Donner Party

Ida B. Wells and Other African Americans in the South African Americans have never had it easy. Almost every African American person was brought to America as a slave. Ruben Mitchell recalled what his master said, “You all’s free. We ain’t got nothing to do with you all no more. Go on away now, you all don’t belong to us no more.” When slaves were freed, many left their homes to search for better lives. Ida B. Wells’s parents did not do that. Ida B. Wells was one of America’s most…

takeover of the Provisional Government during October 1917, Vladimir Lenin was the leader of the Bolshevik party. During his final years, the fight for the new leadership was between Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin, with Stalin emerging as the victor in 1924. Meanwhile during the early 1930s Germany…

intelligence unit that kept watch on the various political parties that had risen during the war. Among those was the German Workers Party. This party was one that was prideful in their anti-democratic, anti-communist, and anti-semitic beliefs. “ Its small group of faithful followers assembled each week for the discussion and study of political matters” (Fest 17). Hitler immediately saw how much their views aligned with his own and he was appointed party propaganda officer and he used that…

The Cost of Freedom As Americans continue to heavily rely on digital means of media and communication, surveillance over the population becomes easier than ever for the government to carry out. One of the main institutions created in the United States to gather intelligence is the National Security Agency (NSA). The NSA monitors the phone calls, emails, text messages, contacts, photos, video calls, and many other aspects of digital communication utilized in today’s world as a means to protect…

The Nazi party not only used a positive representation of Hitler as strategic propaganda but also for German life. There is a Nazi propaganda poster that depicts, “an idealized image of family life and values” the poster has the letters NSDAP on it and says; “The NSDAP safeguards the Volksgemeinschaft, Comrades, if you need any advice or help, Turn to your local party organizations” (Sax 245). This photo is the Nazi party’s attempt to make their followers and non-followers feel like they can be…

The Holocaust was a point in time which included mass genocide of Jewish Europeans and other people Germany felt should be extinguished. The tragedy was also given the title “shoah”, which is Hebrew for the phrase “the catastrophe”; however, the term “Holocaust” was used more often to describe the events that took place. This paper will cover three topics: Who was Adolf Hitler, what was the Holocaust, and the statistics of the tragic events. The Holocaust had its beginning in 1933, when the…

The American Voice The American voice is something very unique to America; people who are born here or immigrated here, use their own language to describe what this country means to them. America has long been a land of freedom, opportunity and equality, from the time of “1492, when Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue.” In researching this topic, I read many multiple different articles and watched a variety of online videos to learn what others thought of what this country has to offer…

There were many hard fought battles in the Civil War. But, arguably the biggest battle the United States went through, was the Reconstruction of the Civil War. The North may have won the war, but the South got their fair share of victory during reconstruction. The South did everything in their power to make sure “equality” was only preserved for the white man even though slavery was abolished. Once a black man was considered a free slaved, the South would not try to accept change, rather, they…

Throughout my life, I have not only learned, but also experienced racism, discrimination, and prejudice against minorities, specifically African Americans. I have observed throughout time that there really has always been a need for improvement on a federal level of racial equality throughout the United States. Therefore, I will utilize this paper to reflect on my own experiences and also several of the readings, including Gilens’ Why Americans Hate Welfare, Hutchings’ article on racism after…

The 1990s began with the presidential campaigns of Bill Clinton, George Bush and Ross Perot. The 2 questions we have to ask is how a sitting president with an 80% approval rating in 1990 lost the election 2 years later and what caused the right to left political shift. Republican’s seemed slightly lost after the Persian Gulf War and were leaning to a more conservation right. With no major foreign affairs to focus on all eyes were on the economy. George bush then uttered those 6 famous words…