...Synopsis: Star Trek Episode “The Measure of a Man” [1] Most of us are aware that the television series Star Trek was about a starship, the Enterprise, whose mission was to explore the galaxy. This ship was part of a larger organization known as Starfleet. Serving as a Lt. Commander on board the ship was an android named Data. Data was an extremely advanced and unique android even by the standards of 24th century science. He had a special processor known as a “positronic brain” that allowed him to mimic human behavior in an extremely accurate manner. As a result, not only could he process information at lightning speed and arrive at rational conclusions, he also seemed to have desires, interests, and inclinations. He could formulate relationships and make free choices. In this episode, Commander Bruce Maddox, a member of the scientific research division of Starfleet, arrives on board the Enterprise with orders for Data to be transferred to him for the purpose of being disassembled with the goal of learning more about “it” (Maddox refers to Data as “it”, not “him”, throughout the entire episode). His ultimate goal is to create an army of androids like Data which can serve the needs of Starfleet in space exploration. When Data learns that Maddox may not be able to reassemble him, he refuses to submit to the orders and is supported by Captain Picard, captain of the Enterprise and Data’s commanding officer. Picard argues that, as an officer on the Enterprise, Data has rights—among...
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...The first article is called “Insurrection at Harper’s Ferry” from the Topeka Tribune. This article paints John Brown as “crazed by misfortunes” and “maddened by Abolitionism”, and how he took over the armory at Harper’s Ferry in an attempt to end slavery. His plan was to provide slaves with weapons to fight off their oppressive masters. It goes on to say how the attack was eventually foiled, and that Brown was injured and captured in the process. Brown claimed his actions are justified by the result he was working toward. Commentary was offered by the writer criticizing Brown’s “scheme” and how the results could have been horrifying. It is concluded by saying Brown is currently recovering from his injuries but will most likely face the...
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...of Southampton had become aware of the insurrection. Despite the fact his insurgency was crushed, it created a wave of fear through the South and triggered a new surge of tyrannical legislation which forbade the movement, education, and assembly of slaves. It stiffened pro-slavery, anti-abolitionist convictions which continued in the district until the American Civil War in 1861. Historian Eric...
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...The rumors proved false as no such insurrection occurred, but General Butler wished to quell any believes that the Union army would support such revolts. Governor Hicks responded with thanks, and related to Gen. Butler that the Sheriff of Anne Arundel County had been alerted and was fully capable of suppressing any insurrection. Both the 7th New York and the 8th Massachusetts regiments were happy to be peacefully situated for the evening at the Naval Academy. They were freed from the constraints of the overcrowded steamers. But their commanders renewed their feud. General Butler felt that as the ranking officer he had command of both regiments, a position which he supported on the Articles of War of 1795. Colonel Lefferts, however, reasoned that neither of the two regiments were mustered into federal service and as such he was still under the direct command of Governor Morgan, the New York governor. Disregarding Col...
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...property without due process of law, and that no person could be denied the equal protection of the laws. Section 2 described that the number of representatives from each state would be proportioned to the number of people for that state, and that count is determined by the whole number of persons, excluding non-taxed Indians, in that state. It also stated that if any man was denied the right to vote, then the number of representation for that state would be reduced in proportion to the number of males 21 years and older in that state. Section 3 essentially stated any person that had engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the government, or given aid or comfort to the enemies of, could not hold public office, state or federal. However, it also granted congress the ability to override this restriction. Section 4 was basically to declare that all debts incurred as aid to insurrection or...
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...rule.” — President William McKinley 21 December 1898 T he United States topples an unsavory regime in relatively brief military action, suffering a few hundred fatalities. America then finds itself having to administer a country unaccustomed to democratic self-rule. Caught unawares by an unexpectedly robust insurgency, the United States struggles to develop and implement an effective counterinsurgency strategy. The ongoing US presidential campaign serves as a catalyst to polarize public opinion, as the insurrectionists step up their offensive in an unsuccessful attempt to unseat the incumbent Republican President. These events—from a century ago—share a number of striking parallels with the events of 2003 and 2004. The Philippine Insurrection of 18991902 was America’s first major combat operation of the 20th century. The American policy of rewarding support and punishing opposition in the Philippines, called “attraction and chastisement,” was an effective operational strategy. By eliminating insurgent resistance, the campaign successfully set the conditions necessary for achieving the desired end-state. After a brief review of the conflict, this article will examine the strategic and operational lessons of America’s successful campaign. It will consider the belligerents’ policy goals, strategies, and their centers of gravity. (While 53 Spring 2005 neither side planned their campaign using these strategic concepts, these terms will be used in...
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...Origins of American Criminal Law Angel Vance Scott Levasseur LEG 320 10/27/13 This weeks assignment is about the Origins of American Criminal Law. In my paper I am going to talk about the fourteenth amendment to the US Constitution. The Fourteenth amendment talks about the rights guaranteed privileges and immunities of citizenship, due process, and equal protection. In section one of this amendment it states: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” In section two it states: “Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty- one years of age...
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...Evaluate Lenin’s contribution to the success of the Bolshevik Revolution in November 1917? Lenin played a crucial role in the success of the November Revolution. He did not create the discontent which permeated Russian society in 1917, but he did devise slogans and strategies to win disaffected groups over to the Bolshevik Party. By the beginning of 1917, the Tsarist regime was facing insurmountable problems. The peasants were demanding land; the workers wanted higher wages and better working conditions; the middle class wanted political reforms to make Russia a true constitutional democracy; and all three classes were demanding an end to the war. More than anything, it was the war which brought an end to Tsarism and set the scene for the Bolshevik Revolution. By 1917, casualties numbered in the millions, and the lack of food and fuel on the home front led to hunger and privation. The Tsar was unable to solve these problems, and was soon overthrown in a popular uprising. What emerged was a system of dual power, based on the workers’ soviets (councils) and the Provisional Government. The soviets represented the peasants, workers and soldiers. The Provisional Government represented the aristocratic and middle classes. Lenin understood that the Provisional Government would only survive if it met the popular expectations which were unleashed by the fall of Tsarism. However, the Provisional Government saw itself as a caretaker institution only, and was unwilling to...
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...YELLOW JOURNALISM: HOW MEDIA INVOLVEMENT PROVOKED THE SLAVE REVOLT PANIC OF 1860 Lynnie Smith Texas History 597 May 6, 2011 July 8, 1860, in Dallas Texas, was one of the hottest recorded in the town’s short history. By noon, church was over and most of the sweltering residents had sought refuge from the sun and heat inside their homes or offices. Around 1:10 P.M. the scream of “Fire” reverberated through the streets of downtown followed by the rush of half-clothed citizens rushing to see smoke in a two-story building on Commerce Street. Fire swept north to consume a warehouse and then to the Dallas Herald office-quickly engulfing Dallas’ entire business section.[1] Extensive media coverage of the July 1860 fires in Dallas potentially incited a heightened fear of slave revolts throughout Texas and promoted the formation of vigilante groups. Newspapers served as a medium to spread fear, rumors, and ultimately, panic and violence among white Texans. Yellow Journalism presented exaggerated headlines and stories that linked natural disasters and catastrophes to current fears of the day. The nation was undergoing a sectional split over the issue of slavery and white southerners were on the alert for potential slave plots and uprisings that were spurred by northern abolitionists and Unionists. The Dallas fires were just the sort of sensationalism that could garner increased support of anti-Union...
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...The uprising of nearly 100,000 slaves in Saint-Domingue from 1791-1804 was the largest insurrection of slaves in history. The Haitian Revolution resulted in the creation of the first successful independent freed slave state in the world, a fact that rocked the socio-political, economic, and moral foundations of the Caribbean.[1] However, in the period following the Revolution, there is a noted increase of slavery in the Caribbean as a whole. Did the success of the Haitian uprising merely serve as a lesson for Caribbean planters and reinforce the slave society? To answer this question one must examine the factors that led to the Revolution’s success both externally, in the European metropoles, and internally, in the psychological and socio-political dynamics of Caribbean societies. Therefore, the Haitian Revolution appeared to impede abolition in the Caribbean in the short term because it reinforced white stereotypes of African savagery and inferiority, convinced planters of the danger of liberal and abolitionist ideals, and created a large void in the coffee and sugar markets which other colonies quickly filled by introducing more slave labor. While these effects should not be minimized, they were merely the logical aftershock of the tumultuous events in the established racial hierarchy. Ultimately, the Haitian Revolution was a major turning point in abolitionist history because it restructured the balance of power in the Caribbean thereby allowing a political gap for British...
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...UNITED STATES BECOMES A WORLD LEADER The United States had a long tradition of territorial expansion. Gains of adjacent territory in the 19th century—the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, the areas won from Mexico in 1848, and U.S. expansion across the continent—all enhanced American stature. More recently, the defeat and removal of Native American tribes by federal troops had opened the West to farms and ranches, speculators and corporations. A. THE ANNEXATION OF HAWAII In the 1880s a monarchy governed the Hawaiian Islands, but western powers, including the United States, Britain, and Germany, had significant influence in Hawaii’s economy and government. American business interests dominated the lucrative sugar business. Angered by U.S. domination, Hawaiian islanders in 1891 welcomed a native Hawaiian, Liliuokalani, as queen. Liliuokalani attempted to impose a new constitution that strengthened her power. American planters responded by deposing the queen in 1893. Proclaiming Hawaii independent, the Americans requested U.S. annexation. President Grover Cleveland stalled on the annexation treaty; his representative on the islands reported that native Hawaiians objected to it. Under President William McKinley, however, in 1898, Congress voted to annex the Hawaiian Islands. In 1900 Hawaii became American territory. B. THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR: CUBA AND THE PHILIPPINES United States involvement in Cuba began in 1895 when the Cubans rebelled against Spanish rule. The Cuban...
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...While no Virginians were involved in previous larger-scale anti-excise meetings like those in Pittsburgh and Mingo Creek, attacks on Virginian excise officers occurred as early as the spring of 1794. On August 8, 1794, approximately fifty rebels attacked local Ohio county excise officer Zachariah Biggs, demanding that he “‘ignore the [excise] law,’” stealing “‘certain bonds’” from him. This defiant act against the whiskey tax was intended to raise support for the upcoming meeting at Parkinson’s Ferry. Occurring on the 14th and 15th of August, the meeting and deliberations made at Parkinson’s Ferry, which was attended by a total of two hundred and twenty-six delegates, marked the first formal instance of Virginian participation in the Insurrection, with six delegates from Ohio county. There, whiskey rebels assembled multiple committees and drafted a series of resolutions to be presented to Congress and the President, including demands for a standing committee for the safety of the western country and the repeal of the excise...
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...1 On Easter Monday, April 24, 1916, a group of Irish nationalists also known as the Easter Rebellion proclaimed the establishment of the Irish Republic and, along with 1,600 followers, staged a rebellion against the British government in Ireland. The rebels seized prominent buildings in Dublin and clashed with British troops. Within a week, the insurrection had been suppressed and over 450 people including civilians had died. The leaders of the rebellion soon were executed. Initially, there was little support from the Irish people for the Easter Rising; however, public opinion later shifted and the executed leaders were hailed as martyrs, as this brave act would lead the way towards Irish independence. In 1921, a treaty was signed that in 1922 established the Irish Free State, which eventually became the modern-day Republic of Ireland. 2 With the Act of Union in 1800, Ireland (which had been under some form of English control since the 12th century) merged with Great Britain to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. As a result, Ireland lost its parliament in Dublin and was governed by a united parliament from Westminster in London. During the 19th century, groups of Irish nationalists opposed this arrangement in varying degrees. Some moderate nationalists advocated for home rule, under which Ireland would remain part of the United Kingdom but also have some form of self-government. Several home rule bills were defeated in Parliament in the late 1800s before...
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...The Confessions of Nat Turner demonstrates the significant role religion played in Nat Turner’s Rebellion. Within Turner’s deposition, Turner acknowledges his role in the August 1831, Southampton, Virginia slave insurrection, and he describes his religious upbringings and lifelong enthusiasm for religion. Essentially, religion provided Turner an avenue to education, but Turner’s religious beliefs serve as his defense, as well as a means to justify his actions. From an early age, Turner was viewed as possessing an uncommon intellect. Turner learned how to read and write, and as he grew older, so did his quest for knowledge outside the realm of religion. However, during Turner’s childhood, he was also viewed as possessing a prophetic like ability, and over time, Turner’s religious passions grew, and he became fanatically devoted to religious self-instruction. After a series of godly spiritual visions, Turner viewed himself as divinely ordained to lead his fellow slaves out of bondage, and upon receiving god’s final revelation, Nat Turner began the slave insurrection. For Turner, the rebellion was justified, because he was doing god’s work, however, the white population viewed the rebellion as a product of Turner’s religious fanaticism. In the southern United States, religious principles and superior white intelligence were two major justifications for the enslavement of black people. Nat Turner’s ability to plan and execute one of the bloodiest slave rebellions in American...
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...The Haitian Revolution was the result of a long struggle on the part of the slaves in the French colony of St. Domingue, but was also propelled by the free Mulattoes who had long faced the trials of being denoted as semi-citizens. This revolt was not unique, as there were several rebellions of its kind against the institution of plantation slavery in the Caribbean, but the Haitian Revolution the most successful. This had a great deal to do with the influence of the French Revolution, as it helped to inspire events in Haiti. The Haitian Revolution would go on to serve as a model for those affected by slavery throughout the world. There were three distinct classes in St. Domingue. First, there were the Whites, who were in control. Then there were the free Mulattoes, who straddled a very tenuous position in Haitian society. While they enjoyed a degree of freedom, they were repressed by the conservative White power structure that recognized them only as being people of color. Next came the slaves who, in Haiti suffered under some of the harshest treatment found in the Caribbean. Slaves in Haiti were legally considered to be property of the public and with little choice, yielded obedience. The master provided for the barest necessities of life for his slave "while he secures himself from injury or insult by an appeal to the laws." (Source 1, p. 406) The conditions in Haiti at this time were ripe for a Revolution and the only thing lacking was the proper action, which would soon...
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