Essays on United States

Since I vlslted Jamestown In 1957, my country has become a much more diverse society just as the Commonwealth of Virginia and the whole of the united States of America have also undergone a major social change. Buchanan mentions how dfferent not only Jamestown was …

History repeats itself; a phrase I have heard many times over the course of my life. I have also been told “if you want to look into the future, look to the past. ” If there is truth to either phrase, perhaps we are the …

Good morning readers, today’s blog will be about the African American racial group. Through this reading we will answer many questions. Like, what have been the experiences of this racial group throughout history? What have been political, social, and cultural issues and concerns throughout American …

Due to the recent rise in gun violence, Gun Control has once again, become a most heated issue in Congress. In 1999 alone, there was Columbine (15 dead, 23 wounded), the Wedgewood Baptist Church in Fort Worth (eight dead, seven wounded), the North Valley Jewish …

Change Essay All change has consequences. In Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg address 1863, John F. Kennedy’s 1961 Inaugural Speech 1963 and “Forgotten Jelly” by Megan Jacobson a story from the perspective of an overweight girl who is blinded by her attitude from her friend’s battle with …

When thinking of modern day slavery, it is impossible for the average person to comprehend that it is still going on within our own country today.  The issues of slavery and inequality have been a major part of the history of the United States, and …

The book under review is: “Bringing the Jobs Home” or “How the Left Created the Outsourcing Crisis–and How We Can Fix It”. In this book the author, Todd G. Buchholz, gives a conservative economist’s views on the origin of outsourcing of jobs meant for Americans …

The United States Constitution is the document that is responsible for the making of the United States government that we know of today. The primary goal of the Constitution was to establish a government in which the United States citizens could be governed. The seven …

Interesting trends regarding the use of drugs among teenagers in the United States have begun to be revealed through the work of various researchers. While in some key areas, the use of drugs has declined, in other areas increases have been found to exist in …

I learned quite a bit reading this chapter. Full disclosure, I began learning about the Native American’s when I was in 5th grade (see the attached photograph). It has always been an interesting subject because people always assumed my grandfather’s reddish hue linked him to …

As a matter of scientific fact, the vast majority of the surface area of our planet is covered in water; ironically enough, however, a great deal of this water cannot be consumed by human beings in its natural state, as it is salt water, which …

The problem of slavery in the territories created tensions that contributed to the breakup of the Union in 1860-61. The main explanation for the origins of the American Civil War is slavery, especially when it came to Southern anger. The Southern anger was based on …

Danielle DuBroc Blake Ellis History 1301 09/22/12 Chief Sharitarish on Changes in Indian Life (Pg. 188) Chief Sharitarish, the principle chieftain of the once Great Pawnees who are a tribe that mainly hunted on the Great Plains, decided to pay a visit to the new …

Introduction Classrooms across the United States are microcosms of society. The faces in schoolrooms today reflect the altering demographics of the communities in which the schools are located. Today, schools are informants to the rapid alterations in pupil demographics, in peculiar, the growing of Latino …

Apush Revolution is a huge change of power under a very short period of time. The world revolution comes from the Latin language and is defined as “a turn around”. It is an overthrow of government by the human population being governed. It is a …

Katie Cohen Ms. Kenny AP US History, Period 5 15 August 2012 Summer Reading Assignment David McCullough’s 1776 is an insightful and honest account of America’s first war; the Revolutionary war. In the book, David McCullough describes events and skirmishes that led up to the …

Integrating Sources Techniques for Paraphrasing When you write a paraphrase, you restate other’s ideas in your own words. That is, y oh write the meaning of the author’s ideas. You use some of the author’s key terms, but you use many of your own words …

Alcohol is more harmful than any other drug. Despite this fact, alcohol is still legal in the United States. There are many types of illegal drugs that are well known for their harmful consequences to humans but it is, in fact, alcohol that causes more …

With the dream of liberty and the pursuit of happiness my family has immigrated halfway around the world, from Vietnam to America. My parents fled to the United States, not for them but for the unending opportunities for their children. My parents have sacrificed their …

It is inevitable that great men who wield great powers are bound to be misinterpreted. History reveals that this inevitability is true to the most influential men of our time, from the bible’s Jesus Christ to Germany’s Friedrich Nietzche, two opposites who share the same …

Most post secondary institutions consider themselves to be equal opportunity establishments, although their financial aid system does not always seem to agree. In leaving my native country for university I have personally gone through the difficulties of trying to get financial aid. If you are …

When we look back on the history of the world we see even through hell and back, we’ve grown and learned. Slavery itself is one of the most scaring things America has yet to acknowledge in History. “ I had reasoned this out in my …

Slavery Everyone knows a little about slavery, but do they know that Indians were slavers as well as Africans? Slavery had a huge impact on the world for many reasons. What if the people in America at this time had found another way or something …

Jefferson Cowie is a political historian and a social researcher who has focused on how inequity, work and class take part in shaping the American politics, capitalism and culture. He has simplified in details the attributes of the American politics during the twentieth century in …

Hardball Essay The political game is a dog eat dog world, there are several factors that determined weather a politician will be successful or not. Having alliances, enemies, and deals is all part of it. In the book “Hardball: How Politics is Played” written by …

In the United States, there have been several trends that transformed the progression of our nation. However, a more profound change occurred during the 1960’s as the countercultural movement, civil rights, and the Vietnam war. From 1946-1964, the “baby boomer” generation rejected the ambition, morals, …

The American military is literary the military force that guards and protects the borders of the United States. The military consists of the Army. Navy. Marine Corps and the Coast guards. The American society has a long histoiy of letting the citizenry control the military …

Massive imprisonments have affected the life of the young people. It has overwhelmingly restructured the life of many, not only to men, but their families too. Intensive research carried out in the last decade explicitly shows the results of parental incarceration for many children in …

The Debate Over American Imperialism Catriona Whalley Imperialism was not a proper and legitimate policy for the United States to follow at the turn of the 19th century. Americans defended their country’s attentions with ethnocentric, hypocritical, and overall un-American rationalizations. They imperialized for their own …

The controversy over immigration policy has become one of the most pressing issues in the United States. There are many misconceptions when it comes to immigration but the United States actually benefits from immigration by allowing foreigners to live study and work here. There are …