Wednesday, June 3, 2015
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
Link: Eugenics Article
Monday, March 2, 2015
Anti Death Penalty
Joseph Rudolph Wood III
Given death penalty
July 21, 2014Arizona
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
Pro Death Penalty
Craigslist Killer
Death penalty recommended by Jury
March 20, 2013Ohio 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.
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