Frontier

Just a short 12 years later, NASA’s shuttle program would come to a sad, and seeming premature, end. Space travel itself, however, has not finished yet. The future holds independent private space travel companies using the opportunity of the open frontier to create a new industry of leisure space travel, where women will once again have the opportunity to make…

twists and turns, the airplane was able to become a great success in the 1920s, and even gaining the rank of being one of the most important inventions of the 1920s (“Inventions: Airplane”). The invention was a big technological advance, and opened frontiers in transportation and warfare. The…

her experience and re-integrate into the community. She had not 'gone native', as some may have suspected, yet she maintained an ambivalent attitude toward those whom Rowlandson calls "our enemies in the wilderness" (Narrative). The violence on the frontier left the colony scared and feeling vulnerable. I believe this general anxiety and distrust toward the Native peoples eventually spread to relations among the colonists themselves and constituted one of the 'causes' of the Salem Witch Trials…

there is a need for expansion and a growth in its population, those who survive become the dominant, shaping the world around it. In the readings “Lies My Teacher Told” Meby James Lowen and “Brutal Appetites from The Making of Mexican Culture in Frontier California” by Douglas Monroy, the prominent fact throughout each is history is written by the winner. From colonies finding the new world to World War II, those who were declared the loser were cemented into history books with that title.…

The early explorers and settlers of the New World wrote letters and manuscripts to encourage settlement and to ensure readers that their ventures were prosperous. Some of the early letters written of the New World focus on exploiting natural resources such as gold. Others placed on religious freedom as well as the opportunity to converting the heathen inhabitants. Most of these writings expressed not only the opportunity in the new land but also the strife toil and the daily struggle. All but…

supported the Unionist vote in North Texas, so he encouraged others to follow his example and join the Confederate military. Second, he feared that without the Federal army to protect the frontier from Indian raids, he needed the Confederate army to fill the void left by the Federal army in protecting the frontier. Finally, the Republican Party had taken steps to towards enacting policies “that would free the South’s slaves and that would ultimately guarantee them equality with whites.” This…

The expansion and evolution of the Roman Empire occurred over hundreds of years. The Roman Empire expanded to its height in the second century C.E. stretching three thousand miles from Britain to Egypt, with a border nearly six thousand miles long. This evolution brought with it adverse changes which greatly impacted the strength of the Roman Empire. The deterioration of the army greatly contributed to the demise of the Roman Empire. Many things can be attributed to the military’s crucial role…

an inescapable transition where the society is transformed from an old and wild social order to a modern and organized one. In this film, Ford brings to perspective the society in the past and how it died as a result of modernization. The western frontier ideals are brought to light with the transition from a lawless social order embodied by the gunslingers into a modern society governed by law and order (Ebert). The inevitable transition represents a death of the Old Wild West, which then paves…

allied Native Americans. The British treat the colonists much worse than the French. Colonel Monroe and Duncan, Monroe’s apprentice, show no mercy to the colonists after they are attacked. They do not give them permission to leave their land on the frontier, even if it means putting their lives in danger. During the French and Indian War the colonists resented the British for impressment and requisition during the war. The British resented the colonists for not being as skilled in battle,…

As per my The history of the American West is often overshadowed by the romantic mythology surrounding the era. It would be hard to ignore the influence of Sam Houston on many aspects of American history from Tennessee to Washington and of course, his adopted home of Texas. Campbell seems to fall into the trap of many biographers and veer off the course of serious historian, presenting us instead with an easy to read novel presenting his hero as larger than life. The life of Sam Houston does…