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Clarence Taylor: Knocking at Our Own Door

The author, Clarence Taylor conducted an interview with Reverend Milton Galamison in 1987. This first interview was a starting point for an extended research not only on the Downstate Campaign, which was the original purpose of this interview, but more importantly on the long and intense struggle for school integration in New York City. >>>

Gareth Davies: From Opportunity to Entitlement

The author, Gareth Davis, explains to the reader what opportunity and entitlement means to the American public and what it means to legislators. He illustrates the procedures and hardships a president has to encounter when trying to implement a new or unusual idea. The book shows us how liberalism and liberalistic initiatives, regarding the situation of poverty in the United States, bounced back from Congress over and over. >>>

Fascist Aesthetics in the Works of Leni Riefenstahl

Was she or was she not? A Nazi, that is. Leni Riefenstahl is best known for her propaganda documentaries for the German Nazi party. After the war ended she was interrogated by the coalition forces and was imprisoned for four years. She was labeled a Nazi, and a Hitler sympathizer, even though she never admitted to neither. Her films about the Nuremberg rally in 1934 and the Olympic Games in 1936 earned her a kind of fame she’d wished she never had. >>>

The Fog of War - Film Report

Robert S. McNamara was the Secretary of Defense between 1961 and 1968. He is considered to be one of the architects of the Vietnam War. When asked, he denies talking about his feeling of guilt, or the lack of it for that matter. After his resignation from his post, he was awarded with the Medal of Freedom and the Distinguished Service Medal. He has no regrets but he admits that every military commander who’s honest admits that they had probably made mistakes when applying military power. >>>

Palestinian – Israeli Conflict

Have you been wondering what the reasons must be behind the Palestinian – Israeli conflict? Whether it is a new problem or has been going on for a long time? Do they really hate each other, and they have a problem that is impossible to solve? >>>

Fight Against Racial Segregation

Since the beginning of man racial discrimination has run ramped amongst society. Many people have chosen violence as a response, but Ellison’s character and Martin Luther King have chosen a non violent reaction to fight against it. In Ellison’s “Battle Royale” a speech is given about social responsibility by a narrator who is a young, nameless black male. >>>