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Period 3 (1754-1800) Ashmita Totada MIG-1.0: Explain the causes for migration to colonial North America and, later, the United States, and analyze immigration’s effects on U.S society. Before this time period, settlers from Europe started to trickle into North America for it new land, resources, and of course new opportunity. -England: Made up a very small portion of the U.S. Population -German: Kept to themselves by staying rooted to customs (6% of U.S. Pop) -Irish: Left because of the…

One of the most trending topics in all of the media is Kim Jong-Un and North Korea. This is for good reason, as there are many ideas to report, like how Kim Jong-Un and North Korea’s government has made its country dystopian-like. When analyzing how the government of North Korea makes decisions that creates a dystopian society among their citizens, one can evaluate what changes Kim Jong-Un made that was so influencing and controlling that their country became dystopian, determine the specific…

The Journey A Pawnee Journey Laure Mbonimpa Long, long ago in the plains there lived a village. A village of the Pawnee. In the Pawnee culture, a village like that was called a band. A celebration was going on called the Powwow. It was loud and cheerful. You could hear music and voices. You could see people in colorful clothes. Here goes the story… “WHOOO HOOOO!” cried a boy named Pawn who was in that band. The Pawnee tribe and people were a fierce, wonderful, and brave group. Pawn went…

Throughout the 20th century, the fate of East Asia was deciding by wars. In 1950 the war between North and South Korea began. When Korea was liberated from Japan, the victorious allies decided to divide Korea in two parts, where south belonged to the US and north to the USSR. Therefore, Communism was established in north and capitalism in south. However, Kim Il-sung the leader of North Korea wanted to unify Korea and he was hoping to get a support from the USSR. Josef Stalin rejected his offer,…

Devastating Disasters European settlers, when arriving to North America, would not have survived if not for the Native Americans; however, the settlers did more harm than good to the Natives. The Europeans believed they were superior, even though they did not know how to survive in the New World; many of them died within the first winter. The Massasoit were the first to help the Europeans, seeing how pitiful they were. They thought of them as allies, and easy to manage; the Natives thought…

Modern day North Korea, nicknamed the hermit kingdom, is known to be heavily isolated from the influences of the world. Its people are secluded and forced to praise their ruler, Kim Jong-un, or else they shall pay a dreadful price. Moreover, personally, I do not believe that Jong un’s people truly see and love him as this god-like figure. To me, I see them as terrified and depressed people who are involuntarily forced by the Korean government to live in a place with no freedom. This is even…

provinces, and countries of North America divided the way they are? It must have taken years to figure out and agree on what group owned what section of land. Not only did the groups making the borders have to deal with individual land claims, but they had to consider the claim of large organizations who owned millions of acres of land. One company which owned large amounts of Canada was the Hudson Bay Company. The Hudson Bay company was able to greatly impact early North America because of its…

The Pueblo and Cahokia Peoples Before the 1500s, Native Americans had a culture that spanned across continents. However, these peoples were not one unified nation, but instead various groups who shared ideas, but were also unique nations. Then, in the 1500s, the Age of Exploration began in Europe, causing explorers to adventure to the Americas. As the Europeans arrived changes began to occur within Native American tribes. The Pueblo and Cahokia Tribes shared commonalities in their diet, and…

when almost always the North Korean citizens are around any pictures or statues of their “great leader’’ theIn Ayn Rand’s book, Anthem, the reader will find how shockingly similar Rand’s dystopian world is to North Korea. The reader will also find some differences as well due to the fact that the book is fiction and partially based on the author’s imagination as much as it is based on North Korea’s government structure, and the state of the people inside it.…

The Vietnam War was a war between South Vietnam, supported by the United States, and North Vietnam, supported by the Soviet Union, that lasted for eleven years from 1964 to 1975. Before Vietnam was separated into separated two countries in 1954, Vietnam was a colony under the control of the French. Vietnam was controlled respectively by the Chinese, French, Japanese, the French again, and, finally, Ho Chi Minh. Minh was a communist, who led a group of Vietnamese patriots, named Vietminh,…