Thesis Essay

DISGRACE! DISHONOR! SHAME! EMBARASSMENT! HUMILIATION! Exclaims Dr. Devin Wirth, one of the millions of American citizens that feels these emotions because of illegal immigrants taking the jobs of many Americans. These immigrants are willing to work at lower wages, behalf of Americans like Devin who work harder than these illegal immigrants to be capable enough to provide for their families and themselves. Dr. Wirth explains that he was a native born American who came from a very poor family and…

Just like children, adults have as much difficulty showing compassion to others. In an article titled “The Harvest Gypsies”, written by John Steinbeck, this topic is introduced to the reader while he documents the struggles of unemployed migrants that had moved into California in the late 1930’s during the Dust Bowl. Towards the middle of the article, John Steinbeck wrote, “The better-dressed children shout and jeer, the teachers are quite often impatient with these additions to their duties…”…

The Homestead Strike of July 1892 the American Federation of Labor of Iron and Steelworkers had refused to take the pay cuts and went on strike in Homestead, Pennsylvania. In return the president of the Carnegie Steel Company Henry C. Frick decided to close the plant and hired three hundred guards from the Pinkerton Detective Agency to protect the factory. After five long months the strikers of Homestead gave in and returned back to work. The Homestead Strike of July 1892 was an important event…

The first victim of the Columbine Shooting was Rachel Joy Scott. “I’m not going to apologize for speaking the name Jesus. I am not going to hide the light that God has put me. If I have sacrifice everything… I will (Laura Collins3). Rachel wrote in her diary “I lost all my friends at school, now that I have begun to ‘walk my talk,’ they make fun of me.” (Sachin 2) Rachel was picked on about her religion she lost all of her friends they judged her for her faith. Rachel was committed Christian.…

Though the pain and struggling that Elie Wiesel and his fellow jews had to overcome (including his own family); the American resistance had finally come to their rescue and the Nazis had been overcome. In this book, Elie share the experiences at the concentration camps him and his family had to go through .(where the jews retained captive). For Elie, he was the only survivor in his family of the Holocaust and he would be scarred for life and would lose his will to believe there was even a god.…

Brothers Grimm Whenever I think of a stepmother, I think of an evil woman who only cares about her looks, her wealth,and maybe her own children. A stepmother never cares about the child of the person she married to. A stepmother’s main goal in life is to make her new family’s life a living hell. If you are reading this introduction and agree with my first three sentences, you may be a victim of peer pressure in the literature world. The idea that all stepmothers are evil, is a stereotype…

H. H. Holmes was one of America’s first serial killers who killed up to two hundred in Chicago by luring his victims to his “hotel” while keeping everyone 's suspicion low by telling very convincing lies. He killed these people in a building he advertised as the World’s Fair Hotel. It was not a hotel but an intricate murder castle filled with different ways to kill his victims. Holmes was always interested in medicine and implicated that later in life. He was eventually arrested while trying to…

Understating Alice Paul is an important part of understanding our history as women, and even men should understand the horrors these women experienced in their time. Alice Paul has not been completely forgotten by all means, but has been forgotten on a huge level. Very few people have learned about the struggles of Paul and her fellow suffragists. Paul is one of the lucky ones in my opinion, for there are hundreds of women’s names that we will never know. There are contributions that will…

During the 1960s and early 1970s, before the Vietnam War broke out, but during the Cold War, the United States was in a turmoil of civil rights movements and new technological advances. New presidents such as John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson tried to create administrations to try to help upcoming society. John F. Kennedy’s administration was called the “New Frontier”, he announced that it would help solve problems in America, such as peace and war, ignorance and prejudice and poverty and…

Civil Rights are the rights to individuals in which they receive equal treatment, social legally and economically. Africans Americans have been fighting for these exact rights for so long, and they are still continuing to fight the same rights after countless gains in society. Since the abolition of slavery in 1863, there has been speculation between the black and white parties on whether civil rights should be granted which has caused continuous conflict between the races of people who live in…