J. Edgar Hoover

Introduction It is often great tragedy that inspires discussion and change in a society. One such event brings a debate over the balance of privacy and security to public attention. Recently in San Bernardino, CA a married couple killed and or wounded 35 people. Chicago born Syed Rizwan Farook was a 5 year employee of the San Bernardino Health Department and had few reported problems with the agency aside from some good natured (acording to his collegues) jokes about his religeous required facial

The Civil Rights movement has aimed to gain rights for African-Americans for decades. Over the course of the semester we have looked at movement’s that have helped advocate for civil rights. One of the movements of that we looked at specifically in class was Martin L. King Jr’s movement and his “Letter from the Birmingham Jail”. In this letter, we hear Dr. King's honest opinion about the criticism he received from his opponents of timely protest. We gain a lot of insight about King's honest opinion

The classic romantic comedy, Miss Congeniality, tells the story of Gracie Hart, a female FBI agent, who finds herself undercover in the Miss United States Beauty Pageant to try and crack a murder case. When I chose this movie, I expected to write about how Sandra Bullock’s character helps empower women in beauty pageants by proving the women are more than just unintelligent, worthless, catty, dramatic, performing monkeys. I realized it is only in the last few moments of the movie, after the FBI ditches

     In 1966, the national Black Panther party was created. Their platform and it’s ideals struck a chord with blacks across the country, especially in the inner cities of the north. The Panthers were able to organize and unite these blacks. This alarmed the federal government. They instituted many controversial, illegal programs of harassment, infiltration, and instigation which led to the deaths of many Panthers.      From their inception

In 1972, Edgar Arceneaux was born in Los Angeles, to this day he resides in California (Edgar Arceneaux, Charles Gaines & Rick Lowe, 2010). Arceneaux attended California Institute of Arts in 2001 and is the co-founder of the Watts House Project (Edgar Arceneaux, Charles Gaines & Rick Lowe, 2010). This project incorporates art, architecture, and community development (Edgar Arceneaux, Charles Gaines & Rick Lowe, 2010). In other words, what the Watts House Project do is collaborate artwork to shape

history is John Edgar Hoover. John Edgar Hoover was the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He was appointed in 1924 and died in office in 1972. He stayed in power from President Calvin Coolidge to President Richard Nixon. His agents brought down some of the most notorious crime bosses in the U.S. He had changed the way police look at crime scenes. John Edgar Hoover was born on January 01, 1895 in Washington, D.C. His parents’ names were Dickerson Naylor Hoover, Sr. and Annie Marie

Gracie is a 2007 American film about a teenage girl that wants to play soccer, but Gracie fights for her right to play soccer. Gracie goes through a series of judgments and obstacles, beginning with her dad’s rejection to work with her as he had, daily, with Johnny. “Dad,” she wonders, so sadly, “Did you ever wish I were a boy?” During her father’s early refusal to address her desire to play soccer, Gracie finds other behaviors to aggravate her father, dating one of the soccer players, drinking and

Lehane is the daughter of William Reid and Jasmine Reid, the half sister of Spencer Reid. Growing up she always knew that there was something wrong with the world. Running away from home at 16 she recruited her cousin to follow her to DC to find her older brother. They didn't have a relationship growing up and that was because of their dad. Walking out on Spencer when he was 12 years old. Soon after moving to DC she found out that her childhood best friend who had left Vegas. When she was 15 was

As a nation today our culture is one that is ever changing with it is the music we listen to or even our political stances, but one thing for sure is that we will always have a divide among us. One of the first examples of a cultural divide was during the 1920’s which were changing constantly with the new roles of women being implemented with their newly earned suffrage. Also with the great migration north, which were thousands of African Americans travelled to the bigger cities of the north such

Throughout the mid to late 1980s Katrina consistently provided valuable information to the FBI, some of her reports were even seen at the White House. Katrina and her family frequently went on FBI sanctioned trips to China and government events in the U.S. to collect information. During this time Katrina started another affair with Special Agent William Cleveland, however Cleveland did not disclose any information to her at any time nor tasked her to gather any information. During the late 1980s