When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes. When you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours that's relativity. I, Albert Einstein, am a German-born American physicist. I am best known as the creator of the special and general theories of relat...

The Dropping of the Atomic Bomb The Allies had won the war in Europe, against Hitler but the war continued in the Pacific against Japan. After many American victories in the Pacific, the Japanese would not surrender, this lead America to develop a new weapon of destruction. Albert Einstein sug...

In the United States, sports teams and athletes are revered as some of the most influential and idolized people in the country. Some fifty years ago, the biggest celebrities around were Albert Einstein, Clark Gable, and Frank Lloyd Wright. These aforementioned people were all from backgrounds outsid...

They slip into the San Diego rail yard furtively, preferably beneath the protective cover of darkness, jumping fences, eluding guards and dodging 200-ton locomotives in a perilous dash for the most elusive of prizes, a free ride to the north. Every day thousands of Mexicans and Central Americans cro...

What were the short and long term effects of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki:The Atomic bomb was created using the scientific discovery of Albert Einstein that E=MC2 . When it was dropped, little was known about the actual power in which it contained. During World War Two, two of them were d...

The Atomic Bomb Kaboom! In an instant two kilometers of a thriving downtown city are leveled. At the hypocenter the pressure exceeds thirty-five tons per square meter and the air is swirling at four hundred forty meters per second. The above is an accurate description of the destruction tha...

The creation of the Atomic bomb was one of the most profound military, as well as technological achievements of the twentieth century. Nuclear technology has made it possible to have dependable electricity in our, as well as many other countries. It also acts as a war deterrent in some ways, this is...

In 1939 the German born Albert Einstein had informed President Roosevelt about the possibility of creating a powerful bomb. It would produce an extremely powerful explosion by the splitting of an atom. Einstein and other scientists feared that Germany might develop such a bomb first. In 1942, the U...

Pearl Harbor Pearl Harbor has become a memorial to Americans all over the United States. Pearl Harbor is an inlet of the island of Oahu, Hawaii, about 6 miles west of Honolulu, and the site of one of the principal naval bases of the United States. The government first obtained exclusive use o...

The atomic Bomb code named The Manhattan Project was the first atomic Bomb created by the United States. The United States supervised the development of the atomic bomb, under the code name Manhattan Project, during World War II. The first sustained nuclear chain reaction was achie...

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...

"The Trinity test, on July 16, 1945, was a spectacular success. A 6 kilogram sphere of plutonium, compresses to supercriticality by explosive lenses, exploded over the New Mexico desert with a force equal to approximately 20,000 tons of TNT"(U.S. National Archives). This statement from...

When Albert Einstein wrote then-President Franklin D. Roosevelt a letter concerning the creation and use of the greatest bomb the world had ever seen, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist saw the bomb as a means to end the rising power of the Nazi\'s; however, when the bomb had been created and was awa...

The Immigration Experience They are our grandparents, our relatives, our friends. They are the immigrants. They came from all over the world for many reasons, such as, religious persecution and racial tension, but the largest reason for coming to America was for freedom. The freedom to live where we...

Glynn 1 Hans Reimer Claussen: a Man of Nationalism, Democracy, and Liberalism Hans Reimer Claussen remains an important historical figure in our lives today. His actions epitomize an ideal democratic and politically centered citizen. He stood up for what he believed in, he expected the sa...

The 19th century was a time of rapid growth and change in America. It was a century of Westward expansion, and the building up of new cities like Chicago, St. Louis, and Milwaukee. It was a time where people from far off places packed up their belongings and sought out new opportunities as they immi...

The definition of war as stated by the Electric Law Library is a "contention by force; or the art of paralyzing the forces of an enemy." Inside of this definition there are all types of interpretations. There are private wars and public wars, local and national wars. National wars can b...

Burn Our Nations Flag...Why? Fifty one white stars, and thirteen red and white stripes should not be anywhere near the line of fire. The legalization of flag burning should not be prohibited in our country. Flag burning is absolutely not a valid form of political expression under the first ame...

Computers seem to control our lives. It is hard to live without a computer, and no matter how hard you try to remove yourself from computers, they always affect your life. Many people think it is good that computers make things simple. "The Jetsons" was a cartoon where computers controlled the wo...

The United States of America¹s war on drugs today is very similar to America¹s Prohibition of Alcohol in the 1920s. These two major issues of their time may not seem like they can be logically compared, but statistics for usage and a correlating rise in crime for both eras show a strong relationsh...

THE BEGGININGS OF THE COLD WAR The Cold War is not just one single war taking place in one area, but a large conflict between the United States and its allies and the Soviet Union (USSR) and its allies. In this report, I am going to tell you about the happenings of the Cold War between the pe...

People come to United States from all over the world to get a better education. Although this seems to demonstrate the success of the American education system, I believe that considering education as a marketable product for a long time has had a key role in the success of American schools.Most cap...

The Immigration Experience They are our grandparents, our relatives, our friends. They are the immigrants. They came from all over the world for many reasons, such as, religious persecution and racial tension, but the largest reason for coming to America was for freedom. The freedom to live w...

Was the invention of the atomic bomb the creation of just another weapon, or the creation of a doomsday device? For over fifty years, the controversy over whether or not it was necessary to drop the atomic bomb to conclude World War II has continued to question America and the rest of the world. In ...

Throughout history the world has kept the trend of change. The world has broken the proverbial mold time after time. The people of the world have always strived for more, either a single person such as a king or a whole group of revolutionists, the world's people has always-wanted better lives. T...