Bart D. Ehrman

An executive order I learned in Lesson 2, was Executive Order 9066. The Executive Order 9066 was issued during world war 2 on February 19, 1942. This sent not only Japanese-Americans, but German, and Italian-Americans as well into internment camps. This occurred ten weeks after the Japanese bombed pearl harbor. How did this executive order effect American citizens? Well for starters we ripped Japanese-AMERICAN citizens from their homes and their families, and through them in internment camps. We…

The decade after World War I, known as the Roaring Twenties, was when the rapid transformation had taken place as well as social conflicts and racial antagonism. Such transformation challenged people’s views on many aspects including social relations and politics. While the small number of upper/upper-middle class enjoyed the “phony prosperity” filled with easy money, cultural advancements and the innovative technologic products, many Americans were still struggling with poorness and feared for…

Born in Illinois, Bryan inherited a fervent commitment to the Democratic party and an acute Protestant faith from his parents. In 1887, when Bryan graduated from Illinois College and Union Law School, he married and, seeing no political future in Illinois, moved to Nebraska. Bryan won the election to congress in 1890, when the Populist party disrupted Nebraska politics; he was re-elected in 1892. Bryan’s great oratory skills won him great respect in Congress and he became a leader among…

What interested me the most in my social studies class were “The Sons of Liberty.” The Sons of Liberty were the masterminds of the boston tea party. “The Boston tea party” is when the colonist of Great Britain had dressed up as indians and dumped all the tea in the harbor. The Sons of Liberty, a well-organized Patriot paramilitary political organization shrouded in secrecy, was established to undermine British rule in colonial America and was influential in organizing and carrying out the…

In the 40´s of the biggest polemic was about the book “The Catcher in the rye”, written by J.D. Sallinger. Which gave the people a new perspective of teenager’s behaviour. The story is about a 16 years old boy, named Holden Caufield and it is told by his perspective. The story begins telling us about his life, specifically in the school, where he is about to be expelled because of his bad performance (he is falling almost all the subjects.) Holden studied in a boarding school called Pencey…

The Panama Canal is an international waterway that links together Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. The concept of a canal through such mountainous views was thought of back in the 1500s, the canal would serve as a potential shortcut.The Panama Canal links over 160 countries worldwide. Ultimately, the Panama Canal was built to decrease the distance ships would have to take to pass between the Atlantic and Pacific ocean. The 50-mile-stretch was built for an easy mode of transportation for shipping…

People are characterized by the way they act. As a result, people form an opinion and treat them a certain way. In the novel Belinda by Maria Edgeworth, the narrator characterizes Clarence Hervey as arrogant and stuck up. In doing so, the narrator develops Clarence’s complex character through the use of tone, point of view, and language. The narrator’s tone helps readers understand Clarence's arrogant personality. By the narrator's tone, which is disappointment, we can tell that Clarence’s…

During what had seemed like the end for most families life stock of money, most families got very depressed and went into poverty and this time of the world was no laughing matter and the name of this time was called “The Great Depression”. During The Great Depression everyone was in deep trouble , even people that were rich , and especially farmers. The reason Farmers and rich people got it the worst is because most rich people would put their money in the bank and then farmers would go to the…

Rick Peterson is a survivor of the Bataan Death March which was a brutal journey, but the ones that actually survived the march know how bad it was. I’m not going to go into much detail at the moment because you need to know little about the background. For starters the Japanese rounded up the Americans and Filipinos and forced them to march from mariveles on the southern end of San Fernando. The men were divided into groups that’s how the name became as the Bataan Death March came to be.…

The beautiful streets in Chicago were once burning buildings and smoke, the waters were once bridges leading on the flames, but what does Chicago look like now? The Great Chicago Fire was a devastating event. The fire left many areas in ashes, but now they have rebuilt their city into a modern town with many skyscrapers and monuments. Chicago's architecture has transformed the town because they have fixed the construction issues flaws of 1871, Chicago was built from ashes and now plays an…