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U.S. History William Howard Taft was overweight, but he made a great president. To be exact he was our 27th President of the United States, and the 10th Chief Justice of the United States. Taft was born on September 15, 1857, in Cincinnati, Ohio. His father Alphonso Taft was Republican, who also served as Secretary of War under President Ulysses S. Grant. His mother was a graduate of Mount Holyoke, Louisa Torrey. He was brought up in the Unitarian church, and would remain a faithful Unitarian…

what would become the United States. In Virginia sat Jamestown, England’s first permanent settlement of the New World; to the north, hundreds of miles away, was Plymouth, Massachusetts, founded there over a decade later. Though both these towns were British in origin, they grew in completely separate ways. Political, economic, and social differences led to two towns, though established by people of the same nationality at similar times, that had little in common. A central explanation for why…

which to establish a home, a place where they could worship God the way they wanted to. The settlement they created, the colony of Plymouth, would become just the second British settlement in all of America. Though their original ship, the Mayflower, brought just thirty-five people, and only a few hundred lived in the other British settlement, Jamestown in Virginia, these two places were the starting points of an emigration and new society that grew to include millions over the next hundred and…

Kauleta where did you go" my mère called as we walked From the exit or jc penny 's to our car. It was an unbearably hot day and I had made the mistake Of wearing a long sleeve shirt pervious to this my brother Had taken off his shirt so before we crossed the street I stopped to take off my shirt keep in mind I was only like 6 or 7At the time I didn 't have much but mosquito bites for breast so I thought It was okay to take off my shirt and plus I seen my brother do it plenty of times So I…

Literacy is the defining term that differentiated slaves from their masters. Slaves were kept from any connection or exposure to literacy, more or less reading and writing. In addition, by keeping them in constant mental neglect, the masters ensued their predominate power and wealth across the south in a time of prejudice and racial ideologies. As a result of becoming self-aware and knowledgeable of slavery’s demeanor and its injustices, Douglass contradicts the status quo in the South. This…

did not have a true border to define it as a true country. When the British established the British East India Company, the idea of unity had become a necessity for economic success. The Indians mutinied against the British in 1857, leading to a revamping of the system. India became part of the British Empire until they declared independence in 1950. During the British rule, the caste system was at it 's strongest because the British ruling class saw it as a convenient way for their subjects to…

Winston Churchill’s “History is written by the victors”, was accepted as truism. Anything that happened in the past, history, can be distorted, changed, and even disappear. This may happen by the writers (in charge) writing what they want to hear, rather than what has actually been said; this can be done for many reasons, including propaganda, or covering up the ugly truth. Howard Zinn, an American historian, for the allegations stated above, wanted to review history from the other side, from…

The Abolitionist movement in the United States of America was an effort to end slavery in a nation where social and economic histories were driven by cotton and slave labor. Cotton was a desirable commodity around the world and a highly profitable business for the South. However, cotton was a labor-intensive business and the large number of workers required to grow and harvest cotton came from slave labor. Many people who were invested in the cotton industry could not afford to eliminate slavery…

however, the British government…

Orwell and Kipling During the time of British imperialism in India, George Orwell and Rudyard Kipling depicted the effects of British colonization through their writings. Kipling and Orwell were both born in India and educated in England. Despite their similar backgrounds, each author portrayed colonialism differently. Kipling wrote a fiction short story about a man named Strickland, an English policeman, who is fascinated by Indian culture and is determined to learn more. He falls in love…