Essays on History of The United States

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Slavery in American History Through The Prism of Famous Artworks

5 pages / 2075 words

Introduction Slavery is a prominent part of American History and why America has been shaped the way it has been today. Many artists have captured the raw images of slavery in paintings during the time in order for us today to be better understand the...

American History Artwork

971

The Motivations Behind The Salem Witch Trials

3 pages / 1310 words

Salem Massachusetts, colonial United states, 1692. A young country still growing and unsteady. A place for the unwanted in England, a place of refuge. Among other outcasts there were the Puritans, a group of people that practiced puritanism. They lived their lives directly through the...

Motivation Salem Witch Trials

972

"A Sharpshooter's Last Sleep" – Haunting Civil War Photograph by Alexander Gardner

2 pages / 946 words

Introduction A lifeless body lying on a plush earth with jagged rocks protruding from it, while light bleed frames the shot of the rifle just above the male’s upper torso, is the photograph I chose for this analysis paper. “A Sharpshooter’s Last Sleep” is an...

American History Civil War Photography

973

World War I as a Turning Factor in African History

1 page / 565 words

The significant changes between the end of the Civil War and the end of World War I were Social Darwinism, sharecropping and the Great Migration effect on African Americans. Social Darwinism had a great impact on the people between the end of the Civil War...

African American Civil War

974

Escaping Salem: How One Person Can Make a Difference

3 pages / 1304 words

In Richard Godbeer’s historical novel, Escaping Salem: The Other Witch Hunt of 1692, the author discusses the famous Salem Witch Trials and their effect on New England during this time period. Richard Godbeer explains to his readers the social and judicial differences throughout New England...

Control Salem Witch Trials Witchcraft

975

Critical Overview of The Supreme Court Judges and Their Major Cases

6 pages / 2625 words

John Marshall, appointed by Federalist John Adams, was one of the greatest justices of the Supreme Court; because he avoided corruption, was a level judge of constitutionality, and did not “legislate from the bench.” He was one of the longest-serving justices of the Supreme Court...

Marbury v Madison

976

Understanding of Government Work

2 pages / 762 words

How do we know our government is working as consistently and productively as we can manage? Has trias politica manifested further into other countries and how have they incorporated it into a checks and balances system? What happens when we discover a major gap in...

Marbury v Madison

977

The Importance of Judicial Activism for The American Constitution

3 pages / 1266 words

In the United States of America, the Constitution has always been a document which upholds and protects the rights of the individual citizens. However, the country’s Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution in 1776 using broad and general terms, which has led to debate and disagreement...

Marbury v Madison

978

Pecularities of Marbury Vs. Madison Case

4 pages / 1930 words

The Election of 1800 caused great anxiety amongst the Federalists. In the Presidential Election, Democratic Republican Thomas Jefferson defeated Federalist John Adams with only an eight margin victory in the electoral votes (winning by one state), but Jefferson’s win marked the end of a twelve...

Marbury v Madison

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Impact of Marbury and Madison on The Supreme Court

2 pages / 726 words

William Marbury was appointed by former president John Adams as justice of the District of Columbia. Many men, himself included, did not receive their legal commissions to start practicing as a judge in their respective positions. James Madison, secretary of state under Thomas Jefferson, was...

Marbury v Madison

980

Report on Natural Disaster: Hurricane Katrina

3 pages / 1376 words

The tornado flood from Hurricane Katrina, which made landfall on August 29, 2005, caused deplorable fiendishness along the coastlines of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. Levees isolating Lake Pontchartrain from New Orleans were broken, over the long haul flooding around 80% of the city Hurricane Katrina...

Hurricane Katrina Natural Disasters

981

The Reasons Why The Colony of Massachusetts Bay Become a Strong Colony

2 pages / 1073 words

The colony of Massachusetts Bay was very different from neighboring colonies in both leadership and founding principles. It all began when according to Keene, Cornell, and O’Donnell (2010), in 1629, Charles I of England brought an end to Parliament in an attempt to bring back...

American History

982

Plot Summary and Review of Liberty's Fire

4 pages / 1860 words

Liberty’s Fire is historically original and an accurate book specifying the events from periods of the Franco-German War, also known as the Franco-Prussian war, as the conflict was between France and a coalition of the Prussian Lead States of Northern Germany. Out of this war...

Civil War Novel

983

The Role of Women in Colonial America

3 pages / 1544 words

Today, there’s still an inequality problem between men and women. However, the battle for women’s rights have exceeded the conditions for modern women big-time compared to the parts they were restricted to play during the colonial era. In spite of the fact that we frequently...

American History Gender Roles Woman

984

A Harmful Disaster of Hurricane Katrina

10 pages / 4497 words

The purpose of this paper is to explore a specific aspect of the Hurricane Katrina disaster and the collective response (governmental and otherwise) to this situation. Because of the physical destruction of this natural disaster and the ensuing media coverage, there has been a wealth...

Hurricane Katrina

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Role of Social Media During The Hurricane Katrina

1 page / 494 words

“Controlling Disasters: Recognizing Latent Goals After Hurricane Katrina” by Lee M. Miller, focuses on the impact Hurricane Katrina which had occurred in late August of 2005. Which had put tons of thousands of people in troubles one could not imagine. It also put different processes...

Hurricane Katrina Social Media

986

Analysis of The Documentary Trouble The Water

4 pages / 2039 words

The documentary Trouble the Water is the story of Kimberly Rivers Roberts and her husband, Ninth Ward citizens of New Orleans, as they survive Hurricane Katrina. The movie opens with footage taken by Kim before the storm actually hits. In it, she goes around asking...

Documentary Hurricane Katrina

987

Trail of Tears: a Part of Cherokee Nation's History

2 pages / 853 words

John Enle, who was a sixth generation North Carolinian, grew up in Penland, North Carolina on a land once used as hunting grounds by the Cherokee. He is the author of 14 highly acclaimed works such as The Winter People. The Winter People is being...

Book Review Trail of Tears

988

My Attitude to Trail of Tears Event

2 pages / 706 words

This part of history has always been a brutal and sad one. The Cherokee tribe have always been a main tribe that faced discrimination from the Americans and The Trail of Tears has always been an ugly part of our history. What is interesting about...

Event Trail of Tears