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the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, was awe inspiring to some, comforting to others, but to the millions of Japanese-Americans who...

he knew nothing of the causes for the war. Nash and Jeffrey use this to illustrate their statement that people fought on the Ameri...

so. Hence, designers went right along with the war time ideology of cutting back. The aura went to uniformity and drabness, a tren...

of 19th century philosophers. Alexis de Tocqueville recognized that democracy, though touted as a distinct government defined by ...

Today, people know when they put their money in the bank, it is insured by the government, at least up to a certain amount of mone...

onslaught of German forces, Russia released their prisoners, asking many Poles to come out in force in support of the Russian acti...

a tremendous and detrimental way as to completely overshadow the others victory. The Task Force was meant to bolster the desire f...

them to the most rigid scrutiny. Pressing public necessity may sometimes justify the existence of such restrictions; racial antago...

state of crisis" (Clay, 2007). Many of the colonists thought that the coming conflict was "between the colonies and the motherland...

U.S. settled the Oregon boundary dispute, annexed Texas and "gained about 1.2 million square miles of land, over one-third of its ...

There is no question that a significant number of tax dollars have been used to militarize the Middle East, in addition to the pay...

of Guilford Courthouse took place on March 15, 1781 and some say that was the beginning of the end of what was known as the revolu...

works of the time, self-published, and were handed out to Bostonian readers by the twelve-year-old author himself (DuHadaway 34). ...

appointed to non-elected stations. Winthrop was certain that God had made a covenant with the settlers and that the world would b...

forgive and forget. It does however help to explore what happened in those camps in Japan during World War II. Although by and la...

founded by Rev. Charles L. Brace was formed and was the first "childrens organization to adopt family care, or placing-out, as its...

adjacent to the South would be slave states (Faragher et al, 2000, p. 256). Then in 1819 Missouri, which is adjacent to both Illin...

order to coordinate the Union war effort (Federal Bureaucracy) It was in the nineteenth century that Western democracies began ...

policies enraged the colonist who saw them as encroachment on their traditionally established liberties. What the British saw as t...

was developing. But, when her husband was taken it was very hard for her to do nothing. She constantly ended up battling with the ...

obtained (Lee). There were places that the new Americans wanted desperately, places like California and while the government tried...

the pressure put on them by the Puritans were generally members of the larger, autonomous tribes, such as the Narragansett, the Wa...

occasion, "his master had the nails of his fingers and toes beaten off" (Blassingame 331). A slave who accidentally bumped a white...

But it raises a lot of questions for the future. How did events alter the perception of Americans as the U.S. started its journey ...

rationalized by President Theodore Roosevelt on the grounds that the U.S. had an "obligations to intervene elsewhere in the Wester...

from the spiral grooves inside the barrel: this is called "rifling" and is designed to make the bullet spin; it is believed that t...

own language. "Indian" is the name Christopher Columbus gave to the natives he met when he came to the New World, believing he was...

Their purpose was to have Parliament abolish slave trade, rather than declare slavery to be illegal. As an incremental play, this ...

notes, "Serious scholars still debate whether the Civil War was necessary" (Kagan, 2005; B07). At the same time one can speculat...

of the rioters, which was directed at African Americans, possessed the mob with such ferocity that they lost all sense of humanity...