For a period of thirteen days in October of 1962 the United States held its breath in fear of nuclear war. The Cuban missile crisis is considered by most to be the closest two countries came to nuclear war, apart from the nuclear bombing of Japan. The Cuban missile crisis was a major confrontation...

CROSS THAT LINE Paul Robeson stood on the northern border of the USA and sang into Canada where a vast audience sat on folding chairs waiting to hear him. He sang into Canada. His voice left the USA when his body was not allowed to cross that line. Remind us again, brave friend! Wh...

The American Alligator is one of the largest reptiles in the world weighing from 450 to 500 pounds. The length of an adult varies from 13 to 18 feet. The tail is about half of the length. The alligator and the crocodile are very similar in appearance but there is a difference. The crocodile has a di...

Sometimes things change; sometimes they remain the same. Fifty years ago, Japanese Americans were forced into relocation camps due to the distrust of Americans towards Asians. Fifty years later, not much has changed according to a recent poll. A quarter of Americans polled aren't quite ready for an ...

Alex Alampi Jr., a watercolor artist from Gloucester County, New Jersey, features the people of the Mid-Atlantic region. "Working Portraits," as he refers to them, are images reminiscent of a simpler time. Although Alex enjoys painting a wide variety of subjects from the Delaware Bay region and th...

In the article, "In the Indian view, a day of no thanks," Ward Churchill argues why he thinks Indians should not celebrate on Thanksgiving. To Americans it is a day to be thankful that the English settlers survived and colonized America. For American Indians it was the day they welcomed ...

When Franklin D. Roosevelt became the president of the United States in 1933, the nation's economy was in a state of turmoil. Industrial production slowed to about half its level prior to the depression, agricultural and other prices of goods fell to half of their previous value, and unemployment ju...

James Madison's Federalist #10 was somewhat confusing, but in laymen terms it basically stated the "factions" actions towards the Federalist Government, causes of the actions, and solutions. The factions were the countryside attempts to overpower the Federal Government by the states....

1.) Explain the significance of the phrase "God, Glory, and Gold" to the exploration and settlement of the Americas. There were three main things that were important to the explorers and settlers of the Americas. "God, Glory, and Gold" was a phrase commonly used among the pe...

Over the past hundred years, the United States has tried to evolve toward a country of accepted diversity. Yet throughout time it seems that whenever the United States takes a step forward toward universal acceptance of all races, they take two steps back toward racial profiling and discrimi...

The gloomy portrayal, reflexive of the puritan society in chapter one of the Scarlet Letter, was formed by Nathaniel Hawthorne to not only foreshadow events in the novel, but to also unveil the thematic idea of social rejection and Hawthorne's own spurn of social conformity and idealism. Thro...

The 1995 film Mi Familia (My Family), was one of the first and most positive representations of real Mexican-American life. Director, Gregory Nava, created such a true to life chronicle of the Mexican-American experience through three generations (1920's, 1950's, and 1980's). I sti...

"The Puritan ethic: the haunting fear that somewhere, someone is having a good time," annonymous. This qoute is an amusing example of the Puritan ethic. The modern American ethic is quite different. The Puritan value system is different from the modern American value system. Puritans valued G...

"American History" is a story about a girl in 1963. She is a Puerto Rican girl and she lives in the tenement building El Building. She sits on the fire escape and watches the family in the house beside her, a family from Georgia. Over time, she feels like part of the family. In school,...

September 11, 2001 was marked as a somber day for the United States and for civilized society around the world. The World Trade Center (Twin Towers) were symbols of economic power in the whole world. Consequently it impacted many people's and companie's financial situation. The destruction of thos...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was with no doubt President at the worst time in American history. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was President through not one but two American crisis the Great Depression and World War II. His dealings with both of them were incredible. The nations' people bestowed their ...

1780's America was a country at the close of the war. A war that was not so much won by America's revolutionaries as simply given up by the British. The country consisted of a patchwork of states geld loosely by a common bond (their fight for independence) whose threads quickly unraveled as each s...

The issue I will be researching is polio eradication. Polio is a disease that mainly affects children and affects the whole body including muscles and nerves. Sever cases may cause permanent paralysis or even death. The countries I will be using during the course of my research will be Pakistan,...

Trunble low-security prison, located in a backwater of Florida, is home to a trio of former lawyers. The self-styled Brethren, comprising a Federal Judge, a Justice of the Peace and a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, arbitrate on behalf of the jail's inmates. Their daily meetings in the law libra...

The word is in some countries still something to be ashamed of.They won't say it out loud that they believe in God.Here in the United States it is fortunately a very open thing and friends get together on sunday nights to go to Youth group.Although there are still some people that make fun of Christ...

Telecom Deregulation Like the US, European companies are breaking up many monopolies, and have begun swift deregulation policies of the telecommunications industry. This will most likely lead to further deregulation of other large industries as well. This seems to have posed both success and diffi...

Crime as a Social Indicator Crime is regarded as a major social problem due to its inherent nature as a threat to society as a whole, and to the individuals who live in that society. Crime reduction and prevention has been, and always will remain to be a top priority of the legislative, execu...

John Schroeder, an 18-year-old Marilyn Manson fan, was walking with his mother in a grocery store in New Braunfels, Texas,when he was arrested by an off-duty police officer for wearing a Manson T-shirt. The shirt bore a lyric from Manson's song "Cake And Sodomy" which read "I am the god of f*ck". Th...

Education is essential to me; for without an education we are nothing. I want to keep and serve the people in my home town. Furthering my education will give me the opportunity to give them something back; and to better understand their problems. I am the first generation in my family to g...

Columbia was one of the three countries that emerged from the collapse of Gran Columbia in 1830. A fourty year insurgent campaign to overthrow the Columbian government escalated during the 1990s, under girded in part by funds from the drug trade. Although the violence is deadly and large swath...