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When Christopher Columbus arrived on the shores of Puerto Rico, it was said that there was about a million Puerto Rican Parrots [1]. In 1975, only 13 birds remained. As with any small wild population, the Puerto Rican Parrot was bound to be affected by intrinsic factors. For example, a smaller parrot population increases the possibility of inbreeding depression. Genetic issues based on the life history of the parrot could also contribute. The bird mates for life and the average clutch size is…

Since the conception of the United States, George Washington had set forth the country to be an isolationist nation. As the country progressed and expanded into the 20th century, presidents, Taft and Roosevelt took a more aggressive intervening approach to foreign intervention. During Wilson’s presidency, the world was at the center of imperialism. President Wilson, however, had an eye for world peace. He believed Americans had the duty of bringing democracy to the rest of the world. His belief…

The Vietnam War was the North Vietnamese and the South Vietnam, its main ally, pitted long and costly conflict, the communist regime, known as the Confederate States. After the war power-up of the communist Vietnam party in Ho Chi Minh City and northern Vietnam (this extends to the middle of this conflict back to the 1940's in the area but) started in 1954 and continued two world superpowers between the intense Cold War Background: United States and the Soviet Union. More than 3,000,000…

Many philosophical scholars believe that justice, liberty, law, and equality are an important aspect among the commonwealth of the nation. Moreover, this paper will focus on the two important political philosophers that argue with the notion and importance of equality and justice in the western society. These philosophers include: Robert Nozick and John Rawls. John Rawls claims that equality and justice is derived from an equal distribution of opportunities, income, wealth, for the general…

Within the war happening on November 1, 1955 to April 30, 1975 over three million civilians died during the war and thousands of refugees showing up in different countries. With the savior of Tuyet, Tuyet was brought a fortune of being sent to a vietnamese orphanage and reduced from the invading north vietnamese…

From 1954-1975, the Vietnam War would amply and foster ideas of masculinity. The male soldier developed an acceptance of violence and the silent endurance of burden. Yet, internally soldiers struggled with emotions deemed feminine. Writer and Vietnam Veteran, Tim…

This obituary was published in 1996 following the death of the former director of the C.I.A William Colby. Colby was the director of a C.I.A center in Saigon from 1959-1962, and was involved in the Phoenix Program and other covert operations in Vietnam from 1962-1969. This obituary spends about 75% talking about Colby’s work following the war, and only a small portion about his work in covert operations in Vietnam. Most of the obituary talks about Colby’s work after the war and how he helped to…

After the conclusion of World War II, training on the base soon came to a halt. From December of 1945 to December of 1957, the base exchanged hands between various military organizations, including the Air Materiel Command, Strategic Air Command and the Tactical Air Command (Alexander and Arrington 1963, 332-333). Most of the activity at Wendover Air Base during those years included bomb and munitions-testing. On December 31, 1957, the base was decommissioned, with a short period of…

The United States is the only industrialized country in the world that does not use the metric system as its main system of measurement. In the early 1800's, the government's surveying and mapmaking agency or the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey used meter and kilogram standards brought from France. In 1866, Congress allowed the use of the metric system in this country and gave each state a set of standard metric measures and weights. In 1875, the US promised its commitment to the development of…

November of 2004, Congress ratified the reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). The IDEA was the first national special education law applying to all public schools in the United States. “IDEA was initially passed in 1975 as the Education for All Handicapped Children Act” and in 1990 the title of the law was changed to IDEA. IDEA was signed into law by President Bush on December 3rd, 2004 and was put into effect to work along side with the No Child Left Behind…