Rachael Guster Eng101-36 10-20-2010 Equality‚ the American dream What is the American dream? The American dream to me is about equality. People have been wanting‚ fighting to be equal for many years‚ and it has turned into a game of tug-of-war. Today‚ people have made progress in treating other people equally‚ but we have to look at the timeline of what we went through to get to where we are today. In the 1770’s‚ when there were only thirteen colonies
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Hawaii was important to the United States for its military potential‚ as well as many economic reasons such as its rich agrarian industry. Without Hawaii‚ the United States would have had to negotiate more for navy bases from which it could launch aquatic assaults on the Axis Powers and Japan. This significantly increased our participation in World War II‚ while decreasing our debt to other nations for allowing us to use their ports. The first settlers of the islands were probably Polynesians from
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Squanto Squanto is a Native American who lived in the early seventeenth century in what is now the Northeast United States. When the English came to this area of America to settle‚ they became very fond of Squanto and used him as a translator due to his unique knowledge of the English language acquired through an earlier voyage to Europe. Squanto helped the Pilgrims adapt to their new surroundings by providing them with the knowledge that he and his ancestors used to survive when they first
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African Americans No matter where or when a person lives‚ skin color‚ beliefs‚ class‚ or history he/she will see a difference in the way every ethnic group is treated. This world has never been fair for anyone. Life can treat a person with the greatest of care or it will treat a person as if he/she is lower than dirt. African Americans are no different. They have faced great hardships and triumphs throughout the years. Since they had been forced from their homeland they have been treated as if
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UNITED STATES TITTLE: A Model of Christian Charity AUTHOR: John Winthrop BIOGRAPHY: John Winthrop was the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony‚ and the chief figure among the Puritan founders of New England. EPOQUE: Is a 1630 sermon by Puritan layman and leader John Winthrop‚ who delivered on board the ship Arbella while en route to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. TITTLE: The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts AUTHOR: Maxime Hong Kingston BIOGRAPHY: Maxine Hong Kingston
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The American Revolution was a pandemonium between political parties in which The Colonies rescinded Great Britain and their monarchy‚ deposing themselves from Britain‚ and proclaimed the founding of The United States of America. King George III published a document called The Proclamation of 1763‚ after the French and Indian War‚ England gained new land in which pushed borders back allowing more land for colonies to grow. Although the king and his council bestowed the proclamation to relieve the
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Diversity In The United States Sandra Scott ETH/125 October 14‚ 2012 Rodney Cullifer Diversity in the United States We are brought up to believe that America is and has always been a nation of opportunity‚ home of the brave‚ and the land of the free. But anyone with a basic understanding of American history is aware that this is not the case. The first settlers had to fight be gain a foothold in this country and then their freedom from Britain. African Americans then had to fight
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Athletes should be required to sit out for longer periods of time. Injured athletes should sit out longer seeing as the effects of concussions are very serious‚ they could be at risk of getting another concussion once they go back out to play and they could get long term damage in the process of getting a second one. Even though they are sitting out for long periods of time‚ the brain injury might not go away completely. In article 3‚ it states that one concussion can linger for 30 years or longer
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TO WHAT EXTENT WAS WAR A CATALYST FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF CIVIL RIGHTS IN THE UNITED STATES IN THE PERIOD 1877 TO 1981? At the beginning of the 1870s Blacks had caught a glimpse at the end of the tunnel for the development of Civil Rights. With the Emancipation Proclamation in 1862 followed by the 13th and 14th Amendment freed slaves could now travel freely‚ own property and become educated‚ some of the most fundamental of civil rights. However after the release of three and a half million slaves
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African Americans and Discrimination Originally from Sub-Sahara Africa‚ thousands of African Americans were kidnapped and brought over to and sold in the United States during the Atlantic Slavery Trade. By 1860‚ before the Civil War‚ 3.5 million African Americans lived as slaves‚ mostly in the Southern United States. More than 500‚000 lived as free persons in 33 states across the United States (2008). Today‚ many African Americans believed to have come from European American or Native
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