Eunice Kennedy Shriver

Macbeth was a devout and ambitious soldier in the Scottish army who served his king until the bitter end. Bill Clinton was a deeply religious democrat who brought the crime rate in the United States to a twenty-six year low and played a key role in the development of the modern space program. These two men lived many centuries apart but share many aspects of their lives. Macbeth was a Scottish king who rose to power by murdering the previous king and taking the throne. Throughout his reign he…

Saving the American Sport In the text “When Theodore Roosevelt Saved Football” the author Bruce Watson explains Theodore Roosevelt helped shaped Football, making it safer for all who participated. In the fall of 1905 after Roosevelt brokered the Russo-Japanese treaty, he began to focus on the negativity of constant injuries and death in the game of football. With the split of faculty and fans for pro- and anti-football “factions”, Roosevelt began to feel the pressure. Roosevelt’ son, Theodore Jr…

History Will Absolve Me: Fidel Castro Jessie O. Santana Modern Latin America May 6, 2016 The Cuban Revolution of the late 1950s started the political turmoil that would eventually spread throughout Latin America. Cuba served as one of the wealthiest, most prominent, and most educated societies of Latin America. The close proximity of the United States, its huge investments in the Cuba, and the most powerful dictator of the Caribbean in control, Cuba appeared to be an unlikely country…

In October 1962, the United States and the Soviet Union came to the brink of nuclear war over the placement of Soviet missiles in Cuba. It was a direct and dangerous confrontation that placed the two superpowers closest to a nuclear conflict. During the crisis, a fragile peace hung by only a thread for 13 days as the United States instituted a naval blockade of Cuba to turn back Soviet ships, and work to turn back the armament of Cuba with offensive nuclear, and tactical weapons within the…

Yusef Komunyakaa is widely acknowledged as one of the most accomplished poets at truly capturing the emotions and experiences of war. His ability to write not only from the perspective of his own experiences, but to embody the viewpoint of others, gives a voice to those who saw a story in a different light. Komunyakaa himself served as a journalist in the Vietnam War and several years later, he began to write poetry remembering his experiences (Salas 34). His most famous anthology, Neon…

Rhetoric is the most effective way to persuade people. Whether it is being used to persuade them into your side or make them do something, Rhetoric is a great way to do so. If used perfectly, you can persuade many people. In these four pieces of text, Rhetoric was used effectively to convey the feelings/emotions they wanted to. In the first piece of text was in the Times Magazine and is written to anyone who purchased the magazine. The purpose was to show and tell the readers that the…

Abraham Lincoln’s assassination was an event in history that everyone is aware of; however, some don’t understand the true impact it had on history and the people around it. Discussing the main points might be hard for one to do because some don’t truly understand the motive behind it and how it affected people around at the time. A lot of factors were involved during this assassination to make it a crisis everyone would be sure to remember. Opinions about this will be considered throughout the…

of John F. Kennedy. This is arguably a good approach to follow because it reduces any form of doubt from the reader's mind. While there exist numerous publications on the life and times of President JFK, the author limits himself to credible and authenticated publications to avoid creating any level of doubt from the readers. The voluminous archival materials used by the author all seem to focus their attention towards the vibrancy of and dynamism of the Presidency of John F. Kennedy. Each of…

the war in 1975. In 1960, NASA sent the first weather satellite, TIROS-1, to space and nine years later, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first men to arrive on the moon. Democrat John f. Kennedy wins the presidential election over Republican Richard Nixon and unfortunately, President Kennedy was assassinated three years later by Lee Harvey Oswald. In that same year, Civil Rights Activist Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his famous “I Have A Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial. King,…

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was eager to launched the Space Shuttle Challenger, one of its greatest accomplishments, for its 10th time. In its previous trips, the Space Shuttle Challenger deployed 10 satellites, spent 62 days 7 hours 56 minutes and 22 seconds in space, traveled 25,803,936 miles and did 995 orbits around Earth. The Space Shuttle Challenger had been sitting on the launch pad since December 23, 1984 and the scheduled launch had been postponed three…