The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Mongols ruled, the capital city and possessed power was held by the city Moscow. The land surrounding the city of Moscow was Muscovy. Ivan the Great, in 1462, decided to quit paying tribute to the Mongol Rule. Since he was disobeying, Ivan sent an army to hold off the Mongols. This is how the Russian Empire got started. Ivan the Great made the Empire grow to the borders of Ural Mountains and Poland. The Russian Empire was financially poor at the beginning. After Ivan the great came Ivan the…

Ancient Civilizations have made one of the greatest impacts in the United States of America. The Babylonian, the Hebrews, and the Persian societies left lasting impressions that have carried over to today’s society. Although each civilization’s culture and religion differ dramatically they each bring an important lesson to our world. By studying the laws and customs of these civilizations one is able to determine just how impactful these societies were. The Babylonian society believed the…

On December 7, 1941, Daniel Inouye knew his life had changed. He explained that he was getting ready for church like any other Sunday until he heard an announcement on the radio announcing the attack on Pearl Harbor. Looking towards Pearl Harbor, huge amounts of smoke could be seen and three Japanese aircrafts soared above him. About a month after the attack, the United States government designated all Japanese Americans as 4C, enemy alien. “So here I was, 17 years old, who considered himself…

A Close Reading of Nate Spears In the poem “My Life Has Passed Me By,” Nate Spears describes the death of Trayvon Martin, a seventeen-year-old black young male. His neighborhood watch member, George Zimmerman on February 26, 2012, in Sanford, Florida, shot him. This poem was coming from the viewpoint of Trayvon Martin. Spears starts off with the exclamation that Trayvon was too young to die; in the third stanza, Nate Spears starts to analyze America, which is the “Land of the free, the Land…

in all aspects of life would not have occurred if it wasn’t for displays of disobedience against powerful figures. Oscar WIlde once wrote that, “Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through…

I was engaged once in my life. My girlfriend desire to get married was so extent that she bought the engagement ring. I was very immature handling relationships, and that usually left me with a heap of misfortunes. I did not care for her, and I took the relationship as a sport. I was unfaithful to her many times over. When I finally had enough courage to leave her for another girl, I did. At first she did not know the full extend to why I had left her. She continually made attempts to win me…

He talks about how the Chinese, Japanese, Mexican, and Filipino laborers and how each group was treated. They were seen as cheap labor. Steinbeck says, “foreign labor is on the wane in California, and the future farm workers are to be white and American. This fact must be recognized and a rearrangement of the attitude toward and treatment of migrant labor must be achieved” (Steinbeck, pg.57). He suggests that since migrant workers are former farmers, they should be allowed to own leased land…

Mentor is a beautiful city in Lake County, Ohio, which was first settled back in 1797. As of 2010, its population reached 47,159. CNNMoney hailed Mentor as the 68th Best Place to Live in America in 2003. Four (4) years later and it climbed to the 37th spot of the same list. The name “Mentor” was derived for the Greek figure Mentor. This is a way of keeping the tradition of the Connecticut Western Reserve settlers and most other Americans at that time. It neighboring towns like Euclid, Akron,…

The Manhattan Project “I am become death, the shatterer of worlds” remembered Robert Oppenheimer as he witnessed the spectacular explosion. The Manhattan Project had created several problems that impacted not just Japan and the U.S., but the whole world. Although the Manhattan Project may have ended WWII, it caused mass destruction, gave other countries the desire to create more powerful weapons of mass destruction, and was morally wrong. In 1938, three chemists in Berlin had made a huge…

did the hardest jobs such as aid in production of sugar or tobacco crops. White people purchased African people and worked them to death. Most of the African people were treated such as animals in 16th century. African Americans have been fighting for an equality for many centuries. There were many people in the history that tried to stop the slavery. Many African American people gave up their lives for freedom and freedom of their children. In 18th century, after the US nation approached its…