Washington depression history

The essay is about the state of the University of Washington before during and after the great depression of the 1930s.  The changes in the students union, teachers, administration and infrastructure have been clearly discussed. The contents of the essay discuss the major changes at the University of Washington due to the reduced incomes and finances during the period of depression. In-text citation using Chicago referencing style has been clearly done. The references are listed at the end...

The Rise of the US Military during the Interwar Period

The 1920s saw the end of the First World War when Germany accepted the armistice and the alliance emerged victorious. Most of this victory was as a result of the advanced fighting skills of the US army led by General Pershing. The first election brought an end to the leadership of President Woodrow Wilson, who was the twenty-eighth president of the US and his liberal policies. The Americans choose President Harding who was a republican. This restored power to the conservative group for most of the...

American Effort in France in 1917 and 1918

The American government mobilized an army to participate in the war against the German in order to protect its international interests. The successes of the alliance forces in the First World War are mainly attributed to the leadership of General Pershing. The alliance members could not have worn the war without the support of the US forces and they therefore had no choice than to follow the leadership of General Pershing. Apart from his exemplary leadership of the American army during the First...

Weapons and Technology

The Japanese military leaders planned a surprised aerial attack on the American Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in order to handicap them to retort and defend their strategic objectives in Far East Asia. This attack led Americans to quickly get involved in the World War II and served as the anticlimax of the US and Japanese worsening relations. The Japanese invasion of China in 1937 and its amiable ties and military alliance with Axis Powers, Germany and Italy, and its activity in the French...

Review of Archives Web Presence

The email allows people to do many tasks that include the daily routines, shopping purposes as well as business and educational purposes. Whenever some one order a product through email, or enter in a online contest or even subscribe to a magazine, his name along with other details gets registered to a company or organization who is involve in the online advertising business and this is how he may be placed on a mailing list. Those organizations rent or trade the list that has your name included....
Los Angeles, L.A, or The City of Angels, as it is fondly referred to, represents many things rolled into one.  It is an economic powerhouse and business center, a renowned hub for entertainment, culture, media, education, tourism, technology, sports and international trade. On the other hand the city is unofficially known as the Gang Capital of the Nation due to its being home to more than a thousand organized gangs that rule its underworld. The history of the modern city of Los Angeles can...

American Revolution

The American Revolution also referred to as the revolutionary war, was one of the most important events in the American history. Without the war, the United States of American may not have been what it is today. The process of revolution was facilitated by various events among them the French and the Indian wars. This was one of the series of wars which was fought between the British and the French as early as 1600s. The French-India war began in 1754 and was finished in 1763. The British soldiers...

An Institution of Violence An Examination of the Role of Violence in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Slavery is the hulking monster pushing its way through the narrative of Frederick Douglasss young life. It is neither sentimentalized nor sensationalized, slavery is presented as an institution of violence and hatred that infected the living nightmares that characterized Douglass and many other slaves lives throughout its long tenure in American history. Such a monster, driven, justified, and exercised through physical, mental and sexual violence, cannot pass through an individuals life without...

Compromise of 1850

The intention to extend the territory form Texas to California necessitated the formation of the compromise immediately after the Mexican-American war. The Americans shared the opinion that it was Gods plan that America should extend from sea to shining sea. By 1850, the Free states had exceeded the slave states which were source of political imbalance. By now, the southerners had a feeling of insecurity since the imbalance would lead to an antislavery agenda which they were opposed to. The compromise...
In the late 1840s, during the administration of President James K. Polk, the boundary of the United States was finally stretched to the Pacific Ocean. As a result, three new states  California, New Mexico, and Texas  became part of the Union. The goal of this paper is to provide an explanation for how and why the territories that became these states were acquired by the United States government. The acquisition and development of these three new states can be attributed to one main concept...

The English Colonies of Massachusetts Bay, Virginia, and Pennsylvania

The defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 paved the way for English colonization of North America. In 1606, King James I of England and James VI of Scotland formed two stock companies. The London Company was commissioned to establish the Jamestown Settlement. The Plymouth Company, under the direction of Sir Fernando Gorges, established the Sagadahoc Colony (present-day Maine). The Sagadahoc Colony only survived for a year as there were frequent storms in the area. The Massachusetts Area was inhabited...
This Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave depicts a lot that the slaves had to go through and the kind of life they led. This is about the violence against slaves and how it affected there lives. It could be narrowed down that most of the slaves were ignorant and oblivious. The slave masters promoted this because it benefited them for the slaves not to know there rights. A good example of the ignorance was that the slaves did not know there own age. To add salt to injury,...