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The Dakota access pipeline is an affliction to everyone who has a sense of compassion and understanding, especially to indigenous people who are being taxed with decisions and demands from careless people who conceal their true intentions with false facts and reasonings,when all they care about is the green in promising. Recently the $3.8 billion project has become one of America's most followed up protest, for it keeps gaining many people's attention with every protest and support. There are…

racism. The Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) is 1,172 miles long and made to carry oil from North Dakota to southern Illinois; however, this project is controversial, sparking protests, due to it crossing the drinking water source of the Standing Rock Sioux, a Native American tribe. The first news…

The Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), also known as the Bakken pipeline because of the area where it begins, will transport 470,000 barrels of crude oil 1,168 miles every day from hydraulic fracturing sites in northwestern North Dakota down to Illinois, if built. There are conflicting reports as to whether the oil would be used in this country or if it would be exported. The current route of the pipeline is less than half of a mile from the Sioux’s reservation border. All along the route of the…

of Mexican populations and had no other evidence to back up his theory. Later, it was suggested that the first anatomically modern humans to arrive in the Americas did so by crossing a land bridge that existed between northeast Asia and northwest North America (Geobel et al., 2006; Sanchez et al., 2014; Haynes, 2005). It was first suggested by Hopkins (1967), that this land bridge formed during the last glacial maximum (~50kya-15kya) and that the first migrants arrived ~13.5 kya. The earliest…

and Iraq and North Vietnam. The expectation of a fast war with low casualties placed an emphasis on technology and a secure logistical footprint. The cost of this in both Vietnam and Iraq has resulted in trillions of dollars of US debt. Add to the equation (whether…

The USS General C.C. Ballou was a transport ship for the US navy in World War 2. It was named in honor of U.S. Army general Charles Clarendon Ballou. The ship later was transferred to the Military Sea Transportation Service on March 1, 1950. The ship returned around 3,000 World War 2 veterans after the Japanese surrender. The ship made many other trips around the world returning a lot soldiers to the U.S. in 1945-1950. General C.C. Ballou was reacquired by the U.S. Navy in March 1, 1950 for…

Is there any way to truly know who’s making decisions in North Korea and what their ultimate motives might be? Eric Talmadge admits in his opening statements in his article for the Associated Press, that knowing the true goals of the North Korean regime is difficult at best, but then writes an analysis to explain his opinion to the minds of the Western world. It is Talmadge’s view that North Korea will never willingly abandon its goal of nuclear weapons regardless of any repercussions from its…

It is debatable as to whether or not America won the war in Vietnam. While there were many factors that played a part in the success, or failure of the war one factor that affected the war greatly was the public opinion on the war. While the Vietnam War garnered a vast amount of hate from the American population that viewed the war as a battle that did not involve the American people, the war garnered hate in Vietnam for other reasons. The American view on masculinity, among other American…

Syngman Rhee Syngman Rhee was South Korea’s first president. He was raised in Pyongsan County, North Korea. As a young boy, he had completed known everything about Confucian education and was enrolled in a Methodist school. In the school, he became a nationalist. In 1896, he and his other friends formed a club that would force Japan to give Korean independence. When someone closed down his club, he was arrested and imprisoned until 1904. After, he left the hail he decided to go the U.S. in…

In Blaine Harden’s book, he recounts a Korean man’s escape from a North Korean prison camp to freedom in the west. The former prisoner, Shin In Geun, is the first man known to have successfully escaped from a North Korean "total-control zone" grade internment camp. In this book, Harden captures Shin’s difficult past while in the camp to his freedom afterward as an adult. Born in the prison camp, Shin had never experienced life outside of the treacherous conditions he faced on a daily basis.…