Team Member Contributions On this project I worked with Savanna Addis and Jared Liddle. They were awesome partners on this project. In the first stages; Savanna came up with the starting idea for our car as well as the main points of our test plan. In the days that followed directly after we adjusted the plans and drawings, but the work was still based off of Savanna’s original ideas. Jared ended up building our first car. This car was a great start to help us figure out some problems in our…
The Contributions that Native Americans made on American history are well documented. But as James Axtell points out, a lot of times it’s more of the looking negatively on the history of the Indians, such as “obstacles to white settlement” or “victims of oppression.” (Axtell 981) To understand the true contributions made by the Indians, one would have to look at both the good and the bad, as in the help they provided to the settlers and the way they fought the conquerors. The Native Americans…
Arthur Andersen (AA) was a key contributor to the ethical and financial collapse of Enron. The accounting firm has not only been accused of looking the other way to fill their own pockets, but it is also very clear that they lacked independence. Culture has been to blame for the involvement of AA in numerous accounting scandals. When AA began it was not only an accounting audit firm, but it was also a consulting firm. In time, the consulting portion of the business was responsible for the bulk…
Differences in economics, and culture lead to the American Revolution. This lead to the Union and Confederates to both and try to implement what they believe was right. This document was written by William Wheeler in Warren Junction, Virginia, July 26, 1863. He served a Union soldier as a Lieutenant in the 13th New York Independent Battery. War is generally portrayed as a deadly battlefield. However, Wheeler seems to be contrasting himself through his diction and perspective to glorified day to…
encouraging the importance of non-violent protest and resistance, and providing leadership to the African American civil rights movement. Although he was assassinated in 1968, his brief life was filled with many great accomplishments. One of his contributions to the civil rights movement was the Memphis Sanitation Worker Strike. In 1968, 1,300 black sanitation workers in Memphis were protesting their awful working conditions, discrimination, and low wages. They started a strike on February 12th,…
Fifteen days after he was taken hostage, the Powhatan’s released him. Chief Powhatan wanted to make a statement: he could have killed Smith, but refrained because he has the power to do so. Jamestown immediately tried Smith for the death of his fellow colonists. However, he was never sentenced to death and his popularity rate shifted rapidly. By September 10, 1608, Smith assumed position of President in the Local Virginia Council King James I created the Royal Charter. Smith’s leadership…
George Washington’s presidency was very important to this nation. He emphasized the importance of uniting the nation so that it would remain “one” nation, The Civil War was fought because of the North and South’s uncompromising differences between the free and slave states. The government didn’t have the power, because it wasn’t written in the Constitution, to prohibit slavery in the territories that were yet to become states. Washington planted the seed of unity in the heart of the nation’s…
-The Soviet Union saw the Marshall Plan as part of the capitalist agenda of the USA to expand its sphere of influence intro Eastern Europe, “Soviet Territory”. -They accused the US of attempting to impose its ideology and beliefs onto otherwise free and independent states -Following the announcing of the Marshall Plan, Moscow announced the Molotov Plan. This led to the linking of Eastern Europe’s economy to that of the USSR. -This aid would prevent Eastern European countries to rely on American…
In Eleanor W. Traylor's essay "Two Afro-American Contributions to Dramatic Form" she discusses exactly what the title suggests – two Afro-American contributions to the dramatic form. The two contributions that she identifies are the minstrel show and the slave narrative. Traylor identifies the minstrel show as "performance by white actors in corked-black-face, burlesquing what they perceived as the speech, behavior, artifacts, and masking rituals of Afro-American slaves from whom they burgled…
Everyone has a chance to make a change, Jackie Robinson took that chance and inspired the world. He stood strong to overcome all of the adversity of being a black athlete during times of segregation. Even now in 2017 he inspires so many people including me. Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in the MLB, he served in the military, and he had one of the biggest influences in the civil rights movement. First of all, Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in the MLB. When he played in the…