Battle of the Alamo

In 1939, a scientist wrote a letter to the President of the United States, Franklin Roosevelt, which would alter the course of history. This scientist was Albert Einstein – after fleeing from Germany, he was concerned with the possibility of the Nazis succeeded in building a weapon never seen before: an atomic bomb. Einstein encouraged a program to research the prospect of nuclear weapons – the Axis powers gaining access to an atomic bomb would present a catastrophic situation to the Allied…

Throughout the existence of Texas, it has been ruled by different cultural governments; from the French, Spanish, Mexican, Republic of Texas, Statehood, Civil War era, and finally the Reconstruction period. Texas was a place where explorers came to establish and claim new territory. From the first site of over 30,000 roaming Native Americans to Congress voting to make Texas a part of the Union when the state became the twenty-eighth state in the U.S. Through it all Texas has been very…

07:25 hours. It was cold. It normally was that high in the sky. Ocima Iwominso was a Japanese pilot of a torpedo bomber in 1941. He flew in formation with many other planes. They all knew their target a military base on a small Pacific chain in the middle of the ocean.Ocima knew he only had one order, aim for the ships. They wanted to cripple the fleet of the country that controlled this island. He looked at the clock in his plane, the time was 07:55. They were only a few minutes away from the…

upgrades, copies were made and expanded to different locations in order to understand its architecture. Later AVIDAC was recreated at Argonne National Laboratory, JOHNNIAC at the RAND Corporation, ILLIAC at the University of Illinois, MANIAC at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, ORDVAC at Aberdeen Proving Grounds. Von Neumann’s legacy was represented by the IAS-class computers built around the world during the 1950s for commercial and government use. Today, we have modern computers even ten…

same time, they revered Reverend Father Vicente Sarria for his many virtues. Only he had the necessary power of persuasion to calm the Indians ' fears. (273-283) Cleary moral was down for the Chumash tribe and they had no choice but concede the battle and…

' 'Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed to go to their aid. Well, by God, I 'm going to Vietnam 's aid! ' ' Lyndon B. Johnson, a United States’ president from November 22, 1963 to January 20, 1969, delivered this powerful quote presumably to garner support from the American people to execute his plan to export more American troops to aid Southern Vietnam. Although initially reluctant to station troops in Vietnam, Johnson changed his mind after the attack of the Southern Vietnamese…

Background of the Problem: The Cypress-Fairbanks school district demographic is changing. There is currently a large variety of races, cultures, languages, and religious beliefs. Additionally, the widening gap between rich and poor is growing ever wider. Cypress is a growing suburban community on the northwestern side of Houston, Texas. According to Community Impact, a local newspaper, “The 11 zip codes that make up the general Cy-Fair area have seen an increase in ethnic and income diversity…

form of fighting for his country regardless of his personal beliefs. Green Beret captain Roger Donlon risked his life and exhibited incredible courage during an attack on his army base.He tried to lead his men and save his injured soldiers, like Pop Alamo, who “was pretty severely wounded and I tried to get him out of a mortar pit. As I carried him out we were blasted back into the pit… when I came to, I found that Pop had died in my arms” (Appy, 15). He is a true patriot, risking his life for…

Railroads and the Telegraph The railroad system opened many opportunities for the improvement of American society. New areas could be settled towards the west, the mining of coal for fuel increased, and more iron was being manufactured for rails. The nation’s first commercial railroads, which began construction in 1828, were called the Baltimore and Ohio. Soon after, the South Carolina Canal and Railroad became the first long-distance transportation to be used. By 1860, the United States had…

Atomic weapons are quickly turning into a tremendous threat to the whole world. While they may have been a route for the bigger nations to keep the peace on the planet at a certain point, the littler more radical nations are beginning to get them now and it 's representing a genuine danger to the world as we probably am aware it. Particularly with the two superpowers of the world inconsistent with one another and both having the most atomic weapons on the planet, as expressed by Robert S. Norris…