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Jane Addams Brought Change to America Without a Corporation Behind Her. In today’s modern society, where money controls most of the things one does, it’s hard to imagine a way to change a large group of people’s life without having a substantial amount of money to start off with. This is why charities advocate so much for donations, pledges, and other means of gathering money. Jane Addams, while she did have family money, was one of the few people who was able to change a large number of lives…

Queen Elizabeth II was born on April 21, 1926 in London, United Kingdom. She was born to George VI, which later died in 1952. Elizabeth then immediately ascended the throne in 1952, which starts her reign of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. She married the Duke of Edinburgh in 1947, and had Prince Charles, heir to the throne, in 1948. She is known for her longest serving monarchy in the history of Great Britain and for her service in World War II. Elizabeth has been the…

After the Pearl Harbor bombing, millions of women did their “patriotic service” and joined the workforce. Some women went overseas while others worked in the homefront providing for the war (“Get a War”).The amount of women working increased by 50%, leading to almost 6 million women working, while 300,000 women served in the military (“Rosie the Riveter”). Women served in many groups including, the Women’s Army Corps, the Navy Women’s Reserve, the Marine Corps Women’s Reserve, the Coast Guard…

against it. Al-Qaeda absorbed the impact of the Western military force and transformed itself into a global organization. Modern thinkers, through historical case studies, have developed a theory that explains a six step process on how the terrorism ends. This process includes capturing or killing a leader, negotiations, achieving strategic goals, implosion, crushing with military force and transitioning to other modus operandi. The military operations of the past decade suggest that a…

Salt: A Simple and Powerful Legacy Muhandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869. At the time the country had been under the official government rule of Britain for eleven years, and had been under heavy influence from the British East India Company since 1757. As Gandhi grew up he would realize the problems of the British power. He would use his knowledge and new ideas to unite the country. Through nonviolent protests and civil disobedience Gandhi would later make England realize…

has to do with whether strangulation can be determined by using an Alternative Light Source. I mentioned this above as a possible method for solving the case and in the article they discuss whether or not this method is accurate. They conclude in the end that more than half of the time it is something other than a bruise that is causing the discoloration, which would be important for forensic scientists to know so that they are not incorrectly labeling their death (Lombardi et al. 2015). The…

1) Introduction a) Federalists versus the anti-Federalists where Hamilton supports a central gov’t and Jefferson supports the state’s and people’s rights 2) Federalist and Republican Mudslingers a) The Federalists were mad at John Adams for not allowing them to declare war against France, but they ran up the debt with the war preparations, which established new taxes i) The Federalists already had many enemies due to the Sedition & Alien Act b) Federalists fought back against Jefferson by…

that we strayed from our original path. When we forget to account for ethics in warfare we are terrorists. Just like the men who brutally killed over 2000 people on September 11, 2001,or the men that casually blew up themselves as well as 52 other London commuters of July 7, 2005, or even the Muslim extremists who slaughtered over 100 people in Paris on November 14 of this year. We cannot stoop to their level, or our belief in freedom for all is nothing more than empty…

and Austria were not the only powers that were ready to go to war. All of Europe was expecting war and even the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, thought of as the principle trigger of the war was not caused by Austria or Germany. Austria was in the end backed up by Germany, but Serbia was backed up by Russia. Further Tooley describes, “As a result both of long-standing Austro-Serbian animosities and of the German Backing (the “blank check”), on July 23, the Austrians issued an ultimatum to the…

success of Singapore as one of Asia’s greatest port cities. Let us look at the efforts of the man who founded this island under our empire, Stamford Raffles and his subordinates Farquhar and Crawfurd. Raffles sought to diminish Dutch power in the South East Asian region in the early 1800s.…