Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Eugenics Current Event

Who: Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood
What: Advocated practices such as eugenics
Where: United States
When: December 1921
Why: "Birth Control is thus the entering wedge for the Eugenic educator … the unbalance between the birth rate of the ‘unfit’ and the ‘fit’ is admittedly the greatest present menace to civilization[.] … The most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the overfertility of the mentally and physically defective."
Link: Eugenics Article

Monday, March 2, 2015

Anti Death Penalty

Joseph Rudolph Wood III
Given death penalty
July 21, 2014
Arizona
The cocktail of drugs used was highly ineffective and took the man around two hours to die. This was a painful and avoidable event that was unnecessary 

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Pro Death Penalty

Craigslist Killer
Death penalty recommended by Jury
March 20, 2013
Ohio Cattle Farm

A jury on Wednesday unanimously recommended Richard James Beasley be sentenced to death for killing three men who had answered a Craigslist ad for work on an Ohio cattle farm.



Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Black History Month: Mae Jemison



Who: Mae Jemison
What: The first African American woman to travel in space.  She is also a dancer, Peace Corps doctor, public speaker and astronaut, went to college at age 16, holds nine honorary doctorates and has founded many STEM related programs for students.
Where: STS-47 with NASA
When: Born October 17, 1956

Thursday, January 29, 2015

Shirley Temple


Who: Shirley Temple Black
What: Child movie star in the 1930's famous for singing and acting and for her small, cork screw curls, followed by being the United States ambassador to Czechoslovakia from 1989 to 1992.  
Where:Shirley Temple was born in Santa Monica California in 1928.
When: She lives from 1928-2014
Why:  The first full length movie Shirley was in was called Carolina in 1934 for Fox.  In that year alone, she appeared in eight full length movies, including Little Miss Marker and Bright Eyes.

Monday, October 27, 2014

Second Amendment Current Event Re-Post

Who: A reluctant District of Columbia
What: They decided to allow concealed weapons in the country's capital
When: The article was posted shortly after the event, September 23, 2014
Where: In the nation's capital, Washington DC
Why: It was done because many argued in the nation's capital that banning the right for the public to conceal weapons should be legalized because banning it was against the constitution's second amendment.  The district of Columbia had to agree and granted the permission of citizens to carry concealed handguns with them, assuming they are legal, registered weapons.

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