Angela Davis and the Black Panther Party
By, Madeline, Anthony
Angela Davis was born on January 26th, 1944 in Birmingham, Alabama. She was a very brave woman and very smart. She was an educator, author, and activist.
Angela Davis was a roll model to the black because she was a part of a group called. “The Black Panther Party” also known as “BPP” is a revolutionary socialist organization. This group was active from 1966 until 1982. This group achieved national through its involvement in the “Black Power Movement.” By 1969 The Black Panther Party had reached more than a thousand members in the group.
Angela was also interested in the Prisoner Rights. She is the founder of “Critical Resistance.” The Critical Resistance” is an organization working to abolish the “Prison-Industrial Complex,”
What I have learned about Angela Davis is that she is an all in all good person. She was a big help with the Black Panther Movement. She helped the blacks, with getting freedom and with the movement of not sending blacks to Vietnam war.
Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad By, Madeline McMurtry
Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad was a big part of history. The Underground was the system that freed most of the slaves back in the day. Harriet Tubman is the most well-known of all of the Underground Railroad conductors. The Underground Railroad was an elaborate secret network of safe houses organized to save and free slaves. In Harriet Tubman’s journeys she never lost a single passenger.
The Underground Railroad is a network of people who helped fugitive slaves escape to the North and to Canada. The Underground Railroad wasn’t run by any single organization or person. It was run by many different people and organizations.
During a ten year span Harriet Made 19 trips into the South. Harriet Tubman escorted over 300 slaves to freedom. The impact of the fugitive slaves act started to became clear to her. Harriet Tubman guided the passengers from the Underground Railroad all the way to Canada where they can truly be free.
Harriet Tubman was born in Maryland in the 1820s .Harriet’s originally was Araminta Harriet Ross. Physical violence was a part of Harriet’s daily life. The violence she suffered early in life caused permanent physical injuries. One day Harriet was lashed five times before breakfast. Harriet carried the scars from being a slave the rest of her life. In 1844, Harriet married a free black man named John Tubman. Little was known about their relationship. In 1849 Harriet successfully escaped from slavery. From 1851 to 1857 Harriet lived in Canada, as well as spending some time in the area of Auburn, New York where many of the citizens were antislavery.
In 1869 Harriet remarried a Civil War veteran named Nelson Davis. And in 1874 Harriet and Nelson decided to adopt a baby girl named Gertie. Despite all the fame Harriet got from her journey she was never financially secured. So, Harriet’s friends and supporters were able to raise money to support her. One admirer Sarah H. Bradford soon wrote a biography entitled Scenes in the life of Harriet Tubman, which the proceeds this it made going to support Harriet and her family.
As Harriet aged, her head injuries that she sustained early in her life became too painful for her to stand. She soon underwent brain surgery at Boston’s Massachusetts General Hospital, to try and ease the pain. After, Harriet’s brain surgery she was eventually admitted into a rest home named in her honor. Surround by her friends and family members, Harriet Tubman died of pneumonia on March 10, 1913.
Harriet Tubman once said,” Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” And, that what she did. She gave the slaves a change to become their own people, to finally be free. She had the strength when no one else had any. She had a dream, a dream to be free and she followed it. Harriet Tubman saved hundred people from getting beaten and treated like garbage for the rest of their lives. That is why she was and always will be known as an amazing woman.
Bibliography/ www.pbs.org/wqbh/aia/part4/4p1535.html, www.brainqoutes.com/qoutes/authors/h/harriet_tubman.html, www.biography.com
By, Madeline, Anthony
Angela Davis was born on January 26th, 1944 in Birmingham, Alabama. She was a very brave woman and very smart. She was an educator, author, and activist.
Angela Davis was a roll model to the black because she was a part of a group called. “The Black Panther Party” also known as “BPP” is a revolutionary socialist organization. This group was active from 1966 until 1982. This group achieved national through its involvement in the “Black Power Movement.” By 1969 The Black Panther Party had reached more than a thousand members in the group.
Angela was also interested in the Prisoner Rights. She is the founder of “Critical Resistance.” The Critical Resistance” is an organization working to abolish the “Prison-Industrial Complex,”
What I have learned about Angela Davis is that she is an all in all good person. She was a big help with the Black Panther Movement. She helped the blacks, with getting freedom and with the movement of not sending blacks to Vietnam war.
Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad By, Madeline McMurtry
Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad was a big part of history. The Underground was the system that freed most of the slaves back in the day. Harriet Tubman is the most well-known of all of the Underground Railroad conductors. The Underground Railroad was an elaborate secret network of safe houses organized to save and free slaves. In Harriet Tubman’s journeys she never lost a single passenger.
The Underground Railroad is a network of people who helped fugitive slaves escape to the North and to Canada. The Underground Railroad wasn’t run by any single organization or person. It was run by many different people and organizations.
During a ten year span Harriet Made 19 trips into the South. Harriet Tubman escorted over 300 slaves to freedom. The impact of the fugitive slaves act started to became clear to her. Harriet Tubman guided the passengers from the Underground Railroad all the way to Canada where they can truly be free.
Harriet Tubman was born in Maryland in the 1820s .Harriet’s originally was Araminta Harriet Ross. Physical violence was a part of Harriet’s daily life. The violence she suffered early in life caused permanent physical injuries. One day Harriet was lashed five times before breakfast. Harriet carried the scars from being a slave the rest of her life. In 1844, Harriet married a free black man named John Tubman. Little was known about their relationship. In 1849 Harriet successfully escaped from slavery. From 1851 to 1857 Harriet lived in Canada, as well as spending some time in the area of Auburn, New York where many of the citizens were antislavery.
In 1869 Harriet remarried a Civil War veteran named Nelson Davis. And in 1874 Harriet and Nelson decided to adopt a baby girl named Gertie. Despite all the fame Harriet got from her journey she was never financially secured. So, Harriet’s friends and supporters were able to raise money to support her. One admirer Sarah H. Bradford soon wrote a biography entitled Scenes in the life of Harriet Tubman, which the proceeds this it made going to support Harriet and her family.
As Harriet aged, her head injuries that she sustained early in her life became too painful for her to stand. She soon underwent brain surgery at Boston’s Massachusetts General Hospital, to try and ease the pain. After, Harriet’s brain surgery she was eventually admitted into a rest home named in her honor. Surround by her friends and family members, Harriet Tubman died of pneumonia on March 10, 1913.
Harriet Tubman once said,” Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” And, that what she did. She gave the slaves a change to become their own people, to finally be free. She had the strength when no one else had any. She had a dream, a dream to be free and she followed it. Harriet Tubman saved hundred people from getting beaten and treated like garbage for the rest of their lives. That is why she was and always will be known as an amazing woman.
Bibliography/ www.pbs.org/wqbh/aia/part4/4p1535.html, www.brainqoutes.com/qoutes/authors/h/harriet_tubman.html, www.biography.com
Madeline McMurtry
McMurtry 1
Sonja Linman
Research paper/thesis
May 5, 2016
Death with Dignity
McMurtry 2
"The greatest human freedom is to live and die according to our own desires and beliefs." The human mind can only take so much pain before it caves in on itself. The Death with Dignity act gives people the right to go as they please, without being
labled as a suicide victum. This act isn’t just an act of freedom but ultimently harmless to any other party who is witness to this act. This act became legal on October 27, 1997 but if we really want to know when and how this act started we have to go back to the beginning.
In 1990 a Dr. named Jack Kevorkian did this, " treatment", and I use the word treatment lightly, to over 130 patients before he was charged with murder on April 13, 1999. He was sentenced to prison for 10-25 years but got released after 8 years for remorse and good behavior. 4 out of the 130 patients he assisted to suicide didn’t have a terminall illness. Dr. Kevorkian was given the nickname Dr. Death because of the assisted suicides he performed when he was a doctor. He was arrested and charged with murder by giving his patients a lethal dose of drugs to shut down the human body. From 1990 to 1998 Dr. Kevorkian performed assisted suicides.
Dr. Kevorkian's first patient was Janet Adkins, a woman who was diagnosed with early signs of Alzheimer's diease. After that, he assisted in the suicide of patient Joseph Tushkowski, a man with Quadriplegia. Kevorkian even took Tushkowski’s Kidneys for organ transplant. Kevorkian was going to get arrested but there was no law aganist assisted suiced at the time. Next, Kevorkian's helped with the suicide of two women at the same location. One of the women had miltiple sclerosis and the other women had chronic, severe pelvic pain.
Kevorkian brought assisted suicide into the public eye, giving people the ability to take their fate into their own hands. He gave the human race a voice and the chance to die without pain, on their own terms. The murder charges in his earlier cases were dropped because Michigan didn’t have any law against assisted suicide but Dr. Kevorkian was stripped of his medical license shortly after the case.
The Death with Dignity National Center and Death with Dignity Political Fund bring a unique brand of advocacy and political stategy to end-of-life care policy reform. These companies are not trying to draw attention to the organization, but rather to draw awareness to, and inform, the people about the movement and to get this act, this, "freedom" to every state. The organization works with local leadership and grassroots groups to get the Death with Dignity act to their states. Now the Death with Dignity act is origanaly a Oregon law and they are now working with diferent groups of poeple to get this act(law) legal in over 10 states.
Now that you know a little bit more about how this act became a reality, let me tell you about a patient who took advantage of Oregon’s Death with Dignity law and how her family felt about it. Brittany Maynard was a 29 year old women from California who made the decision to end her live on her own terms done. Brittany Moved from California to Oregon so she could take her life in her own hands. She had terminal brain cancer that started to affect her moter skills and speach. Brittany became a speaker for the act and gave a lot of people a voice to take life into their own hands like she was going to. "It is people who pause to appreciate life and give thanks for it who are happiest. If we change our thoughts, we change our wold! Love and peace to you all," Brittany said in an interview shortly before her past.
While she was taking a little bit of time to pick a date to die, she said, "The worst thing that could happen to me is that I wait too long because I'm trying to seize each day. If I somehow have my autonomy taken away from me by my disease, becasue of the nature of my cancer I would be very disappointed.” Brittany decided that she was going to pass two days before her husbands birthday. She and her husband decided on this because they didnt want her to leave and make his birthday always sad for him. They also didn’t want to do it after his birthday because she didn’t want to give him the hope of her getting better, or him not being able to celebrate that day because of what was going to happen the day after. This way they got to spend as much time together before her big day. She ended her life with the Death with Dignity Act on November 3, 2014. Brittany was a big believer in the Death with Dignity act. She felt so proud and thought so highly of it that she spoke publicly nationwide about the act and the plan to end her life. She told people that by letting the whole country know about tha act, it is helping her live her last few days with hope and not think so much of the pain that the cancer was gving her. In the last few weeks she lived she gave many interviews and speaches talking about how she felt about the act and how it had affected her and and her family mambers.
her. The last few weeks she has to live before the dat she picked out for her last day on earth she had done a good hand full of interviews an speaches taking about how she felt about the act and how it has affected her and her life and family mambers.
The Death with Dignity act was legalized in Oregon on October 7, 1997. Now it is legal in 5 states. Oregon, Washington, California, Vermont, and Montana. This act allows terminally ill patients to end their lives through the voluntary self-administration of lethal medications. The only way to legally get permission to die with dignity is to go to court an get a judge’s approval and get a paper signed by a doctor who has done tests on you to prove that you do indead have a illnes that can not be treated. It is qualifed patients and licensed physicians only who can implement the act and only on an individul basis. Washington passed the Death with Dignity act on November 4, 2008 and it became a law on March 5, 2009. Montana passed the Terminally Ill Act law in 2009. In 2013 the Vermont General Assembly passed the Patients Choice and Control at End of Life Act on May 20, 2013. Californian passed the End of Life Option Act on March 30, 2016 and will be signed into law on June 9, 2016. There are 26 other states looking into passing their own Death with Dignigy Acts.
Isn't the pain of waiting for death more traumatic? A doctor is expected to help
treat the sick by prescribing medicines that will relieve the patients suffering (at any
cost) even if the medications potentially give rise to serious side effect. Many people
say it would be inhuman and unfair to make them endure the unbearable pain.
The motive of, "euthanasia" is to, 'aid-in-dying' painlessly and it should be considered positively by the lawmakers. Many people add to their wills a clause that says if they are suffering and undergoing a certain amount of pain they should have the liberty to choose an induced death if the treatments aren’t improving their quality of life. A portion of those who believe in mercy killing act are often asked if it’s better to keep a person alive, on life support, when they have no hopes of survival.
Our medical infrastructure is already under an immense amount of pressure. Euthanasia, mercy killing, and death with dignity have all been practiced for many years, but always in the shadows. There have always been unscrupulous doctors and fraudulent persons who have practiced mercy killings only for profit, without any rules or regulations. This leaves the patients and the pro euthanasia advocates helpless to prove that euthanasis has a positive outcome for the patients and family members.
There are some people who think that the mercy killing act is selfish. Most of the peole who don’t believe in the mercy killing act are those who practice religion, who believe that killing a person is an unethial pracctice and no matter what reason for this act, it can’t be justified. Thoses who believe in religion dont believe in the mercy killing act because they say it is morally incorrect and should be forbidden by the law. Their belief is that advanced medical technology can, and has made, it possible to enhance a humans quality and life span. Some people been asked whether wishing to die is the result of an unbalanced thought process and or a mental illness. Many believe that pallative care and rehabilitation centers are the better alternatives in helping the sick and terminally ill. Lastly, there has need a debate over whether or not you can be sure that the assisted suicide act is voluntary or forced on others. Even doctors say that they can’t be a hundered percent sure how long the life span is going to be, or whether or not there is any other treatments that can prolong your life. When all the arguing is done, advocated of assisted suicide believe it is their body and it is their right to decide. On the other hand, those who disagree say that in God’s eyes, suicide is suicide, assisted or not. To the religious, it’s a sin, only god has the right, in his time, to have you die. Most people are neutral on the subject, mainly because they have never had to deal with it. Their loved ones either haven’t thought about it or are against it.
" Roses are dead, violets are crying, I'm in the hospital, they say I’m dying "Death
with Dignity is better then life with humiliation" " If this is how my lfe is going to be I don't want it anymore."
" dig-ni-ty: The state or quality of being worthy of honor or respect. This definition of dignity fuels the advocates of assisted suicide. There is a huge divide between the two sides of this issue. It is debated in all 50 states. It is the respondibility of the reader to judge for themselves where they stand on the issue of assisted suicide. Whatever your stance, you will need to speak out and, stand up for what you believe and not be afraid to make your voice heard.
Works Cited:
https://www.deathwithdignity.org/
euthanasia.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=000126
thebrittanyfund.org/
https://public.health.oregon.gov/.../DeathwithDignityAct
https://www.deathwithdignity.org/learn/death-with-dignity-acts
McMurtry 1
Sonja Linman
Research paper/thesis
May 5, 2016
Death with Dignity
McMurtry 2
"The greatest human freedom is to live and die according to our own desires and beliefs." The human mind can only take so much pain before it caves in on itself. The Death with Dignity act gives people the right to go as they please, without being
labled as a suicide victum. This act isn’t just an act of freedom but ultimently harmless to any other party who is witness to this act. This act became legal on October 27, 1997 but if we really want to know when and how this act started we have to go back to the beginning.
In 1990 a Dr. named Jack Kevorkian did this, " treatment", and I use the word treatment lightly, to over 130 patients before he was charged with murder on April 13, 1999. He was sentenced to prison for 10-25 years but got released after 8 years for remorse and good behavior. 4 out of the 130 patients he assisted to suicide didn’t have a terminall illness. Dr. Kevorkian was given the nickname Dr. Death because of the assisted suicides he performed when he was a doctor. He was arrested and charged with murder by giving his patients a lethal dose of drugs to shut down the human body. From 1990 to 1998 Dr. Kevorkian performed assisted suicides.
Dr. Kevorkian's first patient was Janet Adkins, a woman who was diagnosed with early signs of Alzheimer's diease. After that, he assisted in the suicide of patient Joseph Tushkowski, a man with Quadriplegia. Kevorkian even took Tushkowski’s Kidneys for organ transplant. Kevorkian was going to get arrested but there was no law aganist assisted suiced at the time. Next, Kevorkian's helped with the suicide of two women at the same location. One of the women had miltiple sclerosis and the other women had chronic, severe pelvic pain.
Kevorkian brought assisted suicide into the public eye, giving people the ability to take their fate into their own hands. He gave the human race a voice and the chance to die without pain, on their own terms. The murder charges in his earlier cases were dropped because Michigan didn’t have any law against assisted suicide but Dr. Kevorkian was stripped of his medical license shortly after the case.
The Death with Dignity National Center and Death with Dignity Political Fund bring a unique brand of advocacy and political stategy to end-of-life care policy reform. These companies are not trying to draw attention to the organization, but rather to draw awareness to, and inform, the people about the movement and to get this act, this, "freedom" to every state. The organization works with local leadership and grassroots groups to get the Death with Dignity act to their states. Now the Death with Dignity act is origanaly a Oregon law and they are now working with diferent groups of poeple to get this act(law) legal in over 10 states.
Now that you know a little bit more about how this act became a reality, let me tell you about a patient who took advantage of Oregon’s Death with Dignity law and how her family felt about it. Brittany Maynard was a 29 year old women from California who made the decision to end her live on her own terms done. Brittany Moved from California to Oregon so she could take her life in her own hands. She had terminal brain cancer that started to affect her moter skills and speach. Brittany became a speaker for the act and gave a lot of people a voice to take life into their own hands like she was going to. "It is people who pause to appreciate life and give thanks for it who are happiest. If we change our thoughts, we change our wold! Love and peace to you all," Brittany said in an interview shortly before her past.
While she was taking a little bit of time to pick a date to die, she said, "The worst thing that could happen to me is that I wait too long because I'm trying to seize each day. If I somehow have my autonomy taken away from me by my disease, becasue of the nature of my cancer I would be very disappointed.” Brittany decided that she was going to pass two days before her husbands birthday. She and her husband decided on this because they didnt want her to leave and make his birthday always sad for him. They also didn’t want to do it after his birthday because she didn’t want to give him the hope of her getting better, or him not being able to celebrate that day because of what was going to happen the day after. This way they got to spend as much time together before her big day. She ended her life with the Death with Dignity Act on November 3, 2014. Brittany was a big believer in the Death with Dignity act. She felt so proud and thought so highly of it that she spoke publicly nationwide about the act and the plan to end her life. She told people that by letting the whole country know about tha act, it is helping her live her last few days with hope and not think so much of the pain that the cancer was gving her. In the last few weeks she lived she gave many interviews and speaches talking about how she felt about the act and how it had affected her and and her family mambers.
her. The last few weeks she has to live before the dat she picked out for her last day on earth she had done a good hand full of interviews an speaches taking about how she felt about the act and how it has affected her and her life and family mambers.
The Death with Dignity act was legalized in Oregon on October 7, 1997. Now it is legal in 5 states. Oregon, Washington, California, Vermont, and Montana. This act allows terminally ill patients to end their lives through the voluntary self-administration of lethal medications. The only way to legally get permission to die with dignity is to go to court an get a judge’s approval and get a paper signed by a doctor who has done tests on you to prove that you do indead have a illnes that can not be treated. It is qualifed patients and licensed physicians only who can implement the act and only on an individul basis. Washington passed the Death with Dignity act on November 4, 2008 and it became a law on March 5, 2009. Montana passed the Terminally Ill Act law in 2009. In 2013 the Vermont General Assembly passed the Patients Choice and Control at End of Life Act on May 20, 2013. Californian passed the End of Life Option Act on March 30, 2016 and will be signed into law on June 9, 2016. There are 26 other states looking into passing their own Death with Dignigy Acts.
Isn't the pain of waiting for death more traumatic? A doctor is expected to help
treat the sick by prescribing medicines that will relieve the patients suffering (at any
cost) even if the medications potentially give rise to serious side effect. Many people
say it would be inhuman and unfair to make them endure the unbearable pain.
The motive of, "euthanasia" is to, 'aid-in-dying' painlessly and it should be considered positively by the lawmakers. Many people add to their wills a clause that says if they are suffering and undergoing a certain amount of pain they should have the liberty to choose an induced death if the treatments aren’t improving their quality of life. A portion of those who believe in mercy killing act are often asked if it’s better to keep a person alive, on life support, when they have no hopes of survival.
Our medical infrastructure is already under an immense amount of pressure. Euthanasia, mercy killing, and death with dignity have all been practiced for many years, but always in the shadows. There have always been unscrupulous doctors and fraudulent persons who have practiced mercy killings only for profit, without any rules or regulations. This leaves the patients and the pro euthanasia advocates helpless to prove that euthanasis has a positive outcome for the patients and family members.
There are some people who think that the mercy killing act is selfish. Most of the peole who don’t believe in the mercy killing act are those who practice religion, who believe that killing a person is an unethial pracctice and no matter what reason for this act, it can’t be justified. Thoses who believe in religion dont believe in the mercy killing act because they say it is morally incorrect and should be forbidden by the law. Their belief is that advanced medical technology can, and has made, it possible to enhance a humans quality and life span. Some people been asked whether wishing to die is the result of an unbalanced thought process and or a mental illness. Many believe that pallative care and rehabilitation centers are the better alternatives in helping the sick and terminally ill. Lastly, there has need a debate over whether or not you can be sure that the assisted suicide act is voluntary or forced on others. Even doctors say that they can’t be a hundered percent sure how long the life span is going to be, or whether or not there is any other treatments that can prolong your life. When all the arguing is done, advocated of assisted suicide believe it is their body and it is their right to decide. On the other hand, those who disagree say that in God’s eyes, suicide is suicide, assisted or not. To the religious, it’s a sin, only god has the right, in his time, to have you die. Most people are neutral on the subject, mainly because they have never had to deal with it. Their loved ones either haven’t thought about it or are against it.
" Roses are dead, violets are crying, I'm in the hospital, they say I’m dying "Death
with Dignity is better then life with humiliation" " If this is how my lfe is going to be I don't want it anymore."
" dig-ni-ty: The state or quality of being worthy of honor or respect. This definition of dignity fuels the advocates of assisted suicide. There is a huge divide between the two sides of this issue. It is debated in all 50 states. It is the respondibility of the reader to judge for themselves where they stand on the issue of assisted suicide. Whatever your stance, you will need to speak out and, stand up for what you believe and not be afraid to make your voice heard.
Works Cited:
https://www.deathwithdignity.org/
euthanasia.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=000126
thebrittanyfund.org/
https://public.health.oregon.gov/.../DeathwithDignityAct
https://www.deathwithdignity.org/learn/death-with-dignity-acts