Thomas Bruce

The Catalan independence movement is a political movement that emerged from Catalan nationalism that is mainly dedicated to the support of the independence of Catalonia from Spain and France. This feeling is brought by the dictatorial times of Franco who attempted to suppress the Catalan identity. To give a more geographical sense of Catalonia, it is a roughly triangular region in Spain's far northeast corner, which is separated by the Pyrenean mountains from southern France to which they share…

The beginning of sound recording was an extranomical feet, shaking the ground of modern technology at the time, but now it has developed so rapidly to support our need of human connection that you might be surprised how similar we are to those who first invented it. The process of refining and marketing the phonograph from the texts “The History of the Edison Cylinder Phonograph” and “The Incredible Talking Machine” by Randall Stross is similar to the development of the Audio Spotlight in Mark…

call now the White House, it has been through a lot but we managed to keep it and maintain it from it’s roots since it was built. Pierre Charles L’Enfant was appointed by Thomas Jefferson on creating the city plan for the capital city, but he was dismissed after not showing any plans or blueprints on how to build the city. Then Thomas Jefferson proposed a design competition on the designs of the Capitol and the President’s Mansion. An amateur architect named William Thornton won the competition…

Mount Rushmore The presidents that are sculpted in mount Rushmore are Theodore Roosevelt, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln. All of these presidents got chosen to be on Mount Rushmore because of all the different contributions they made to America. Every single one of these presidents deserve to be on Mount Rushmore, but there are also many other contributors that helped our country so much that also deserve to be on Mount Rushmore. George Washington was the very…

Frederick Law Olmsted, born April 26, 1822 in Hartford, Connecticut, is deemed the father of landscape architecture in the United States. At age 18, he moved to New York, where he worked as a scientific farmer. After this failed venture, Olmsted became a merchant seaman and traveled all over the European continent. After returning to America, Olmsted worked as a newspaper columnist, founded The Nation magazine and authored numerous books before becoming a renowned landscape architect. Olmsted…

Time may separate individuals, but not their beliefs. President John F. Kennedy and Patrick Henry both showed patriotism and confidence in their lives. They both shared similar viewpoints on their goals for their country and the people living there. John F. Kennedy Both Kennedy and Henry expressed that they strongly believed in the importance of freedom in their speeches. In his Inaugural Address, Kennedy stated; “We dare not forget today that the we are the heirs of that first revolution”…

Political Parties The rise of political parties in America was due to Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton’s different views and the influence of newspapers. Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton had rivaling opinions on many topics. Hamilton appreciated a strong federal government while Jefferson favored state government power. Public opinions were split between their value of state governments and a united country under a sturdy federal government. Hamilton and Jefferson also held…

In his annual message to congress in 1815, James Madison supported a nationalist agenda and the Federalists belief that the federal government should do what is necessary to promote economic growth. This agenda was very different from the Democratic-Rebublican Party belief that the role of the national government should be limited and control should be more with the local governments. Madison’s agenda in his annual message proposed a national bank, federal aid for the building of roads and…

When the original colonists of Great Britain were considering breaking away from their parent country and becoming their own country, there were many reasons why they wanted to do so. In Thomas Paine's book Rights of Man he does a great job summing these reasons up when he wrote that in the new America “The poor are not oppressed, the rich are not privileged ... their taxes are few, because their government is just; and as there is nothing to render them wretched, there is nothing to engender…

In Professor Glenn Moots’ article pertaining to the American Revolution, the author both summarizes and analyzes the 2013 symposium where scholars gathered to debate the justifications of the war. The analyses, which he provides from multiple perspectives, address question of jus in bello and jus ad bellum, helping to determine whether the events of the Revolution were defendable. By referring to specific events and reflecting on fellow scholars’ contrasting opinions, Moots concludes that proper…