Alexander Hamilton's Impact on American Economy

John Steele Gordon for the past 20 years has been a very highly experienced specialist in the business field. As well as being an author of many scholarly books, he was a contributing editor to American Heritage, written by John Steele Gordon. The argument that is discussed is that Alexander is an [...]

Cesar Chavez was a great leader. He fought for equal pay for underpaid and vulnerable farm workers. He led boycotts and strikes. He stood up for people who were too scared to stand up for themselves. And in all this he still remained non violent. He had many great allies including Dolores Huerta [...]

When asked to compose an essay about one individual that deserves respect and recognition as a leader, the first person that comes to mind is Rosa Parks. Rosa Parks is a strong willed and straight forward person. She has been called the "Mother of the Civil Rights Movements" and one of the most [...]

Slavery's roots extend back more than two thousand years. With such a lengthy past, many arguments have arisen regarding the definition of slavery. Frederick Douglass, being a former slave in the American south, offered one definition of the term “slave” while giving a lecture. He stated, “The [...]

In My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass, the setting plays a monumental role in the development of the story, elucidating how an individual’s environment can be nurturing or detrimental to his or her moral development. Douglass describes details of the places he lived throughout his [...]

John Selden was a mystery box unleashed. Can a passion be called an addiction? His love for England's ancient laws and constitution easily qualified him as a scholar of Jewish law. What is a passion? According to Aristotle, “anger should never reach the point at which it undermines reason; and [...]

Former African-American slave Frederick Douglass wrote his memoir My Bondage and My Freedom in 1855, sixty-three years after Englishwoman Mary Wollstonecraft released her Vindication on the Rights of Woman in 1792, and fourteen years before Englishman John Stuart Mill would publish his [...]

The idea that “all men are created equal” is a philosophy that drove American revolutionaries during the late 18th century and though women were specifically left out, those who championed the doctrine believed that women in their lackluster intelligence and strength possessed a sense of morality [...]

When Rosa Parks became involved in the NAACP, or the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, various men tried to impede her participation. Her own husband, Raymond Parks, firmly discouraged her from even joining the organization out of “fear for her safety”, despite his own [...]