Case Brief Santa Fe Independent SD v. Jane Doe Citation: Santa Fe Independent School District V. Doe‚ 530 U.S. 290 (2000) Facts: In Santa Fe‚ Texas‚ students were elected by their classmates to give pre-game prayers at high school football games over the loud speaker that were mainly Christian. A Catholic and a Mormon family felt this was a violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment of the Constitution. The school district has always done pre-game invocations before each game
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The Santa Fe Trail was beneficial to the growth of New Mexico. It was a highway that allowed passage between Missouri and Santa Fe. It was also used as a major passage way to get to other places like Los Angeles‚ Mexico city‚ and Camino Real. It allowed for trade to occur in Santa Fe. The Santa Fe trail was one of the big three trails in United States history that opened up the roadway to the west. Before Mexico declared its independence‚ trading between the United States and Mexico was illegal
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source that I analyzed was‚ “Colony in Danger of Demise; Cabildo Begs Viceroy for Soldiers and Supplies May 8‚1705”. This was a letter written by the Santa Fe cabildo‚ sent on May 8‚ 1705 to the new governor and captain general (Governor Francisco Cuervo and Valdés). The letter requested for the viceroy to send supplies‚ for the members of the Santa Fe Cabildo. They needed supplies due to the frequent ambushes and invasions from the Native Americans. In the letter it states‚ “Their continues invasions
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In the year of 2000‚ Santa Fe Independent School District approved a policy that would allow a student to give a prayer‚ which the district referred to as messages‚ at Friday night football games. These prayers were student initiated and were given through the public address system at the Santa Fe High School stadium. These prayers or ‘messages’ were given because students from the high school voted in favor of these student led messages. The practicing of giving these messages would violate the
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When I think of Santa Fe‚ I think of everything that my future has to offer on one place‚ every opportunity at my fingertips to strive my goal. I feel that Santa Fe will be able to provide me with a solid foundation to start goal to be a college graduate. Although I do not know yet exactly what type of professional career I will pursue‚ I know my major I am most interested in is agriculture. I am glad I do not know specifically what I want to do later on‚ because it should be an adventure choosing
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So the concert I went to go see was right here on the Santa Fe campus in the Fine Arts Hall Theatre or building FA. So the performers for this concerts were all students from Santa Fe and there were two different music classes to perform there‚ it was the Santa Fe wind ensemble‚ and the Santa Fe hand-drummers were the performers at this concert. So the concert was broken in to two sections the first consisting of a group of hand-drummers playing all different types of drums and styles from African
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research to cure deafness‚ claim the Deaf culturists‚ but should accept Deaf people as composing a cultural minority and respect their right to live as Deaf person.”(Bonnie Tucker 1997) The subculture that I research/analyzed was the Deaf community at Santa Fe College. When asking many students on campus on whether they have knowledge about this community and its existences many people respond with “No”. With so many people responding this way‚ this was the reason why I chose this subculture to be researched
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Homelessness in Santa Fe‚ New Mexico Name: Tutor: Institution: Course: Date: Contents Introduction According to Klein (2005)‚ local problems refer to the issues that impact on the society either positively or negatively. Klein (2005) provides that local issues often impact negatively on one group of individuals while at the same time impacting positively on another group of individuals on the society. Local problems affect a small group of individuals
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Intro: One of the most highly debated topics involving schools evolves around prayer in school. Both sides of the argument are very passionate about their stance and there have been many legal challenges to include or exclude prayer in school. Background: Before the 1960’s there was very little resistance to teaching religious principles‚ bible reading‚ or prayer in school. In fact it was the norm. You could walk into virtually any public school and see examples of teacher led prayer and Bible reading
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Case Study BNSF Genetic Testing Dr. John Malpass The purpose of this case study is to justify the fairness of the court settlement between the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the Burlington Northern Railroad & Santa Fe Railway Company (BNSF). Burlington Northern did willingly and knowingly breach employee personal privacy‚ as well as the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) in conducting unauthorized genetic blood testing on unknowing employees. The court
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