… When the atomic bomb went off over Hiroshima on Aug. 6th, 1945, 70,000 lives were ended in a flash. To the American people who were weary from the long and brutal war, such a drastic measure seemed a necessary, even righteous way to end the madness…

… and indelible effects on American society. The enormous expansion of American business and industry promoted a drastic change in the basic division of labor. The basic need of industry is labor, so a great demand for a workforce was created.…

… family in athens, greece. When he was a child his father, Ariston, who was believed to be descended from the early kings of Athens died, and his mother, Perictione married Pyrilampes. As a young man Plato was always interested in political leadership…

… 1865 shortly after the civil war as a social club in the small town called Pulaski, located in Tennessee. The origins of the Klan were closely guarded; there were many theories as to how the Klan was formed and by whom. One of the more absurd theories…

… no nation of mere agriculturists ever made successful war against a nation of mechanics. . . .You are bound to fail" -Union officer William Tecumseh Sherman to a Southern friend. The American South before the Civil War though steeped in…

… of 1985 and 1986, in which high-ranking members in the administration of President Ronald Reagan arranged for the secret sales of arms to Iran in direct violation of United States laws. Profits from the $30 million in arms sales were given to the…

… are numerous reasons for the limitation of domestic reform throughout the 1960’s, from Kennedy through Johnson to Nixon this essay will explore domestic reform in the United States in the 1960’s. John Fitzgerald Kennedy became President…

… War between U.S. and Russia caused a major polarization across the World. Countries like Korea, Vietnam and Germany were split in half-one half would be democratic and the other communist. The fight for the sphere of influence became mmore of a territori…

… protest In a poem “ Theme for English B,” black student worries about an essay that he has to write for his English class in College. According to the description of the place of the school, I can assume that the school that he goes to is Columbia Unive…

… authoritative nations in the world, they have taken on the position of protecting petty, insubstantial countries from harm. However, so many wars are going right now that the United States cannot get involved with all of them. The United States should…