Introduction Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio by Derf Backderf describes the true story of how a peaceful protest resulted in the loss of four students' lives. Taking place during the early 1970s and set against the backdrop of the Vietnam war, Backderf’s work details the polarizing societal views that tore apart the country and the tragic aftermath. Background The early 1970s was a time period characterized by controversy.
To better understand campus crime, one needs to realize that it involves several contexts—the legal, the social, and the security—and that each context is interrelated with the others (Fisher & Sloan, 2007). The legal context involves judicial and legislative efforts to address campus crime, including institutional liability for on-campus victimizations and Congressional and state legislative efforts to address the problem. The social context involves efforts to develop more accurate measures of the extent and nature of campus crime, identify its major correlates, and understand better its temporal and spatial distribution. Finally, the security context involves not only law enforcement and security efforts to reduce or prevent crime on campus,
Today we see a lot of protesting and opinions being stated all over social media. In the late 1960s the United States started to get involved in the Vietnam War, which started a lot of protests because people did not want to fight in a war that mainly did not concern them. In 1968, David O’Brien wanted to express his disapproval of the war (United States v. O’Brien). So, while standing outside the Boston Courthouse, he decided to burn his drafting card in front of quite a few people (United States v. O’Brien). He did this so he could exercise his first amendment right, which is the freedom of speech and/or press (United States v. O’Brien).
Arthur Miller’s The Crucible is about the witch trials in ancient Salem, and how one girl’s love interest caused many people, including the one she loves, to be hanged due to being accused as a witch. Half Hanged Mary by Margaret Atwood is about Mary Webster, a woman accused of witchcraft and hanged for the crime, but managed to survive the night. In both of these texts there is evidence of a corrupted leadership. The Crucible has evidence of a corrupted leadership as found in act 4 scene 5, when the text states “Danforth: (in deep concern, raising a hand to Hathome) Pray you.
1) A spate of anti-war activism occurred across the Le Moyne campus during the years of the Vietnam War from the late 1960s into the early 1970s. Such activism included protests against the Kent State shooting and against President Nixon and anti-draft demonstrations. Still, the Le Moyne community wasn’t entire unified behind the anti-war movement. There is a tendency to caricature college campuses during the Vietnam War as having a unified, passionate anti-war movement across the entire campus. In reality, however, not everybody in the Le Moyne community supported the anti-war activism; some viewed the protests as un-patriotic and unnecessarily subversive.
The 1960’s and early 1970’s was a period when America was involved in many conflicts overseas, including the Vietnam War. This began a time when media spread quickly as well as influenced the public heavily and wars were first televised. These conflicts ultimately caused citizens to protest and question the motives of the federal government. A large number of these protestors were students who sought to combat problems through various tactics to get authority figures to remedy the problems they identified. Student protestors sought to combat many immediate and long-term problems involving this time period and the Vietnam War.
The first Amendment declares, “Congress shall make no law… abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press…” However, after the Espionage Act was passed, during World War 1, Schenck was arrested for violating this Act by printing 50,000 leaflets that contradicted the war and the draft. As illustrated, U.S. citizens should be granted the ability to protest wars and drafts since it violates the first Amendment’s right to free speech. The Supreme Court made an invalid choice.
Illegal or iniquitous? That is the question many are asking in regards to current news of NCAA. Decades of indistinct unethical and deceitful behavior from the NCAA has come to a halt as of September 26, 2017 when charges were announced, light is being shed on the NCAA scandal that not only involves college athletes and their families but also coaches, financial advisors and executives. The scandal deals with corruption, fraud, and bribery schemes. It is known that 25 percent of the teams ranked in the top sixteen are linked to the ongoing corruption investigation led by the U.S attorney’s office in New York.
Government Regulation: The Frist Amendment & College Campuses Without a doubt college campuses attract a number of different groups. Many advocates, religious groups, hate groups, and individuals come to college campuses in hopes of expressing their opinion to impressionable college students. Under the First Amendment of the United States the Federal Government (and as applied to state governments under the Fourteenth Amendment due process clause) the freedom of speech and religions is freely allowed to expressed without restraint by the federal government. Again, everyone has a first amendment right to free speech. First Amendment issues constantly arise on college campuses, but free speech on college campuses have long been a medium in young
Some believed the war should be fought because of the fight against communism and seen the resisting students and young men as traitors committing treason against the country. The young students that were being drafted strongly believed that the draft was endangering their freedom and Nation’s security. These young people became violent and resulting in violence by the police retaliating back. This was the first major broadcasting of this violence. These shocking videos released showed the country how divided the United States was.
It also says that the government has the right to make certain things private or classified. This is often expressed in the college campus because of the latest growth in social media. The first amendment is infringed upon everyday due to social media and the fact that there are so many posts that the government cannot manage it
To many, the war in Vietnam was a senseless war. As a result, anti-war protests launched all over America as a forum for those who were ready to see the end of the brutal exploitation. Prior to 1965, small Vietnam war protests were held by individuals searching for peace but quickly grew into a prominent part of the war as we remember it today. This paper will discuss the timeline of Vietnam war protests as well as the most prominent groups and individuals that promoted an end to the violence.
When seconds count the police are only minutes away or, in the case of my high school, they are only an hour away. When a school shooting or stabbing happens you want your children to be standing directly behind the police officer; but, what if that’s not possible? What if a blizzard happens and the police have trouble finding your school? If a police officer is not present when a school shooting happens, you want your children to be near the next best thing, an armed teacher who knows how to, and can, protect them.
The topic for my paper is the issue of whether guns should be permitted on college campuses. After reading many of the articles in the New York Times I have come to a conclusion or better to say liked one of the articles more than the others. The article is called, “ guns on campuses makes the college less safe” by Javier Auyero. The second amendment states the right of the people to keep and bear arms. Every human should have the opportunity to protect themselves, but that doesn 't mean having a gun would do that.
We’re able to express our political beliefs without being fearful that we might get sent to jail. Without this amendment, we wouldn 't be able to speak up for ourselves against the government whenever we
