Youth Service America

American’ was established because her responsibilities called to aid a nation whose own government could not uphold a level of dignity that Americans held true to be the standard of quality of life for all her citizens, regardless if they live within Americas…

In these days, transportation has become more and more important to move from place A to place B. Transportation has started for a long time ago since people want to travel by using the shortest time. People started to ride an animal on land and then invent a junk to travel across the ocean by using wind. After that, human built the glider to travel through the sky. There are several advantages and disadvantage to using each type of transportation. If we make use of these advantages, we will be…

From before America declared their independence to now there has always been this discussion between nationalism and sectionalism. Most things in history are caused by one of the two taking over an idea or county. When you look at American history with this idea in mind, you can find a lot of examples that support this idea. From America picking their first president to the civil war, everything is about either nationalism, sectionalism, or a mix of the two. In American history there has been a…

“In 1492, Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue” is a common phrase used to teach schoolchildren the history of exploration in North America. In the United States, we refer to Columbus as the first person to discover America. Not only do schools and government buildings close nationwide in remembrance of Columbus’s arrival to the New World on October 12th, our nation’s capital is the District of Columbia. However, Columbus was not the explorer, or person, history textbooks portray him as…

Henry Hudson was a great English explorer, he was born in 1570 and died in 1611. We do not know much about his early life. From his first voyage as captain of a ship in 1607, we began to know Henry Hudson. Given his talent for navigation, it is assumed that he probably worked on other ships before being appointed commander of a single ship. We also know he was married to a woman named Katherine and he had three sons with her called Richard, Olivier and John. His character remains elusive but…

Chobani is a yogurt making company that started up eleven years ago and today has grown to be the top selling yogurt in America. The 2015 annual revenue of the company was 1.6 Billion dollars. The reason Chobani has grown so much so fast isn’t by accident. Diabetes has been an enormous deal in America for a long time. Most of Americans are trying to make a change and live healthier lifestyles than they used to. Chobani gives a chance for Americans to do exactly that by using all real fruit and…

Through the late fifteen-hundreds, to the sixteen-hundreds, there were many, many explorers to land on our continent known as North America. Henry Hudson was one of these. In his career, he went on four trips that have impacted today’s world. Later on, he discovered what we call The Hudson River. The story starts with Hudson’s background. Then, reasons for his explorations, who sent him, and ends with his expeditions in all. To start with, Hudson’s background was pretty common. Hudson was born…

German Colonies in Early America In 1608, there is a great historical event happened on the American land: the first Germans arrived at Jamestown from far away Europe by ship. For the latter hundreds of years, the German settlers continues to built their colonization on this land. Nowadays, in modern American lives, we could still found the German characteristic. We wonder that for the several hundred years the process of German settlers finding better ways to adapt the environment. What…

This documentary covers the most important events that happened in the century following the Columbian American exchange. Significant issues are addressed; Native american slavery, and exploitation of people for resources, such as the ”8 million slaves died working in silver mines.” After the new world was founded in 1493 by Christopher Columbus, the “two worlds” collided in a massive exchange of ideas, diseases, agriculture, animals, beliefs, and traditions. It really was like discovering an…

to others. But, in the end there is one America, one people, and one reality. This reality may be unnoticed or perhaps ignored by many Americans, the Americans that have the privilege of living blisfully in their ignorance. Then, there’s the Americans that have to face this reality every day and can’t live as happily. Well, what is this reality? The reality is that yes, America has its favorable traits but, we still have a long ways to go to really be America the Beautiful. As an American, you…