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By: Michala Mills
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UNITED STATES
SUPREME COURT
The permanent home of the Supreme Court Building is located at One First Street, NE, Washington, DC.
NEWS
JOHN MARSHALL
John Marshall a promising young lawyer from Virginia, was named chief of justice. Under him the court asserted for the first time the greatest of all judicial powers striking down a act of congress as unconstitutional. Today behind the statue of John Marshall are the words of his opinion of the case of Marbury vs Madison. “ Is it emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is”. In a later case Marshall wrote, “ We must never forget that it is a constitution we are expounding. Under his leadership the court made the constitution an effective instrument of nation moving.
DRED SCOTT
Twenty years later the court faced the most divisive issue in American history. Dred Scott, a Missouri slave, claimed his freedom under an act of congress. Under Chief justice Roger brook Tony, the court ruled that congress had no power to ban slavery and that blacks could never be citizens. This decision weakened the court's authority for many years to come. The slavery question was finally resolved by the Civil War and the Dred Scott decision is remembered as the courts great self- inflicted wound.
CONSTITUTION AMENDED
After the Civil War the constitution was amended to abolish slavery, define citizenship, and grant voting rights. The 14th Amendment told the states that they could not deny the due process of law or equal protection to the law of any citizen.
TEENS SAT FOR THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE. IN RETURN THEIR GRADES SUFFER
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At California’s Lower Lake High School two students in particular have made the decision not to stand during the Pledge of Allegiance. These two students have been doing this since the beginning of the school year and hadn’t received any backlash until Friday Sep. 9, 2016. The teacher lowered the students’ participation scores from a 5 to a 3 just because they made the decision to sit during the Pledge of Allegiance.
These two students are not doing this for no reason but in fact for their own personal reasons. One of the students, Leilani Thomas, who is Native American says the American Flag represents the horrific suffering of her ancestors. The teacher responded, “ Those people, they’re not alive anymore.Your ancestors.” She also stated that, “the flag represents the military and that they risked their lives for us”. While Thomas responded, “My people risked our lives for our land, for our freedom. For our rights”. In the end the teacher said the student was being disrespectful and didn’t have the option to sit down during the pledge.
After this incident, the students went to their head principal and the solution was moving the students to another class."We are dealing with the teacher on this," says the school district superintendent, noting "students don't lose their First Amendment rights when they walk in the door."
MY OPINION
Michala Mills
Reading this article I was very disappointed in the way that the teacher treated these two students. Everyone does not have the same beliefs as one another, so for the teacher to tell the student that, “Those people, they’re not alive anymore.Your ancestors.” She had no right to tell this student her personal opinion of the students culture or beliefs.
HOW BEAUTY IS PORTRAYED IN THE MEDIA
How do you define beauty?
When a young adolescent teen walks into a room they automatically feel like they are being judged or compared to other females. Especially females that are put on a high pedestal in the society that we live in today as perfect individuals such as celebrities like the Kardashian family, Rihanna, or Selena Gomez. These women are depicted in the media as women that have no flaws at all.
While we all know no one is perfect , these young teens are pressured into thinking that they aren’t skinny enough or pretty enough because they don’t look like the woman on the magazine cover or the television screen.
The question we should be asking is, Why is the media demanding a high, unrealistic standard of beauty that little girls are comparing themselves too ?
Females and Males are being taught at such a young age to try to change themselves to be or look like someone else. So that they can be accepted by the society that we live in. So if we don't have a tiny stomach or tight thighs are we too big? The media would consider us too big and they would make some clever remark about us needing a diet.
Something has to change, because everyone is different so there can not be one definition of beauty that the world should believe in.
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