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My name Lin Dao and I am writing to you from Hanoi which is located in Vietnam. You must be wondering why I took the liberty of finding out where you worked and decided to contact you specifically. The two part being is that I have recently watched a documentary called “Regret to Inform”. I am sure that, as a history teacher, you have seen this heart wrenching documentary about a woman whose husband died during the American War, or the Vietnam War as you call it, and how she contacted other…

El Salvador Location Where is the place? The longitude and latitude of El Salvador is 13° 42° North and 89° 12° West. El Salvador is located in the continent, North America. The hemisphere that El Salvador is located around is the Western Hemisphere How far away from home is it? El Salvador is about 2-4 hours away from Pennsylvania. You would travel 1,665 miles to get to El Salvador from Pennsylvania. What countries are neighbors of El Salvador? The countries that are nearest to El Salvador…

The Native Americans and the United States’ Government's relationship was not off to a great start in the 1800’s. When the settlers first came to America, the Natives viewed them as untrustworthy. The suspicions were confirmed, when the settlers started to expand into the Natives land. This caused conflicts and they were only solved by violence. Finally, the Americans and Natives came to the biggest conflict of all, The War of 1812. This was a war in 1812, between the Natives and the white…

The author Samson Occom was the first Native American author to publish his works in English. Today, He is considered the father of modern Native American literature. Occom wrote the first Indian autobiography and made it a genre. His hymns and sermons were influenced by his religious life. Also, Occom wrote his works due to Christianity, betrayal, and inequality. Samson Occom was born in 1723 at Mohegan near New London, Connecticut. He has little communication with the colonists for fifteen…

In 1845, Americans wanted to expand the US farther to the west and began to travel that way. It was a major belief that they were destined to expand across North America, which encouraged people to start traveling west. The outcomes of the manifest destiny lead to impact on Native Americans, the big debate on slavery and the differences between the free states and slave states. During the manifest destiny, many native americans were heavily impacted. The Americans barged into their land…

When Europeans first began to step outside and explore beyond their homelands they referred everyone they encountered on their way as 'barbarians'. The term barbarian existed several thousand years back. The Greeks and the Romans used it to signify a person who is uncivilized and did not belong to their culture. In fact they had enslaved all barbarians. These encounters with other societies in far off lands, led to a curious need for the Europeans to interpret the origins and nature of these…

proxy war that occurred in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. Vietnam was split into two in 1954 as part of the Geneva accords in order not to have another large-scale war after Korea. Communist North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Union, China and other communist allies whilst democratic South Vietnam was supported by the United States and other anti-communist allies. The two were due to be reunified by national elections, a coarse of…

Since April 2016, the Standing Rock Sioux tribe in North Dakota have been protesting the construction of the Dakota Access pipeline because it could threaten their only source of water. The most frustrating aspect of this situation is that the tribe was not consulted about the pipeline before the approval of it. They were completely blindsided by this news and are now fighting for their land. Recently, a massive Facebook protest also broke out in support of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe where…

Environmental Issue Paper, Justin Roch, ENG 101 E, 11/15/16 In the past couple of decades, an unprecedented threat to North America’s trees and forests has emerged in the form of two invasive species of beetles, the Asian Longhorned Beetle and the Emerald Ash Borer. Both beetles are major pests of widespread forest and neighborhood trees, and if left unchecked, have the potential to completely change the character of our forests. Although not as widely known as some higher-profile environmental…

In North Carolina, for instance, there has been a gradual shift towards increasing state power regarding education policy and authority. While the General Assembly originally instructed local governments to create certain education bodies, certification processes and curricula, the end of the Civil War marked a significant turning point for North Carolina public schools. States significantly increased financing for schools…