Essays on Voting Rights

Yale University Investments Office: February 2011

David Swensen definition of efficient markets hypothesis: A financial market is (informationally) efficient when market prices reflect all available information about value. From the case study it can be said that Swensen believed in market timing in markets for stocks, bonds, private equity, real estates, oil and gas. Features of private equity markets that make market timing difficult are valuation, performance, regulation and the ongoing volatility and uncertainty in global markets. Based on the case analysis David Swensen would pick on option two that is a fund managed by energy industry experts with engineering undergraduate degrees from prominent state ...

INVESTING IN THE FUTURE

Question 1: Discuss the role of investing in personal financial planning. It has been gathered from the case that Sam Johnson is a hard working guy and he has defined some financial goals for himself. He is about forty years of age, enjoys a great job and ensures that he pays his bill on time. He plans to retire at the age of sixty and he wishes to have enough savings so that he could send his young kids to college when they grow up. In order to ensure that he has ample amount in his savings before retirement, ...

America is a diverse nation with people of all most all ethnic origins in the world. With this in mind, one would expect the country to be racially accepting. On the same note, a person would expect the cultural differences, races, religions, and other factors such as sexual orientations to bring the residents in the nation together. However, this has not been the case. Research shows that discrimination is one social problem that many people in the country have to deal with. The aspect of discrimination has created a notable social issue since many people are discriminated against on ...

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Introduction Established by the Greek statesman, Solon, sometime in the 600 B.C., voting has always been a key feature of democracy. The international community regards it as the most basic human right, which should be protected and guaranteed to all citizens of a country as stipulated by internal human rights laws. A government by the people must have the participation of the people, which is realized through suffrage. Today, voting rights are already universally practiced, yet there are certain circumstances wherein such right is taken away by the state. In the United States, a person will lose ...

Fearing that there could be dire implications towards the nation’s democratic ideals, many people in America have aired their criticism regarding state laws that bans felons from voting. Law professor and New York Times columnists, Janai S. Nelson, criticized the practice as ‘anti-democratic’ and discriminatory. In a New York Times article dated April 2016, Nelson stated that the running policies of felony disenfranchisement in the United States are comparable to “ the antiquated laws that excluded women, people of color and the poor from the ballot box,” which, according to Nelson, is “an anti-democratic tool with a sordid history ...

Research Paper

The Civil Rights Act and All the Way The Civil Rights Movement was one of the most arduous and hard-fought social progress movements in American history. Capitalizing on the confluence of aggressive resistance to Jim Crow laws and increased pressure from the American public to foster racial equality, President Lyndon B. Johnson had an extremely difficult time reconciling the deep divisions that existed between progressive whites and blacks and Southern whites who wanted to maintain social restrictions on black people. This conflict is depicted in Robert Schenkkan’s play All the Way in an accurate, dramatic manner, showcasing the ...

The nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century have brought some dramatic changes in all aspects of human life. Technological advances, industrial development, new political and social movements have changed the common perception of the social structure, the rights of the different social groups, and the wealth distribution paradigm. In the United States, the period is known as the Progressive Era, where positive changes, improvements in all aspects of life were embraced by the majority of the population and, most of all, by the emerging middle class. Labor movement, socialist ideas and women’s suffrage were all products ...

The firm does not have debt. Therefore, the firm value is the outstanding number of shares multiplied by market share price. Value of Wrigley’s = 232.44 million *56.37 = 13.103 billion dollars

We assume that Wrigley uses the debt that has been raised to pay dividends to shareholders

Value of Wrigley’s = Market value of Equity + Debt Value Value of Wrigley’s = 13.103 billion + 3 billion = 16.103 billion dollars The proposed coupon rate is 13 percent. After the re-capitalization, the total debt ratio will be 73 percent. Therefore, the Bond will be rated between grade BB and grade B. The effective debt yield for a grade B debt security is 14.67 percent while that if grade ...

Rights of the shareholders

While the shareholders are the most important stakeholders of the company, however, very few control the day to day running of the company’s business activities. Therefore, in order to safeguard their interest, the company range multiple rights of the shareholders and provide them the eventual power to influence the company’s decisions. Below we have discussed the rights of the shareholders: a) Right to attend the general meeting and cast their vote All the shareholders of the company have the right to receive notice of the general meeting, including, Annual General Meeting(AGM) and Extraordinary General Meetings(EGM). ...

Explain significant international and domestic challenges that the United States confronted since World War I.

A. Explain the major causes of the Great Depression: The Great War, now known as World War I, had a profound impact on the international political and economic system. The fallout from this upheaval left many countries economically and politically devastated. A variety of industries and businesses were effected by the destructive violence that was brought by the war. In order to maintain their resources a variety of nations had bankrupted themselves, turning to borrowing or even printing their own money to continue. Furthermore, the war disrupted the generally stable patterns of international trading routes, leading to the dissolution ...

It seems like nowadays the concept of feminism gained a negative connotation equating its followers as fanatics and usually mocking their intentions. This movement, which managed to bring freedom and rights to women, is considered today as obsolete and irrelevant, as society believed that females were fully liberated. However, it is far from being true. Female professionals are still paid less than their male counterparts, women are stilled viewed through the prism of patriarchal values, and the dissemination of power between men and women remains unequal to these days. In order to revive the memories of the achievements gained ...

Selma is an Ava Du Vernay film. I watched it on 4th June 5, 2016, and found it a compelling and commanding film about Martin Luther King and his role during the civil rights movements in the eve of 1965. He led Selma residents to march from Selma to Montgomery capital agitating for black suffrage rights. In the 60’s, nearly all Southern states deliberately proscribed African Americans against registering as voters, becoming jurists or working in the civil service. It was a de facto supremacist confederation works against minority groups. Martin Luther and other abolitionists opted to use ...

After the American Civil War of between 1861and 1865, the federal government abolished slavery in the United States through the endorsement of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution. Subsequently, before the law, persons of African descent were free from the yoke of bondage and concurrently, the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments declared black people as citizens of the United States and gave them the rights to vote respectively. In other words, racial divisions were no longer recognizable before the law and as a result, equality among blacks and whites was possible. The problem was that white supremacy was not a ...

This paper describes the social movements that Blacks participated in during the period from 1900 to date. It tackles the ways in which the movements can be described as one long civil rights movement, and also how were they distinct movements. The paper further assesses their goals and the manner in which they have effected change in the United States. The paper also points out prominent civil rights activists that played an important role in spearheading the civil rights movements. Most of the black social movements from 1900 to date have basically been fighting against racism. The 20th Century ...

Objective of civic engagement: manifestation of democracy through the ballot

As a primary step towards my Project, I started with the topic of maximizing civic engagement related to the involvement of education and direct interaction with the electorate. The importance of the topic came from the fact that there has to be mass voting to ensure a clearer picture of the democratic choice. The electorate is a significant factor for not only deciding their governing representatives but also in shaping the public stand towards the formation of the right government. Hence, there has to be a vigilance or awareness drive for the voters of the region so that they ...

Introduction

A family business is a profit-making entity that entails the significant roles of decision making, ownership, and leadership of the business being undertaken by several generations of a family. For a firm to be considered as a family business, the multigenerational element, and the unique family is fundamental (Carlock, Kets de Vries, and Florent-Treacy 12). Family businesses vary from size to industry; there are corner shops with a history of family ownership and leadership and similarly publicly listed multinationals, which share a similar foundation (Carlock, Kets de Vries, and Forest-Treacy 17). Internationally, there are numerous examples of family-owned businesses; ...

Volkswagen vs Ford

Introduction Volkswagen and Ford are both family businesses working in the global automotive industry. In 2015 worldwide 73.9 million of passenger cars were sold in the global automobile markets along with the 86.56 cars produced. The biggest automotive markets can be found in China and in the United States. The biggest automotive suppliers in the industry are from Asia and Europe and include Bosch with steering systems, Continental in the area of tire manufacturing, Denso and Magna. The size of automotive supplier market worldwide is estimated at €620bn (The Statistics Portal, 2016). Those suppliers are currently faced with the ...

The 20th century was a defining time in world history as well as American history. The world war is evolving with the success of the industrial revolution and the mechanized world changing the way things worked every day. There were, however, certain defining moments in American history between the 1920s and 1990s which altered the country’s social, political and security conditions from time to time. However, they have contributed to the progress and later conditions of the country. These include the great 1929’s and the Great Depression, the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor and the 1964 legislation ...

Introduction

History has demonstrated a lot of examples, when certain discriminatory measures had the legal binding force and had to be applied. It has also been demonstrated that administrative tools could totally limit the scope of one’s realization of the rights and freedoms which have general character. Among the main political rights, the right to vote/elect those ones whom you believe plays fundamental role, since it could define the course of development of the whole nation, resolve social issues, and defend certain categories of people.

Thesis

Historical examples demonstrate the importance of such citizens’ right, as it was often a ...

The New York Times article titled Why Americans Can’t Vote, published on April 16, 2016 by its editorial board, paints a bleak picture of the current state of the electoral system. The main argument focuses on recent trends in primary elections following up to disenfranchise voters from participating in November for the Presidential elections, backed by incidents such as Maricopa County polling places fiasco and the state of the technology, process and law governing the national elections. Even with the truth in its report, the article fails in its estimation of its points. In Maricopa County, the voters ...

Historians make history

There is a common perception that history is not truth. Even though it forms the base of our knowledge about the world, History is nonetheless only a version of events. It is shaped by the perspectives and interpretations of the individuals who recorded it. Prominent examples exist that give credence to this fact. For example, in Ed Baptist’s Book “The Half Has Never Been Told”, He argues that the increase in America’s economic output in the 19th century was mainly due to black worker’s innovations in the cotton fields. However, critics have strongly disagreed claiming that ...

21.2 Theodore Roosevelt, from The New Nationalism (1910) 1. What does Theodore Roosevelt want the federal government to do in order to address problems created by business monopolies? Answer. Roosevelt professed the notion of progressivism to be implemented in the federal government’s action by increasing its participation in the socio-economic features, regardless of the constitutional regulations on the same (Theodore, 1910). He wanted the federal government to have an authoritative control of the capitalization of all the government and private corporations who were working within the state. Roosevelt implied that the government should take corrective and punitive actions ...

Summary of the Paper

The ‘Municipal Housekeeping: The Impact of Women’s Suffrage on Public Education’ by Celeste Carruthers and Marianne Wanamaker is an informative paper that provides details on the extent to which women’s suffrage influences public education. From the paper, it is well evident that the reduction in the black-white gap has contributed substantially to the improved quality of black schools. The paper proposes that all these changes are as a result of major contributions by women. Today, as opposed to the past, more women exercise their voting rights thereby increasing the pivotal voter’s preferences for public education. The ...

Personal Responsibility Assignment

In the modern world, there exist registrations and well voting rights that every voter is familiar. Every voter is entitled to a single vote in an election system. A person is entitled to this voting right only if they have a sound mind and can make an informed decision on their own (Bexar Election Department 1). However, in of case incapacitation one can appoint a proxy to vote on his or her behalf. In this case, it is evident that there is a violation of the laws of a voting. Firstly, Margaret Martin has no permission whatsoever from Holly Martins to vote or act ...

Suffrage rights should be mandatory in every jurisdiction around the world. One thing that is worth noting is that governments derive their legitimacy from the electorate. Voting is a democratic right that gives power to the elected officials to work for the people. The yielding of the power by the electorate to their elected officials through democratic processes such as voting is known as the social contract (Scher 55). This means that any government that does not make voting rights mandatory is illegitimate. This is because the government is not representative of the entire citizenry which the government rules over.

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In light of the Trayvon Martin Controversy, it seems again obvious to all that police enforce the law differently across the United States. Trayvon Martin’s only crime was being the wrong color, in the wrong place, at the wrong place. Unfortunately, in America that crime all too frequently carries vigilante justice, carried out by the very people who are supposed to prevent it. We see this as case after case first comes into media focus then fades as another takes its place. It now is a deeply embedded assumption that the circumstances, race and gender must be considered ...

- The difference between common and preferred stock

Common stock, also called ordinary stock, are part of equity stock, which earn variable dividends. The amount of dividend they receive depends on the company’s performance and the decision of the board of directors. Thus, the dividend varies from annually and in some years, they may not receive dividends. Furthermore, common stock has residual claim on dividends after preferred stock have been paid. Common stock have an ownership stake in the company, accompanied by voting rights either in person or by proxy. They can, therefore, participate in some aspects of decision-making such as board membership, stock splits or ...

Introduction

Today many people consider establishing their businesses with the aim of increasing their income streams. However, it is imperative that prospective entrepreneurs have knowledge on the types of business units prescribed by law. This understanding enables them understand the risks associated with particular business units and the capital requirement involved. After deciding the type of business to invest in, entrepreneurs must consider the sources of finance available to them, and the type of accounting skills necessary for running of the venture. Hence, this report analyzes different forms of business units, types of accounting skills, and sources of finance available ...

Today, we take civil rights as granted, as what we are entitled to by default, but more than half a century ago, people fought, struggled and died for them. History not only takes you back to times forgotten but it also reminds you of what once was and how things evolved overtime. Sometimes, there are certain movements which alter the fortune of millions and this is what the Civil Rights Movement was all about; the African Americans making a strong foothold on the map of the world.

One of the oldest races in the world, the African Americans were deprived of their ...

In 1965 Congress passed the Voting Rights Act. Among a number of goals, one of the fundamental purposes of the Voting Rights Act was to protect the right of all citizens to vote and ensure that they would be no barriers for anyone to vote. In short, the Voting Rights Act was passed to eliminate voting discrimination. In 2013, the Supreme Court found a provision of the Voting Rights Act unconstitutional. In one stroke, the Court’s ruling undid almost 50 years of work in voting rights. The fear among many now is that the nation will see a return to the ...

In order to find out what role women played in the post-war period, at first one should consider their position before and during the tragic moments of the history. In the first quarter of the twentieth century, the world was rocked by the World War I. In 1916, the USA joined battlefields. American men headed off to fight for their motherland, leaving behind their homes, wives and children. Household, economy, industry were put in charge to women. At the beginning of the century, a working woman, except for nurses and maids, was something unheard of and with the war broke ...

Questions

Q. 1. Describe the micro targeting tactic. How do parties use this strategy, and how successful has it been?A. Micro targeting is described as creating a look-a-like mode, which involves the use of statistical algorithms to extract a pattern from an existing one. For example, people from a church list can be used to people that resembles the same in other population. Political parties use this strategy to broaden their perspective in political behavior in relation to decision-making of voters during elections. It has been successful thus far because the current United States President Barack Obama used the same strategy twice, which ...

It has taken women a long and tough journey to achieve their rights. This started many years ago in 1848, when women stood for their rights and since then, there have been several changes though some changes are yet to happen. These include changes in politics and government where women wanted to exercise their right to vote, in employment they wanted equal pay for the work done, they fought for reproductive rights and changes in religion (Greenberg & Watts, 2009). All these changes came due to efforts of very dedicated women who never gave up the struggle. Struggle for changes ...

Initially, the women's movement arose in North America during the war for Independence (1775-1783). Of course, the question of on the unequal position of the “weaker sex” arose earlier. In the seventeenth century, the first works that proved that the woman was fully human appeared. These works had the idea that a woman is born with the same ability to be free, complete personality as a man. The war for independence and the political crisis in America did not only politicize consciousness of women, but also the content of their private life. Women who were not previously interested in politics, ...

Introduction

Stockholders are individuals who own shares in a public or private company. In most circumstances, the shareholders are the legal owners of the limited companies. There exist common and preferred stockholders. Common stockholders partially own the company and have the voting rights on issues affecting the company. Preferred stockholders also partially own the corporation although they lack voting rights on issues affecting the company.

Rights of common stockholders

Right to share company assets-common stockholders have an equal share of the company profits based on per share basis. The common stockholders are the main claimants of the income and the assets of the corporation. ...

Introduction 1

Company Background 1 Discussion Questions 2 1. The Various External Sources of Finance Available to the Company 2 a. Issuance of Common Shares 2 b. Corporate Bonds and Preferred Shares 3 c. Bank Loans 3 2. The Possible Considerations that may have been taken into account by the management when choosing the type of finance. All the relevant considerations explained and placed clearly in the context of the particular circumstances of the chosen quoted company. 4 3. The calculation of the Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) appears to be straightforward in ...

Essay for Exam Chapter 18

With the curtains drawn on Napoleon’s conquests, the entire European continent had to be restructured to balance power and collectively suppress revolution in 1815 and so the Concert of Europe was set up to meet from time to time under the leadership of Austrian foreign minister Clemens von Metternich. Britain, Prussia, Austria and Russia who emerged as victorious powers sent delegates to Vienna to organize this reconstitution forming the Congress of Vienna. Count Metternich allowed Prussia and the Kingdom of Netherlands to grow and a large number of small states were grouped to form the German Confederation. At the ...

Voting Rights Act 1965

Introduction The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a very important piece of legislation in the history of American civil rights. The voting rights act has a long history of alterations and revisions before it was consented in 1965. The effects of the legislation had, and still have far reaching implications. The Voting Rights Act of 1965was assented to law by the then president Lyndon Johnson on the sixth of August in 1965. The new legislation outlined the disenfranchisement of African Americans characterized by discriminatory voting practices that were adopted by many Southern states after the end of the civil ...

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Summary:

- What the Paper is about This study was done by four students from Department of International Business at Schulich School of Business (Bae et al., nd) to test how expropritaion incentives of controlling shareholders impact firm values during a financial crisis and the recovery period. The results of the expropriation model ran for Asian firms for their 1997 crisis and Latin American firms for the 2001 Argentine economic crisis were aligned with the main hypothesis. The hypothesis called “expropriation hypothesis” posits that the value of firms with weaker corporate governance would significantly drop during a ...

Prisoners' Right to Vote in the UK and the Need for the Current law Reforms

Voting is the most common way of choosing leaders in the continents. Voting rights are the privileges given to those who have acquired the requirements to vote, for example, attaining the required age of eighteen years. However, restrictions are placed on some people as prisoners and ex-members of parliament. A case in point is observed in the UK where prisoners are denied the right to vote. This may be a major setback to the social life of those citizens behind bars, but may also act as a control measure for security reasons in the state of UK. Issuing the inmates with a ...

Women's Suffrage

Introduction Voting right for women seems a very logical action now but it was not the same 200 years back. In fact, there were no voting rights granted to women anywhere in the world till the 19th century when men were only allowed to vote in all democracies. United States was notan exception either. As per the documented history, Lydia Taft of Massachusetts was the first woman to be allowed to vote in town meetings during 1750s (Bridgman and Mills 1994). New Jersey had a law that restricted a person from voting on the basis ofa minimum level of wealth. Sexual ...

A. Timberot plc

Timberot plc can only go after Leonard, but not Mashup plc. The reason for this is at that time the parties entered into an agreement, Mashup plc had no legal personality yet and, therefore, did not have the capacity to contract. Such legal personality only became real as of the date of its incorporation stated in the certificate of incorporation, which evidences conclusively that the company has complied with all the requirements of registration and is thus, duly registered as a company. As of the date of incorporation, a company is given a legal personality and all the capabilities owing it as a ...

Community presentation:

- Racism. Racism as a concept could be associated to group of people who inhabit the same land and share similar physical characteristics. It is a development that never seems to have an end. Ideally everyone has encountered this problem either as a concept or in practice. It is the explicit biasness towards a person based on their race either in deeds or in words. It is a problem that affects many people. There is not one group of people that racism has not affected. There are some groups that are affected more by this vice than other groups. Racism can lead to a ...

Investment Options Recommendations

Introduction This paper entails an analysis and review of the available investment options in companies that fall within the start-up economy category. This analysis is based on the specific investment needs of a client who wishes to invest some of his capital in a non-publicly owned firm. The client is 50 years old, and this implies that his investment risk profile is not as high as that of relatively younger investors. In this regard, this paper will advise the client on the stock investment options that are available in his preferred company profiles. Accordingly, this paper will focus on the ...

Communication & diversity

1. Choose one social identity group: race, gender, sexuality or ability. Explain how that group has been socially constructed throughout history and how the social construction has led to marginalization. Gender differences have been an important part of society formation as well as division of labor from ancient times. The social class system has had a great impact on societies and their formation. Philosophers and thinkers have tried to analyze various elements of these classes and inequality system in the society and this has led to the marginalization of women as the fairer and weaker sex. Gender discrimination has ...

Achievements of the civil rights movement by 1968

After the Emancipation Proclamation in 1965, the end of the American Civil War, a new era dawned in the United States. The previously voiceless people of the African American race finally gained rights to fight the oppression of their white counterparts. Despite their liberation, racism was evident in the United States with the black Americans prohibited from exercising certain rights. Thus, black Americans saw the need for the African-American Civil Rights Movement, of 1955-1968, seeking social reforms against the racial segregation. It is important to note that; pro-slavery southern states exhibited reluctance in absorbing blacks as their equals. Said reluctance ...

Introduction

Universal suffrage is one of the cornerstones of democratic governance. Suffrage enables people to exercise their democratic rights without any contravention. One of the primary democratic rights is that of voting. A truly democratic nation is one where all citizens have the freedom to vote in any way that they like and for any candidate that they desire without oppression. In the United States, one issue of concern in regard to this democratic right has risen up in recent years. The issue has been subjected to intensive debate across the political divide as well as in the society. The ...

The right to vote is the principal right an individual living in a democratic country is entitled to. In fact, voting is a fundamental right that every citizen must exercise, as a part of the larger duty of decision making for the government. There are one hundred and seventeen recognized electoral democracies. Of these twenty two have laws making it compulsory for citizens to exercise their voting rights impending which they may face punitive action (Frankal). Also out of these twenty two democratic countries, eleven countries implement these laws. Australia is one such democratic nation with compulsory voting for all citizens (Mackerras & ...

In 1965 after state police gunned down peaceful, unarmed people who were marching to the Capitol, in Alabama, President Johnson realized the increasing violence involved in discriminatory actions against those working towards civil rights. He signed and enacted the Voting Rights Act of 1965 which not only ensured all citizens the right to vote but also included sections to protect those who voted. Special sections included the provision that citizens couldn’t be discriminated against for voting purposes based on the results of literacy tests and a provision that provided protection for all voters in areas of the country where ...

In the 100 years between the end of the Civil War and the signing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, African Americans continued to experience the violence and racism that they had endured as slaves. This racism was not only social and political separation, but also legal separation. The legal segregation was codified into law so that African Americans were denied equal access to service and opportunities such as housing, medical care, education, employment, transportation, and entertainment. Because this separation was established in state and local laws, any resistance by African Americans resulted in arrest and prosecution. However, ...

(Name of Professor) U.S. Supreme Case of Shelby County v Holder 1. Shelby County v Holder is a landmark case involving the Supreme Court ruling declaring the provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, particularly sections 5 and 4 (b), as unconstitutional. Section 5 of the said Act requires the local government to get a pre-clearance from the US Attorney General or three judges acting as a panel of the US District Court in Columbia prior to changing the laws on voting to ensure that the new law will not result in the denial of the right to vote ...

Slide 2: Introduction

- Homecomings offer people an opportunity to reconnect with the traditions and the developments of a place they once called home. - Educational institutions offer great homecoming events that are filled with nostalgic moments. Besides the reconnection with colleagues, the alumni also get to catch up with the latest developments and traditions of their former college. - Indiana University (IU) celebrates its Homecoming week every fall. The weeklong event features an exciting homecoming parade where alumni clad in the university’s iconic crimson color. - The event brings together close to 580,000 IU graduates in forums ...

Women’s suffrage can be defined as the women’s right to vote as well as to vie for an electoral post. Women’s right to vote had been suppressed in the earlier days of democracy. However, in Finland, Sweden, as well as some states in the western United States limited voting rights had been gained by the 19th century. International, as well as national organizations, formed to organize and coordinate efforts to gain women's voting rights, as well as equal civil rights for women. Coming to the 20th century nations of the North America as well as several ...

Internet Assignment

I did not encounter any difficulties in logging into either site. I just typed the address and googled the sites. For the second website, I had to log in through Facebook. On both websites, there are visible attempts requesting people to donate or contribute to the party.

The purpose of the Democrats is to build an economy that lasts. The resultant economy should lift up all Americans. The Democrats are working to advance issues like job, creation, education, healthcare, and clean energy. The website provides links that direct visitors to information about the party, the people who form its ...

Abstract

The Civil War has been hailed as one of the most defining events of American history. The Civil not only led to the unification of the nation but was also accompanied by another revolutionary occurrence which was the end of slavery. Several states abolished slavery during this period. One of these states was the state Washington, District of Columbia. The District of Columbia officially ended slavery in 1862 after the signing of the document “The District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act”. The act was signed into law by President Lincoln. The signing of this document was seen as a great ...

Not a Privilege for Every Citizen

After World War II the United States witnessed a period of unparalleled prosperity in its history. Having concentrated their energies and resources in the production of armaments, factories began concentrating in the production of a wide array of consumer goods: TV sets, dishwashers, cars, record players, and tape recorders. For the first time, many ordinary Americans could afford to buy these products. The United States was the world’s largest industrial power and the richest nation in the world. It was the time of the “affluent society.”1 The G.I. Bill gave an unprecedented number of Americans the opportunity to acquire ...

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/19/us/supreme-court-upholds-texas-voter-id-law.html On Oct 18, 2014, The Supreme Court upheld the right of Texas to require a photo ID to vote in the mid-term elections to be held on November 4th. This was a long time coming, but the controversy and legal wrangling is not over yet. Since 2013, Texas had required some type of ID in order to vote. In 2011, the legislature passed, and Governor Perry signed into law, regulations requiring a photo ID to be able to vote. Typical Photo IDs might be a Texas Driver’s license or Concealed Carry Permit, a US Military ID or a US Passport. Before ...

Introduction

A pretty, articulate African-American woman stands before a University of Chicago audience to deliver a lecture on her latest book. She is Michelle Alexander, a highly acclaimed civil rights attorney and Associate Law Professor at Ohio State University. The Stanford Law School graduate is the author of the book, which discusses the modern effects of a viciously racist Jim Crow system on today’s society. Significant patterns have continued to emerge regarding racist voting practices in the United States. Is it little wonder, given the historical debauchery that has occurred? Various inconsistencies in prison policy practices (and voting rights discrepancies) have engaged critical ...

Throughout the US history, the ethnic group that has faced the most severe form of discrimination is African American community. Being dark of the color, they have always been thought of as lesser human beings, except for the recent years of the history. This paper highlights the type of struggle, the community faced in the whole US history, their social and political issues, the legislation meant to limit them within prejudicial boundaries, and the legislation meant to ease them from prejudicial boundaries. African American race has had mostly unpleasant experience so far in U.S history. Most of the ...

1. Why was the term “gilded” an accurate description for the last quarter of the 19th century? Mark Twain is credited with using the term ‘gilded’ to describe the last quarter of the 19th century America, particularly the years from 1870 to 1900. Twain had used the term ‘gilded age’ in a satirical manner. He draws an analogy with the thin covering of gold on various artifacts that provides a shiny veneer to the object and hides the baseness of the material used to make it. This is an apt description because towards the end of the 19th century, United ...