, , , American Creed, Argument, Civic Engagement & Social Justice, Economy, Fall 2019, History, Justice and Inequality, Nuclear Energy, Politics, Rights, Showcase, Violence, War, 1
Ever since the beginning of the Manhattan project in 1942, humans have been obsessed with the inhalation total of...
, , , Civic Engagement & Social Justice, Fall 2019, History, Politics, Showcase, 1
The U.S. political system is set up for two major parties, because it awards seats in Congress and the...
, , , Black Lives Matter, Civic Engagement & Social Justice, History, Showcase, 3
Racial profiling in the United States has become really serious, not just now but back in history. No small...
, , , Civic Engagement & Social Justice, Crime, Dystopia, Education, Fall 2019, History, Immigration, Incarceration, Justice and Inequality, Mental Health, Police, Politics, Poverty, Prison, Privacy, Protest, Refugees, Religion, Rights, Showcase, Slavery, Terrorism, Violence, War, 1
For a while now, I’ve always noticed that countries with totalitarian Governments like the Soviet Union and North Korea,...
, , , American Creed, American Dream, Fall 2019, History, Immigration, Justice and Inequality, Politics, Refugees, This is America, Writing, 4
Immigration and refuge have always been part of America’s history. There is not a person in the US that...
Edward Hopper originally trained as an illustrator but then focused on painting between 1901 to 1906 under the watch...
The author of “The Witch Continues tto Enchang as a Feminist Symbol” begins this article by discussing a recent...
Andrew Jackson was born in the backwoods of the Carolinas in 1767 where he received sparse education. At age...
, , , History, Showcase, Spring 2019, 1
The article “Modern Witch Hunts” emphasizes how “witch hunts” have always been used to persecute already vulnerable and oppressed...
The Age of Jackson saw an almost fervent spread of democracy: widespread political engagement, shrinking power to the rich...
Andrew Jackson’s election in 1828 marked the first modern campaign in American history. After a bitter defeat in arguably...
, , , Bio, History, Showcase, Spring 2019, 1
There are a few things about me and one of them is that my name is Wendy Rivera and...
, , , History, Religion, Showcase, Spring 2019, Women, 5
“Commentary: Beyond Halloween – the real story behind witches, devils, trials and executions” from the Salt Lake Tribune is...
Andrew Jackson was a completely different type of presidential candidate from anything the young American nation had ever seen....
, , , Arts & Entertainment, Gaming, History, Sports, 0
I remember waking up from my bed to go to school late, as always, back in Albania, even though...
, , , American Dream, Civic Engagement & Social Justice, History, Race Relations, Showcase, Spring 2019, 2
The Alabama Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (BCRI) rescinded the Fred Shuttlesworth Humans Rights Award from Angela Davis because she...
, , , Art, Community, Fall 2018, Family, History, Showcase, Spring 2017, 8
Cultural Celebrations In Oakland All cities have celebrations, but what makes the celebrations in Oakland so joyful, special, and...
, , , Fall 2018, History, Homelessness, Justice and Inequality, Media, Showcase, Spring 2017, 6
Why Does Marijuana Get Such A Bad Rep?? Have you ever wondered why marijuana has such a big stigma?people...
, , , Fall 2018, Gentrification, History, Homelessness, Housing, Justice and Inequality, Showcase, 7
Calvin Dao Humanities 9 Ms. Portugal 12/21/18 Oakland is becoming Unrecognizable because of Gentrification Recently Oakland has been...
, , , American Creed, American Dream, Civic Engagement & Social Justice, Community, Education, Fall 2018, History, Politics, Religion, Rights, Showcase, 1
What does it mean to be an American? Americans live in America, but there is something deeper than just...
, , , American Creed, Education, Fall 2018, Goals, History, Rights, Showcase, This I Believe, Women, 0
The American Creed consist of many values. These values are exercised in every aspect of our lives including the...
Some people think historic buildings stand in the way of progress. Historic buildings have been standing for years, and...
, , , Education, Getting Started, History, Language, Showcase, Summer 2018, 0
How were all these words created?(vocabulary, language, grammar, writing, spelling, term) power colonialism, How did people use to...
, , , Education, History, Politics, Race Relations, Showcase, Spring 2018, This is America, 2
When the video starts the camera zooms in on Childish Gambino, he turns around and starts to dance ....
, , , American Dream, Black Lives Matter, Community, History, Showcase, Slavery, Spring 2018, Weeksville's Legacy, 6
Recently in Current Events, we´ve been studying Weeksville. At first I thought about the project buildings wondering why we learning...
, , , Art, History, Media, Scratch, Showcase, Spring 2018, Stories, 1
From the producer of “The Witch’s Dilemma” comes a brand-new animation… this time based on a fable! Presenting the...
, , , American Creed, History, Justice and Inequality, Race Relations, Showcase, Spring 2018, 1
For the larger part of American History, to be an American meant to be white and to view those...
, , , Education, History, Shakespeare, Showcase, Spring 2018, 1
Kaly guerrero period4 Is it ethical to use data from nazi medical experiments? I believe that it...
, , , Argument, Books, Happiness, History, Portraits, Shakespeare, Showcase, Spring 2018, Stories, Women, Writing, 0
1.3.208-218 Paraphrase: Desdemona: My dear father, I do face a difficult challenge: To you I am grateful for life...
, , , Gender, History, Justice and Inequality, Politics, Rape Culture, Religion, Showcase, Social Class, Spring 2018, Women, 0
The issue that is discussed in the video is the oppression of women residing in the Middle East. I’m...
, , , History, Politics, Showcase, Spring 2018, 0
The topic of my video is the “Polish Death Camps” Law. It interested me because I’m from Poland, and...
, , , Community, Education, Guns, History, Justice and Inequality, Politics, Protest, Raise Your Voice, Showcase, Spring 2018, 0
On March 14, 2018, students all across the country walked out of their schools at 10:00 AM in order...
, , , Black Lives Matter, Drugs, Family, Health Care, History, Media, Showcase, Spring 2018, 3
Why should Henrietta Lacks’s family be compensated to use her mother cells? if they are getting consent and money...
Do you think the family is owed money for the sale of the HeLa cells? Well in...
Did you know that the Nazis performed experiments on thousands of twins? Josef Mengele was a handsome but cruel...
, , , History, Showcase, Spring 2017, 1
Back in the early 1930’s the U.S. Public Health Service teamed up with the Tuskegee University to study the...
, , , History, Rights, Showcase, Spring 2017, Violence, 7
To begin, have you ever heard about the Nazi research? Well if not let me tell you a little...
, , , Creative Writing, Happiness, History, Memoir, Poetry, Read/Write Poems, Showcase, Spring 2018, Stories, Where I'm From, Writing, 1
I am from Nestle Crunch bars, from Airstream and Herman Miller. I am from the crystal-clear panels that let...
, , , Black Lives Matter, History, Race Relations, Rights, Slavery, 0
What rights should all people living in the US have? I believe that people should be able to have...
, , , American Dream, Economy, History, Incarceration, Rights, Showcase, Social Class, Spring 2018, 1
This article by Stacie Bosley and Kim McKeage examines the diffusion of multilevel marketing and the risk of pyramid...
, , , Art, Fall 2017, History, Showcase, Spring 2018, 1
When you watch a film, can you notice how produced and funded a film can be? It can have...
, , , Community, Crime, Education, Fall 2017, History, Justice and Inequality, Point of View, Police, Showcase, The Fifth Column, 1
Oakland’s Police Department Untold Side “Did you know that African-Americans are 2.5 times more likely to be...
, , , Community, Crime, Fall 2017, History, Showcase, The Fifth Column, Violence, 2
             Oakland’s Culture  Do you often confuse Oakland with San Francisco? We shouldn’t confuse San Francisco and...
, , , Call to Action, Fall 2017, History, Politics, Showcase, The Fifth Column, 4
Proper education on the statues and names of confederates on buildings or monuments is needed to teach future generations...
, , , American Dream, Call to Action, Community, Fall 2017, Family, History, Psychology, Showcase, Social Class, Social Media, Terrorism, Violence, 0
In society, people often deal with tragedy in different ways. Many use prayer to cope with it, ” “It’s a...
Trump has ruined empathy for strangers. As a society we have become unable to listen and understand the other....
, , , American Creed, American Dream, Argument, Black Lives Matter, Books, Bullying, Call to Action, Community, Crime, Decision Making, Drugs, Economy, History, Immigration, Point of View, Protest, Rights, Slavery, This I Believe, Violence, What do I stand for?, 0
I believe what it means to be American is not to be so ignorant. We’ve been ignorant our...
, , , Animal Rights, Community, Decision Making, Family, Gender, Goals, Happiness, History, Justice and Inequality, Love, Religion, Rights, Showcase, Social Class, 0
It seems strange to question this social norm we as human beings have conformed to for the majority of...
, , , Argument, Crime, Drugs, Fall 2017, Happiness, Health Care, History, Media, Music, Point of View, Showcase, Stories, 10
Warning: This article contains explicit content on the use of codeine in Hip-hop. Coarse Language involved. Nowadays drugs and rap practically...
, , , Biases, Community, Decision Making, Economy, History, Point of View, Politics, Showcase, 1
It seems that people tend to have similar beliefs as those who live in the same geographic area as...
, , , American Creed, American Dream, Books, History, Point of View, Protest, Showcase, 0
In Dubious Battle. Summary: Â Â In the book, In Dubious Battle, the story takes place in the 1930s,...
So often, people say that homosexuality is a trend of the “modern-day kids”, but I’ve always wondered how far...
, , , American Dream, Black Lives Matter, Call to Action, Education, Goals, History, Justice and Inequality, LGBTQ+ Rights, Race Relations, Slavery, 0
Recently, I have noticed that certain parts of society still have a hesitancy to accept people that are “different”...
, , , Argument, Black Lives Matter, History, Police, Protest, Race Relations, Showcase, Slavery, Sports, Taking a Knee, 0
The National Anthem is racist, people shouldn’t stand for it. The National Anthem we sing today is edited. It...
, , , Education, Fall 2017, History, Race Relations, Showcase, Thesis Feedback, 4
Throughout the years Oakland schools have been teaching European history to students of color. Did you know that in...
, , , American Dream, Call to Action, Community, Crime, Education, Fall 2017, History, Justice and Inequality, Media, Politics, Protest, Race Relations, Raise Your Voice, Research Help, Rights, Showcase, Social Class, Student-Centered, Violence, What do I stand for?, 6
High School textbooks don’t have anything on Asian Americans during the civil rights era. There were a lot of...
, , , Biases, Call to Action, Charlottesville, Fall 2017, History, Justice and Inequality, Showcase, 1
As a society, we have failed to learn from our past mistakes. We are still repeating the past, in...
, , , Black Lives Matter, Crime, Debt, Economy, Education, Family, History, Housing, Justice and Inequality, Nature, Politics, Poverty, Race Relations, Rights, Showcase, Social Class, Spring 2017, 1
To Whomever Cares to Listen, “Without Africa, France will slide down into the rank of a third power,”...
, , , Black Lives Matter, Call to Action, Debt, Economy, History, Politics, Poverty, Protest, Raise Your Voice, Rights, Showcase, Social Class, Spring 2017, What do I stand for?, 0
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Montana is a gorgeous place. Millions of years of Mother Nature’s harshest weather and catastrophic geothermal events have...
, , , Food, History, Spring 2017, 0
Pretzels are my favorite snack. They come in all types of sizes and shapes. Some say that...
A reason why Shakespeare is still studied in schools today is because he is realistic about the things, problems,...
, , , History, Religion, Showcase, Spring 2017, 1
Abstract: Christianity has the biggest religious population of the Earth with nearly one in three people being a Christian. Within...
, , , History, Showcase, Spring 2017, War, 0
Abstract- Germany and Japan recovered from World War II because they both had help from other countries while recovering....
, , , History, Point of View, Politics, Showcase, Spring 2017, 1
Today, the United States is arguably the top superpower in the world. For much of its history, including today, our nation...
, , , Art, Books, Creative Writing, History, Showcase, Spring 2017, 0
“White Americans seem to feel that happy songs are happy and sad songs are sad, and that, God help...
The safety pin stand up to trump article made me look at people different cause people actually care about...
There are lots of people around the world, who has started to wear safety pins. These safety pins represent...
, , , History, Showcase, Spring 2017, War, Women, 0
A nurse named Irena Sendler from Warsaw, Poland was living her normal life until the threat of the invasion...
, , , History, Showcase, Spring 2017, Violence, War, 0
this podcast is about a brave polish couple who used their abandoned zoo to save 300 jews from the...
Legalizing medical marijuana also has its downsides. Some believe that the effects are far worse than if marijuana were...
Few projects have had such a profound and lasting effect on the world as the Manhattan Project. Today, after...
My research so far has brought many interesting revelations. The issue of the bombing on Japan is very complex,...
In my research on the Gale database to find information on a polarized and partisan media, I found one...
, , , History, Showcase, Spring 2017, 1
After looking through some Gale resources I discovered that the curse of the Hope Diamond dates back to the beginning...
, , , History, Music, Showcase, Spring 2017, 2
This is a summary of what I have learned through my research and use of the Gale Literature Resource...
For my research project on the Early Christian Church, I have obtained a few sources from the Gale Research...
, , , Economy, Fall 2016, History, Justice and Inequality, Showcase, 0
Japan has had great success in the technology industry and is using that to have a +15 billion profits...
, , , Fall 2016, History, Justice and Inequality, Prison, Race Relations, Showcase, 2
  After reading Dead Man Walking by Sister Helen Prejean, and picturing the inmates on death row in 1995, I...
, , , Fall 2016, History, Showcase, Technology, War, 1
The Manhattan Project was a research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons....
, , , Fall 2016, History, Race Relations, Showcase, Slavery, 3
Each year America makes us remember about 9/11 the tragically hijacked plane that crashed into The World Trade Center...
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