Many Americans have skewed notions about immigration, and those perceptions influence decision in Washington and presidential candidates on the campaign trail. Some people think immigration is out of control; a few suggest that it should be stopped altogether. The problem is that many people have il...

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 ...

Old glory means everything to me. It means freedom, the right of privacy, and to be equal. When I look at the United States flag I remember the coloines of soldiers fighting against the British. When this thought of having freedom comes to me I'm so overjoyed to know I can drink a soda-p...

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...

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...

Japanese – American Relations Japan had aided in the defeat of Germany by Allied powers, and the Americans seemed to them by preaching self- determination and an open door policy (Goldstein 35). Woodrow Wilson believed that Japand's entry into World War I, and its intervention during ...

The modern French government is run very much like the government of the United States. France is a democratic republic that is divided into three branches, the Executive branch, the Legislative branch, and the Judicial branch. The Legislative branch is made up of the Parliament, which like ...

On January 1,1999, the world witnessed a change never seen before: eleven nations of the European Union fixed their currencies to each other and established the world's first common currency, the Euro. The creation of a single European currency will be the most important development in the int...

In 1962, Cuban leaders became convinced that the United States was planning an attack on Cuba. Cuban leaders asked the U.S.S.R. for more military aid. The U.S.S.R. responded by sending missiles and materials to build launch sites. In October of that year, U.S. intelligence produced evide...

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...

Iraq Protests to UN Over U.S.-British Air Strikes This article was about the accused bombing of an Iraqi farm. Iraq is accusing the U.S. and Britain of bombing a small town near Lake Sawa 190 miles south of Baghdad, and injuring 8 civilians, on March 11th. The local paper said that the injured ...

"Melting or Boiling" Are all people are created equally? No matter the race, religion, or ethnic background. This is all true, but are people who are different treated equally. There is a long history of racially motivated predijuices that we all face every day. That is why that we are more of...

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...

Clara Barton Clara Barton the founder of the American Red Cross. Clara was born in Oxford, Masschusetts. She was the first woman hired to work as a clerk in the United States Patent office in Washington, D.C. Some people say she was the Angel of the Battlefield. Clare Barton was born on Dece...

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 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...

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,...

After graduating from Shortridge High in 1940 Kurt Vonnegut entered Cornell University. Vonnegut's father and brother strongly urged him to pursue a degree in biochemistry, and during his studies he found he had no desire for the subject and was rewarded with poor grades. His only enjoyme...

The California Gold Rush had many effects on the American people, westward expansion, the environment, economy and Indian relations ultimately affecting the world as a whole. When John Marshall first found gold in January 1848 at Sutter's Mill in California many people on the east coast did not be...

The Rocky Mountains are a great chain of rugged mountain ranges in western North America, extending from central New Mexico to northwestern British Columbia, about 2000 miles. The Rockies are boardered on the east by the Great Plains and on the west by the Great Basin and Rocky Mountain Trench. Th...

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...

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 ...

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...

John F. Kennedy Jr. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on November 25, 1960, two and a half weeks after his father was elected president of the United States and less than two months before his father was inaugurated. Three years later, that father, murdered by an assassin's bullet, was bur...