Borders By Thomas King Essay

Thomas Paine, an advocate for colonial independence during the 1700’s, wrote, in his famous document Common Sense, “I have never met anyone, either in England or America, who has not felt that a separation between the countries would take place sooner or later.” It is no coincidence that the separation that he speaks of began when the British government started implementing unfair taxes on the American colonists, without their consent, and with no intention to compromise. Certainly, the British…

and morality, subject to discrimination and the prejudice of a single being’s upbringing and experience. However, the most moral and common view of justice and more importantly a just society is one in which all peoples within the bounds of state’s borders, be they visible or invisible, are allowed the privileges of life, liberty and a secure person but as such are subject to the laws of state. Much reminiscent of the American document with rights along the same lines, Tomas Jefferson’s The…

Pope Urban II started the First Crusade to help Byzantine Christians, to manifest papal authority, and to provide redemption for Christian souls. Thomas Asbridge¹ in his book, The First Crusade, explains that in the advent of the First Crusade in 1095, the papacy was slowly recovering. In the events leading up to the First Crusade, Europe had undergone significant political and social upheaval. The Church was divided with Eastern Christians following Orthodoxy and Western Christians following…

up Schmalkaldic Articles •Expansion of the Reformation •German Lutherans formed regional bodies to create new churches •Educational reforms •Reformation was introduced to Denmark by King Christian II, where it thrived under Frederick I •Under Christian III Lutheranism became the official state religion •Sweden - King Gustavus Vasa embraced Lutheranism and subjected church authority to the Diet of Vesteras •Poland was split between Lutherans, Anabaptists, Calvinists, and Antitrinitarians…

Thomas Paine, a former worker in the Custom Services of England, published a book in 1776 entitled Common Sense (Henretta 171). Within the text, Paine heavily criticized the rulings of the British by finding flaws within their mixed governmental system (Henretta 172). Throughout the whole book, the most influential argument that Paine made, for the history of America, was the idea of American Independence (Henretta 172). Common Sense encouraged the Patriots to gain independence from British rule…

Even though the “Waterfill & Frazier” bourbon she made was supposedly intended for the South American market, her distillery was so close to the American border that a lot of it ended up north of the border. Dowling died in 1930, but the D.W. Distillery in Juarez stayed in business for years. In 1964, writes Chuck Cowdery in “The Bourbon Review” Kentucky Congressmen used political pressure to force the Treasury Department to amend…

sweatshops overall are a good thing to have and that we shouldn’t get rid of them. Pietra Rivoli, the author of The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy, breaks her book up into 4 main parts: King Cotton, Made in China, Trouble at the Border, and My T-Shirt Finally Encounters a Free Market. In part one, King Cotton, Rivoli looks at…

INTRODUCTION “We fight, we get beat, we rise, and we fight again.” This research project will explore the evolution of Nathanael Greene, as a paradigm, from being a prominent Quaker pacifist to becoming one of the most active members as General of George Washington’s military unit during the American Revolution in order to understand how Quakerism could potentially be faithfully compatible with pacifism and the struggles of a “just” war. As an activist for the same principles of the American…

The 1763 Treaty of Paris delineated that France be ousted from all of its substantial North American territory, connecting and expanding Britain’s previously divided Canadian and American holdings while extending the Spanish-American border along the entirety of the Mississippi River (Document A). This redraw brought a massive tract of land that colonists had been squatting on as early as 1742 into the colonial arena, prompting a fever of westward migration that severely disrupted natives’…

Delaware lies on a small niche of the Eastern American border. Henry Hudson is credited with the discovery of Massachusetts in 1609. Henry Hudson was working for the Dutch East India Company and he discovered the Delaware Bay and River, which allowed easily accessible routes for trade. This made Delaware a desirable stop for traders and merchants. The natives to the state were the Lenape, Algonquian and the Powhatan Indians. The first natives were of the Paleo-Indian culture that lived in caves…