Essays 121 - 150
become the commander of the Rough Riders. President McKinley asked for men to become volunteers, with Roosevelt one of the...
area in 1649 (The Archives: Theodore Roosevelt, 2002). His mother, Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, was a Georgia native who supported th...
This paper is on "yellow journalism" and "muckraking," which are styles of journalism that were popular in the late nineteenth/ear...
noted how relations between U.S. and Spain had seriously deteriorated, and that with increasing unrest of the Spanish-Cuban War no...
would be sent to war in just a few years, underscores the awful waste of youth, of life, of promise. The final stanza, in particu...
charges of intentional discrimination.4 Furthermore, the 1991 Act broadened the language of the 1866 Civil Rights Act and extended...
In five pages this paper analyzes war's futility in a comparative poetic analysis of 'Poor Man' and 'WPA.'...
In four pages this essay discusses the McCarthyism period and the emergence of the civil rights movement thereafter....
The civil rights movement occupies the primary focus of this book review which consists of two and a half pages....
it limited the amount of damages a jury could award to an individual (Wikipedia, 2006). It is interesting to note that...
the Department of Justices Police Brutality Study 1985-1990; Uniform Crime Reports during the same period and the 1990 U.S. Census...
has essentially been an ineffective battle so far. In other words, while the media and government espouses the "was on terrorism"...
to it as the First Gulf War (Zwier and Weltig, 2004). It is also known as the First Persian Gulf War. In Kuwait it is referred t...
is the most popular one, acting in the face of adversity should mean that the action is strongly supported by the actor. In the ca...
as a pivotal contributor to the outcome. SUPPORTING ARGUMENTS 1) Robert E. Lee a) Shrewd and defiant military man whose objective...
The Sierra Leone Special Court is an Ad Hoc court set up to hear the cases of those most responsible the atrocities in the Sierra ...
. . . Dont go a-thinkin you can lick the hull rebel army at the start, because yeh cant" (Crane 5). In his innocence, however, he ...
faced by the black people. It was practically unheard of for a slave to buy his or her freedom in the United States, it was even ...
itself with individual codes concerning conduct of certain individuals and groups. Morally, therefore each of the dilemmas noted ...
those changes threatened to overturn the relationship which existed between the individual states and the nation as a whole. A si...
co-mingling with people of lesser stature, racial inferiors, and worst of all, the chance of association with non-Christians. Fur...
in the 19th and early 20th century, the fact is even more remarkable. "Well and Strong and Young" Updike writes that in 1854 Bar...
Missouri asked for admission to the Union in 1817. Because she was a slave state this caused considerable disagreement between th...
G and I, Magruder led a storm of fury that would eventually render a Confederate victory. Even with this winning reclamation effo...
. . . perceives that it waits a little while in the door . . . that it was fittest for its days . . . that its action has...
thenceforth focused on compelling freedpeople to accept plantation work on a wage labor basis" (The Readers Companion to American ...
in colonial America and grew impressively after the Revolution, with ship production centering on the East River (NY Maritime Cult...
founded by Rev. Charles L. Brace was formed and was the first "childrens organization to adopt family care, or placing-out, as its...
and so the South was in a bit of a quandary. Importing weaponry was an idea that made sense. Thousands of rifle-muskets would come...
The English Civil war was also not strictly English, involving as it did Ireland and Scotland as well. The conflict, in fact, orig...