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Essay On Emmitt Till's Murder

      

    The president of the United States asked Emmitt Till's mother to close the casket. He was using his authority as president to have her close the casket. The sheriff wouldn't take in the men and he knew that the men had killed Emmitt Till but the boy killed was black so it didn't matter. The jury was all white and if those men killed a white man they would have found the killers guilty but they let them go because the boy killed was black. The jury, the President, the Sheriff let the men go because they killed a black boy but if he was white they would have been killed for sure.

    The violence in the case of Emmitt Till is racial. The fact that he whistled at a white girl wasn't why he was killed. He was killed because he was BLACK. Him being black was the reason for him being killed. Him whistling was just a cover up for killing a black boy. They felt like he should die because he was black so they killed him! It wasn't just one man that killed him it was a group. This was a racial crime. Individually he was killed because he whistled at the white woman. Institutionally it was because he was black and they wanted to show other    blacks that the whites are in charge. 

    Emmitt Tills Mother wants to keep it open as a statement.  She wants people to realize that racism needs to stop. She wanted to show the hate crime that had happened to her son. This will keep on happening if no one stands up against hate and what the white people were doing. That she didn't really hate them because it would make her just like them. She just wanted justice for all, black or white.

civil rights

 

 

Welcome,

I ask you friends do we need more violence? Do we need to treat them like they are treating us? No we do not. We don't need to return the violence they have given us.  We should follow Martian Luther King for he speaks the truth. We need a leader that wants to approach black equality in a non-violent way. The way that God says when they smack you turn the other cheek so they can smack you again. "But I tell you, Do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also." Matthew 5:39 We should do that of what he speaks of. We should do what he preaches about. We should follow Martin Luther King. People say that you can not have civil rights with a non-violent movement. Lets do the unspeakable and have a non-violent movement. Jesus died for the enemy with out a fight. Lets get our freedom with no violence. With no more hurt! With no more hate! With no more death.  Lets get out and do something about our freedom. Lets follow Martian Luther King, the man who follows GOD.  Malcolm X is wrong for wanting to hurt the whites. Its just going to make them hurt us more.

 

Local History

For my local History project I am going to take photos of the reconstruction of the Indian lake market and ask the owner 10 or 12 questions about the store and its history.

Videos

Video #1

1. WHAT DO YOU THINK IS CHANGING IN AMERICA, FROM ARCHIE'S POINT-OF-VIEW?                                                                             The change of his point of view is colored people being made to do things they don't want to do. Like Sammy being made to kiss a white person. Also Archie has the old way of mind. He thinks that woman should to the house work and should wait on him hand and foot. Like his wife getting him beer and he like get me a glass to. He said get me a beer not could you please get me a beer. Also latter on in the clip Archie was racist he was acting like Sam was different when he really isn't hes just "colored" (Archie called him that). He also would drink after his white friend but when Sam drank out of his beer 2 times he thought about it and wouldn't drink after him. He slowly put the beer back down.  
   
   
2. IN WHAT WAYS ARE YOUNG PEOPLE (HIS DAUGHTER AND SON-IN-LAW IN THE CLIP) AND MINORITIES CHANGING SOCIETY FOR ARCHIE?
         They are saying hes is racist. They do this by singing the Patriotic Song. Archie's Daughter and Son-in-law put themselves into the conversation, so they could make a point.

Video #2

3.  WHAT IS CHANGING IN AMERICAN SOCIETY IN THE CLIP BELOW?

    Whats changing in the clip is that the black people are moving up in society and are getting a better place to live. They are finally getting there"piece of there pie". The music is also changing its like a deep southern gospel.

Carter

                                                  

                                        

What the real threat to America is, according to Carter, and is that threat still with us today?

"True problems of our Nation are much deeper—deeper than gasoline lines or energy shortages" He says that the problem is deeper then gas or energy. We are suffering from "moral and a spiritual crisis". We are consuming more then we produce.  "Our neck is stretched over the fence and OPEC has a knife." Hes saying that we are over importing and we are so dependent on other country's  that at any point they can cut us off and we would be done. We America would be suffering and lost with out the oil. The problem is " a fundamental threat to American democracy....... We can see this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our Nation. " That is the threat, Americans losing there say in Government. I think that the threat is still here today and there always will be the threat of us loosing our say in the goverment. "But just as we are losing our confidence in the future, we are also beginning to close the door on our past."

Summarizing what Carter is saying about American society, and analyzing America today against his critique.
    Carter is saying that America has changed. America has changed from loving God to loving themselves. America had gone from being hard workers to lazy people who aren't very good workers and that just don't car. We now find joy in items and material goods instead of what we did for others. "For the first time in the history of our country a majority of our people believe that the next 5 years will be worse than the past 5 years. Two-thirds of our people do not even vote." More and more people are disrecspecting churches, the goverment, schools, and anything and everything. People just dont care about anyhting such as our future anymore. "This is not a message of happiness or reassurance, but it is the truth and it is a warning"
How do the plans differ, and how are they alike?   How do their plans reveal what they think the problem really is?

 

Obamas plan is to cut industries that are clean powered "We will lead again, by developing an American clean energy industry"(Obama's web site).Carter doesn't day anything about that topic. Carter talks about saving gas by car pooling, Obama just wants to use fuel efficient cars. Both plans want to import less and relay on our country resources not other country. "From now on, every new addition to our demand for energy will be met from our own production and our own conservation. "(Carter) Obama said " We can remain one of the world's leading importers of foreign oil, or we can make the investments that would allow us to become the world's leading exporter of renewable energy." There plans also reveal that they can only do as much as congress lets them. So if the congress is like no no no you cant do that the president just has to try it a different way.

 

Reagans Legcy

Reagan's Legacy

Visionary president is what Reagan has been described as. Reagan ended the long Cold war with Russia. Reagan ended the Cold war with out any guns fired. "If Ronald Reagan had not been President in the 1980s, the Cold War might have lasted longer and it might have ended on terms that were a lot less happy for the United States." (MICHAEL BESCHLOSS) Ronald Reagan knew that the Cold war was going to be a tough one to end so he went in with a strategy.

Ronald Reagan was a born leader. He went into his presidency with changes in mind for America. Reagan unlike most presidents went through and did all his changes that he had in mind. He had tax cuts and he wanted to create peace with Russia.

Some say Reagan was revolutionary others say he was a "great political change"(ANNELISE ANDERSON). Reagan did stop the cold war. Reagan did make America easier to live in. Reagan's legacy was the end of The Cold War. His legacy was being an "unconventional politician"(RICHARD NORTON SMITH).

What are the problems America faces?

The Reagan Video Clips

1. What are the problems America faces?


· Economic problems like long Inflation's or unemployment


· Government is the problem




2. What are Reagan's solutions?

· He plans to "act today and not tomorrow"


· Plans to put all Americans back to work

· Plans to Make equality for everyone as in no bearers and no discrimination


· "Free Americans from the terror of living cost"




3. What makes Reagan effective here?
Humor makes him effective.


4. What does this reveal about Reagan? (Consider the saying: "Wit has truth in it.")
This video reveals that Reagan has placed blame of the rescission on the Congress. This also reveals that he likes to use humor in his speeches.




5. What policy decisions might Reagan make according to this?
He wants to base things on hope, confidence and facts. He wants to help Russia, Korea, Vietnam and Persia. He says peace is based on strength.




6. How did this event effect Reagan's role with the American public?
I think that this showed that Reagan was not loved by some people like the shooter. I think this also showed people that even if your going to take a shot at Reagan he is not going down. That you cant get rid of him that easily.


7. Who is the audience for this speech?
Parents and the Sensitive people, also Christians and non-believers.


8. What is the argument Reagan makes here?
That we need to get rid of the dictators. We also need to defend our country.


9. What do you think Reagan's agenda is in this speech?
I think Reagan is trying to have people be neutral in there decisions about who is at fault for the nuclear freeze proposal. He also wants people to remove them selves from the struggle of right vs. wrong and good vs. evil.


10. What is the message here?

The message is that America is better now that Reagan was president and that you should vote for him again.


11. How does the ad use Carter?
The add uses Carter as a bad example of a president, saying that when he was president the country was in a bad spell.


12. What does the ad suggest about the character/morals of the country?
The add says that America is the best place to live. America is family friendly, it is a place with low taxes, and that America is a place of freedom.


13. What is the criticism of Communism being offered here?

Reagan is saying that the Communists Government was not letting there country be free. He was saying that they were controlling everything. He also said that because they stood there ground the Soviet Union will come back to the table.




14. Do you think this was an effective speech?
Yes, I think this speech was effective.




15. Who is the audience for this broadcast?
The audience is the people against America (the cause that Reagan is fighting for).


16. What do you think the American people thought of this action and Reagan's explanation of it?
I think the people were happy and agreed with Reagan’s actions.


17. What was the foreign response, do you think?
I think they Fought back.