"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and Go...

The Great Debate: Should Creation Be Taught in School?Evolution versus creation has been a debate lasting decades upon decades in the United States and around the world. The mock trial held during class, however, was not to prove one view as right and the other wrong. Rather, the focus of the tria...

Creation Essay For millions of years people have made myths about how the earth and the people on it were created. I decided to compare the Iroquois creation story compared to the Bilaan creation story. The Iroquois lived in the low lands of Southern Ontario and Quebec and parts of the United St...

Cases of genocide (the Holocaust or Rwanda), crimes against humanity, and serious war crimes are all reasons why diplomats from over 150 countries met in Rome on June 15 to finalize the establishment of the International Criminal Court (ICC). To this day the Rome Treaty has been signed by 139 countr...

Many historians believe that history often repeats itself over the years. Issues that affect society in history often reoccur or continue. In America, our freedoms are protected by the U.S. Constitution. This constitution makes the United States one of the freest countries in the world. If we do not...

How often has it been that you create a New Year's resolution, only to end up breaking it within a month? Did you know that only 1 out of 10 people in the United States actually follow through with their New Year's resolution, and that this can probably be attributed to poor goal setting? Fact: Pers...

United States citizens are very fortunate to have so many wonderful freedoms. Our first amendment guarantees us many important freedoms such as the freedom of religion. In our country there has been a tremendous amount of discussion and dispute on whether or not creation should be taught in publ...

There exist many major differences of the U.S. and British constitutions. The United States Constitution and the British Constitution contain dissimilarities for the reasons that are due to their originations, background, context, and intent. These differences are apparent in the society and politic...

UNITED NATIONS REFORM Fifty years after the creation of the United Nations, there is continuous debate amongst its member states on the proposal for the reform of various United Nations systems. The main reform proposals call for the reformation of the Security Council and for the creation of an I...

Economics has been an integral component of human enterprise ever since goldsmiths began utilizing their clients' bullion to support unrelated endeavors. The goldsmiths' simple process provided the model for present-day corporations to invest their net-worth in labor expansion and new tech...

A Comparison of Native American Religious Writing to Early Puritan Writings.The Native Americans like every other civilization in the known world have creation stories. These creation stories basically tell the origins of the world as the they know it. For the Native Americans these stories were pa...

The argument of legalizing marijuana is akin to the age-old battle of Creationism vs. Evolution, because everyone has his or her own opinion. In my opinion, marijuana should be legalized. "I didn't inhale," was President Bill Clinton's reply when the news asked about his experimentation with marijua...

The Articles of Confederation (FR)After the creation of the Declaration of Independence in 1776, the United States of America was in need of a set of governing regulations and a structured government. Their first attempt resulted in the creation of The Articles of Confederation. To a small extent,...

Thesis: In retrospect, the American Revolution was as important to Canada as it was to the United States, as it divided the continent in two, which created one country and paved the way for the evolution of another.From the first time that the Rebel Patriots in the thirteen colonies caused unrest in...

Was war or was science to be blamed?? (Fermi, p.10), in the past fifty years this question has been asked about a numerous amount of times. The invention of the atomic bomb was one of the most defining moments of the human civilization. It ended the second world war, lead to the creation of the cold...

After the Revolution, the 13 colonies set up a very weak national government under the powers of the Articles of the Confederation. This new government was not able to create revenue for the nation. It was not able to support foreign trade. The 13 states were in fact more powerful individually, than...

In the incredibly insightful novel, Founding Brothers, Joseph J. Ellis recounts the sometimes collaborative, sometimes archly antagonistic interactions between the leading men of the founding generation. By closely examining the private characters behind their public personas, the author provides th...

Arriving at the Arnoff Center for the Performing Arts this past Saturday evening, sparked my imagination when I first saw the interior atrium. The building is beautiful and spacious and is atmospheric with its fantastic lighting accents. I just knew this ballet performance was going to be a good one...

The adoption of the U.S. Constitution created a centralized authority giving a great amount of power to the federal government. I think that the governments powers should be reduced and more equally divided among its branches. With such things we could have specific limitations on the governm...

Federalists and the Democratic-Republicans The great country of the United States did not just appear over night. Many hours, days, and years of study and decisions have taken place to bring these country were it is today. Difference had to be settled, and dents worked out of the governme...

The concept of lotteries conjures up many different images at once, and most of it unpleasant. By association, state lotteries often are compared with seedy criminals, gambling addiction, and destitution for the poor who depend on it the most. Despite, the negative imagery surrounding state lotterie...

In order to have an opinion regarding the controversial views of an artist and their work, one must come to terms with the meaning of art. Art is abstract, it involves the ordinary and entwining it into a creation of many dimensions. Art is creativity, expression, rebirth, and a state of mind. There...

Defining moments in Canadian history Canada has been a nation for 136 years this July first and there have been many important points in her history. Three of these stick out as defining moments in Canadian history, the patriation of the Canadian constitution, the creation of the CBC and Ca...

William Greider, a national affairs correspondent was quoted as saying \"The great, unreported story in globalization is about power, not ideology. It\'s about how finance and business regularly, continuously insert their own self-interested deals and exceptions into rules and agreements that are th...

When thinking of Benjamin Franklin, it is difficult to imagine any other man who has performed greater deeds for the United States. He was instrumental in the creation of the very document that led to the birth of our nation, the Articles of Confederation. Working behind those who were younger and m...