Values Blog: The Watch Dog Role
The Watch Dog role is the idea that the media acts as another checks and balances outside of the government. Their job being to properly...
Movie: White Like Me
Today in class we watched a documentary by Tim Wise, taking a look at systemic racism in America. The documentary was based of a book he...
Tank Man: The Unknown Hero
In 1989 large parts of China fell into chaos. Hu Yaobang former chair men of the Chines Communist Party had just died, he was adored by...
EOTO #4: Assassination of Robert Kennedy
On June 5, 1968, Presidential Candidate Robert Kennedy was giving a speech at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Shortly after midnight...
EOTO #3: 4 Little Girls Church Bombing
On September 15, 1963, a bomb exploded at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham Alabama. The explosion would result in the deaths...
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
In 1977 Allan Bakke a 35-year-old Vietnam veteran was thrown into the spotlight by the American media. He had long dreamed of becoming a...
The Suicide and Depression Epidemic: How Unchecked Social Norms has led my Generation into Despair.
Between 2008 and 2017 suicide rates among young adults between the ages of 18 and 25 rose 56%. In the same age bracket thoughts of...
The Pursuit of Happiness: How the Term has Changed Sense our Founding.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable...
Tuskegee Institute
Founded on July 4th 1881 by Booker T. Washington and Lewis Adams the Tuskegee Institute is the oldest traditional black college in the...
EOTO #2: Wilmington Race Riots
On the 10th of November, 1898 Wilmington North Carolina was plunged into chaos. After the Civil War unchecked racial tension in the South...
EOTO
In the United States slavery and race relations have been a major focal point of American politics, news, and policy. However, this is...
Town Hall
In class we had to present on pro and anti-slavery activist from before and during the Civil War. Here are some of the people we learned...
Team Dad
Named for two of our team members Dad like demeanor Team Dad will surly rise to the top of Dean Smiths HPU Summer Advantage class. Here...
The Court: A Loss of Faith
The Supreme Court of the United States of America has been established sense the founding of our nation in 1776 as one of the three major...
The Frederick Douglas Game: Alexis de Tocqueville
“Slavery, as we shall afterwards show, dishonors labor; it introduces idleness into society, and with idleness, ignorance and pride,...















