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At the end of the 15th century, Christopher Columbus began a journey. His journey would set in motion, the cultural collision, of a new world. This new world would now be the new home for Europeans, Africans, and a changed home for Native Americans. The residents of this new world would find comfort...
"Here is not merely a nation, but a teeming nation of nations" said Walt Whitman (Lee). The United States of America, now the most powerful nation in the world, was discovered in 1492 by Christopher Columbus, colonized by 1700, freed from British rule in 1776, split in civil war in 1860, ...
"What Right Can A Man Have To Compel His Neighbor To Toil Without Reward, And Leave The Same Hopeless Inheritance To His Children, In Order That He May Live In Luxury And Indolence?" From the landing of Christopher Columbus until today, this nation has struggled to become a realm...
Violence: An American Tradition A father walks into his son's room with something wrapped around his hand. Unwinding the whip, he swings it at his son ripping the flesh off the boys back. A mother covers her baby's face with a fluffy pillow, while putting her baby to bed, cutting th...
"...That these United Colonies are, and of Right out to be, Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved..." It was that spe...