Bridge of the Americas

In his article, If Most Police Officers Are 'Good Cops, ' These Are Even Better, Nick Wing argues that great cops are the cops that put humanity before the badge; he argues that great cops see themselves as human first, and a cop second. In his article, Wing argues that a great cop uses his or her badge to do good for a community and that his or her first duty and improving the human experience for everyone. Nick Wing concludes that a great cop understands that it is not “them vs. us,”…

In episode 2 of the series The Men That Built America the main business man was Andrew Carnegie. The episode pertained to Andrew’s life and how he became wealthy and powerful. In the episode Andrew was shown to be mentored by Scott. Scott took an interest in Andrew and mentored him until eventually Andrew took over Scott's business. Then one of Andrew's first challenge was to build a railroad bridge stretching over the Mississippi river from St. Louis toward Illinois. When Confronted with task…

About 14,000 years ago there was a land bridge that connected Asia and Alaska. This land bridge, known as the Bering Strait, was used by Native American ancestors to get to the Americas. The Americas are now occupied by thousands of different cultures and races. This diversity began when Columbus sailed across the Atlantic in 1492 and “discovered” that there was land. Even though Columbus did not discover America, he definitely changed it. In fact, as of 2016, only 2% of the U.S. population are…

on the natural art of America. Her piece was painted in the colors Red, white, and blue, also an element to represent the time frame in America. This was meant to portray a time when American artist wanted to express the American style as a subject to their pieces of art. She wanted to symbolize what America was. Instead of making a typical American landscape, to show the beauty of America, she took another approach. She took a battered cow skull to represent how far America had come and what we…

lives with the number of casualties totaling to about 50 million military combatants and civilians killed. The Allied nations, led by Britain (as well as its Commonwealth nations), the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and the United States of America, fought their main adversary, the Axis nations, which are, but not limited to, Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Imperial Japan and other allies. The war lasted for six years from 1939 to 1945. World War II was a struggle that was driven by clashing…

Healthy Choices in America According to the many studies that were done in the past, Americans are the most obese people in the world. There are many factors that contribute to our obese nation, one of them being our environment. The question is would higher taxes on junk food encourage more healthful eating habits in America? Some say, “What is considered junk food in the first place?” According to Wikipedia encyclopedia, “junk food” is defined as “food with little to no nutritional value and…

wrestling at Daddy Warbucks, monthly theme parties at Rocks, and dancing after hours at C.C. Construction Company became the stuff of hedonistic legends” (Bridges,…

All across the world many credit the Europeans for the discovery of the Americas, however, adjacent to what people may think, the Europeans most certainly were not the first civilized people to arrive in North America. While many believe Columbus was the first to discover North America in 1492, he had actually been beaten to the punch by more than 12,000 years by the Paleo-Indians. During the Paleolithic revolution about 40,000 years ago, a life based on hunting, and gathering appeared in…

In a society that has continually advancing technology and customs one must rapidly adapt in order to be successful. Frederick Jackson Turner expresses that theme in context of America advancing as a country in his excerpts from the “Turner Thesis (1893).” He symbolizes the Western Frontier as a basis in which the American people started to evolve. Yet he then continues on to say that the frontier is “closed”, Turner means that the frontier has since adapted and the American people have new…

Race #5 The Native Americans really discovered America. Many credit Christopher Columbus, but the Native Americans were there first. Christopher Columbus was the first European to discover America. New research is turning a centuries-old hypothesis about Native Americans’ origins on its head. A team of geneticists and anthropologists published an article on Tuesday that traces Native Americans to a single group that settled in what’s now America far later than what scientists previously…