Birth and Demolition of the Equal Right Amendment: Women Caused the Destruction of the ERA
INTRODUCTION My paper begins with a brief examination of the historical link between Suffrage and the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). I will attempt to explain through a sequence of events how the ERA was defeated. I plan to support, my claim that men successfully defeated the ERA by creating a div....

Booby Trap for 9/11 Skeptics
The idea that no 757 crashed at the Pentagon is easily the most controversial and divisive issue among researchers of the 9/11/01 attacks. Effectively promoted since early 2002, this idea has enjoyed an increasing acceptance in the 9/11 Truth Movement, despite its blatant incompatibility with the ex....

Boston Massacre: What Really Happened? The Trial of Captain Thomas Preston
The town of Boston was a very uneasy city throughout the 1760's. This uneasiness quickly turned to belligerence in the early part of 1770. Tensions had been mounting from the beginning of the year with various clashes between British sympathizers and colonists. However, in early March the tensions e....

Eyewitnesses on the Verdict of Guilt
The Effect of Credited Versus Discredited Eyewitnesses on the Verdict of Guilt Eyewitness testimonies are very influential in the court system. Whole prosecution cases can be based on the accounts of people who witnessed the crime. A claim made by litigators is often more powerful when there is ....

Fall Of The Armenians
The first genocide of the 20th Century occurred when two million Armenians living in Turkey were eliminated from their historic homeland through forced deportations and massacres. For three thousand years, a thriving Armenian community had existed inside the vast region of the Middle East bordere....

hitler rise to power
Hitler Essay Adolf Hitler was born on April 20th, 1989 in Braunau, Austria. His rise to power became extremely respected and well known. Coming from a lower class root, Adolf Hitler had a unique ability to appeal to the struggling working class. Hitler was not the type expected to obtain grea....

Mass media
Mass media is a term that refers to the print and electronic means of communication that carry messages to widespread audiences. Print media include newspapers, magazines, and books; electronic media include radio, satellite radio, television, motion picture, and the internet. Advertising, which fal....

Multicultural Curriculum
According to Neubert and Jones (1998), "in the effort to develop multicultural curriculum, holidays are the first thing teachers think of." (p.14). From my experience, I agree with this statement. In addition, Neubert and Jones (1998) says that teachers need to include more things in the ....

Pearl Harbor
Yesterday, December 7, 1941, a date that will live in infamy, the United States was suddenly and deliberately attacked by the naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. This quote was made by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt twenty-four hours after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in Ha....

Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a dramatic entrance into World War II for the United States. Pearl Harbor is an island located in Hawaii that is west of Honolulu. It is the headquarters for the U.S. naval base and its Navy Yard was capable of holding the largest ships. There are many reasons for the....

Procedures of Criminal Trial (American)
One of the most vaguely understood events in the United States is the modern criminal trial. Most people have a faint knowledge of the goings-on of criminal proceedings, mainly due to what is seen on television, but the person who knows the real course of a trial is rare. However, there is nothing....

Severe Prejudice
Sejalkumar Patel ENG.100-B02 08-31-06 Severe Prejudice Countdown When the word prejudice is heard, people tend to think it only refers to the racial prejudice often found between those with dark skin and those with light skin. It runs a lot deeper than a persons color. Prejudice is based on g....

The New York City Draft Riots of 1863
We have had great riots in New York today and they are still in progress. They were reported to our office about noonThis decided me to return home, so as to protect my colored servants. I could go neither by the 3rd nor 6th Avenues, as the cars had stopped. Taking the 4th Av. I found the str....

The Triangle Waist Company
Across the developing world, hundreds of free trade zones have been created. Known as export processing zones (EPZs), they are industrial areas where, typically, factory owners pay no tax, the minimum wage is suspended and safety is neglected. Twelve-hour shifts are the norm and trade unions are ill....

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