I believe American history began in Philadelphia on July 4th 1776. It was here that colonists led by Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and James Madison signed the Declaration of Independence. Up to this time it could be argued that what had taken place was part of British colonial history and not...

X-tra CreditComment: Are the prototypes irrelevant?History is always important regardless of its contemporary applications because history teaches us about the potential of human behavior. The lessons learned from a failed institution give us insight into the trials and tribulations of man; in esse...

"American History" is a story about a girl in 1963. She is a Puerto Rican girl and she lives in the tenement building El Building. She sits on the fire escape and watches the family in the house beside her, a family from Georgia. Over time, she feels like part of the family. In school, she becom...

The Great Depression was the worst economic slump ever in U.S. history, and one that spread to virtually the entire industrialized world. The depression began in late 1929 and lasted for about a decade. Many factors played a role in bringing about the depression; however, the main cause for the Grea...

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 trust...

Throughout history, the loser had always been the ultimate evil, especially in a world war, in Germany's case. However, it is true that Germany did havevoluminous responsibilities of starting the war, although she was not the one who sparkedoff the initial dispute. She was taking part in the imperia...

In 1859, Charles Darwin developed a theory explaining the history of our evolution. He also came up with the idea of Natural Selection. This is the idea that the environment an organism lives in helps to determine which organisms survive and produce young, and which do not. When Darwin was a youn...

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. He ...

In a world in which lives are shaped by unalterable choices and by accidental events, a world in which everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance, its weight. Hence, we feel "the unbearable lightness of being" not only as the consequence of our private actions, but also in th...

From 1939-1945 there was a disasterous war that would change the way countries around the world looked at each other forever, this war was World War 2. The one major turning point of this war was the bombing on Hiroshima. Proubably the most stunning thing that has ever happened on the face of this ...

Australian Foreign PolicyTopic 2"Australia was a good friend to the Indonesian independence movement in the years after World War 2, but Australia stood silently by as Dutch New Guinea was given to Indonesia. Again, Australia stood on the sidelines when Indonesian soldiers killed Australian journali...

Japanese - American Relations Japan had aided in the defeat of Germany by Allied powers, and the Americans seemed to them by preaching self- determination and an open door policy (Goldstein 35). Woodrow Wilson believed that Japand's entry into World War I, and its intervention during Russia's civil...

England has one of the finest educational system in the world. All English children between ages 5-16 must attend school. About 90 percent of the students go to schools supported entirely or partly by public funds. The rest of the students attend private schools. The Department of Education and Scie...

The California Gold Rush had many effects on the American people, westward expansion, the environment, economy and Indian relations ultimately affecting the world as a whole. When John Marshall first found gold in January 1848 at Sutter's Mill in California many people on the east coast did not bel...

Despite Canada's obvious disadvantage given it's sizen as well as the youth and inexperience of it's soldiers, Canada was automatically entered into global conflict along side the British in 1914. The given circumstances lead to over 60,000 deaths through out the course world war one.Young Canadians...

This is madness! What's happened to the world? Is everyone gone insane? In a matter of way, this is what happens when you involve yourself in others business, like U.S. does all the freaking time. I don't know if there is one single war they've missed, I'm pretty sure they've been in almost all the ...

The setting of this book is sometime in the future when a married couple could only have 2 children. The couple in question had 3 children had a great ability were above genious. The government tested the 3 but the only one was superior to his siblings. Ender was the third child in a family when ...

Clara BartonClara Barton the founder of the American Red Cross. Clara was born in Oxford, Masschusetts. She was the first woman hired to work as a clerk in the United States Patent office in Washington, D.C. Some people say she was the Angel of the Battlefield. Clare Barton was born on December ...

Thomas Edward Lawrence, called Lawrence of Arabia was born in 1888and died in a motorcycle accident in 1935. Thomas was born inTremadoc, Wales , and attended the University of Oxford. In 1910 hewent on a archaeological expedition to the ancient Hittite city ofCarchemish (located in Turkey), and th...

Nicholas II, 1868-1918 (r.1894-1917), was the son of Alexander Iii. As a youth he received little training in affairs of state. His reign continued the suppression of political opposition and persecution of minorities. Revolutionary groups proliferated, while liberals demanded constitutional governm...

Many Americans have skewed notions about immigration, and those perceptions influence decision in Washington and presidential candidates on the campaign trail. Some people think immigration is out of control; a few suggest that it should be stopped altogether. The problem is that many people have il...

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...

Ferdinand Porsche Ferdinand Porsche was born on September 3, 1875. Always interested in thingsmechanical, at the age of 15 he equipped his family's home with electricity, designing andbuilding the generator and even the light bulb. The name Porsche first appeared on a carin 1900, the Lohner-Por...