In 1933, Congress created the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) as a federal corporation. TVA was perhaps the most original and broad-reaching program to come from FDR's 'New Deal' to put America back on its feet. The TVA was created to improve and develop the Tennessee River Basin which reached a...

The Civil Rights Movement The Civil Rights Movement in the United States is a struggle by black Americans to gain full citizenship rights and racial equality. Many people have challenged discrimination with many activities, including protest marches, boycotts, and refusal to abide by segregation...

Joe Bertholf Brazil was discovered in 1500 by a Portuguese navigator named Pedro Alvares Cabral. The territory was named after the dye wood trees found there. In 1822 Brazil declared its independence from Portugal. In 1890 the Emperor was overthrown and the First Republic was established. In 19...

Religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared...

A young man named Shaun Fanning who attended high school in Harwich, Massachusetts had two loves, sports and computers. As he became more interested in computers, he decided to stop playing sports and turn his attention toward working with computers. He focused on two aspects of computers, progra...

A young man named Shaun Fanning who attended high school in Harwich, Massachusetts had two loves, sports and computers. As he became more interested in computers, he decided to stop playing sports and turn his attention toward working with computers. He focused on two aspects of computers, progra...

In 1973 a thirty-three year old Caucasian male named Allan Bakke applied to and was denied admission to the University of California Medical School at Davis. In 1974 he filed another application and was once again rejected, even though his t est scores were considerably higher than various minoritie...