I found this article on The New York Times. It covers specifically civil rights and if Americans still do have those rights.

This article was interesting to me because it touched on the topic of race and different kinds of people that civil rights are starting to protect more. For example, more people are starting to consider the rights of gays, transgenders, and African-Americans. These groups have received a good amount of discrimination. Even though I personally don't agree with…

I see both sides of this argument. Pro-choice believes that women have the "choice" to abort their baby because it is their life and they can choose how they live it. Pro-life explains that the child, no matter how far along, is a child and a person that God has created.

I agree with Pro-Life over Pro-choice. If Pro-choice believes that everyone should be able to "choose" how their life plays out, then the child should have a choice as well. There is no way that if you asked that…

This topic of the separation of parties is relevant to our class because the material covered today was about how the republican and democratic parties are separated. 

Have you ever wondered why the Republican party and the Democratic party are so divided? Both parties believe and hold to very conflicting opinions. In reality, there really wasn't much conflict until after the 50s and 60s. So what happened? Well, after the Cold War both parties started to drift apart and were at…

This is relevant to the course material because it is including The Constitution, which is a topic that we have been covering. 

The right to bear arms and gun control are very sensitive topics in today's society; especially with the younger generations. Some say that the Second Amendment is outdated and doesn't apply to today's world or maybe we should remove it permanently. However, it is still very relevant today. Citizens should still have the right to bear arms if they wish. If…

Austin Rollins, 17, brought leally owned hand guy by the shooters father on Tuesday, March 20^thand opened fire. Critically wounding a 16-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy at Great Mills High School. A school resource officer got to the scene within a minute and fire a shot at Rollins. Rollins was severely injured in the exchange and was later pronounced dead in the hospital. Police said the school resource officer was uninjured. Officials and students praised Gaskill, the…

Austin Rollins, 17, brought leally owned hand guy by the shooters father on Tuesday, March 20^thand opened fire. Critically wounding a 16-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy at Great Mills High School. A school resource officer got to the scene within a minute and fire a shot at Rollins. Rollins was severely injured in the exchange and was later pronounced dead in the hospital. Police said the school resource officer was uninjured. Officials and students praised Gaskill, the…

There have been multiple fatalities at the shooting at Santa Fe High School. Although the scene is still being processed and cleared, the situation has been contained. There have been confirmed injuries, police reported. The Houston police responded to reports of shots fired at at Santa Fe High School near Houston, Texas. Law enforcement will continue to secure the building and initiate all emergency management protocols to release and move students to another location. This article is…

Nearly 51 million families don't earn enough money to afford a monthly budget. Monthly budget normally includes housing, food, childcare, healthcare, transportation and a cell phone. According to a study released today May 17, 2018, by the United Way ALICE Project, 43% of households in the United States can't afford a monthly budget. Household's living in poverty is nationwide. States like California, New Mexico, and Hawaii have the largest share of struggling…

Article Link:

https://www.apnews.com/6e151296fb194f85ba69a8babd972e4b/Chinese-mass-indoctrination-camps-evoke-Cultural-Revolution

The Associated Press conducted an in depth study on the Chinese use of internment camps, in recent years, for those who are practicing Muslims. There is a specific focus on the area of Xinjiang. It is here that there are…

Officers Rolando Neischer and Robert Crosson were shot while sitting in a car at a Brooklyn housing project at around 4 a.m. on August 13, 1991. The suspects were two African-American men who wanted to steal the officers car. The police got an anonymous tip that led them to John Bunn and his co-defendant Rosean Hargrove. John Bunn was just 14 when he got convicted for murder and sent to jail for the murder of the off-duty correction officer in Brooklyn. However,…

According to the Iowa Department of Public Health, of 3,722 abortions were performed in the state in 2016. But, as of May 2, 2018 the Iowa Legislature approved what would be the nation’s strictest abortion law. This law prohibits women to have an abortion after six weeks into pregnancy. The point at which doctors typically can detect the flicker of a fetal heartbeat on an ultrasound is at six weeks. Iowa would be saving 3,475 lives, because in the Iowa Department of Health survey about…

In 1995, Congress approved the funding and relocation of the embassy to Jerusalem, but the law included a stipulation, allowing for presidents to sign continuous waivers to stall the relocation. However,  23 years later every president elected since had used the 1995 waiver in an effort to avoid conflict with the peace negotiations. Today, the United States embassy in Jerusalem officially opened under the administration…

The state government of Illinois has begun writing proposals that would present the death penalty back into the state legislature. Specifically, current governor Bruce Rauner hopes to reintroduce the policy of the death penalty to include punishment for criminals who are “guilty beyond any doubt” as well as those who killed someone in law enforcement. This discussion comes after the death penalty was eradicated in 2011 during the office of governor Pat Quinn. As of today, the governor has…

Hurricane Harvey was disastrous for the city of Houston. One reason for this being their no zoning policies. Zoning being a land use regulation tool that divides specific areas for a specialized purpose. This no-zoning policy has caused the city to develop completely disorganized and made Houston susceptible to more damage than was necessary. There is the simple fact that over the past 50 years Houston has had record breaking storms, nevertheless, more careful city planning would have saved…

The midwest, especially Iowa, are considered the bread basket of the world. In order to meet the demand for food generated by an extreme population growth happening now and in the future, these farmers have been, and will have to continue, to innovate new ways to farm. Currently, big farmers in these areas are more likely to sit behind a computer screen than on a tractor. They can remotely control multiple tractors, use drones to check progress, and use implant monitors for feedback on soil…

               According to the USDA, a “food desert,” is a low income area where a substantial number of residents have low access to a supermarket or grocery store. The southern part of Dallas, one of the top ten largest cities in America, fits the description to a tee. With an interstate dividing the city, a vast majority of grocery stores are located on the north side of that interstate. But when you look for a grocery store on the south side? Google pulls up corner store after…

 Income inequality is growing and economic mobility is tightening, not just in Dallas, but all over and this is eating away at the American Dream. Dallas, an area that is geographically limited, is a great example of just how much income inequality is increasing and eating away at the middle class. Opportunity of geographic growth is limited to the predominantly white residents of the citizens in the northern neighborhoods and districts of the city. Leaving the south end, the area with most…

Article One:

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/06/29/in-greater-dallas-area-segregation-by-income-and-race/

                  In 2015, Pew Research did a study showing just how segregated Dallas, Texas was not just by race but also by income. Income segregation shows segregation of socioeconomic groups not just in the numbers of how much a…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/09/21/hawaii-prepares-for-nuclear-attack-trying-not-to-scare-the-daylights-out-of-residents-and-tourists/?utm_term=.ed5b51a9fa50

            Fred Barbash from The Washington Post discusses how the state of Hawaii is preparing…

http://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/household-income-hits-new-high-but-inequality-still-wide-1045521475518

Incomes rose last year across all racial and age categories according to new census data. In 2016 middle class incomes reached…