Brown vs Board A Case Analysis

For this action project we were required to choose a Supreme Court case that we felt change the course of American history. I chose the case Brown versus Board of Education because I believe it has the greatest impact on American education today. Without this case have going through the Supreme Court schools may still be segregated and people's job opportunities and college opportunities would definitely not be the same. This case also inspired me because it helps challenge the Plessy versus Ferguson laws about separate but equal. If it's not acceptable in schools why should be acceptable anywhere else, this really opens the eyes to white people and black people in America to how wrong it was to separate each other. This case also went into depth on how separating kids by race is detrimental to their education.

Montrose Beach But Better

For this action project we were required to build a 3D model of the space we wanted to redesign. I chose to redesign the Montrose Beach area. I felt confident in my decision to redesign this space because it was a very attractive area, the beach will always attract a ton of people especially in a great city like Chicago. All summer Chicago has festivals events food fest concerts and so many other things you can do throughout the year. I want to bring those things to the Montrose Beach area this summer. Montrose Beach is a fun and convenient area easy to get to by bus or train and there's a lot of great high-rises and apartment buildings nearby and is also not too far from the downtown. And in it is off one of the major streets in Chicago Lakeshore Drive.

A Movement With in a War

For this action project were challenged to write about a war of our choosing and whether or not it was justified. I chose to focus on the civil rights movement because I see it more as a battle in an ongoing war of race. The civil rights movement also not only help African-Americans help people of other minorities sexuality and religions. I feel as if the civil rights movement open the floodgates for many other battles that people with unequal rights need to fight. Similar to work this movement had a lot of casualties even children were being killed. Making all more obvious that this was not just the movement but a battle in a greater war.


This is Civil rights movement took place in the United States it lasted from 1954 1968. During the time of the Civil War also known as the air of black power John F Kennedy was president. He was the 36th president of United States and a lot of African-American people would agree that he worked to help the African-American community during the time of this appointment. Not only was the civil rights movement a "movement" it was a war a just one. The African-American people of America were fighting so hard for their basic rights and equality. In this case it was definitely a war with fighting.

During the civil rights movement John F. Kennedy was president he was elected in 1961. When he was elected African-Americans in the south were denied voting rights they were segregated they weren't allowed equal opportunities in education and career. In the north somewhere things happened on a smaller scale, in the south African Americans were also subjected to horrible violence by the police and other civilians. Something that really makes Kennedy stand out as the president is that he worked with the Supreme Court and the civil rights movement was considered a critical issue in America and it was something he paid a ton of attention to. Presence previous had ignored the suffering and wishes of the African-American people without regard for their basic rights. A prime example of this is the case Brown versus Board of Education. This is the case that went all the way to the Supreme Court and ruled the segregation of schools unconstitutional. This was also a time of reformation and governmental control allowing such changes to happen.

The policy that had the greatest effect during the civil rights movement was, the civil rights act of 1964 which ended segregation in public places. This also kept people from not hiring you because of your sexual orientation, race and religious beliefs. This act was put into place by the Supreme Court this unfortunately did not sit well with the southern members of Congress causing setbacks in Kennedy's efforts to push the law forward. But it didn't get passed officially and signed by Lyndon B. Johnson present JF Kennedy's vice president. This also brought to light other issues like the fact that African-Americans were not allowed to vote which was something that was supposed to be allowed right after the Civil War .

The good thing about the act is that it was not very open to interpretation the expectations of what was allowed was very clear. You could not discriminate against people for the race their sexuality or their religion. Although the law did not make it so that the people wouldn't be mistreated. Some of the consequences to enforcing these laws was a further separation between the south and north and the government. The north and the overall government had a decent relationship because the president had more liberal views of the time. But the south was against it. The south wasn't even happy with the idea of a government since early on in American history let alone having them make the decision on who they couldn't couldn't discriminate against.

The Circuit Challenge

For this action project we had to create a series circuit with a parallel switch and five resistors. Some of the resistors we used were motor a speaker and a lightbulb. We learned about how not to short-circuit our circuits. We also learned about the flow of electrons protons and neutrons, this helped us understand how electrons flow through circuit. We also covered Ohm's law in this unit this helped us calculate things like amps and voltage. To get some inspiration for action projects we studied alternate current and direct current to competing styles of electricity one was invented by Thomas Edison and the other by Nikola Tesla. By better understanding these two forms of electricity it allowed us to better create our circuits. We also did research on how we can make our circuit more energy efficient by doing research about eco-efficient products on energy Star.




All in all I really enjoyed creating my circuit some things I would've done differently or make the circuit board with more detail and more cut out so would be easier to see the switch and other aspects and motors. I also would've been sure to build my circuit larger with more batteries and even more resistors. I also would like to take more time to compare what exact eco-friendly appliances use similar circuits to the one that I created.