Beauty pageants have been the most important television event for many Americans, but now researchers learned that those beauty competitions are bringing many problems to the whole society, so pageants should disappear for the nation's benefit. Beauty pageants affect girls' self-esteem ...

The Railroads One of the major events in the gilded age was the construction of the railroads. At that time there was no artifact of the new industrial culture as powerfully symbolic as the locomotive. In this time period the ton-miles of freight carried by the thirteen principle lines in the c...

PRIMARY AUTHOR: Curtis Freeze received his B.S. in fish and wildlife biology from Iowa State University in 1970 and a Ph.D. in ecology from Johns Hopkins University in 1977. He has served as coordinator for the United States Fish and Wildlife Service's Latin American and Caribbean Program,...

Throughout its history, the Navy has met all its challenges with success. The United States naval service began during the American Revolution, when on October 13, 1775; the Continental Congress authorized a few small ships to be constructed. These small ships created the Continental Navy. Esek Ho...

BIOTERRORISM "Disease has long been the deadliest enemy of mankind," says George Bush, "...we have fought the causes and consequences of disease throughout history and must continue to do so with every available means (qtd. in "Defending against bioterrorism" n. pg...

The Great Depression of the 1920's and 1930's began when the stock market crashed on October 24, 1929 after reaching an all-time high on September 3, 1929. Everyone was jubilant and happy before the crash because the 1,500,00 people in America who had invested in shares of companies were ...

The U.S. Entering World War II - "A date that will live in infamy," (Snyder 33) was what President Franklin Delano Roosevelt called December 7, 1941. It was a calm Sunday morning at Pearl Harbor on the island of Oahu. Then two U.S. soldiers saw an oscilloscope signal on their mobile rada...

Throughout the United States it has been stated that between 500,000 and 600,000 people are homeless everyday and night. Homelessness is something that affects people of all ages, races, backgrounds and religions. The problem of homelessness is not something that only happens in the large cities,...

In 1990 the U.S. Census Bureau reported that 57,985,595 people in the United States claimed some measure of German ancestry. This makes up almost a quarter of the U.S. population. German immigration started as early as 1607. The first three Germans to migrate to the U.S. were, F.Un...

AMISTAD Amistad is based on a true story about an 1839 slave revolution. La Amistad is the Spanish word for "friendship", ironically the ship had nothing to do with friends at all. The ship's purpose was to illegally transport slaves to Spain. The director, Spielberg does an ex...

All over the world, we have an abundance of culture and language that make up human society. Each and every one of these traits of society is unique and special in their own way. Perhaps one of the most interesting phenomena of society is language, how we speak and communicate, but to those who do n...

"What if the shinny material was never found? In a world of hypothetical questions one has to wonder where our country would be if we had not secured what is currently known to be California, from the ruling hand of Mexico. California state history would be severely different had the Gold Rush...