Henderson

In August of 1861, President Lincoln signed the 1st Confiscation Act formalizing to some degree Butler’s contraband argument by authorizing the United States army to seize any slave used to aid the Confederate military. This however did not resolve the ambiguity of the status of the majority of enslaved people who now numbered in the thousands in and around Union army camps. The decision as to whether these people were free, property of the army, or to be returned to their masters was…

Shauna Healey Christopher Woolley LAH 3931: Conquest & Conflict in Mexico Essay #2: Mexican Revolution A Revolution of Many Faces Revolutions generally have two sides. For example, the American Revolution was fought between the northeastern colonies of the New World and Great Britain. The Mexican Revolution, however, greatly differs because it was composed of several civil wars with many different political and radical leaders with opposite views on how to reform the country. The Mexican…

where I learned the easy way out. The classroom swirls into a picture in my mind, Mr. Henderson standing in front of our class white board. Diagrams and words are scrawled across it with tips on how to prevent identity theft. “You all have social security numbers, or SSNs. You may not know them yet, but even…

Diabetes: The Lifestyle Impact of Having a Child with Type One Diabetes Type one diabetes (TD1) is a chronic metabolic illness that requires a lot of management, especially since TD1 is most common in childhood. With this metabolic disorder occurring mainly in childhood, parents, as well as the child, have to understand the disease and how to cope with it. This can be very stressful and worrisome for the parents. In a study done by the Journal of Clinical Nursing, one hundred-thirty four…

Codes of ethics in nursing are guidelines set for nurses that help them to practice a comprehensive, ethical and safe care for patients. This report focuses on a case study that I encountered in my career as a student nurse. In this report, I will tally my case study with the provision 3 of the nursing code of ethics by ANA, which defines that a nurse should be able to advocate, protect the rights, health, and safety of the patient. Brief overview of the case In my academic career as a nursing…

The Strange Case of Mole Airlines At 6:02 am, our team was called on-site to the crash of Mole Airlines, Flight 1023, in a remote location. The plane was showing evidence of a pre-crash explosion, determined to be caused by trinitrotoluene explosive, also known as TNT dynamite. We were able to conclude the cause due to an elemental analysis of the residue found: 37.01% carbon, 2.22% hydrogen, 18.5% nitrogen, and 42.27% oxygen. Eight victims were found at the scene, and one was determined to be…

assimilation into Northern and Southern white churches, with the addition of African customs to their ceremonies to add a sense of community. Errol Henderson, also the author of another academic article about slave religion, Slave Religion, Slave Hiring, and the Incipient Proletarianzation of Enslaved Black Labor, used elements found in Raboteu’s book. Henderson proves justification of slave revolts with religious aspects, using important African American philosophers, like W.E.B. DuBois who’s…

1930s is a tough decade for America. The Black Tuesday in 1929 and the bank failure hit American economy, that lead U.S. to the Great Depression. People suffer under poverty. Also, this is the first time government try to create a large number of jobs to help people. The most important event shaped 1930s are Great Depression, New Deal program, and the entertainment during 1930s. The stock crash in 1929 seems marked the end of the roaring twenties. Thousands of people lost their working capital.…

The Communication Act of 1934: A Critical Critique The author holds the assumption that the majority of Americans would not believe it to be true that the laws which govern access to the Internet were enacted prior to the start of World War 2. However, this is most certainly the case. The Communications Act of 1934 was signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on June 19, 1934 (cited). 5 years, 2 months, and 13 days prior to Germany’s invasion of Poland. 2016 marks 82 years since…

horrible rash. Pretty soon the patient was so sick he was all but in a coma and maybe delirious. By then he was so weak, he also had heart problems, bronchitis and pneumonia, which is what really killed him. In 1965, an American guy named Donald Henderson got put in charge of a World Health Organization to eradicate smallpox. It was the Russians asking for this and it was President Lyndon B. Johnson who funded it. The President told Henderson’s team they had ten years to get rid of smallpox.…