The Reconstruction era is always a challenge to teach. First, it was a period of tremendous political complexity and far-reaching consequences. A cursory survey of Reconstruction is never satisfying, but a fuller treatment of Reconstruction can be like quick sand—easy to get into but impossible to get out of. Second, to the extent that students may have any preconceptions about Reconstruction, they are often an obstacle to a deeper understanding of the period. Given these challenges, I have gradually settled on an approach to the period that avoids much of the complex chronology of the era and instead focuses on the “big questions” of Reconstruction.
However important a command of the chronology of Reconstruction may be, it is equally important that students understand that Reconstruction was a period when American waged a sustained debate over who was an American, what rights should all Americans enjoy, and what rights would only some Americans possess. In short, Americans engaged in a strenuous debate about the nature of freedom and equality.
With the surrender of Confederate armies and the capture of Jefferson Davis in the spring of 1865, pressing questions demanded immediate answers.
As the director of a restorative justice program in your community, you should NOT care if the juvenile is innocent or not given that the program is restorative, not punitive.
Even though there may be no evidence and the juvenile and his lawyer maintain his innocence, the program is put in place to help juveniles with obtaining job training, educational skills, and other programs that can enrich the youths life in major ways.
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Absolute equality will prevent individual thought and personal freedoms of expression. Television limits individual thought and creativity. Government control should be limited to prevent a threat to freedom. The fear of communist invasion is a result of government-controlled media. Paranoia leads to a repressive society.
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The one downside to environmental protection laws is that there are only few people who listens and follows them as their are only few people who shows a deep care and passion for taking care of the environment and following the environmental protection laws.
