The focus of this book review is Colin Powell's autobiography " My American Journey". The book is told by Powell and follows his life from childhood, growing up in New York, through his career and his initial retirement from governmental activities. Aside from being incredibly ins...

Politics in American is at most, very depressing. You have the mud slingers and the muckrakers, the big money campaigns of presidents, Congress and Gubernatorial elections and those which barely scraping by as in the local county commissioner, who was urged to run by a couple of friends but had n...

Politics CAT 2 'Analysis of Australian Foreign Policy with the United States since 1941' "Australia looks to America, free of any pangs as to our traditional links or kinship with the United Kingdom." Curtin's historic speech of December 1941 marked a radical change in Australian foreign poli...

Common Misconceptions about South Dakota You know you're in South Dakota when your excuse for getting out of school is that the cows got out. When people from far away places come to South Dakota, the questions they ask are quite amusing. I moved to South Dakota from North Dakota when I wa...

The United States: 1900-1909 The early 1900s was a great time for Americans. The early 1900s brought many reforms, changes, and inventions to the country. Many people, around the world, began to recognize the US as a world power. With the nation's growing economic and naval power, it was ob...