Articles of Confederation vs. Constitution
After the new United States of America won it's Independence, they realized they needed to form some sort of Government system. A Governmental system was needed for a few reasons. Firstly, the 13 states needed something to unite them together to prove they were as one. Secondly, to run efficiently e....
Cancer in Australia
Cancer, as we all know, is a disease in which cells in the body divide in an uncontrolled way, resulting in the formation of tumour. Nonetheless, not all tumours are cancerous: those which are not cancerous are called benign tumour while those which are cancerous are called malignant tumour. Maligna....
Jefferson on Slavery
Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13, 1743 in Albermarle County, Virginia, inheriting from his father, some 5,000 acres of land, and from his mother, a Randolph, high social standing. He attended the College of William and Mary where he studied law. In 1772 he married Martha Wayles Skelton, and t....
Native American Women: Coerced, Stripped, and Abandoned
I had been sterilized at the age of eleven, at the IHS [Indian Health Service] hospital here in the early 1950s. I got married in the 1960s and I went to the doctor and he told me that I had a partial hysterectomy. [When I was a child] they were giving us vaccinations and mine got infected and a n....
The Cold War
Nuclear Weapons after the Cold War
Vertaal Deur R Strauss
Nuclear weapons played a major, if fortunately only latent, role in the Cold War. The end of that conflict consequently ought to be the occasion for a review of their role in international affairs. In practice, however, perhaps because ....
Welfare, a helping hand or a handout?
Millions of Americans are signed up for welfare; the program designed to aid poor and needy families. Unfortunately, it has now become a way of life for many. Many argue that welfare is not destroying our culture and creating a dependent people who have learned to abuse certain privileges that come ....