Is Hunting Morally Acceptable? There are many hunters in the United States. The average hunter is a 42 year old, white male. As time goes by, there are fewer places for sportsman to go hunting. A new US Fish and Wildlife survey shows that the number of hunters has declined by 7 percent, to 13 mi...

Genocide has occurred since ancient times. When a group or a nation conquered another group, it was common practice to kill all the men-civilians and soldiers both-of the conquered group. In the 20th century mass killing increasingly became a part of some nations' ways to achieve political goa...

Chowing Down World Hunger Although so far it has not been accomplished, I believe that this goal is still attainable within the next decade or so. I believe that the key is taking small steps at a time, rather trying to conquer world hunger all at once. With our knowledge about populatio...

The Prairie farmers of Canada were struck hardest by the Great Depression. The 30s are known as the ¡°Ten Lost Years¡± as most farmers were forced into extreme economic hardships. During the prosperous 20s, many farmers took the advantage and invested in new and expensive machineries, ofte...

Each year in the United States millions of Americans are diagnosed with an eating disorder. The vast majority of these afflicted with eating disorders are females. Many factors contribute to eating disorders including pressure from television, magazines, and athletes, feelings of low self-esteem a...

There were many strengths of both the union and confederate states. But the most abundant strengths belonged to the Union. Such was the very large population. This enabled the Yanks to have more people to go to war, more people to work the industry, more people to supply goods by farming them, and m...

The American Dream The American Dream has never had an exact definition, and thus the novel My Antonia proves the fact. Not all of the main characters have the same goal , but many of their goals revolve around a few concepts. An American dream is success. Not necessarily being excessively ri...

In 1990 war broke out in Sudan. Thousands of boys as young as three and as old as fifteen ran away in search of a safer environment. They went to their neighboring country of Ethiopia, where they were safe for three years. The boys once again had to take flight. In 1993, the king of Ethiopia was bei...

Thesis: The Seminole Wars were unnecessary wars fought during the eighteen hundreds. The American government was strongly against the Native Americans. It was said that the Government had "taken their actions a step further with the Seminole Indians," of Florida (McGill 1). Novem...

Christopher Capiau October 16, 2001 Essay #3 Final Draft Essay 3 We all know the events of September 11th, 2001. We all know the pain of loss and the anger that was in us all. As many people, the President, parents, teachers, peers, have told us, it is how we react that matters. Do we as a ...

In the 1830s the United States was beginning to expand west of the Mississippi. There was, however, usable land east of the River. It was inhabited by the Native Americans and it was very valuable. In 1830 and act called the "Indian Removal Act" was passed. It allowed the federal gover...

Child Labor Has slavery really ended? If that question was only directed to the United States, then that question is a definite yes. If one thinks about slavery on a global level, then the answer is no. If slavery can be eradicated in America, can't leaders in the third world countries put ...

Immigration Experience Like most of the Irish, Kearney's family probably lived as farmers on a tiny farm they didn't own. Potatoes were grown because they took so little land and they grew well in the moist soil of Ireland. Potatoes were probably the main food of the Kearney family. The...

Race, Ethinicity and Religion... This is a case where two colleagues meet up for lunch and they started discussing on the talk, relating to "Hate Speech" which they have been hearing on the campus. It's relating to Muhammad, who was talking probably about religion and culture diffe...

The easiest way to escape any type of trouble is the shift the blame to another. This is demonstrated in every day life, and has formed a pattern in history. In World War II, not only were the Japanese, African Americans, and Jewish people fighting for their countries, but they were also struggling ...

The Jungle Analysis I feel extremely fortunate that as a whole, working today families do not experience as many tragedies as the characters in Upton Sinclair's The Jungle experienced during the beginning of the 20th century. While reading The Jungle I learned that the rights and ...

It is hard to say just how the Europeans took over the New World and ruled globally, but there's always this one reason that really personally blows my mind. It worked for them but it's not quite the very nice way of taking care of business. It is how they took over the New World and became ric...

The Disaster of September 11th Due to the horrendous act of violence that was brought upon our nation the past year many loyal citizens have wondered, why did this happen and what will it bring forth on to us? The explanation for this question is not easily answered and may never be, but we do kn...

Native American culture in the western United States suffered greatly during the mid-1800's. Intrusions by white settlers believing in Manifest Destiny, or the obvious belief that Americans were meant to expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific, caused the Natives to be driven from their homelan...

In the 1600's many people of English origin embarked on the journey across the Atlantic Ocean over to the New World. Each settler had various reasons for departure which ultimately determined where they planned to settle. This also eventually determined which colonies would be successful. Ches...

"A Look at the Great Depression of 1936" After reading through the article, I gained very good information of what really happened during the era of 1930s in USA. Whereas I think the main cause for the Great depression was the huge stock market crash that occurred in October 1929 other t...

Obedience to Authority Obedience to authority is necessary for any society to function. The point, at which obedience to authority becomes dangerous, is when it harms other citizens. One should obey authority, when it is empowered by the society, through rules enacted by society. Following this pol...

1959 was the date when a Cuban militant trained by the United States, took control of Cuba. His name was Fidel Castro, and he declared Cuba to be a Marxist-Leninist state, which is another term for a communist state(C.P.F. 1). He issued anti-American policies which included the expropriation of Amer...

OPEN VEINS OF LATIN AMERICA Eduardo Galeano's Open Veins of Latin America looks at the political, economic and social history of Latin America. Mr. Galeano argues that the More Developed Countries played a main role in the "Lesser Developed Country" status Latin America has been...

Is the United States Giving too Much to the United Nations? Does it seem like whenever the United Nations (UN) sends peacekeepers to a region that the United States (US) bears the majority of the debt and load of troops? Does it seem that we are the only country supply material and "doing i...