1. Mental Battles - The War Isn't Over Yet
HISPANIC ARTIST Art is something that people of all ages over the world can appreciate. Art doesn't expect you to speak the same language; it's just there for you to admire it. Today I would like to introduce six Hispanic Artists who have touched the lives of Americans. Some were visitor...
Taking a pilot to control the UAV or also known as SWORDS (Special Weapons Observation Reconnaissance Detection Systems) from as far as away as possible is only ideal (History of Weapons).If you could protect and defend your country without putting beloved soldiers in harms way, would you not? ...
Immigrants have always been the life blood of our beloved country. For hundreds of years, Americans have associated themselves with many different cultures. America is truly a melting pot; even today you can still see the influences of the many cultures practiced here. Immigrants, however, did no...
The world watched in horror as television broadcasts showed the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center burn and collapse on September 11, 2001, killing as many as 3,000 people. For many Americans the shocking images didn't end there. Later that day, broadcasts showed footage of Palestinian y...
Whitman's Secret Mentor Walt Whitman was a man who slowly developed his personality throughout the course of his life. It can be said that his emotions were a very broad spectrum, and at times, even contradictory. Much like many people in today's society, it took some horrific experiences in Wh...
When people think of sports related to the United States, many people think of baseball, basketball, and American football. Although all these sports were established in America, the one sport that came before them all was lacrosse. Lacrosse is considered to be America's first sport. It was first in...
In January 1706, a baby was born in Boston Massachusetts, who later became a great influence on the foundation of the Unites States of America. Son of the candle maker, the baby's name was Benjamin Franklin, who left numerous marks as a critical writer, speaker, practical politician as well as a ma...
While dust still filled the air where the World Trade Center towers had once stood tall, actions were already underway to raise new walls of security around the nation. Congress, desperate to ward off further acts of terrorism, and equally eager to provide a sense of security in the minds of its c...
The Spanish American War of 1898 One hundred years ago, in 1898, the United States was fighting the Spanish-American War. The victory over Spain made the United States a colonial power. The Spanish colonies of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines, as well as the formerly independent nati...
From implausible, daring escapes to unrealistic accounts of the savagery of the Native Americans, James Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans emphasizes the "fiction" in historical fiction. The novel is comically littered with contradictory tones and gross inaccuracies in terms of frontier life, but in ...
There were many similarities between the causes of the American Revolution in 1776 and the Latin American Wars of Independence beginning in 1810. The main similarities between the two independence movements are essentially economical, political, and ideological. Both the United States and Latin America wanted to end the rule of a mother country whose mercantilist system impeded the development of a growing colonial economy. "The goal of mercantilism was the creation of a self-sufficient empire from which foreign trade and commerce were excluded; the domination of vital trade routes; and the a...
