We Americans have a very important decision to make. It will affect the future of our country, maybe even its future existance. Unfortunately, most Americans are not even aware of what's happening. It all has to do with immigration, legal and illegal.When I was a boy, my favorite uncle was my Uncle ...

After England's victory over the Spanish Armada, England concentrated on the colonization of the New World. With the emergence of the joint-stock companies, England dreams turned into England realities. Financed by the joint-stock companies, colonies were planted in the New World. Mainly people...

CULTURE CONFLICT Immigration is a subject which is still seen all over the world. Although it is an interesting, it has lots of difficulties. People who immigrate from one country to another become face to face to lots of problems. These can be named as language, culture and conformity p...

British National Identity Chris Waters in "Dark Strangers" and George Orwell in "The Lion and the Unicorn," address the topic of national identity before and after wartime England. However, they address the topic in two very different ways. Orwell takes a more cynical app...

The New England and Chesapeake regions were mainly settled by people of English origin. The opinions of many political movements at the time, such as loyalty to the previously Roman Catholic Church of England versus the Protestant Reformation of England created many differences. The immigrants tha...

During the times of immigration to the United States conflicts arose between the Yankees and Catholic immigrants. These two cultures, which couldn't have been more different at that time, were separated as two classes on the political spectrum. Secret farming organizations like members of th...

Essay #1 Although New England and the Chesapeake regions were settled largely by people of English origin, by 1700 the regions had evolved into two distinct societies. I have described both societies in an attempt to demonstrate their developments. Virginia Colony In 1607 a g...

In 1607 a group of merchants established England\'s first permanent colony in North America at Jamestown, Virginia. They operated as a joint-stock company that allowed them to sell shares of stock in their company and use the pooled investment capital to outfit and supply overseas expeditions. This ...

The English and the American Dream Throughout the book Rereading America the American Dream is mentioned quite often. The American Dream deals with success and in some people's definition of money. The definition of the American Dream is different in every person and also every country. E...

Throughout history, there have been many important documents that have contributed to the development of the democratic society that the United States of America holds today. Early English settlers brought with them the knowledge of a political system that had been in the making for centuries. The t...

Early colonial areas Long before America officially became a country in 1776, this land, which we are upon, was mearly a colonial settlement for British Immigrants who were fleeing their country because of religious reasons. There were three different areas in...

The seventeenth century in American history witnessed the arrival of a devout religious group known as the Puritans to the New England area. Whether unsatisfied with the seemingly slow progress of the Protestant Reformation in their home country of England, or fearing for their lives because of ant...

What makes America so unique? Very few Americans know just how different we really are, and even fewer know why we are unique. When compared with the rest of the world, America's social structure, political power, and the acceptance of religious freedom are vastly different than other countr...

It is very surprising to find that our most patriotic symbol, the American flag, is often made in countries besides our own. At the beginning of the war on terror, Wal-mart was forced to take certain flags off their shelves because, ironically, they were made in Afghanistan. Even today, many of our ...

Colonial America was a successful establishment in less than a hundred years. The first official census of the United States was 3,900,000 in 1790. Most of the population came from a high birthrate from the settlers; while the other half of the population came from the intense immigration of slaves...

The discovery of the America's was originally and accident. It was thought that the new world was the Eastern Indies, which is why Native Americans are called "Indians." Even though Columbus set out to find a new route to the Indies to find riches, the later colonies weren't n...

In the years 1793-1810 war with England and France was avoided. America was at a time where they had to choose their friends from their enemies. By doing so they tried to avoid war. The reason was because they had an enormous debt to pay. The war between France and America was avoided because of th...

The settling of America began with an idea, the idea that people could join together and agree to govern themselves by making laws for the common good. They desired a place where men and women of deep religious convictions could come and practice their faith freely; a place where you could fulfill t...

The colonists of English America colonists had developed a sense of their identity and unity as Americans by the eve of the Revolution. These developments of senses were mostly caused by the British actions, and also the barriers of nature. There is three thousand miles away between colonists and ...

When Christopher Columbus first landed on the island of Hispaniola, he had no concept of what his voyage had discovered. A New World; with boundless land and new frontiers for exploration. Political issues and mighty Spain prevented England from venturing into New World colonization. In 1584, Sir Wa...

My sister moved to Texas about three years ago from Oklahoma. Recently, my sister and I were speaking on the phone and she made a reference to soda, otherwise known as pop. My kids and I call any carbonated beverage pop, as a matter of fact, everyone I know calls it pop, except now for my sister....

When I was six years old and still living in Mexico and speaking my native tongue, not knowing what was about to happen to me. My parents decided to bring my Family to the United States of America. Once here I noticed people here Spoke a different language. By the following year My parents had enrol...

Before the American Revolution, numerous events changed the way America is today. Two of these major events were pluralism and salutary neglect. In the early 1700s, America was a society in which many particular, racial or cultural groups, co-existed in one nation, also known as pluralism. Immigran...

Just as the atmosphere builds its energy over long areas of land and water, slowly accumulating potential energy, so was the expansion of England during the reins of James I, and Charles I. Then through years of expansion and change the storm of civil war challenged the Ancient Constitution. Jam...

William Blake was a poet and visual artist who embodied all that is the spiritual nature of man and did so through pure and untainted art. A master of not only the English language, but also the language of the gods, Blake was ostracized, as the general public had trouble with his linear, gothic, an...