfied with communist rule. The economic hardships they