Landmark College Essays Samples For Students

1953 was a seminal year for the Civil Rights Movement since in that year future President John F Kennedy was first elected to the US Senate, that Senate which was a bastion of conservatism.
And in 1954 less than a year later the first major achievement in the Civil Rights crusade post war was achieved, that of the Brown vs Board of Education where it was declared by the Supreme Court that separate but equal was unconstitutional and called on all states to move ‘with all deliberate speed’ to desegregate schools.
Interestingly there were several instances where the ruling of ...

This paper will compare two local restaurants in San Diego, California that specialize in the Mexican food industry that is native to Southern California due to the proximity to Mexico. The restaurants chosen will be El Indio and Old Town Mexican Café. The reason that these two restaurants have been chosen is that they are known as San Diego’s best restaurants for Mexican food that are publicized to many tourists visiting the area. Additionally, these restaurants have been chosen because strategically they were in the same position of turning a landmark restaurant into an establishment that was going ...

Introduction

Over the decades, the minority groups in America society such as the blacks, American Indians, and Asians as well as women have been discriminated. Mainly, the discrimination of these groups has been manifested significantly in education, career opportunities, and in employment. To curb this racial and gender prejudices, the American Federal government and Supreme Court have enacted numerous legislation to support for equality of these underrepresented groups in the society. One of the most apparent and profoundly supported legislation is the affirmative action.
In this paper, we analyze the actual meaning of the term Affirmative Action. Next, the paper ...

Dicey was an incredibly important figure in the development of the Rule of Law in contemporary Britain. The Rule of Law, in a modern context, has been developed through many different societies; however, the liberal understanding of the role of government and law in British society today is very much the result of Dicey’s philosophical input. Dicey suggested that individuals cannot be punished in any way unless they have committed some sort of transgression against a law that has been established by the rightful government and Courts in the realm. Dicey also suggested that an important characteristic of the Rule ...

The court ruling in the landmark case of Eisel v Board of Education of Montgomery County, 324 Md. 376 (1991) has a significant impact to the counseling profession. The main issue of the case is whether or not the duty of counselors to intervene to prevent the commission of a suicide extends to school counselors as a duty owed to prevent the suicide of Nicole Eisel, who is a 13-year old student of Montgomery County. The antecedent facts of the case involve the manifestation of Nicole’s tendency of committing suicide after she openly told her friends about her ...

Issue of Abortion in America

Issue of Abortion in America
Several social issues are affecting the American societies. Some of these issues have been within them for long. These concerns have also been a part of discussions in all the academic cycles in America. One of the most discussed issues is abortion. The reasons for abortion, the legality of abortion, and the morality of the act are some of the hottest topics in discussion. This paper is set to discuss the history of the abortion, debate ways of dealing with abortion, past interventions, as well as the reasons for their success or failure.

Abortion ...

The Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA) was passed to provide a free and appropriate education for children with disabilities. IDEA is constructed from six pillars that ensure educational opportunity for children with all types of disabilities: cognitive; physical, mental and emotional. The six pillars are: zero reject; nondiscriminatory identification and evaluation; least restrictive environment; free and appropriate education; due process safeguards and parent and student participation and shared decision making (Heward 2006).
IDEA was first passed by the Congress in 1975 as PL 94-142, Education for All Handicapped Children and signed into law by President Gerald Ford (Office of ...

The fourth amendment to the US Constitution provides and ensures one of the fundamental human rights. This amendment guarantees freedom against unreasonable search and seizure by public servants and officials or any other agents of the US government. In order to conduct search and seizures legally, such officials and governmental agents are required to have reasonable ground, on the basis of which they receive specific warrant.
There are many cases concerning this constitutional amendment that were considered and decided by the US Supreme Court. And the landmark decision in this sphere is Tennessee v. Garner. According to the ...

Introduction

Same sex marriage and its acceptance in the society has been a topic of discussion for long. While the opponents of same-sex marriage argue that it is against nature, the supporters of the institution argue that the very basis of individual freedom of choice is denied by not recognizing this marriage. There are many states in USA including Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Washington, New Jersey and Hawaii that recognize and license same-sex marriages and treat them as equal as heterosexual marriages. On the other hand, there are states including Utah, Michigan, Virginia, Texas and Oklahoma that do not recognize same-sex ...

Civil liberties can be defined as freedoms and civil rights which give individual specific rights. Examples of these rights include freedom from forced labor and slavery, right to fair trial, right of privacy, right of liberty and freedom from torture and death, only to mention but a few. Habeas Corpus on the other hand can be defined as a court order (writ) which commands an official of a government or an individual who had detained or imprisoned another to produce him or her at a designated time and place. This is to enable a court to determine the whether the action was legal or ...

Essay Questions on Boston City

- Three elements from Kevin lynch “the city and its elements” about Boston City
- Paths
- The Ross Kennedy Greenway is a key path in Boston City. It is a linear urban park consisting of landscaped gardens, fountains, art, promenades and a special lighting system stretching more than one mile through Boston’s Financial District, neighborhoods and Harbor communities. A lot of traffic is also uses the underground tunnels built after modernization of the pathway recently.
- The Freedom Trail is a walkway 2.5 miles long through Boston City that serves as a historical feature bearing many memories of the ...

In order to understand where the juvenile justice system is today, we need to look back and understand the history of the juvenile justice system. When the first settlers arrived in America, they brought along the juvenile justice system that was in effect in England. This system evolved and improved through the 1800s. During the 1900s, landmark cases changed the course of juvenile justice in the United States. Unfortunately, the present juvenile system is more concerned with punishment than rehabilitation. Reformers are working to change the current juvenile justice system as it is too harsh. First, let us look ...

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Introduction

In the early part of the 1950’s, in what has now become the “Simon-Waldo debates,” began to be published in The American Political Science Review. Starting as a reference in Waldo’s “Development of Theory of Democratic Administration” work that was released in March 1952, the high profile debates was anchored on Waldo’s doubts on the concern of “logical positivism” and the response of Herbert Simon in the succeeding June issue of the Review. As newcomers to the discipline and both in their early 30s, Waldo and Simon discussed the issues of democracy, efficiency, and principles, ...

Federalism in the United States has evolved over the past 200 years from an arrangement where state and national government powers and responsibilities were clearly distinct and separate, to one in which the line of distinction between the two has blurred. When the framers drafted the Constitution, they provided separate powers to the federal government in Article One. A few of these clauses extended the power of the national government in order to prevent the hazards faced by the Articles of Confederation. In order to ensure that limitations still existed on the federal government, the Tenth Amendment was included. ...

Introduction

In the contemporary community, culture plays a vital role in developing a connection between people and memories. The norms we have grown to see, experience and practice defines our existence from a given period. This resources of culture are essential in educating and helping the community to express the need and necessity of preservation. There are different ways and means of conservation of a culture that helps in defining, developing and implementing a logical protection about human life. For instance, there is the need of saving and protecting for something that has value and meaning to you. If not ...

In Jack Nicas’s Wall Street Journal article, “Google Wins Java Copyright Case Against Oracle”, he explains that the software giant, Google, owned by Alphabet, Inc. prevailed in a lawsuit initiated by Oracle (Nicas). Oracle accused Google of copyright infringement because Google uses small parts of computer code called APIs in its Android Operating Systems (Nicas). The federal court ruled in favor of Google, citing “fair use” of already-copyrighted material (Nicas). This issue could have huge ramifications for the tech industry.
For example, by allowing Google to utilize parts of another company’s product, this sets a precedent in ...

Mass Shootings: How we can deter potential mass shooters in the US? List some major mass shootings in the US and identify some major similarities and major differences among them.
Mass shootings have become an issue in the United States. There are ways mass shootings can be deterred. One way is strict gun regulations. By making it hard for people to possess firearms, it makes mass shootings less likely. Also strict screenings and regulations can be put in place so people with mental health issues are not able to purchase a firearm. Also another more extreme example of a ...

Rights of Children with Dyslexia

Dyslexia is a condition that affects the processing of written and spoken language by the brain. It is neither a sign of laziness nor a sign of low intelligence. It is mainly associated with challenges in reading. Some specialists, educators and doctors may term it as disorder or disability in reading. However, it may also affect the spelling, speaking and writing. Children with this disability are still able to comprehend ideas that are complex, except that they require more time go through it. They might also require a different method to process information, for instance, listening to an audiobook ...

2009 West Gray

Houston, Texas 77019

One Main Street
Houston, Texas 77008
Dear Mr Morales:
It is with a mixture of pride and sadness that I offer this letter of introduction and recommendation to you for one of my employees, Miss Jennifer Drake.
Miss Drake has been in my employ at the Landmark Theatre, River Oaks for 5 years as a film projectionist. It is with great pride that I recommend her, as she is an exceptional and reliable employee. The endorsement is also provided with some sadness, however, as I realize if Miss Drake is successful in obtaining the Robert A. ...

Gun control is a very thorny issue in the United States and over the years has posed as a big challenge on how to control gun use and ownership. The greatest challenge in tackling this issue is uncontrolled gun rights inhibiting the government’s duty of protecting its citizens from unnecessary deaths and crime (Jacobs, & B.J, 204). Two groups always at loggerheads over this issue are gun control activists who claim to keep firearms from the hands of criminals creates safer communities, while gun rights activists say ownership of firearms by law-abiding citizens reduces incidents of crime. Gun right ...

1. Explain in detail the Exclusionary Rule.
The Exclusionary Rule is the rule that is generated by the law under the constitutional rights. It does not allow the use of any of the non-legal obtained proof in the trials for criminal under the fourth amendment. It will usually apply for the elimination of the physical evident. The best example of exclusionary rule is stolen property, murder, or weapons that allows the police to catch a break in a case under the rights of the fourth amendment. The exclusionary rule could be under the Fifth Amendment, when no person can ...

Introduction

The court practice of the United States of America demonstrates that the First, the Fourth, the Eight and the Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution are the most frequently invoked constitutional provisions in the country. Procedural violations of these Amendments are effective tools in the hands of skillful criminal defense attorneys. Analyzing the court practice is the only way to understand viewpoints of the judiciary on these sensitive topics, and to avoid perpetrating procedural mistakes in the future.
This paper seeks to analyze the most landmark cases connected with the alleged violations of the First, the Fourth, the ...

There were two participants in this debate, Mary Ziegler, who is a professor at Florida State University College of Law and has been published by the Harvard University Press and Clarke Forsythe, a representative from the Americans United for Life, who also is a published author on the issues of law. Forsythe seems conversant with the history of the abortion laws in the country, Mary, on the other hand, interprets the law in a way a layman can understand without all the law jargon. They both are aware of the topic at hand which was to outline the Texas ...

Architecture is viewed as the art of science that involves coming up with design in the form of a drawing, managing, and constructing structures such as building complexes, swimming pools, parks, and other various structures in a particular proportion and shape. It is in this regard that since time immemorial architecture has grown from simple ideas to the amazing and intriguing structures that exist in our lives today. One of the magnificent works of architecture has been the Burj Khalifa building in Dubai, UAE; that is the highest sky scraper to date. The enormous growth of the architectural world ...

China and South Korea signed a bilateral free trade agreement on 1 June in the year 2015, and the major aim of the trade is to eliminate around 90% of import tariffs, which will substantially boost trade between those regions. The trade between those two regions always had quite big volumes. The discussions about the agreement began in the year 2012, when the China-South Korea trade constituted around $215 billion. The expectations state that with the signing of this free trade agreement, the trade will significantly increase and the volumes will exceed $300 billion. This agreement includes various spheres ...

Question One

Civil disobedience was viewed in different ways by various scholars. For Martin Luther King, civil disobedience should be used to pass over government rules. He also asserted that the theory of natural law and contemporary consent may be required by the law as a genuine act of civil disobedience. He also considered civil disobedience in the form of non-violent refusal to obey the laws of the government. Civil disobedience may be applied on a large scale to force the government to negotiate changes. It is also conscientious. This implies that it may be motivated by religious convictions and the ...

An accident can be described as an undesirable event that could have been prevented, had the contributing factors to the event been identified and action taken to prevent it: these could be human factors, organisational factors, or predisposing factors. The same can be said of the events leading to the litigation sought by the residents of Woburn, Massachusetts in the USA. Approximately 50 years ago, the residents complained continuously of foul tasting waters (due to high concentrations of manganese and iron making it undrinkable), between the years 1964 and 1979, supplied by the municipal wells. The situation was further ...

The Lascaux Caves, Stonehenge and Ancient Egypt are all human creations with rich historical backgrounds that have been preserved for thousands of years and allow us to marvel in the accomplishments of our predecessors and gain better understanding on their culture and traditions.
Personally, I am deeply captivated by these three landmarks. To witness the paintings on the walls of the Lascaux Caves, that represent some of the most amazing testimonies of the Paleolithic period, would be a profoundly intriguing experience due to the interpretation that could be given to the over 2000 images of human figures, animals and ...

The film portrayed the central characters similarly to the book. The “Gideon’s trumpet was interesting in the sense that it was able to show the events that took place during the actual court case involving Gideon v. Wainwright. The main theme of the movie is the right of the accused to a counsel and to have legal representation during criminal trials. The character who portrayed the part of Clarence Earl Gideon was Henry Fonda (Avery 212).
The character of Gideon was an exact replica of the persona presented in the book as the man from Florida, who was ...

Over the period from 2010 to 2016 the U.S. Supreme Court delivered its rulings in a range of landmark criminal cases, dealing with diverse topics, such as freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures, rights regarding counsel, detainment of suspects in terrorism, as well as criminal sentences. The case Miller v Alabama (2012) belongs to the last category. The major finding of the Court in this case was that mandatory sentences of life, not including the parole possibility, are unconstitutional in relation to juvenile offenders.
The case was referred to the Supreme Court by Evan Miller, a 14-year boy, who ...

Introduction

In his essay entitled Come Together: The National Center for Civil and Human Rights, Chuck Recee started off with what people often asked him about Atlanta. His initial response shows a considerable reflection on what makes Atlanta distinctive. He talked about the specific places in Atlanta that witnessed the birth of the American Civil Rights Movement, implying that Atlanta is also a special place like other Southern cities. However, as Recee suggested, it is not enough to know about where and what happened during the historical moment of the Civil Rights movement to feel the magnitude of that event. ...

Although the US has recorded hundreds of proposed reforms to its healthcare system, few have been enacted into law. In 2010, however, a landmark reform was enacted with the hope that it would improve access to affordable care. Since its enactment, the Affordable Care Act has seen several changes made to the US healthcare system (United Health Foundation, 2016). Subsequently, the impact of these changes on the state of health in the various states has emerged as an important area of study. In view of this, the current paper compares and contrasts the state of health in the states ...

Introduction

Firearms policies of the United Kingdom are one of the strictest in the world. As a result, the rates of homicides and other violent crime are reported to be the lowest (Uttley 2006; Squires, 2014)). Today’s research shows that only 0,05 intentional murders involving the use of civilian firearms have been recorded per 100,000 inhabitants in 2013 (Van Kesteren, 2013). Moreover, only 2.3% of all homicides perpetrated in the country involved the use of guns (Office for National Statistics 2015). The only one killing spree to have ever happened in the United Kingdom was the notorious ...

A contract is a binding legal agreement between two parties that is made with the intention to create a legal relationship. Contracts in the English legal tradition are made by the exchange of consideration between the parties.

Fox v. Mountain West Electric, Inc., 137 Idaho 703 (2002)

In this case, Lockheed Martin had a building project which Fox and MWE decided to do jointly as a way of winning the bid to complete it. They created a document that acted as the scope of the work they were to complete and in the process, Fox worked under the supervision of a manager of MWE. There were changes in the terms of the building contract terms ...

Introduction to American Government

“Mr. Smith, who served as a member of the Texas Legislature for eight years, has recently been elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. As he makes the transition from Austin to Washington D.C. what are some of things that he should be aware of? Specifically, how is the structure of the Texas Legislature similar or different from the U.S. House? Also, how would you inform him about how Congress has changed over time. Finally, how would you suggest he develop his Home Style?”
John Marshall became the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme court for thirty years. ...

Facts

For 18 months between March 2013 and September 2014, the appellants, fourteen students of Huntsville Schools in Huntsville Alabama, allege that the school illegally set up and maintained illegal and invasive systems to observe their activity on worldwide web social media sites, including Facebook, Twitter and MySpace. The appellants further allege that Huntsville Schools, working under the jurisdiction and authority of the Alabama Public School Systems (the defendant), expelled them from the institution based solely on the information unscrupulously acquired on the internet. The appellants additionally suggest that the defendant worked in collusion with the National Security Agency (NSA) ...

Identify one activist claims maker group (i.e a social movement organization) (please identify this claims making group in a way that I could find out more about them with relative ease, i.e. a google search of their name) Make sure to define kay terms/ concepts in your answer.
The activist group I found that is committed to taking a stance on the issue of online gaming addiction is called The Mothers Against Videogame Addiction and Violence (MAVAV). According to the MAVAV website, the organization is “dedicated to educating parents of the world's fastest growing addiction and the most reckless endangerment of children ...

On September 13, 2007 the United Nations (UN) embraced an international instrument entitled the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). Consisting of 46 articles, this document was created to protect and promote the rights of the worlds’ indigenous populations that were not defended in other human rights legislation (University of British Columbia, indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca). James Anaya, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, claims this document is unparalleled in its scope and breadth. Therefore, this paper will discuss the history and reasoning behind the declaration’s creation, why it was necessary to adopt ...

The Empire State Building is a 103-storey vast skyscraper. It derives the nickname from New York, the Empire State. It has been the world’s tallest building for about four decades having a height of 443.2 meters with an antenna spire included at the top of the building. From the time of its completion (1931) it has been a world’s trade centre and now its role of trade is being overcome by it's becoming watch towers, architectural building, a landmark and point of interest for observing ships, aircrafts and other features from a top (Tauranac, 19). It is being converted to a romantic site ...

Death Valley, located in the western states of Nevada and California, is one of the nation’s many national monuments. Spanning more than 3 million acres of space between the Mojave Desert and the Great Basin, Death Valley contains a number of sand dunes, canyons, mountains and more, contributing to an immensely varied desert environment that is one of the nation’s great treasures (Rothman and Miller, 2013). The area itself is also a national park in addition to being a national monument, and is the largest national park in the mainland United States; it is also an International Biosphere Reserve. Death ...

U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. Supreme Court

Introduction

As in the all modern democracies, the governance in the USA is based on the principle of separation of powers. There are three branches of power, namely legislative, executive and judiciary. Due to the fact that the USA is a federal state, separate judicial systems function at the federal and state levels. According to the information, presented at the official website of the U.S. judiciary, the federal judiciary is comprised of such courts as district (trial) courts, which function within the limits, set by the Constitution of the U.S. and the Congress, appellate ...

Constitutional right to privacy is a law term that elicits much debate in the law field. This is because, many people hold different perspectives and interpretations of its meaning. Besides that, the lacks a specific reference of privacy in the constitution. However, in broad terms, it refers to a law that protects people from unwarranted government interference in their private life, relations or activities (Stephen and Scheb, 406). It empowers people the freedom to make fundamental choices about their life such as sex, reproduction and other personal relationships.
As stated earlier, the right to privacy gives individuals the freedom to make ...

Background

The Supreme Court ruled against the constitutional law that defined certain forms of abortion as illegal, thereby, legalizing them in this 2000 landmark case (Baldwin, 1). “Partial birth” is a form of abortion where a physician delivers a fetus vaginally before killing it, or the intentional vaginal delivery of a live unborn before killing the fetus, according to the statute. However, the Nebraska law defines partial birth a set of procedures employed by a physician to perform third trimester abortions. The case involved a specialist physician in late abortions, Leroy Carhart against the Attorney general of Nebraska seeking to reverse the statute against partial birth citing ...

Introduction:

In principle the theory of nullification is the deeming of a federal law by a state as unconstitutional. This situation occurred when the Southern states regarded the banning of slavery which was a federal statute as something which went against their culture and way of life, thus being unconstitutional. There were several exponents who spoke avidly and vividly against the banning of slavery and these included John C Calhoun, the senator from South Carolina as well as Jefferson Davis of Mississippi and George Pendleton from Ohio who repeatedly threatened secession from the Union during the period immediately preceding the Civil War which ...

Introduction

The civil rights movement provided a significant chapter to the history of democracy in the United States (US), in that it enabled the empowerment of African-Americans towards freedom from discrimination. While much activity related to the movement is attributable to the string of protests undergoing in the US between 1955 and 1968, it also influenced uprisings in the United Kingdom and South Africa. The prevalence of discrimination against African-Americans has prompted activists to fight for the eventual recognition of their entitlement to civil rights. Race is the primary focus of discrimination, with the ...

Introduction:

Bullied is a powerful film which deals with discrimination in schools with regard to gay and lesbian students who are made to suffer unduly and considerably due to their sexual orientation. The story of Jamie Nabozny is perhaps a story experienced by thousands of similarly oriented students who are made to suffer daily abuse both verbal and physical. The manner in which Nabozny fought back is quite believable since his case actually made history and remains to this day an important landmark in the gay rights canon.
The film takes the form of a 40 minute documentary where we examine the ...

Preamble

"I didn't want to make 'high' art, I had no interest in using paint, I wanted to find something that anyone could relate to without knowing about contemporary art. I wasn't thinking in terms of precious prints or archival quality; I didn't want the work to seem like a commodity." Cynthia Morris Sherman.
IntroductionCindy Sherman was born on January 19, 1954, in Glen Ridge, New Jersey. She is an American photographer and film director, whom is best known for her conceptual portraits where she has taken the art to a completely new level. She moved to New York in the ...

Leonardo Da Vinci

Leonardo Da Vinci is one of the world’s most recognized artist (and scientist). His works of art are stamps of the Renaissance period and of the themes that characterized those times. Da Vinci’s style, however, had its unique traits, that made him stand out from the rest of his period colleagues and give way to new art movements inside this History period.
He used oil painting in ways that would emphasize and embellish details, like luminosity and transparency on the skin, higher shine of depicted jewelry and silkiness on hair. On his painting he has also ...

Spatial navigation includes organization, acquirement, utilization and reconsideration of knowledge about various spatial environments. The main concern regarding spatial navigation lays stress on finding and modelling natural navigation systems utilized in presenting and Processing spatial information and on the concerned navigation problems. There are several research projects like:

1. Practical investigations on human spatial navigation capabilities.
2. Theoretical investigations on limitations to various approaches in order to represent and process spatial knowledge.
3. Implementing and presenting various different schemes and considering them with regards to their biological perspective.
4. Thoroughly investigating the possibilities of applying the ...

The three major events that influenced the development of higher education in the US

The development of higher education in the US has been influenced by a number of political and social events that occurred on the national and world fronts. These events influenced enrollment, size and number, structure, aims, and content of curriculums in institutions of higher education. In this paper, the influences of the Second World War, rise of the US into a superpower, and landmark court rulings on the development of higher education in the US will be explored.

The Second World War

The Second World War transformed higher education in America in three major ways. Firstly, it redefined the relationship between the federal government and ...

Elvis Presley was one of the greatest musicians in rock 'n roll history - he revolutionized the way in which people enjoyed pop music, and became an all-American icon with untold wealth throughout the 60s and 70s. He was one of the catalysts that brought rock 'n' roll, primarily thought to be a black musical style, to wider acceptance by whites, and pushed boundaries of raciness and eroticism in American live musical performance. For such a living legend, one would expect his house to be incredible and lavish - Graceland fits all of these definitions and more. Starting out at the ...

The 60’s was a time of great social upheaval and political protest which has affected the course of history and the culture of today. After electing the youngest man to serve as President, the people of this country experienced his assassination, a war which divided the country, a landmark civil rights movement and developed dissatisfaction with the status quo. These events led to protests and sit-ins as the people protested the war and took a stand for equality among race and gender. In addition the new music of that era lent another voice to uphold their passionate beliefs.
After the assassination ...

Gay marriage is a controversial social practice within the United States. Jost, an editor at Sage Publications, explains in his article entitled “Marriage Showdowns: Will Voters Bar Marriage” that “seven states have legalized gay marriage while more than 26 states have had either constitutional amendments that prohibit gay marriage or statutory bans (Jost 3). Friedman's book entitled Gay Marriage explains that the existing policy on gay marriage is based on the provisions of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) that was passed by the federal government in 1996 (Friedman 31). DOMA defines a marriage as a union between a man and woman and ...