Pres. Obama’s 2nd inaugural speech Allusion

July 4th 1776 - US congress proclaims the Declaration of Independence and independence from Britain

Communism- Noriega, Lenin, Communist China, Castro and Lenin Fascism- Hitler

Social Security covers the disabled Medicare vs. Medicaid The main difference between Medicare and Medicaid is that: Medicare is generally for people who are older or disabled, and Medicaid is for people with limited income and resources. Social Security covers the disabled

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Seneca Falls- women’s rights In July of 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott spearheaded the first women’s rights convention in American history.  Over 300 men and women came to Seneca Falls, New York to protest the mistreatment of including the right to vote

Selma- civil rights The Selma-to-Montgomery March for voting represented the political and emotional peak of the modern civil rights movement. On ‘Bloody Sunday,’ March 7, 1965, some 600 civil rights marchers headed east out of Selma on U.S. Route 80. They got only as far as the Edmund Pettus Bridge six blocks away, where state and local lawmen attacked them with billy clubs and tear gas and drove them back into Selma.  Two days later on March 9, Martin Luther King, Jr., led a “symbolic” march to the bridge. Then civil rights leaders sought court protection for a third, full-scale march from Selma to the state capitol in Montgomery. … On Sunday, March 21, about 3,200 marchers set out for Montgomery, walking 12 miles a day and sleeping in fields. By the time they reached the capitol on Thursday, March 25, they were 25,000-strong. Less than five months after the last of the three marches, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965–the best possible redress of grievances

Stonewall- gay rights In 1969 Police raids on gay bars occurred regularly.  It was illegal to serve Gay people alcohol or for Gays to dance with one another.  […]  At 1:20 in the morning on Saturday, June 28, 1969, eight police officers arrived at the Stonewall Inn.  Approximately 200 people were in the bar that night.  But the raid did not go as planned. This time the patrons refused to cooperate.  …

Our Children

Sandy Hook Elementary, Newtown Connecticut Carver called the injuries sustained by all 26 victims at Sandy Hook Elementary School "devastating" and said he believed all of the deceased had been hit more than once. "The victims had ranged from three to 11 wounds each." Five of the 16 kids in Soto's class were slain, including Noah Pozner, whose twin sister was in another classroom, barricaded with her teacher in the bathroom.