In response to the case that was brought by the NAACP, the defense lawyers for Abney’s case used the state precedent. They began their case with a defense of a previous Georgia Supreme Court ruling by arguing to the Supreme Court that the City ofMacondid not own the park nor had any real claim to [...]

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Senator Bacon bequeathed the park to the City of Macon, but it was to be run by a Board of Trustees, which the City of Maconwas a part of. The park was segregated until 1963, when the park started to allow blacks into Baconsfield (Bertrand 152). Some members of the board, including Charles E. Newton, [...]

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Americans are part of a history that is, well, inherently racist. And not just in the ways one might think, either. In America, almost everyone is guilty. We are proponents of our own sterotypes, the largest being that we are a citizen base of stubborn, lazy, consumers who hide behind our classist structure when faced [...]

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In the past post reviewing the Jewish “Writings”, or Kethuvim, there were a few books that offer alternative ideas to orthodoxy regarding how to live in a hard, cruel world. Ecclesiastes is a proponent of futility, Job denounces the merit of following God, and Song of Songs seems to cite love as the answer to [...]

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In my study of the Hebrew Bible (Tanak translation), the book of Esther has been by far one of the most interesting sections of the book that I have come across yet, second to Ecclesiastes, Job, and Song of Songs. Interestingly enough, they are all grouped together into a series of books that challenge the [...]

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In Keynes’s Aggregate Expenditures model, total spending by a national economy is associated directly with the national GDP. The specific model used to determine such a GDP, according to Keynes, is consumption, plus investment, plus government spending, plus foreign exports, or things that we purchase from foreign borders. Why is this relevant? This model was [...]

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Tim Ferriss’s Book opened up a whole new world for me in terms of what works for me and what I was able to abandon as useless. One section in particular forever changed the way that I felt about gaining weight, allowing for me to dismiss my fears of forever staying skinny. While I haven’t [...]

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As of now, I have gone over some overly simple starting points for anyone looking to learn some of the nutritional and physical practices that have worked superbly in every past case I have seen. Moving forward, something very important to understand is the amount of supplementary material that is out there and can be [...]

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There are only two words that can begin to describe the American diet, even without considering the American way of life in general. Those words are “messed up”. The food industry continues to use immoral, unsanitary, and biologically poisonous methods of production that will literally kill you. It is legal because it is very, very [...]

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