For more than fifty years, historians and social scientists have been questioning whether or not the United States was already "at war" prior to the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. Because of the conflict that already existed regarding Japan’s expansionist practices, the United States may or may have not needed…

Armenian Genocide

Why was the Armenian Genocide Forgotten? GENOCIDE By definition genocide is the organized killing of a people for the express purpose of putting an end to their collective existence (Webster's dictionary). As a rule, the organizing agent is the nation, the victim population is a domestic minority, and the…

American Indian Wars

American Indian Wars There is perhaps a tendency to view the record of the military in terms of conflict, that may be why the U.S. Army's operational experience in the quarter century following the Civil War became known as the Indian wars. Previous struggles with the Indian, dating…

"What Makes Sammy Run?" by Budd Schulberg is a brilliant book that shows the savagery, the insensitiveness, and cruelty caused by the drive for money, which characterized the general attitude of most people in America during the end of 1930s and the beginning of the 1940s. Sammy Glick, the main…

…Exclusion Act of 1882 stopped the immigration from China to America. This was passed because of the concern over Chinese labor flooding the market and leaving few jobs for the Americans. However, a result of the act was labor shortage in the western part of our country. Thus, there was…

Frank Lloyd Wright was born on June 8th, 1867 in Wisconsin. His heritage was Welsh. His father s name was William Carey Wright; his occupation was a musician and a preacher of his faith, Unitarian. His mother s name was Anna Lloyd Jones; her occupation was a schoolteacher. It was…

…Identity (Minerva press, Washington, London, Montreux, 1994) Buber, Martin. Between Man and Man . (Collins Fontana library, London and Glasgow, 1947) Buber, Martin. I and Thou (T&T Clarke Edinburgh, 1970) Grout, D.J and Palisca, C.V. A history of western music (W.W. Norton & Company, New York, London) Philips Griffiths, A.…

"They say you had to see him to believe that a man so fine could exist. He was handsome. He was clever. He was brave. He was gentle. He was generous and charming, noble and modest, admired and beloved. He had never failed at anything in his upright soldier's life.…

…half of Madison's war aims with no shots yet fired. But, as shots began firing, America's position was dwindling. By this time, with one attempt to invade Canada having ended in total defeat and another mired in the great swamps of northwestern Ohio, the United States was pathetically anxious to…

…a shortage. Another problem is also the inefficiency of large, state-owned production facilities can be explained by excess bureaucratic red tape and corruption. Finally, there has been an uneven distribution of development between the land-licked, western section of China and the industrialized east-coast, consequently causing ineffective land use. A lot…