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...

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...

In the article, "In the Indian view, a day of no thanks," Ward Churchill argues why he thinks Indians should not celebrate on Thanksgiving. To Americans it is a day to be thankful that the English settlers survived and colonized America. For American Indians it was the day they welcomed ...

Over the past hundred years, the United States has tried to evolve toward a country of accepted diversity. Yet throughout time it seems that whenever the United States takes a step forward toward universal acceptance of all races, they take two steps back toward racial profiling and discrimi...

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...

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 ...

The word is in some countries still something to be ashamed of.They won't say it out loud that they believe in God.Here in the United States it is fortunately a very open thing and friends get together on sunday nights to go to Youth group.Although there are still some people that make fun of Christ...

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...

Causes of American Revoltuion Life in the colonies, up to 1775 was undisturbed by Britain. Britain had been fighting wars in both Europe and North America, so they didn't concern themselves with the Colonies. When the wars were over Britain was in great debt and they decided to impose taxes o...

Cronon/The Trouble with Wilderness 1. To Cronon, the wilderness is commonly defined as a place that is pure, natural and untouched by man. Cronon does not see nature as such a pure place. He thinks that nature is basically the same thing as the city. Cronon writes that the city to a pe...

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 ...

The College Life More Independence, Freedom, Harder work, and being away from home. The college experience is one of the most memorable moments in a persons life. Ms. Holmes, Mrs. Wheat, Mrs. Parham, and Mr. Monroe all had the privilege of going to gollege without scholarships. Choosing a co...

Reconstruction Era The Reconstruction period can be defined as the time after the Civil War when states were debating on what to do with a partially seceded nation. The Union, known as the North, wanted to come to agreements with the Confederacy, or the south, on how to successfully bring the st...

Shawn Sanders 4-28-98 AA Character assignment Dee Brown, the author of the book Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee, more often than not uses indirect characterization to describe those in his book, although it is not his only method of displaying the characters to the reader. For example the Sioux war le...

In 1793 Eli Whitney invented a very important machine. It was the cotton gin. This very simple machine removes seeds from cotton plants at the least fifty times faster than a worker could by hand. Since several southern states had soil that was ideal for growing cotton and all of the new textile m...

Walt Whitman's poem entitled "A noiseless Patient Spider." Describes a quiet spider creating a web. The first line of the poem reads, "A noiseless patient spider" referring to the graceful and peaceful nature of a spider. It is a creature of patience. "I mark'd ...

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...

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...

There are curretnly five authorized methods of execution in the United States. They are lethal injuction, electrocution, hanging, firing squad and lethal gas. The most common is lethal injection, followed by electrocution and then lethal gas, with only two states utilizing hanging and the firing squ...

Reconstruction Reconstruction is the rebuilding process that followed the American Civil War. The war lasted from 1861-1865 and at thet end of the war many questions concerning the South and slavery were left unanswered. These problems were what to do about the relationship between the Union and ...

Sun Yat-Sen helped the growth of Nationalism during the early 20th century. After experiencing and studying in Hawaii, he got a taste of what the western world was like. Sun wanted to help westernize China to keep up with the world's technology and economy. His goal was to nationalize China....

Under the Government there are three branches that each have individual powers. These three branches are the executive, judicial ,and the legislative branch. These branches have seperated powers. The executive branch carries out the laws. The judicial branch checks the laws. The legislative branch ...

The Puritans: Builders or Biggest? Puritans created a strong religious foundation for their land and people to live by, not to mention how they created capitalism and a democracy for our country. As a unified community, the Puritans built all of what is now Boston, and maintained great cultivato...

I shall never surrender or retreat ... I Am determined to sustain myself as long as possible and die like a soldier who never forgets what it is due to his honor and that of his country-VICTORY OR DEATH." This was a letter sent by William Barret Travis during the siege of the Alamo on February 24, 1...

Webster-Ashburton Treaty: Daniel Webster was motivated to settle the boundary between Maine and New Brunswick. In 1783, a treaty had been made that awarded the U.S. all land in the area drained by rivers flowinginto the Atlantic instead of into the St. Lawrence. However, the diction of this t...