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For our EOTO and mock trial this week we did, Brown v. Board of Education. Which was the case where the court found that racial segregation in public schools was an act of discrimination and that it violated the 14th amendment. So around 1952, the supreme court outlawed discrimination in public accommodations and ruled that separating children in public schools solely on the basis of race was unconstitutional. This case made racial segregation in the public schools in American come to end, which canceled out the “separate but equal” doctrine that was set in the Plessy v. Ferguson case in 1896.                                                           For our EOTO, our group was researching the negative occurrences that happened within the civil rights movements, and my job was to research “Bloody Sunday”. So to start it...

 The Eight Values of Free Expressions, without these values, we as American citizens wouldn't be able to do a lot of things we take for granted.  They are a part of why America is the way it is today. So here they are! Marketplace of Ideas  I feel this is an idea for a more open community; this concept seems to draw its attention to sharing individuals' opinions, hence creating a more open community. The concept of marketplace ideas allows people to make their own decisions based on what they want because the key in this concept is to put everything out there. In Milton John's book, Areopagitica , He wrote this in protest of censorship because he believes it is wrong; which it most definitely is! It is not up to the people who censor it's up to the people to hear what it is and decide for themselves. Participation in Self Government  With participation in self-government, it's almost a way of them looking at speech as a way to keep an eye out for what government can...

  Below is a speech I wrote from the perspective of Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe. Some additional information is;  Around 1850, when Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Law , Stowe decided to write a book about the abolishment of slavery. The Stowe family were extremely against slavery and even supported the  Underground Railroad while they temporally housed several escaped slaves in their own household.  Portrait of Harriet Beecher Stowe by Francis Holl, 1853 Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe, born June 14, 1811, was known to be a revolutionary author who wrote about thirty books in her lifetime. She rose to fame around 1852 when her book, Uncle Tom's Cabin, was published. This book was intended to popularize the emotional portrayal of the negativity on slavery individuals. This book captured America's attention; in Stowe’s book, she made it known that slavery touched all society and added the debate about abolition and slavery. This created a riot in the south and...

  Instead of us having a regular class day, we got to watch Gone with the Wind in the HPU theater. I remember watching the first part of this movie a long time ago, but I think I was too young to understand the movie; so I was happy we had the opportunity to watch it again. To start it off, since the movie is around four hours we only had the option of watching the first part; but it starts off before the civil war. In Georgia, a girl known as Scarlett O’Hara appeared to be a selfish, young woman who mostly wrapped her life around partying and flirting with men. The movie involves a predicament where Scarlett is deeply in love with a man, Ashley, that is bound to marry his cousin. Scarlett is extremely upset about this and decides to get dressed up and go confess her love to him, but her plans did not go her way. Ashley respectfully tells Scarlett that he can not marry her; she gets even more upset and angry about this rejection and goes on to marry Charles Hamilton in a blink of a...