Racial Conflict and Supreme Court Decision, history homework help

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Please write a 5 paragraph essay on EACH topic.

This is a hard time limit. No extra time will be given. Don't take the question if you can't complete it in time.

The long essay would be a traditional essay that typically five paragraphs long. The first paragraph should introduce the topic and state the student's position / answer to the question. It should contain between three-five (3-5) complete sentences, including the thesis statement for the essay. The second, third, and fourth paragraphs are the body paragraphs. Each body paragraph should contain between three-five (3-5) sentences, including the topic sentence (first sentence of the body paragraph, states a main point that supports the thesis) and at least two-three (2-3) specific examples per main point. The fifth and final paragraph should begin with a restatement of the thesis. It should be three-five (3-5) complete sentences, and include a brief summary/conclusion of the student's answer to the essay question. It is essential, particularly in the survey courses, for students to provide citations and footnotes for their work in exams. Like the rest of the course I am flexible with the citations but perfection is not expected since this is a timed exam.

Essay One:

Compare and contrast racial conflict in the South and the West.

Essay Two:

Describe the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade; then defend or criticize it.

Bullet points and citations for each essay topic are provided so all you need to do is put it together.

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Running Head: RACIAL CONFLICT IN THE SOUTH AND WEST Racial conflict in the south and the west Name: Tutor: Course: College: Date: 1 RACIAL CONFLICT IN THE SOUTH AND WEST 2 Racial conflict in the south and the west • The end of the civil war marked the end of racism as well as slavery in both the west and the west America. Although these two regions didn’t share the same perceptive on the issue of racism (Marcuse & Van 2011). • The southern states held a record for displaying the highest level of discrimination in America and this can be attributed to the fact that they held African slaves for years before the civil war (Shah, 2011). • The civil war ended the profound slavery of the blacks barring their importation to the country as well as the use of slaves for heavy duties against their will • The civil war set thousands of blacks free in the south. However, regardless of the new orders and laws advocating for equality, racial conflict still escalated in the south. The southerners set clear boundaries between the two warring races and the two were not supposed to mingle bringing in the issue of segregation (Henretta et al., 2011). • After the civil war, the blacks migrated to other regions such as the west increasing the population of the blacks in the west by over 32.5%. The intrusion of the blacks into white territory wasn’t positively received and the whites retaliated (King & Smith, 2011). • However, the racial conflict in the west wasn’t as pronounced as it was the case in the south. The blacks in the west received systematic discrimination primarily in the plethora of life such as employment as well as housing. The blacks were allocated the lowest status jobs that significantly barred potential mobility. In the housing sector, the level of discrimination was worse resulting in issues such as racial steering, targeted violence, redling among others (Marger, 2011). RACIAL CONFLICT IN THE SOUTH AND WEST • 3 In the south, racial conflict was more prominent compared to the west and the south practiced total segregation against the blacks. The southerners established clear laws that segregated the blacks from whites creating facilities for the whites and the blacks respectively (Hamilton & Ture, 2011). Social amenities were highly segregated and the whites didn’t want to interact with the blacks at all. There were schools, houses, hospitals as well as other social amenities for the whites and the blacks separately. The two were not supposed to interact at any given point. The facilities allocated to the blacks were in poor condition and of poor quality. • However, both the west as well as the whites shared one thing in relation to racial conflict, they highly discriminated against the blacks and fought hard to retain their top position as the superior race compared to the blacks (Dudziak, 2011). RACIAL CONFLICT IN THE SOUTH AND WEST References Marcuse, P., & Van Kempen, R. (Eds.). (2011). Globalizing cities. John Wiley & Sons. Dudziak, M. L. (2011). Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy: Race and the Image of American Democracy. Princeton University Press. Marger, M. N. (2011). Race and ethnic relations: American and global perspectives. Cengage Learning. Henretta, J. A., Edwards, R., & Self, R. O. (2011). America's History, Combined Volume. Macmillan. Murrin, J., Johnson, P., McPherson, J., Fahs, A., & Gerstle, G. (2011). Liberty, equality, power: a history of the American people. Cengage Learning. King, D. S., & Smith, R. M. (2011). Still a house divided: Race and politics in Obama's America. Princeton University Press. Hamilton, C., & Ture, K. (2011). Black power: Politics of liberation in America. Vintage. Shah, N. (2011). Stranger intimacy: Contesting race, sexuality and the law in the North American west (Vol. 31). Univ of California Press. 4 Running Head: SUPREME COURT’S DECISION IN ANONG THE ROE & Wade Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade Name: Tutor: Course: College: Date: 1 SUPREME COURT’S DECISION IN ANONG THE ROE & Wade 2 Describe the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade; then defend or criticize • The Roe v. Wade case handled by the US Supreme Court is one of the most controversial cases ever to exist and forty years down the line, the case is highly debated with numerous parties expressing different sediments in regards to the case (Ginsburg, 1984). • The Supreme Court’s decision was settled upon with a two to seven majority vote and the decision settled for by the majority that the decision of a woman to keep or terminate her pregnancy is protected by the fourth Amendment that primarily contained an individual’s right to privacy as the court had upheld similar right in cases such as the Griswold v. Connecticut in the year 1965. • This decision as the court argued is exclusively protected by a clause in the Fourth Amendment under the protection of privacy. The court also ruled that it wasn’t up to the court to decide when life began and provided framework acting on a trimester basis that would be used to weigh the woman’s rights while attempting to intervene (Faux, (2000). • According to the settled opinion, in the first trimester of a woman’s pregnancy she has full autonomy alongside a qualified physician in regards to the pregnancy. Abortion could be regulated in the second trimester in health related ways. However, in the third trimester, the state could fully control as well as prohibit abortion except in those instances that the mother’s life was at risk (Marceau, 2011). Thus, the court held that the right to abortion was not absolute and that the local government couldn’t circumvent a woman’s life based on the new life. • The decision settled for by the majority voters is a clear indication of lawlessness and in this case, nothing exists in the constitution’s history to support this given agreement. This SUPREME COURT’S DECISION IN ANONG THE ROE & Wade 3 ruling was a clear indication of the use of judicial power and is clearly an extensive use of this power that is primarily extended to this court by the constitution. The court took the legislative role and at the same time overstepped the line as the case in this given junction lacked a legal basis (Kerr, 2011). The decision to abort a pregnancy can thus not be regarded as a ‘fundamental roles’ as the abortion rights have been here for centuries. SUPREME COURT’S DECISION IN ANONG THE ROE & Wade 4 References Kerr, O. S. (2011). An Equilibrium-Adjustment Theory of the Fourth Amendment. Harvard Law Review, 476-543. Marceau, J. F. (2011). The Fourth Amendment at a Three-Way Stop. Alabama Law Review, 62(4), 11-09. Ginsburg, R. B. (1984). Some thoughts on autonomy and equality in relation to Roe v. Wade. NCL Rev., 63, 375. Rubin, E. R. (1987). Abortion, politics, and the courts: Roe v. Wade and its aftermath (No. 89). Praeger Pub Text. Faux, M. (2000). Roe v. Wade: the untold story of the landmark Supreme Court decision that made abortion legal. Cooper Square Press.
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