1775-1900: The History of the Buffalo Soldier
Throughout American history, Afro-Americans have had to decide whether they belonged in the United States or if they should go elsewhere. Slavery no doubtfully had a great impact upon their decisions. However, despite their troubles African Americans have made a grand contribution and a great imp....

A Band of Brothers
Band of Brothers I.Authors Background Stephen Ambrose was born in 1936 and grew up in Whitewater, Wisconsin, a small town where his father was the M.D. At the University of Wisconsin, he started as a pre-med, but inspired by a great professor he changed his major to History. After get....

A Literary Analysis
After Mark Twain and Edgar Allen Poe, William Sydney Porter (known as O Henry) is the most read author in the world and bears the title of master of the short story . He has been called many things. Some people have called him the twentieth-century Balzak. Some have called him the American Maupassa....

a literary interpretation of hills like white elephants
A Literary Interpretation of Hills Like White Elephants In Hills Like White Elephants, Hemingway writes about a couple that struggles in making a decision that will permanently define their futures. The couple discusses whether or not the girl should have an abortion. In this story, Hemin....

A Rose for Emily
A Rose for Emily By William Faulkner Did you ever stop and smell the roses? For most of us the answer is no. Our society is one of constant turmoil. We strive to get more material belongings and work long and hard to make more and more money. We lose site of many of lif....

A Southern Perspective on the American Civil War
The aftermath of any war can be very tricky, when it comes to resolving issues between the parties involved. In the American Civil War, the Confederate army lost to the Union army, who then occupied the South. The differences between the American Civil War and most other wars are, that the South ke....

A Yankee's Argument on Post-Civil War Reconstruction
After the Civil War was over, the South was in, for the most part, in ruins. Events during the war that made this happen were for example, General Shermans troops destroyed 33% of Atlanta by burning trees, houses, and anything else that got in their way. Around 10% of all the white males in the....

Abe Lincoln
President Abraham Lincoln's preliminary Emancipation Proclamation of September 22, 1862, became federal military policy on January 1, 1863, prompting Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles to describe it as "a broad step a landmark in history" (Welles, vol. 1, p. 212). The edict transformed the Civi....

Abe Lincoln Presidency
Though Douglas won the senatorial election, Lincoln had made his mark by the debates; he was now a potential presidential candidate. His first appearance in the East was in Feb., 1860, when he spoke at Cooper Union in New York City. He gained a large following in the antislavery states, but his n....

Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln Essay Period 7 Abraham Lincoln, a sectional candidate whose election led to secession of the South, succeeded in restoring the Union and laying a strong foundation for its future greatness. Both Lincolns military policies and his domestic programs helped to make him on of th....

Abraham Lincoln
Our 16th president, Abraham Lincoln, was born on February 12, 1809 in Hardin County, Kentucky. He was the son of Thomas and Nancy Hanks Lincoln. He also had an older sister and a younger brother who died when he was just a baby. In 1816, Lincoln and his family moved to Indiana because land ownership....

Absolutism vs. Democracy
Absolutism vs. Democracy In seventeenth century Europe two contrasting systems of government dominated the political scene. England experienced a rise of democratic principles, while France gave way to an absolute monarchy. After the reigns of James I and Charles I, England quickly realized that....

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn- Literary Critiques through the Decades
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has been a source of controversy since its publication in 1884. It was banned from many public libraries on its first appearance for being "trash." Although today it is widely regarded as aif not theclassic American novel, it still poses problems for some rea....

african americans in the civil war
African Americans In The Civil War The research topic is African Americans in the Civil War and the part they played. One of the resources that strike this topic is the movie Glory that is based on a certain black regiment that fought during the Civil War. The main things that are being looked....

African witers portrayal on slavery
Discrimination is very old in its origins. From the earliest periods of human existence, groups developed prejudices toward others and then discriminated against those whom they regarded as different or inferior. Many attempts were taken to maintain or increase power, prestige, or even wealth.....

American Fashion (1765-1870)
It is a widely known fact that throughout the world, fashions and trends have a tendency to come and go with the times. This statement holds true for the evolution of American fashion. In the seventeenth and early eighteenth century, fashion was at first very plain and drab, but then evolved into fl....

American History Examination Essay
It is the intent of this paper to prove that the "American Dream" canbest be explained as a "ciity upon a hill." "Ciity upon a hill" meaningbeing above and superior over those below. The Civil War, the imperialisticrace of the 19th century, the Korean War, the KKK, and the Gulf War are allexamples ....

Amistad
Amistad is a film that shows the beginning of slavery and how it all began. To my surprise, the African Americans started slavery themselves, because they traded themselves for guns, materials, food, and many other things. Slaves were brought over on the ship, La Amistad from Cuba and tried to ....

An Empire for Slavery: The Peculiar Institution
Randolph B. Campbells book An Empire for Slavery The Peculiar Institution shows how slavery affected antebellum Texas and its future. It shows that without slavery in antebellum Texas, it is likely that Texas would not have flourished the way that it did. It also tells of how the slaves were....

An Examination of Southern Dialect
An Examination of Southern Dialect as Seen in the Works of William FaulknerIn the writings of William Faulkner, the reader may sense that the author has created an entire world, which directly reflects his own personal experience. Faulkner writes about the area in and around Mississippi, where he is....

An Irish Immigrants Story
February 21, 2006 A Little Piece of My Irish History June 24, 1839 John Aloysius Bresnahan was born in County Kerry, Ireland. He immigrated to the United States. John married an American and fathered six children. John Bresnahan was only one of the 961,719 Irish born living in the Unit....

Analyse the Assassination of Julius Caesar
One of the most dominant political and military leaders in history, Gaius Julius Caesar helped establish the vast Roman Empire. Caesar's Victory in a civil war in the 40s BC made him the absolute ruler of Rome, but political jealousies among his opponents led to his assassination. Julius Caesar a P....

ancient rome- battle of actium
The Battle of Actium was a naval battle of the Roman Civil War between Mark Antony and Octavian . It was fought on September 2, 31 BC, near the Roman colony of Actium in Greece (near the modern-day city of Preveza), on the Ionian Sea. Octavian's fleet was commanded by Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, Anton....

Andrew Carnegie
Carnegie was born in Dunfermline, Scotland. He went to the U.S. in 1848 and soon began work as a bobbin boy in a cotton mill in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, for $1.20 per week. The following year he became a messenger in a Pittsburgh telegraph office and learned telegraphy. He was then employed by the P....

Animal Farm: Political Issues / Orwell
Eric Arthur Blair, better known by his psuedonym George Orwell, is an English author commonly known to write about political issues. Orwell has been highly acclaimed and criticized for his novels, including one of his most famous, Animal Farm. In a satirical form, George Orwell uses personified f....

Article review of Classmates Divided by Mary Elizabeth Sergent
This article tells about the classmates who graduated from West Point who were forced to turn on each other during the Civil War. However, because of how demanding life at the academy was, they developed a strong companionship for each other that lasted a lifetime, despite the bloody conflict of t....

Astrology in Early Modern European History
The ideology behind astrology throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Europe was that the stars and planets exerted an influence on the earth and everything it housed: The relative position of the stars especially at a particularly susceptible moment like birth must therefore....

Australia at the end of the Nineteenth Century and the begining of the Twentieth Century
Australia at the end of the Nineteenth Century and the begging of the Twentieth Century For all of Australian history, this period is the first time that the concept of turning the Australian continent into one internally independent nation. At the same time, not all Australians agr....

Band of Brothers
I.Authors Background Stephen Ambrose was born in 1936 and grew up in Whitewater, Wisconsin, a small town where his father was the M.D. At the University of Wisconsin, he started as a pre-med, but inspired by a great professor he changed his major to History. After getting his M.A. degree at Lo....

baseball during the civil war
The history of baseball is intertwined with the history of the Civil War. It was during the Civil War that the cultural impact of the game took root. And it was the soldiers during the Civil War who helped make the game what it is today. The game of baseball started to take shape in the ea....

Battle of Chancellorsville
The Battle of Chancellorsville seems to be the less interesting war of the United States during the Civil War. The Civil War paved the road to American way of governing and thinking, and yet the actual war nearly ruined the whole country. The War started out as a pursuit for freedom, and ended up a ....

Battle of Gettysburg
The American Civil War was fought over cultural, social, and economical beliefs that divided the nation. The war set father against son, brother against brother, and American against American. The Civil War was a violent, devastating war that claimed the lives of over 620,000 men on both sides....

Battles of civil war
?Essay ?Discuss the key battles of the Civil War, explaining why a particular battle was considered important. ? There were many battles of the Civil War but the Key Battles not only determined the conditions of the War but also the outcome. The war began with the Confederate attack of Fort Sum....

biodiesel
Fuel sources have been present on this great Earth since the beginning of time, but throughout history we have witnessed advances in technology that have given us the ability to store, transport, and burn fuel for energy. In 1898 Rudolph Diesel, a German inventor became famous for his discovery of a....

Birth of a Nation
Birth of a Nation The movie I watched was called Birth of a Nation. It was directed (and partially written) by D.W. Griffith, who was never actually a part of the clan himself. Released in 1915, under the name The Clansman, which changed soon after, the major stars in the Birth of a Nation were Li....

black soldiers
During the seventeenth, Eighteenth and part of the nineteenth Century Black people were slaves. The white people of North America used the Blacks for their own benefit. African Americans had no rights; they were seen as objects, which could be sold and bought. However the Civil War was a key turning....

Book Review for The Killer Angels
The Killer Angels. By Micheal Shaara. (New York: David McKay, 2003. Pp 345. $7.99) The book The Killer Angel discusses the four days of a battle which is also known as the Battle of Gettysburg, the turning point of the Civil War. The author, Michael Shaara, does a great job of imagery. He help....

Booter T Washington
Jake Campshure Dr. Gray Pols 353 Booker T. Washington Booker T. Washington was one of the most influential African American leaders this country has ever seen. He fought against the odds, being a former slave, and delivered some of the most powerful speeches on how the black man is pictured in A....

Caesar
CAESAR Gaius Julius Caesar was an extremely powerful politician and a brilliant general. He also gained the respect as a good leader and was appointed dictator of Rome. Caesar helped Rome and the present day world become what it is today by his great le....

Calvin-Using Attention Getters, Assertions, and Thesis
Calvin...is imaginative, mischievous, and conniving. He imagines lots of things. Calvin can make an adventure out of nothing. His closest companion is his stuffed animal "Hobbes." To other people Hobbes is an old stuffed tiger, but Calvin knows the real Hobbes, the Hobbes who can be a partner, a fri....

CANADIAN INVOLVEMENT IN SUDAN AND RWANDA
Canada is an important player in the international peacekeeping system. Canada has been involved in important crises like East Timor, Rwanda, Tsunami and many more. Canada has fifty years of experience in peacekeeping and has participated in most of the missions mandated by the UN security council. ....

Cath a chur ar Beal Feriste is Éire/The War over Belfast and Ireland
My father, more Irish than I, has no idea what the title of my paper says . To him its just a bunch of letters put together, possibly some foreign language. He was surprised to learn that it is the language of his ancestors, the Irish. The official language of the Emerald Isle is Irish, which is ....

causes of the civil war
The South, which was known as the Confederate States of America, seceded from the North, which was also known as the Union, for many different reasons. The reason they wanted to succeed was because there was four decades of great sectional conflict between the two. Between the North and South there ....

Causes of the Civil War
Causes Of The Civil War The South, which was known as the Confederate States of America, seceded from the North, which was also known as the Union, for many different reasons. The reason they wanted to succeed was because there was up to four decades of great sectional conflict between the two....

Causes of World War II
Many historians have traced the causes of World War II to problems left unsolved by World War I (1914-1918). World War I and the treaties that ended it also created new political and economic problems. Forceful leaders in several countries took advantage of these problems to seize power. The desi....

Chocolate Innovations: A Look Into Milton Hersheys Life
Every kid in this country at one point or another has eaten a Hersheys chocolate bar. Hershey is an American icon, says Fellenbaum, from a magazine article. You tell people your work is associated with quality and pride, the legacy of Milton Hershey (Anthes, 2003). For generations the nam....

Christianity
The belief in some higher presence, other than our own, has existed since man can recollect. Religion was established from this belief, and it can survive and flourish because of this belief. Christianity, one of several forms of religion that exist today, began sometime during the middle of the f....

Civil Rights
"Id like to think that all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty (Unknown Quote http://en.....

Civil Rights Essay
Stephanie Rosenbaum English-1302 2/26/05 Civil Rights Movement Rights, equality, and justice, are all words that come to mind when you think of present day America. The liberty to create a wonderful life is the United States. Where opportunity is abundant and where everyone has hi....

Civil War
The Civil War is acknowledged as the greatest war in American history. Known as "The War that Never Ended". Nearly three million fought, and 600,000 died. It was the only war fought on American soil by Americans, and for that reason we have always been fascinated with The Civil War. On April 12, 186....

Civil War
Much controversy exists concerning the civil war. Most people agree that the issue of slavery, although sparking the conflict, was not the main cause of the war. Tension had been present in the United States between the Northern and Southern States for Quite some time. The clashing worlds of people,....

Civil War
The contest between the North and South in the Civil War was an uneven one. The North had the material advantages. If God is on the side of those with the biggest battalions, then He was definitely on the side of the North. The North had a population of some 20 millions, as opposed to about 9 mi....

Civil war
The Civil war, sometimes called the War Between the States, took place from 1861 to 1865. The battles took place from the Mississippi River to the east coast. The Civil War was started because the South left the North to try and preserve slavery, but the North didnt want slavery, there....

Civil War
The foundation for black participation in the Civil War began more than a hundred years before the outbreak of the war. Blacks in America had been in bondage since early colonial times. In 1776, when Jefferson proclaimed mankinds inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, th....

Civil War
With the election of the anti-slavery Republican candidate for President, Abraham Lincoln, the Southern states decided they had to take drastic action in order to protect their own interests. On December 20, 1860, a secession convention met in South Carolina and adopted an Ordinance of Secession fro....

Civil war DBQ
The question of the expansion of slavery is one of the main causes of the civil war. In determining whether the civil war was partially, entirely, or not at all determined by arguments for the expansion of slavery one must assess the impact the question had on society. Politically, the motion for an....

Civil War Painting
The civil war was one of the most astonishing and longest wars of all times, It spanned over eight years and had approximately more than a million casualties. People of all ages and generations lost their lives in this war. One thing that makes this war so unforgettable is the fact that it was th....

Civil War tour of Savannah - David D'Arcy
I learned a lot about Savannah's history from just reading this book. D'Arcy did a splendid job of showing every aspect of Savannah's contributions to the civil war. There was a key battle that took place right down the street from our homes. A lot of us don't even realize how important Savannah ....

civil war weapons
Just before the first modern war the civil war there became a new and improved technique in photography. And with this new and improved technique some of the important moments and parts about the war were recorded. Like what type of guns were used , the different uniforms that were whore by the diff....

Civil War; A sucess or a failure
The Civil War was originally meant to fix the grievances that the North and the South had with each other, but rather then fixing these grievances the Civil War only made the grievances between them worse. Many of the grievances between the North and the South had to do with racial problems, ec....

Civil Wars Empowerment of Women
During the course of the United States Civil War, women of the slaveholding class of the South were forced to undergo a great deal of unforeseen changes in the way they conducted their everyday lives. This class of women was unable to ignore the events that were taking place around them and was com....

Cold Mountain
The setting for Cold Mountain is in the state of North Carolina during the Civil War time period. Most of the key events happen in Cold Mountain. Inman tries to go back to Cold Mountain because Ada's home is near Cold Mountain. When he reaches Cold Mountain he can go to Ada's home. The plot of Cold ....

Common Sense, Paine, and Americas Most Important Leaders
Common Sense, Paine, and America's Most Important Leaders of the Protest Over the centuries, one of the most important tools available to protesting groups was literature. Some of the most famous protest literature in the world has its roots in American history. For example, some great American ....

Comparing The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and the film Driving Miss Daisy
For many years, there has been a major struggle with prejudices and values of society. This is still going on today, although it has gotten much better since years ago. In the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and the film Driving Miss Daisy there are some interesting connections dealing wi....

Confederation of Canada
Political Deadlock Each region (Canada West & Canada East) had an equal number of seats on the Legislative Assembly. This made it possible of one group to stop legislation that the other group wanted to pass . Opposing sides would have disagreements over every issue making no head way for either....

Constitution
When the Constitution was signed it helped unite America. As situations in America changed, many amendments were added to the Constitution to try and adapt to the changing times. Slavery is said to be the key issue that resulted in the Civil War and the Constitution allowed the issue to continue an....

Contemporary Issues - The Death Penalty
There are crimes considered by our society to be so atrocious and intolerable such as murder or rape of a child that if convicted, that the only punishment suitable for committing these crimes is the Death Penalty. The Death Penalty, also called Capital Punishment, is the execution of a convicted c....

Corporate Personhood Defined by the 14th Amendment
Corporate Personhood Controversy There has been a long standing controversy over the issue of corporate personhood. The corporate personhood debate is based on questioning whether the subset of rights provided under the law to biological people should also be given to corporations as legal persons....

Crichtons Study of Technology, Relationships, and Culture and Intelligence in Congo
Crichtons Study of Technology, Relationships, and Culture and Intelligence in Congo Something inhabits it (Crichton 18; ERTS Houston). Being Michael Crichton is not easy. He is known for inventing the techno-thriller, a work that combines technology, suspense, and contemporary soc....

Disparity between the north and the south
One of the most pivotal and disputed periods in American history, the Civil War was simply a fight against slavery. Being an important aspect leading to the war, there were several other causes leading to a fight between the North and the South. Finally resulting in secession after Abraham Lincolns ....

Dorothea Dix
Dorothea Dix was born on April 4, 1802 in Hampden, Maine to Joseph Dix and Mary Bigelow Dix. She was the first of three kids. She had two younger brothers. Her family life was abusive and nonexistent most of the time. Her mother was mentally ill, and her father was an abusive alcoholic. Throughout ....

Dorothea Dix: A Woman of Great Accomplishments
Greene 1 "There are few cases in history where a social movement of such proportions can be attributed to the work of a single individual" (Kovach) At the age of thirty-nine a woman by the name of Dorothea Dix devoted the rest of her life as an advocate to the humane attitude towards the m....

Dorthea Dix
In todays society there are mental heath care centers all over the world, but in the 1800s that was not the case. The mentally ill of the nineteenth century were viewed as demon-possessed or characterized as senseless animals (National Mental Health Associati....

Drama - war and conflict
GCSE PRACTICAL COURSEWORK This Coursework is about War and Conflict. In my opinion I think that War is a widespread part of conflict between states and normally large amounts of people. This involves violence to a certain extent with people being killed. I seem to think of being armed conflict. I....

Elizabeth Blackwell
Elizabeth Blackwell was born on February 3, 1821 in Counterslip Bristol, England to become the fourth of the nine Blackwell children. Her nickname was Bess, but her father called her "Little Shy." While she was growing up, two of her brothers and six of her sisters died. Eight of her cousins shared ....

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
On November 2, 1920, my grandmother was one of the more than eight million American women who for the first time in history went to the polls and exercised her right to vote. Thomas Jefferson had declared equality the foundation of American government; however, it had taken more than one hundred an....

Elvis Presley
In Tupelo, Mississippi, shortly before dawn, in a two-room house built by her husband and her brother-in-law, Gladys Presley gives birth to identical twin sons. The first, Jessie Garon, is born dead. The second, Elvis Aaron, is born alive and healthy. Elvis would be their only child. Elvis grows up....

Emancipation Proclamation: Abraham Lincoln
I. INTRODUCTION Abraham Lincoln gave many great speeches throughout his life, and his presidential term. Out of all of these great speeches, there is one that stands out above the rest. That speech was the Emancipation Proclamation. Lincoln was against slavery one hundred percent. While others want....

Ethics and Slavery in the United States
An era of tension began in America ever since the newly formed cluster of states gained independence from Great Britain. Slavery was an integral part of the society and the economy in the United States up until the end of the Civil War, but it existed with great controversy. People back in that tim....

Ethnic Groups and Discrimination
In 1509 Christopher Columbuss son Diego Colon became governor of the new Spanish empire in the Caribbean. According to Colon the Native American slaves did not work hard enough. His assessment paved the way for the systematic transportation of African slaves to the New World, which began in J....

European History: Single party states
The crises faced by the Bolsheviks in the period 1917 to 1924 forced them to be ruthless and blind to human suffering. The charisma Lenin used in seizing power was replaced by terror in the suppression of political, military and economic threats. By the time of his death, the Bolsheviks had control ....

Evaluating Reconstruction
The end of the Civil War called for a reform in American society towards more egalitarian ideologies. The Thirty-Ninth Congress was summoned to address the issues over slavery and the control of the South. Their plan was called Reconstruction, and it was the Radical Republicans that strongly push....

Everyday use: our society's view on heritage and culture
Everyday Use: Todays view on Culture and Heritage In Everyday Use, Alice Walker tells a story of a mothers conflicted relationship with her two daughters. At face value the story tells of Mama gradually denying the superficial values or her elder, more socially accepted, daughte....

Evolution of a nation
Evolution of a Nation Paper Introduction Many internal changes affected America from 1865 to 1945. In this paper many issues will be examined from social, political, and economic issues all the way up to the Great Depression. All of these factors will contribute to the Evolution of a Nation. ....

Evolution of the Modern Nursing Practice
Roy L Simpson. "Where will we be in 2015? " Nursing Management 35.12 (2004): 38-42. ABI/INFORM Global, ProQuest. Web. 18 Jul. 2009. Roy L. Simpson describes technological advancements for the approaching year 2015 in the health care industry; more specifically how these advancements with effect ....

Evolution of the Nation
Industrialization occurred after the Civil War when the cost of manufactured products far exceeded the value of farm products. The country shifted from an agrarian economy to one in which industry predominated. Other factors contributing to industrialization were improved transportation and communic....

Explain why the Reds were victorious in the Russian Civil War
Explain why the Reds were victorious in the Russian Civil War. The October Revolution of 1917, in which the Bolshevik party, led by Vladimir Lenin, brought about a coup, to overthrow the Provisional Government was a success. They presented the takeover as a revolution in the name of the workers'....

Famous Horses of the Civil War
Famous Horses of the Civil War Horses were essential to the civil war. They carried soldiers into battle, pulled the artillery wagons, pulled the ambulance and also the supply wagons. Many horses were lost during the war, at one point in the war, more horses than men were being kil....

Fort Sumnter
Fort Sumter was the location of the opening of the Civil War (Hesseltine). This military fortress is located in Charleston, South Carolina (Hesseltine). Fort Sumter sits on an artificial island and it is one of four military fortresses in the Charleston harbor (Yoesloff 22). The fort sits at t....

Frederick Douglass
About 105 years ago, a man died, helping the world with his accomplishments while spreading them with sorrow for his death. That man was Frederick Douglass. Theres a saying that can describe any courageous person, A coward dies a thousand times. A brave man dies only once. This saying relates ....

Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass stood at the podium, trembling with nervousness. Before him sat abolitionists who had travelled to the Massachusetts island of Nantucket. Only 23 years old at the time, Douglass overcame his nervousness and gave a stirring, eloquent speech about his life as a slave. Douglass would....

Freedom
Freedom: Defined and Undefined, The Story of Americas people Webster defines free as, Not under the control of some other person or some arbitrary power. They also go on to define free as, Having or existing under a government that does not impose arbitrary restrictions on the right to sp....

Freedoms Challenge
What are the challenges of freedom? What can be considered challenging about being free? What does freedoms challenge mean to you? To me it means the challenges our country has to go through to keep our freedom. Is freedom really free? That is what I used to think. But then I started seriously....

Friends
As the plane taxied to the runway, I found myself sitting alone with two empty seats next to me. Oh, joy. I fluffed my pillow, retrieved my book, and stretched myself out under a blanket. All was good. If I had had any idea that the seating arrangement was to be the highlight of my trip, I might hav....

Gilded Age
During the rocky period of 1865 and 1900, American industrial workers encountered both good and bad times. Once the long, brutal Civil War was over, the United States was able to pull itself together and began to further urbanize. During that time, which killed much of the working population, ....

Gilded Age and Monopolies
"The Gilded Age" is a reference to a period of rapid economic growth during the post-Civil War and post-Reconstruction eras of the late 19th century. During this period the U.S. economy grew at the fastest rate in its history and created the modern industrial economy. The United States sh....

Gray Ghosts of the Confederacy
Mike McQuatters Book Review In Richard s. Brownlees Gray Ghosts of the Confederacy you as a reader get an understanding of what type of war took place in the west. It was not the same type of civil war that took place in the East between organized military forces but rather completely diff....

Ground Beneath Her Hands- Cold Mountain
The ground beneath her hands The novel Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier as a whole, is a historically based fictional story which encompasses factual relevance to the time period and setting. With each chapter adding meaning to the central themes and motifs throughout the story, the grou....

Guernica by Pablo Picasso
Guernica by Pablo Picasso is a very famous painting from the 1900's during the Spanish Civil War. This creative painting is describing and giving the message to the viewers of how the Spanish Civil War was like. The various colors and pain brush stroke make the wor....

gun control
Gun Control 2 Gun control is not one issue, but many. To some people gun control is a crime issue, to others it is a rights issue. Gun control is a safety issue, an education issue, a racial issue, and a political issue, among others. Within each of these issues there are those who want more gun c....

gun control
Americans are faced with an ever-growing problem of violence. Our streets have become a battleground where the elderly are beaten for their social security checks, where terrified women are viciously attacked and raped, where teen-age gangsters shoot it out for a patch of turf to sell their illegal ....

Gun Control: a Racial Discrimination
Gun violence is one of the most serious problems in the United States. Each year in the U.S., more than 35,000 people are killed by guns, a death rate much higher than that in any other industrial nations. In 1997, approximately 70 percent of the murders in the United States were committed with guns....

Gun Control: a Racial Discrimination
Gun violence is one of the most serious problems in the United States. Each year in the U.S., more than 35,000 people are killed by guns, a death rate much higher than that in any other industrial nations. In 1997, approximately 70 percent of the murders in the United States were committed with guns....

harriet tubman
Everyone has a calling in their life. However, not everyone answers it. Harriet Tubman was one extraordinary person who answered her calling and did something unbelievable with it. She made something good and worthwhile out of, what seemed like, an impossible to fix situation. Not only was she a her....

Henry Adams Education Compared to Ours
A college education is perceived as an elite standard in life that earns respect in certain aspects of society, depending on the time period in which the education had taken place. The goal of a recipient of a college degree in todays education system is viewed to help one prepare for the world i....

Historical Perspective of Nursing
Nursing is an essential part of society, out of which it has grown and with which it evolves. Nursing can be said to have always been directed to serving the health care needs of society. Nursing originated with the desire to keep people healthy, as well as to provide comfort, care, and assur....

History of baseball
Surprisingly little is known about the origin of baseball. The question has been the debate and controversy for more than 100 years. Baseball (and softball), as well as the other modern bat, ball and running games, cricket and rounders, developed from earlier folk games, many of which were similar t....

History on the White House
The "elliptic salon", with the Yellow Oval Room above and the Diplomatic Reception Room below it, formed the most elegant architectural feature of James Hoban's plans for the White House. The Blue Room has always been used as a reception room except for a brief period during the administration of Jo....

How the federal government polices toward native americans chaged during the sencond half of 19th century.
This is our high destiny, and in nature's eternal, inevitable decree of cause and effect we must accomplish it. With these words, John L. OSullivan expresses how the nation understood and applied the idea of the Manifest Destiny, suggesting that the United States was designated to obtain all t....

HuckleBerry Fin
Societal Grievances Expressed in Literature Authors have always been known to address the ills of society through their literature and humor. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain comments on the faults of the southern way of life. He does not overtly ridicule the South b....

i have a dream
The Civil rights was about gaining right for African Americans and Women. Many people in the north opposed the unfair treatment of African American. African Americans in the north had it much better, voted freely, and discrimination was hardly noticeable. The Thirteenth Amendment officially o....

I Hear America Singing - Walt Whitman
"I Hear America Singing" by Walt Whitman, portrays a very strong, hard working America. Many citizens of the country share his views, both in the present and in 1860. Now, the war is "over there", but in 1860, a war was about to erupt in the heart of America. Even though this powerful poem was wr....

Ida B. Wells
Ida B. Wells has been described as a crusader for justice, and as a defender of democracy. Wells was characterized as a militant and uncompromising leader for her efforts to abolish lynching and establish racial equality. Wells challenged segregation decades before Rosa Parks, ran for Congress and a....

Industrial Revolution
The Industrialization was a time of extreme growth in America in the late 1800s. It transformed humanity's age-old struggle with material shortage by using wealth, technology, and resources to expand the production of goods and services dramatically. In the United States, the period between the Civi....

Industrial Revolution
Document Based Question By: Anna Butler The Industrialization was a time of extreme growth in America in the late 1800s. It transformed humanity's age-old struggle with material shortage by using wealth, technology, and resources to expand the production of goods and services dramatically. In the ....

INDUSTRIAL Revolution: Friend or Foe?
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: Friend or Foe? "For years the government regulators looked upon corporations as big money trees. They figured if they just shook the money trees hard enough, they could find money for everything" Howard M. Love, President and Chief Executive Officer, National Steel Corporat....

International Terrorism
In this assignment I will review my knowledge and experience about specific aspects of International Terrorism by examining the past 37 months I have spend in Iraq as a section leader as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom. I will describe at length the deterioration of the situation here in Iraq; from ....

Jack London
(Jan. 12, 1876 Nov. 22, 1916) White Fang Hand_clapping and pleased cries from the gods greeted the performance. He was surprised, and looked at them in a puzzled way. Then his weakness asserted itself, and he lay down, his ears cocked, his head on one side, as he watched the puppy. The othe....

Jackson vs. McClellan
General Lee said, to be a good soldier you must love the army, to be a good general you must be prepared to order the death of the thing you love, and therein lies the great trap of soldiering. When you attack you must hold nothing back." Thomas J. Jackson was both a good soldier and a good general.....

James Longstreet and the Battle of Fredericksburg
James Longstreet: An Untarnished Legacy There is no doubt that James Longstreet had a significant influence on the strategy and tactics that emerged during the Civil War, but after the war, many regarded Longstreets strategies and tactics as the reason why the war was lost, thus creating ....

James M. McPherson - American Civil War Writer
James M. McPherson was born North Dakota and raised in Minnesota. Also, Mr. McPherson went and graduated from Johns Hopkins University. While he was in the university, he got mentored by C. Vann Woodward. James McPherson is one of the greatest American Civil War writers, and not just said by me....

Jamestown Island
Typhoid, contaminated water, idleness, and mortality were all found in the early settlement on Jamestown Island. Walking to the site past a swampy area, it was easy to see how quickly diseases could spread. The stagnant pools of water would have been ideal growing pools for bacteria and other contam....

Jim Crow Laws
Jim Crow Laws The Jim Crow Laws came forward in southern states after the Civil War. First passed in the 1880s by lawmakers, whom were upset about their loss to the North and the end of slavery, the laws separated the races in all ways of life. The resulting lawmaking barrier to equal rights create....

Jo from Little Women
The movie Little Women follows the lives of four girls as they grow up during the Civil War era in Massachusetts. The family is neither rich nor poor, but somewhere in between. The sisters, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy, are encouraged by their courageous and strong-willed mother, Marmee, while their....

John Browns Raid
John Brown was an abolitionist that just wanted to solve the problem of slavery. The North and South did change their point of view of John Brown's raid for slavery after the Civil War. The North before the Civil War, disliked John Brown's idea of an immediate end to slavery because....

Killer Angels
The dictionary defines the word noble as dignified, decent, righteous, and splendid. In the quote by Churchill he describes the civil war as being the noblest of conflicts, but the only noble thing about it was the fight against slavery. The war was not just fought over slavery, but also regionalis....

Killer Angels
The Killer Angels, written by Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Shaara, tells the story of the Civil War. More specifically, The Killer Angels gives a vivid overview of the Battle of Gettysburg. The book takes place from June 29 through July 3 of 1863 in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvan....

KKK
How was the behavior of the Ku Klux Klan similar at the time of its organization to today? The original Ku Klux Klan was organized by ex-Confederate elements to oppose the Reconstruction policies of the radical Republican Congress and to maintain white supremacy. After the Civil War local ....

Labor Conflict
The United States has a long history of labor conflict. Labor conflict basically started in America when Europeans began arriving in 1492. The history of labor in the United States is divided into eleven periods, which are the Colonial Period, the Revolutionary Era, the Growth of a New Nation, Exp....

Life of Chinua Achebe
Prominent Igbo (Ibo) writer, famous for his novels describing the effects of Western customs and values on traditional African society. Achebe's satire and his keen ear for spoken language have made him one of the most highly esteemed African writers in English. In 1990 Achebe was paralyzed from the....

Lincolns Death
Lincolns Assassination Abraham Lincoln was a great president. He had done so many things that had affected his life and presidency, as well as the Civil War. Lincoln had been in office as president throughout all the years of the Civil War. Lincoln had run against four other candidates in the....

Lynching
Lynching is the process of putting people to death by hanging via mob action without legal sanction or due process of law. Current studies have shown that lynching is no longer present in the United States. However, lynching played an infamous role that generated change in American history, and alth....

Madam C.J. Walker
Who is Madam C.J. Walker? She is the first African American woman millionaire. She has an amazing family background. She has had so many achievements during her life and findings. She is also a role model and inspiration to many people. This is Madam Walkers success as an entrepreneur who buil....

Many Faces of the Klu Klux Klan
Abstract Throughout the history of the Ku Klux Klan there have been many men that stand out. Most of the men associated with the Klan were filled with hatred and violence which showed in there actions and intolerance towards others. Intimidation, beatings and killings have been common place for....

Matthew Pearls The Dante Club a Historical Novel?
"Few intellectual developments in the last two hundred years have af-fected us more profoundly than the enriched sense of historicity." This quota-tion illustrates the fact that the interest in literary has grown. As "[w]e have an increasing appetite for fiction and an increasing d....

McPhearson Book Review, for cause and comrades
What made the men from the Civil War time period risk their lives while everyone around them was being shot and killed? Why did volunteers and men who suffered many casualties fight in the Civil War? Those questions are exactly what For Cause and Comrade was based on and tried to answer. The aut....

Medicine During the Civil War
As the War Between the States began, many thought that the war would be a brief excursion and people would soon be back to their regular lives. As many believed in the South, a ladys thimble will hold all of the blood that will be shed (McPherson 238). This could not have been farther fr....

Minorities A Burden?
There are many minorities in the United States, however Americans consider them a burden. After the Civil Rights movement it was thought to be an end of racism, segregation, stereotyping, and the act of being prejudice. Although the conditions of being a minority is better than in the past, they ....

Mothers of Invention by Drew Gilpin Faust - Civil War Transforming Gender Roles
Beginning with the haunting faces of many young women who are pictured on the cover, to the many illustrations through out, Drew Gilpin Faust teaches us about the thoughts and activities that occupied the daily lives of the women of the Confederacy during the Civil War. Mothers of Invention explor....

Much of lenins success was no doubt explained by his towering domination over his (Bolshevik) party.
Title: Much of lenins success was no doubt explained by his towering domination over his (Bolshevik) party. To what extent does this explanation account for his rise to power and rule, 1917 to 1924? Much of Lenins success can be explained by this towering domination over the Bolshevik party alt....

outcome of the civil war
George Fredrickson, a historian, believes that the North won because of the number of men that they had, the political leaders, the ability to mobilize the people, their advances in modernization, military tactics, military leaders , and the resources that they had. Some historians say that the Nort....

Pablo Neruda
Biography Pablo Neruda (1904-1973), whose real name is Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto, was born on 12 July, 1904, in the town of Parral in Chile. His father was a railway employee and his mother, who died shortly after his birth, a teacher. Some years later his father, who had then moved to the to....

Pediatric Nursing
Why is pediatric nursing such a popular career choice? Some may choose it because of their desire to work with kids. Others might just adore the profession itself. Jarvis once said, "... The character of the nurse is as important as the knowledge they possess." Then some may pick this....

Political Life of Sam Houston
An Eastern proverb: "The extraordinary time creates hero." Indeed, at the time our nation struggled to separate from its distant government--Great Britain-- the founders of our country, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, emerged and dedicated themselves to gain independen....

Political Organization in the Middle East
The structure of the government in the Middle East is very similar to the one from years ago. Such as the fact that there is still a Judiciary Branch, a Legislative Branch, and an Executive Branch in the Middle East. As far as government organization goes that is it. B. As far as wars go the Mid....

Post civil war in america
After the emancipation of slaves in 1862, the status of African- Americans in post civil war America up until the beginning of the twentieth century did not go through a great deal of change. Much legislation was passed to help blacks in this period. The Civil Rights act of 1875 prohibited segregat....

Prayer in School
Introduction The prayer in school debate began in 1960 with a case brought before the courts in Baltimore, Maryland, that focused on Madalyn Murray O'Hairs son who was forced to participate in school prayer. The prayer in school debate hinges on the principle of separation of church and state. He....

Pre-Civil War New Orleans
New Orleans is a city in southern Louisiana, located on the Mississippi River. Most of the city is situated on the east bank, between the river and Lake Pontchartrain to the north. Because it was built on a great turn of the river, it is known as the Crescent City. New Orleans, with a population....

Psychological Criticism/Review of Main Characters (no title really but what the paper is about)
In analyzing these three works, it was important to know and understand the background and upbringing of the author and how they influenced the psychological qualities of the characters in the stories. Differences in lifestyle, education, and worldliness of the authors are seen in both the way their....

Racism in Twains Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Historical background and period of realism In American literature the period of realism (1860 1890) stretches from the Civil war to the turn of the century. After the Civil war United States changed quickly. The slavery was abolished, democracy increased, towns became industrialized and urban....

PRIVACY | TERMS & CONDITIONS | MEMBER LOGIN | CUSTOMER SUPPORT