United Way of America

“The Long Way Home” by David Laskin Immigration to America was a common scenario in the early twentieth century. People moved to the United States from different parts of the world, a majority of them belonged to the non-English speaking world except for the Irish. Immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia and China arrived in the United States in large numbers for many reasons, such as lack of opportunity, social disorganization, lack of religious freedom, rampant civil war…

Immigration to America The Chesapeake Bay, on the East Coast of the United States, has been an important entryway for immigrants since the days of the British Colonists and remains so today. The ports scattered throughout the Chesapeake Bay make it a powerful and influential hub for trade and industry and has attracted immigrants throughout history. The first immigrants to travel to America were European colonists. These colonists built villages and towns along the East Coast of the…

Background: Buddhism is considered to be a path of spiritual development that ultimately leads to the insight of the true nature of reality. To Buddhists, meditation is a way of changing yourself in order to develop admirable qualities such as awareness, kindness, and wisdom. Buddhism is all about experience. The experience developed among the Buddhist tradition over many years has lead to a resource for all those who wish to follow such a path. Such a path ultimately leads into Enlighten.…

I, in my own mind, have always thought of America as a place in the divine scheme of things that was set aside as a promised land. It was set here and the price of admission was very simple: the means of selection was very simple as to how this land should be populated. Any place in the world and any person from those places; any person with the courage, with the desire to tear up their roots, to strive for freedom, to attempt and dare to live in a strange and foreign place, to travel halfway…

without actual battle. Three main points way the cold war started was america wanted to stop communism, afraid of one another, and massive arms race. Those are the main points why the cold war started. Communism was the act of sharing things they owned with others. America was not agreeing to this, so they tried their best to stop it. America helped out greece during their depression. America tried to get smaller countries with weak economies. The United States created the Truman Doctrine to…

When World War II struck the nation, the United States became known as a super power but not right from the start. America started out being neutral and helping out with the war from only they were selective in who they helped, so America was not being very neutral. America denied aid to Japan and Germany, the United States had even put out an order to shoot German U-Boats on sight. World War II broke out in 1939 and ended by 1945 the United States entered by declaring war on Japan in 1941 after…

Martin Luther King Jr, one of the greatest orators that American has ever had is well known for his fight against racism in the United States of America. During his life, Luther King led the black Americans as well as other like-minded Americans of all other races to reject the racist mistreatment that the Black people were going through under the hands of the white Americans. In his speech that he made in 1963, Martin Luther King stated clearly that “I have a dream that my four little children…

America with deep sorrow I tell you this. America if we can see farther than others it is because we have stood on the shoulders of giants, and up here on those shoulders I can see 90 miles off the border and see Cuba there I see that the USSR has put nuclear missile parts there and more are on their way by ship. If we do not react I fear that the outcome will be not in our favor. The united states and the USSR have been in the cold war now and I fear that they will try to end the cold war here.…

extensive impact on The United States of America. Immigration has shaped every aspect of American society and has allowed it to grow and thrive in numerous ways. In the words of President Lyndon B. Johnson, “The [United States of America] flourished because it was fed from so many sources–because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.” Immigration, the process of moving from one country to another, is deeply rooted in American history. In the past, the United States…

The book does provide a good understanding of the United States foreign policy. It explains how Americans believed that Foreign policy believed that it started in 2003 in Iraq when Bush was presidents. He provides great short stories where he describes the 19 foreign governments that were overthrown by America. However he does provide a summary and does provide the key points of each era in order to get a better understanding. Personally I was unaware of the history of foreign policy, by reading…