February 24, 2000 Michael J. Petrides 623 My Journal of Thurgood Marshall Day 1, Today I was born, I was the second son of William Marshall, my dad. I was born on July 2, 1908, in West Baltimore, Maryland. My father worked as a dining car waiter for the Baltimore and Ohio R...

John Paul Stevens John Paul Stevens was born on April 10, 1920 in Chicago, Illinois to Ernest and Elizabeth Stevens. John, who is the youngest of three brothers, and his family lived across from the University of Chicago. There, John attended high school in the university's labora...

During his time in office, President George W. Bush has led the American people through trials and hardships unseen since Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency: An attack on American soil. Through his devotion to the safety of America in the War on Terrorism, as well as his attention to key do...

Thomas Woodrow Wilson"Vote for Woodrow Wilson"! That is what was being said throughout the country. His name had been spread for not only being the President, but for being a scholar, a teacher, and a university president. But he had encountered many difficult tasks throughout his life.Thomas Woo...

"E-A-S-T-E-R-N! Eastern Eagles! Go! Fight! Win!" Cheerleaders are the always the main attraction at almost every football or basketball game. Guys love them and most girls, dislike them. Cheerleaders are known as the stuck up, prissy and ditzy cheerleaders, who are only out there to sho...

Woodrow Wilson was born in 1856. He became America's 28th president in 1912. His father was a strict Christian minister and Woodrow Wilson was brought up in a household associated with such beliefs. He was educated at Princeton and then at the University of Virginia and John Hopkins University. It i...

Concern of the Health Care System Throughout the United States there has been an overwhelming concern as to the status of the present health care system. Approximately 100,000 people lose their health insurance each month. Unfortunately the present system does little to nothing to aid these people...

The Gore versus Bush post-election was infinitely more exciting and significant than the actual contest. Who would have thought that such a boring and manipulated competition would culminate in an American style, Supreme Court-certified coup d'etat. It was seriously a coup. Som...

When the United States was founded over two hundred years ago, our fore fathers proclaimed that this land would be an area where freedom would be available to anyone and everyone. It is this freedom that enticed many individuals to make the journey from their home country over to the United States. ...

William Jefferson Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe IV on August 19, 1946 in Hope, Arkansas, named after his father who had died three months prior to his birth in a traffic accident. His mother was Virginia Cassidy. When he was four years old his mother wed Roger Clinton of Hot Springs, Ark...

"We must work for a welcoming and compassionate society, a society where all Americans are indifferent and no American is neglected. In this the great and hopeful story of our country we must give all Americans who suffer from mental illness the treatment, and the respect, they are entitled not onl...

Responsibilities in War What is the responsibility of a citizen in times of war? This was the question on many people's minds after the September 11th attack on the twin towers. When President Bush declared war, was it because they attacked us, or because of their religion, maybe even oil, or...

Changes in the Foreign Service Since February 8, President Clinton has appointed nine foreign ambassadors. The countries included in these appointments are Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname, Australia, Bangladesh, Poland, Kyrgz Republic, Mongolia, and Laos. These individuals have degrees from Yale, Harva...

In 1962, the United States President, John F. Kennedy, spoke at Rice University in Houston, Texas. Kennedy promised to put an American on the moon by the end of the 1960's. (The History) On June 16, 1969 Kennedy's dream promise was kept. The United States placed two men on the surface of the moo...

Throughout our nations recent history our government has often attempted to introduce us to several different centralized social policies such as FDR's New Deal and Lyndon Johnson's Great Society. During the mid-1990s both the "Health Security" effort and the Welfare Reform Bill ...

He first tried the law profession by enrolling in Columbia University. He didnot enjoy it and soon left school. He published his first book in 1882 it wasentitled "The Naval War of 1812". He had begun work on it while still atHarvard. Then Teddy decided that he would try a career in politics. H...

Little Biography Ida Tarbell: She was born in Erie County, Pennsylvania. She was born in1857-1944.She was an American writer, leader of the muckraking movement in journalism. Tarbell was an associate editor (1894-1906) of McClure's magazine (1906-1915) and editor of the American Magazine....

"This is Your Brain on Politics" By Joshua Freedman If anyone has watched any television in, say, the last five years, they obviously know the new shows about crime scene investigation, such as CSI:, CSI: Miami, and NCIS. These shows teach the viewer one simple thing: the evidence doe...

New Hampshire is a state that would be very important to this year's election. The state had been Republican but this year, Democrats are striving to steal New Hampshire from the Republicans. Last election, Bush won by 1.27% of New Hampshire's votes, a close election that could very possib...

Introduction Every President handles issues in his own way. It is interesting to compare and contrast the presidential leadership of Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson in the field of civil rights. An Issue of Civil Rights When President Eisenhower and President Johnson were...

I. Introduccion- The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the diferences and similarities of expresidents Richard M. Nixon andGerald R. Ford. II. Important dates in Ford's life- 1913 (July 14) Born In Omaha, Nebr. 1935 Gradueted from the University of Michigan. 1942-1946 Served...

John F. Kennedy was destined to be president of the United States, he would rather mold history than let history mold itself. He was born in Brookline, MA in 1917. His mother was Irish and his father Joseph Kennedy was a graduate of Harvard University and had entered the worlds of business, and poli...

Joseph McCarthy became a United States Senator for the State of Wisconsin, in January of 1947. After losing popularity within the Senate, McCarthy utilized a speech in Wheeling, West Virginia to announce a communist plot that he had discovered within the United States Government. Given the situat...

During the worsening conditions of the stock market crash on Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929, the United States was thrown into the greatest economic disaster of American history. The majority of society, with the exception of the rich, became poor and mostly unemployed. Many Americans found themsel...

Between June 1941 and May 1945, six million Jews were systematically annihilated under the leadership of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime. However, because of Germany's firm control over most of Europe, information about theFinal Solution? wasn't leaked to the presses until a year later. In June 1...