7th!

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/10/04/101004fa_fact_gladwell

1. Summarize the article, and include relevant quotes.

This article is all about revolutions. It starts with a scene from 1960 in North Carolina, and you walk into a restaurant, and you sit at a bar and you order a coffee, only to be told that they don't serve blacks. Then you and your friends create a sit in, this sit in lasts for months, and spreads all up the coast, well up to Texas. It then goes on to say how none of this happened with the help of twitter or facebook and how some revolutions start because of twitter and such.

"Some seventy thousand students eventually took part. Thousands were arrested and untold thousands more radicalized. These events in the early sixties became a civil-rights war that engulfed the South for the rest of the decade—and it happened without e-mail, texting, Facebook, or Twitter."

2. Explain what Constitutional concepts are relevant. Some may be obvious, but others maybe more subtly related. Explain the Constitutional connection in your own words, but also reference the specific Article & Section or Amendment(s).

In the First Amendment it says that one is allowed to have peaceful protests. That is what a sit in is, yet people got arrested and such, this is in direct violation of this.

3. Explain what interests you about this article and/or the Constitutional connections you found.

Its interesting to me because i find it hard to believe that all the things that happened to radiate slavery and racism happened without all the modern tech that we have now. Now it would be so simple to organize something like that. But for it to just happen and for everyone to join in, is SO hard for me to wrap my head around.