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owner. In 1834, the Black Hawk war broke out and Lincoln was elected captain of the volunteers in the area. He never saw conflict but gained valuable contacts. Lincoln began his political career in 1834 after the war by being elected to the Illinois state legislature as a member of the Whig party. He supported the government supported infrastructure and protective tariffs associated with the Whigs. It was around this time Lincoln began formulating his views on slavery, as an economic impediment…

Introduction The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela is located on the northern coast of South America. Venezuela is bordered by the following three countries and a sea: to the east Guyana, to the west Colombia, to the south Brazil and to the north the Atlantic Ocean. The longest border is with Colombia than Brazil. The topography of Venezuela is a very mountainous can be broken down into four geographical divisions. These divisions are the Andes’ chain to the north, Lake Maracaibo to the west,…

It was an average, hot day in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Home to the Japanese army’s Second General Headquarters, yet also home to 280,000 civilians, 43,000 military personnel, and 20,000 Korean forced laborers (Gray, Paul, and Kunii). Everything had been running accordingly, adults going to their jobs, school children assisting in the cleaning of the streets, until they saw a foreign object, hurling at them at a fast speed. It exploded before anyone had the chance to choke out the work ‘bomb’…

In this essay, one will discuss, compare and contrast two liberal democracies. The two countries in question will be the United States of America and the Republic of South Africa. One will note that the United States is a more established liberal democracy while South Africa's democracy is a young liberal democracy. This essay will explain what liberal democracy is and there are critical things that this essay will compare between these two democracies. Amongst them will be their…

Islamic faith is the most dominant religion throughout the region, with Christianity second. The Syrian society revolves around the centralization of not only religion but family. The Constitution states that the President and Republic to protect its homeland. Relations between Syria and the United States have been tense for a number of years, due to opposing views. This paper discusses the religion, social organization, politics and military of Syria. Syria does not have an…

The phrase ‘ Special Relationship’ refers to the exceptionally close political, diplomatic, cultural and historical relations between the United States and the United Kingdom. First used by Winston Churchill, this one phrase summed up the entirety of the relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom, both of their shared history and their camaraderie to come in future decades ("A Point of View: Churchill and the Birth of the Special Relationship."). The cultural substance of…

rights in exchange for safety. The United States Department of Homeland Security was founded under the Bush administration through the passing of the Homeland Security Act by Congress and was made an official Cabinet-level department on March 1, 2003. This was all set in motion by a terrorist attack on American soil on September 11, 2001 organized by the Islamic terrorist group known as al-Qaeda, when two planes, American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 flew into the North…

Everybody within the United States of America knows that there is one great symbol in the country that stands for our great nation as well as has a part in its control. That symbol is the President of the United States of America. People expect the President to do a lot of things throughout his term. They also believe him to be one of the highest person in the USA and the person who is president is the first person that officials from other nations will see. A lot of times the other nations…

The involvement the United States had with the Holocaust, and more specifically with the Jewish refugees, has been a very controversial subject throughout the years. This is due to the fact that very few Americans wish to acknowledge and take responsibility for the part the US played in the atrocities that occurred. World War II began in 1939, but the oppression of Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, communists, and other political enemies to the Nazis had begun quite some time before war broke out. In…

After the beginning of the First World War, the United States announced its neutrality. President Wilson tried to mediate, recognizing the devastating effects of the War on the country. However, peacekeeping efforts were not successful, mainly due to the fact that both parties haven't lost the hope to win the decisive battle (“Launched”, n.p). Germany’s refusal to stop attacking merchant and passenger ships, the violation of the “Sussex Pledge”, the American outraged public, and the “Zimmerman…