Dependent clause

World War One, commonly known as “The Great War,” brought together as well as tore apart people from twenty-eight nations. The catalyst, was the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and his wife, by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip, which led Austria to declare war on Serbia. This one event created a snowball effect in just a matter of days creating a division between two armed forces; the Allied Powers of France, Russia and Great Britain against the Central Powers of Germany, Austria-Hungary,…

Hallie Grant Mr. Sawyer U.S. History March 25, 2015 The New Deal William E. Leuchtenbur, a renowned author of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal wrote, “In Chicago, a crowd of some fifty hungry men fought over barrel of garbage set outside the back door of restaurant,” (Leuchtenburg). Truely America was desperate due to the Great Depression, hence the arising of the New Deal. The backbone of American life was being jepordized, Roosevelt 's New Deals provided America with a way forward. The…

Decision in Philadelphia: the constitutional convention of 1787 primarily revolved around analyzing the vast array of ideals brought to the convention in the attempts to create a free and prosperous United States of America. Being one of the more active members, a great majority of the book concerns itself with James Madison from Virginia but also examines the ideals of Hamilton, Paterson, Pinckney among a handful of others. Other ideals brought about by the other 54 members concerned problems…

Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1925, ‘The Great Gatsby’ is a novel with adverse themes, transitioning between those of decadence, idealism, social upheaval, illusion and identity; all of which exemplify the falsehood of the American Dream. Such themes contrast and are also similar to poems written by John Keats, such as ‘Ode on Melancholy’ and ‘Ode to a Nightingale’. Both writers consolidate these themes in various manners, which are open for creative exploration. Though Fitzgerald depicts…

In order for me to determine how I would respond in the given scenario, it would be worthwhile to examine the three ethical approaches of Divine Command Theory, Act-Utilitarianism, and Kantian ethics. I will discuss each of these approaches briefly and then give reasons which one of these three is the most compelling to me. For me, I would like to choose Utilitarianism. Utilitarianism, as propounded by Jeremy Bentham, is concerned with one ultimate moral “principle of utility’. This moral…

Abortion is debatable issue in society and whilst some people believe that abortion is a good option for women, there are Australians that oppose the idea of abortion considering it immoral. One of the concerns is that abortion is ending a life however the main issue is about woman’s right to decide what to do with her own body. A pregnancy can be a result of any circumstance, such as teen pregnancy and rape, yet, current laws in Queensland still classify abortion as illegal and consider it to…

the article The Criminalization of Immigration in the United States, as immigration rates heighten, crime rates lower (Walter et al. 1). Undocumented immigrants should be left alone and should not be discriminated against. With the Equal Protection Clause, you are unable to treat people differently based on race and gender. Therefore, undocumented immigrants can fight back against the law and claim that they are being discriminated against so they are not deported. In the court case, Frontiero…

that is distributed through the revenue-sharing formula, and is calculated in inverse to the excise component: the Member States with the lowest GDP receive the highest share of this component. This clarifies that Lesotho and Swaziland are heavily dependent on this component, as those countries are the poorest in the customs union. The aim of the development component is thus to equalize the total share that all Members receive (Grynberg & Motswapong, n.d, pg. 10). The only net contributor to…

“10% of all restaurant workers are illegal, 25% of all private domestic help are illegal and over 60% of agricultural crop workers are illegal” (Furlong, 2013, p. 148). Any mass deportation would destroy the economy. All three parties are equally dependent on each other and the solution should be equitable as well. Keep in mind your personal stake to put aside partisanship and reform this policy now. The majority of your constituents are opinionated and all are affected by immigration.…

“Serving Time in Virginia” endeavors seeks to explainshow the importance of perspective and point of view in the reading and writing of history. A historian has to determine ask the question of whether a source’s claims and explanations are biased by the author, even if not done so on purpose. The author explains, through an investigation into the downfall of Virginia Colony, how a historian must remove this layer of perspective from the information to discover history’s secrets. First, the…