Heritage High School shooting

male. We are deemed as an immediate threat just because of the color of our skin. “The irrelevance of black life has been drilled into this country since its infancy, and shall not be extricated through the latest innovations in Negro Finishing Schools.” Ta-Nehisi Coates. Brittney Cooper, asserts in an article, the police mantra is “To serve and protect.” But with Black folks, we know that’s not he mantra. The mantra for many, many officers when dealing with black people is apparently “Kill

To Pray or Not to Pray in Schools "The trend of taking God and moral teaching out of schools is a diabolical scheme," declared the Reverend Billy Graham soon after the Engel versus Vitale and Schempp verdict (Haas 30). The debate over the separation of church and state had been swirling through courtrooms for years. The controversy over school prayer in the Engel versus Vitale case started over a prayer recited in the New York public school system, known as the Regent's Prayer. A group

Dear Founding Fathers, I am writing this letter with concern to two of the amendments written on the US constitution. Firstly, I would like to talk about Free Speech Amendment. The bill of Rights States that, “Congress shall make no law… prohibiting the… exercise of… freedom of speech.” Even though this amendment has helped our society nowadays, I feel as if the amendment was made too strict. These amendments protect individuals from having their speech limited by government action, which is

but it can raise some complications when it comes to a school environment, where it may not be appropriate to convey every single idea or opinion. One such complication arose when two students enrolled in Homewood High school in Chicago, arrived to school in unapproved uniform to express their sentiment toward recent events in the country. After being suspended for refusing to remove the attire, the students filed a lawsuit against the school district arguing that their suspension violated their First

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Gun Control Today, one of the most highly debated topics is gun control. It seems as if after every mass shooting the first thing that is brought up is gun control. People on both sides of the spectrum argue in favor or against. But does America need more gun control? Is gun control the answer to the gun violence problem? The United States does not need any more gun control. The United States has a strange addiction to guns that the rest of the world just does not understand

people are superior to those of all other races. Although there have been valiant efforts, the inequality of the races has never been truly rectified. People are not born practicing white privilege. White privilege is taught, and learned. America’s school system, media, and culture are driving factors that lead white privilege to be a custom within society today. Many people ignore the blinding facts that support white privilege but are aware that it exists in society. White privilege impacts every

Give by Angie Thomas, a high-schooler named Starr is dealing with the hardships of her life. Hardships in the United States of America caused by racism and fear of not conforming, as can be seen by how Starr acts at school when Hailey makes racist/callous remark, and Khalil’s murderer. Starr Carter lives in the ghetto’s, a gang-ravaged area, and goes to a white suburban school where she's one of only a few black students. At home, she is one person, but at school, Starr changes herself,

I originally became interested in Naval service because of my military heritage. When I was younger, both of my grandfathers took care of me every day while my parents went to work. One of my grandfathers served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War and the other served as a Merchant Marine during the Second World War and received the Purple Heart. Both of these veterans were instrumental in the early development of discipline and integrity. It is because of them that I gained a curiosity for military

can be abolished once and for all. In the late 1870’s the Jim Crow law was established, this law stated that African Americans and Whites were “separate but equal.” With this being put in place African Americans and Whites did not go to the same schools or eat at the same restaurants and everything was separated. The South wanted to keep control over the blacks. Although this law only lasted until the early 1960’s it caused a lot of fights and protests from African Americans. On March 2, 1955 a