Today's youth still face many attitudinal challenges to self-empowerment. Both the problem and the solution begin at home with their parents. Leadership training must start from an early childhood, as these young adults learn to take gradual responsibility for their own decisions. Only throu...

The Civil War was not inevitable. It was not an unavoidable conflict of two opposing sides; rather, it was the result of extremism and failures of leadership on both sides of the conflict. The conflict was made up of the pro-slavery southerners and the anti-slavery northerners. Both sides felt ver...

All countries and civilizations throughout history have been run with some form of government or leadership. Whether the governing body is ruled by a tyrant, monarchy, democracy, or even a tsar, the body has certain responsibilities and jobs. In any given country, the role of the government varies a...

The United States role in the world is to protect U.S global Interest. We live in a dangerously unstable world. By choosing to protect U.S interests as our overall foreign policy will mean that, we must strive for order So that it lets the world know that know that we should focus on keeping our Int...

Returning from WWII, black Americans, just as those three decades prior, expected to find America land of equality for all people and specifically a land endowed with increased black civil rights. Although the late 1940s and 1950s are not generally considered a period of social advancement for black...

Voter Apathy The United States might regard itself as the symbol of democracy around the world, but its citizens are hardly model voters. America has among the lowest voter turnout of any democracy in the world based on participation in presidential and mid-term elections. Over the past few decade...

"How Has Being the Child of a Military Family Influenced My Educational Goals?" I was adopted into a military family at four and a half years of age. Both of my parents have held masters degrees from the beginning, so naturally for me, education is respected and expected. As a child ...

Patrick Daley EXPANSIONISM IN AMERICAN HISTORY The expansion that took place in America in the early twentieth-century in many ways was a a departure from previous the expansion of the previous century. On the most basic level, the land to be acquired was different. No more uninhabited (or n...

Conducting Business globally in today's society requires knowledge on technology. In the United Kingdom, UCI receives an award for business performance recognizes technologies that simultaneously enhance the environment, society and the economy...

For years, the Monroe Doctrine has captivated historians; its causes and effects have shaped how the United States deals in foreign affairs to this very day. Numerous aspects brought about this decree. However, there are three distinct reasons why Monroe instated this principle-defense, promote budd...

The war in Iraq has many people in America and around the world questioning America's intentions. Some might speculate that America went into this war to obtain oil. Others might see America as power hungry by wanting to overthrow Saddam Hussein. There are many different speculations about w...

Effects of the War of 1812 The War of 1812 with Britain was difficult for our new Nation. There were many losses, and the White House in Washington, D.C. was burned by the British. However, the early victory of the U.S. Navy, the leadership of able generals such as Andrew Jackson and William Henr...

The United States of America was once a symbol of liberty and a gateway of opportunity for oppressed citizens of the world. Today this idea of "one nation under God" is slowly being torn away into a more intrusive government, taking away our Civil liberties and God-given rights. Since the ...

The easiest way to escape any type of trouble is the shift the blame to another. This is demonstrated in every day life, and has formed a pattern in history. In World War II, not only were the Japanese, African Americans, and Jewish people fighting for their countries, but they were also struggling ...

America declared independence on July 4th 1776, although America was not united when it begun, it soon became united through common hard-times and great leaders. America was discovered and settled by many different cultures and all of the cultures clashed from the start. After studying the co...

The national history of Iran is one marked by turmoil and conflict, due mostly in part to foreign influences. As the country grappled for self-rule under the leadership of Mossadegh, Britain, and America each tried to intervene with different motives. In the aftermath of World War Two and the rise o...

The Disaster of September 11th Due to the horrendous act of violence that was brought upon our nation the past year many loyal citizens have wondered, why did this happen and what will it bring forth on to us? The explanation for this question is not easily answered and may never be, but we do kn...

The Abolitionist Movement During the thirty years that preceded the Civil War, abolitionism was a major factor in electoral politics. Abolitionism refers to antislavery activism between the early 1830s, when William Lloyd Garrison began publishing The Liberator, and the Civil War. By the year 1834,...

The Project for the New American Century (PNAC) is a Washington based think tank formed in 1997. Current Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz is the ideological father of the group. Some other founding members are current Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Defense P...

Affirmative action is the nation's most ambitious attempt to redress its long history of racial and sexual discrimination. Born of the civil rights movement three decades ago, the policy calls for minorities to be given special consideration in employment, education, and contracting decisions. ...

Hundreds of years ago our forefathers came to this great nation to establish a land of freedom. One freedom in particular that our nation was built on is that of religious freedom, included in the first amendment of our Bill Of Rights. This freedom has become a prevalent issue concerning the separat...

While the history of American policing can be traced to its English origins, the American system of policing evolved from an amalgamation of systems from England, France, and Spain. "Many policing problems plagued the new cities of America. They included controlling certain classes, including s...

Affirmative Action began in an era when minorities were highly under represented in universities and employment. Unless one was racist, most agree with the need of affirmative action in college admissions and in the workplace. With so much of America's work force made from inter-raced schools n...

Business leaders in today's society have become excellent through diversity and the ability to finesse any situation. Any business leader, from a small one horse town business to corporate America, has had to handle the ever so changing society and its employment too. The business leaders of ...

The concept of religion is something that is widely used but frequently misunderstood. During the 19th century religious ideologies were widely practiced, and had subsequent influences on nearly every facet of society. Sadly, religion was used particularly in the form of Christianity to keep certai...