After studying the history of the United States from the Reconstruction era through the early 2000s, it is safe to conclude that America has transformed into one of the world’s most powerful countries. While the United States has become a nation founded on new beginnings and freedom, the arguably greatest nation in the world did not always truly stand for the principle of freedom and equality that it promotes with pride. Discrimination was one of the biggest issues America has faced for hundreds…
Synopsis In Eric D. Weitz’s article, “The Modernity of Genocides: War, Race, and Revolution in the 20th century,” the author investigates the connection between modernity and genocide to understand why genocides became more frequent, and more systematic, in the 20th century. Weitz remarks that in the 20th century, there appeared a synthesis between the European revolutionary movements and race thinking, a pseudoscience that had become hegemonic in the period. This synthesis, Weitz argues, is…
The United States occupation of Haiti lasted from 1915-1934 following the assassination of Haitian president, Vilbrun Sam. President Woodrow Wilson sent the marines to restore order and maintain economic and political stability. The United States had long interest in Haiti as a potential naval base. For that reason, Haiti’s stability concerned U.S. diplomatic and defense officials who feared the country’s instability might result in foreign rule. This paper explores letters written by…
was completed in a time span of 3 weeks. This album has made it possible for the punk generation to grow and prosper. Not only that this album was number 4 on the album due to the support of MTV for relentless broadcasting of their songs such as "Longview," "Basket Case" and "She." The song “Basket Case” help the album increase the momentum as this song stayed on the American modern rock Chart for at least five weeks. MTV wasn’t the only support they had but they also perform at Lollapalooza and…
formations include Pre-Triassic basement, Late-Triassic Sugarloaf Arkose, Early-Jurassic Fall River Beds, Jurassic Deerfield Basalt, Jurassic Turner Falls Sandstone, and Jurassic Mt. Toby Conglomerate. Observations Stop 1, located on Rt. 2 West at the Longview Gift Shop, the Gile Mountain Formation is exposed alongside the road. The Devonian Gile Mountain Formation is a dark grey phyllite, with abundant…
THE BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY - 2ND EDITION this diagnostic device is designed to assess depressive symptoms in the adult population. McCalla completed The Beck Depression Inventory – 2nd Edition. She had a total raw score of 34 on this test, which places her in the clinical symptom range, related to depression. Scores from 29 to 63 are considered in the severe clinical symptom range, for The Beck Depression Inventory – 2nd Edition. Item analysis of McCalla's responses on this test indicates…
For my service learning project, I volunteered at the Boys and Girls Club of Gregg County, which is one of the centers that had merged with the Boys and Girls Club of Big Pines in Marshall (Cromer, 2016). The mission statement of the Boys and Girls Club of Big Pines is “To empower the kids of East Texas to be great” (About the Club, 2016). In addition to this statement, the organization as a whole seeks “To inspire and equip all young people, especially those that need us most, to achieve their…
as they are capable of seeing under a person’s clothing and their body as a whole (Hagar, 2010, p. 2). People believe this because they think that people should not need to be seen nude in order to secure an airplane. 40 year old Tashia Peters of Longview, Washington states that “they have all of these metal detectors and drug-sniffing dogs and bomb equipment, so why now do we have to get nude?” (p. 1). Peters is arguing that the TSA has all these other forms of security to keep passengers safe,…
September 11, 2001 is a day that no American will ever forget. On that day, Islamic terrorist group, al-Qaeda, carried out the largest terrorist attack in United States history. As many may know, the attack consisted of four plane hijackings, with two of them being flown into the World Trade Center, one hitting the Pentagon and another crashing in Pennsylvania (“Should Full-Body Scanners Be Used in U.S. Airports?”, 2010, p. 3). As a result, a total of 3,000 civilians were killed, including over…