...INTRODUCTION TO LGBTQI STUDIES Due: 5/16/14 Extra Credit Stonewall Uprising a) What aspects of the film complemented your textbook reading about Stonewall? Some of the aspects of the film that complemented the textbook about Stonewall were that this right that took place on June 27-28 1969 in New York City started a movement that allowed the LGBTQI community to stand up to the police and show them that they were going to stand for their rights. Both in the movie and textbook they touch on how popular the Stonewall Inn and how it allowed a get away for the gay population to go and be comfortable with whom they were. It also showed that this was the breaking point for the gay population that were at the inn they weren’t going to allow the police to harass them anymore. For once the police were out number and had to run away from the large crowd of the gay patrons that’s were at the Stonewall Inn and that had began to gather outside. It highly upset the crowd when the police arrest the bar staff of the Stonewall Inn. The riot showed a form of liberation both in the film and book. What was amazing that you saw in the book and film was that every time a person was released from the Stonewall Inn the crowd cheer. b) What was the part of the film that you considered the most interesting? Why? What was interesting in the film was that the mafia supplied the liquor to the gay bars due to the issue of them not being able to get a liquor license. It was interesting to see...
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...I must say when I was told of Advocacy Days I really had no clue what I was in for. I was so excited and the event surpassed my expectations and I was in awe. For this paper I will discuss my professional experience at Advocacy days and the itinerary we had. Then I will discuss my insights to what I observed and what it entailed. I will then describe the legislative process that I was able to see. Last I will use sources to tell you about the controversial issue of minimum wage while we were there. I highly recommend Advocacy Days with the Idaho Chapter of the NASW to anyone looking to get into the social work profession. A great learning experience. My professional experience during these two days was a lot to absorb. The first day we went to the capital in Boise. Such a beautiful building. First, we registered, then went into the Lincoln Auditorium. In the auditorium we were welcomed and received introductions by Dustyn Putzier the president (I believe) of the Idaho chapter of the NASW, and Delmar Stone. They explained what the NASW was. How to become a member of the NASW. The purpose of Advocacy Days in relation to social work. They explained to us that the voice of social work is truly heard. They also explained some of the benefits of becoming a member, such as mal-practice insurance is cheaper through them. The benefit of joining as a student rather than joining after graduation. They have a large amount of research sources that you will have access to...
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...-! Stonewall Jackson Events ! January 21, 1824: Thomas Jonathan Jackson was born at Clarksburg, Virginia. March1826: Jackson's sister Elizabeth and his father died of typhoid fever June1842- June 1846:Jackson attended the United States Military Academy at West Point 1846-1851: United States Army officer April 1851-1861: In the spring of 1851 Jackson was offered and accepted the appointment to teach at the Virginia Military. *Reported for duty at VMI on August 13, 1851 *On August 4, 1853, Jackson married Elinor Junkin *Elinor died in childbirth on October 22, 1854. Their child, a son, was stillborn. *During the summer of 1856 Jackson toured *On July 16, 1857, Jackson married for the second time *Mary Anna gave birth to a daughter *In November 1859, Jackson was one of the VMI officers who accompanied a contingent of VMI cadets to Harper's Ferry April 21, 1861 - the VMI Corps of Cadets was ordered to Richmond to serve as drillmasters for new army recruits. o April 27, 1861 - Gov. John Letcher ordered Colonel Jackson to take command at Harper's Ferry, o July 1861 - Promoted to Brigadier General. Battle of 1st Manassas, where he acquired the legendary nickname Stonewall. "Look, there stands Jackson like a stone wall." o October 1861 - Promoted to Major General. o 1862 May & June - Jackson's brilliant Shenandoah Valley Campaign; 1862-1889 o 1862 June 15-July 1 - Seven Days Battles. o 1862 June-September. Battles of Cedar Mountain, Clark's...
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...Stonewall. No, I’m not talking about the Confederate general during the American Civil War. I’m talking about the Stonewall Uprising — the dawn of the modern day gay rights movement. During the 1960’s, homosexuals unwillingly complied with police forces and yielded to the homophobic American laws. This was true until the 1969 police raid of Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar located in New York’s Greenwich Village. In the early morning hours of June 28, members of the New York Police Department’s Public Morals Squad stormed the bar, but to their surprise, the bar patrons fought back, thus symbolizing a significant change in the mindset of homosexuals across the country. This police raid ignited a fire within these targeted homosexuals, and...
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...Just after 3 a.m. on a Saturday morning, a police raid of the Stonewall Inn–a gay club located on New York City’s Christopher Street–turns violent as patrons and local sympathizers begin rioting against the police. Although the police were legally justified in raiding the club, which was serving liquor without a license among other violations, New York’s gay community had grown frustrated of the police department targeting gay clubs, a majority of which had already been closed earlier that year. The protest that started on Christopher Street, however, spilled over onto the neighboring streets. Order was not restored until the New York’s riot police was deployed. This is what is known as ‘The Stonewall Riots’, also regarded by many as history’s...
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...Vincent “Bo” Jackson was born on November 30, 1962, in Bessemer, Alabama. He was a constant trouble maker growing up. His cousins and siblings compared his toughness to a wild boar hog, and gave him the nickname “Bo.” It was very obvious early on that Bo was an extraordinary athlete. For example, he could dunk a stick into a basketball hoop in the 8th grade. After Bo and others killed $3,000 worth of hogs, the minister encouraged Bo’s mother to send him to reform school. Bo realized he needed to change his behavior. He turned his anger into energy for sports. Bo Jackson is an epic hero because he is capable of great strength and courage, a great warrior, and humble. Bo Jackson exhibited great strength and courage without having to put in much effort. His natural talent was unremarkable. At a young age, Bo saw practice as a waste of time because he was so far ahead of everybody. Bo showed an incredible amount of courage by choosing Auburn over Alabama. He didn’t care about the Alabama’s winning past. Instead, Bo cared about what impact he could make to help his team. His coaches at Auburn would introduce skills taught in the NFL and Bo would master them in a couple of days. Bo’s first homerun as a Royal is still the longest in Kauffman Stadium history at a whopping 475 feet. Bo is the only athlete to ever be selected to both the Pro Bowl and the All-Star Game. Bo Jackson exhibited great strength and courage during his career in professional sports. Bo was a great warrior throughout...
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...James Robertson Jr. is an award-winning author of the biographies of Stonewall Jackson and A. P. Hill and numerous books on the Civil War. In the follow up to his biography of the man, Robertson’s Stonewall Jacksons Book of Maxims serves as a guide to the inner hopes, ambitions and moral fiber of one of history’s most outstanding military leaders, “Stonewall” Jackson. On a wall, somewhere in the Virginia Military Institute is inscribed one of Jackson’s most important maxims, “You may be whatever you will resolve to be”. Robertson serves as the guide on a journey through what exactly it was that “Stonewall” Jackson intended to be, citing achievement, faith and his most important beliefs and values as proof of his iron clad resolve and will to be a better man. Jackson had read Lord Chesterfield and had decided that the latter was correct in the idea that with “the help of history, a young man may, in some instances, acquire the experience of old age…the more he is informed of what is past, the better he will know how to conduct himself for the future”. This idea, the young man possessing knowledge cumulative to that of a far more experienced man would play a part in Jackson’s quest for self-improvement. The maxim itself explaining that through work and the attainment of knowledge one that is unknowing can become knowing. Essentially, if we are but pictures of ourselves then these maxims served the sole purpose of filling the holes left in that picture by Jacksons mountain upbringing...
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...The Stonewall Riots, which occurred on Saturday June 28th 1969 until Tuesday July 1st 1969, marked the beginning of the gay liberation movement(Misiroglu 308). The Stonewall Riots began when the police started a raid within a New York gay bar called the Stonewall Inn on 53 Christopher Street(Bronski 209). Even though the police were able to legally raid the Stonewall Inn since the bar was serving liquor without a license, the gay community reacted with rage by throwing bottles at the police, because some of the staff consisting of three drag queens and a lesbian were arrested and forced into a “paddy wagon”, and in general because of police harassment(“The Stonewall Riots”). Late Saturday evening, even though the bar was closed down, the crowds...
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...Beauregard. Beauregard. Beauregard. The chant, as his men marched back South from the The First Battle of Bull Run. The Confederacy wouldn't have won The First Battle of Bull Run if it wasn't for P.G.T. Beauregard going to U.S. military academy at West Point. In St. Bernard Parish on May 28, 1818, Beauregards mom gave birth to one of the best commanders of the Confederacy. Beauregard was an important person in The First Battle of Bull Run which started on a hot sunny day on July 21, 1861. The first shots of the Civil War were shot when Beauregard ordered his men to shoot. Commander Beauregard was a very smart man because he assumed that the Union Army would strike at Manassas to take the railroad junction, so he stationed most of his men between...
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...Thomas Jonathan Jackson, otherwise known as Stonewall Jackson. He earned his nickname, stonewall Jackson,during the first battle of the American Civil War, Bull Run or by the Southern name, Battle of Manassas. During the Battle of Manassas Jackson and his troops stood still and strong, like a stonewall, against Union troops. Throughout the Civil War Jackson was one of the most Smart and well known generals, to some he was one of the best of his time. Jackson was born in Clarksburg, West Virginia on january 21, 1824. His dad, Jonathan, was a lawyer and married Julia Beckwith Neale. They both had four children, Thomas Jackson was the third born. When Jackson was two his dad and six year old sister died of typhoid fever. This left Jackson's mother...
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...The Confederate invasion of the North in September of 1862 was an attempt by Robert E. Lee to swing the war in favor of the South. The main reason for the Confederate invasion was that the British were on the verge of recognizing the Confederacy if they could show it could hold its own, and Lee was anxious to provide a cornerstone for the Confederacy to build upon. The Battle of Antietam was the bloodiest day in American history and was a major blow to the Army of Northern Virginia and the morale of the south. This is the tableau against which our story unfolds. Stephen W. (Ward) Sears was born July 27th, 1932 in Ohio. He is a pre-eminent American historian specializing in all facets of the Civil War. He graduated from Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio and was an attendee of a journalism seminar at Radcliffe-Harvard. As a novelist, he has concentrated on the military history of the Civil War, primarily focusing his works on the battles involving and leaders of the Army of the Potomac. He was formerly employed as an editor for the Educational Department at the American Heritage Publishing Company. Sears currently resides in Norwalk, Connecticut. Some of the other books he has written on the Civil War are Gettysburg, Chancellorsville, To the Gates of Richmond: The Peninsula Campaign, and George B. McClellan: The Young Napoleon. However, it is his novel, Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam, that we are concerned with here. It is a fantastic book detailing the battle of...
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...Paul Banks Ocean Atlantic Rentals Swinton Scholarship September 17, 2014 This summer I worked in Avon, North Carolina as a delivery driver for Ocean Atlantic Rentals (OAR). I learned a lot this summer including how to drive a box truck, how to and how not to talk to girls, and most importantly I learned how hard work can pay off in huge dividends. When I first walked into OAR at the beginning of the summer I met some strangers that eventually became my best friends and the people that I would share the most incredible summer of my life with. After meeting my new co-workers, my attention was drawn to a quote written in big black letters on the wall: “You may be whatever you resolve to be.” –Major General Stonewall Jackson. This inspirational quote has helped shape me into the person that I strive to become. When I graduate from Hampden-Sydney College I want to open a successful business and make ridiculous amounts of money. Now, I don’t want to sound egotistical or arrogant, so I will say if this dream comes true I do not plan to be greedy nor do I plan on flaunting my money around. I want to help people with this money and to make a difference in this world. I want to leave an everlasting impression on people in a very positive manner. Being extremely filthy rich makes it very easy to help people that are in need but if I do not succeed in this goal I will still help out others who are in need. In the past, I have rang bells for the Salvation Army to raise money...
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...hero, the South was outraged that people saw his destruction as heroism. This proved to the South that the North would use violence if necessary to end slavery and gave the South another excuse to want to secede from the United States. After the Harpers Ferry Raid, sectionalism in the United States became even more prevalent. In the 1950s and 1960s, homophobia was much more common and harsh than it in in modern America. In Greenwich Village in New York City, a series of riots broke out at the Stonewall Inn between members of the LGBT community and police. Members of the LGBT community were upset with the mistreatment and oppression they faced. This is considered to be one of the first events to start the gay liberations and sparked the fight for equal rights in the LGBT community. These riots took place at a police raid at the Stonewall Inn. The Stonewall Inn, a well known safe haven for people on the LGBT spectrum. Miss Major Griffin-Gracy was considered to be the martyr for the Stonewall riots. This started gay pride parades and every year across America gay pride parades take place at the end of June in commemoration of...
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...General Robert E Lee - Battle of Chancellorsville Name Institution Course Tutor Date General Robert E Lee - Battle of Chancellorsville Introduction The Battle of Chancellorsville took place in April 30 – May 6, 1863, and was part of the American Civil war. This battle is widely recognized in the American history as Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s greatest victory during the American Civil War. Following the Union disaster at the Battle of Fredericksburg, Major General Ambrose Burnside was eased and Major General Joseph Hooker “Fighting Joe” stood in his place as Commander of the Army of the Potomac. After the trials of 1862, Hooker took the spring to reorganize and rehabilitate his troops who were encamped on the east bank of the Rappahannock River near Fredericksburg. General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia was encamped to the west of Fredericksburg and remained in place along the heights they had protected the earlier December. On April 30, 1863, Maj. Gen. Joseph “Fighting Joe” Hooker traversed the Rappahannock River and steered part of his large army onto the open of Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. A strong cohort of Hooker’s army menaced the Confederate lines opposite Fredericksburg. Joe Hooker had reorganized and revitalized the Potomac Army over the preceding winter, with the Federal Force also greatly outnumbering the Confederates – approximately 130,000 to 60, 000 (Reid, 2013). Lee carried a union plan where he split his army in two, confronting...
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...those he loved. Lee assumed command of the Army of Northern Virginia on June 1, 1862. This was the main army of the Confederacy. It was not until three years later that he officially assumed command of all Confederate troops. However, this was a mere formality as he had been the main leader throughout the course of the war. In his first major battle of the Civil War, Lee’s army demolished the troops of John Pope at the Second Battle of Bull Run (Manassas). However, at Antietam, Lee lost one-third of his troops to George McClellan, who wielded a paper that contained Lee’s battle plans. Lee then proceeded to avenge his loss by winning at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville. The victory at Chancellorsville was a bittersweet one; Stonewall Jackson, Lee’s right-hand man, was killed. These victories emboldened Lee and gave him the idea to begin an offensive. In July of 1863, Lee again lost a third of his troops at Gettysburg....
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