...between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.” A quote Theodore Roosevelt lived by. This is truly a man who knows how to lead a country into greatness; and greatness he did achieve. Roosevelt was a President unlike any other one before him. His knowledge of geopolitics gave him honorable authority when governing the United States. Roosevelt had the technique to accurately predict future outcomes with only the knowledge of the events of his time. He was a marvelous man with the pure knowledge and integrity to guide our once isolated country into a world superpower. Before Roosevelt rose to power, he already began to ease his way in into many powerful groups of people. This started at a very...
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...and the United States of America are undeniable and can ultimately lead to the falling of the United States Empire. Section A: Dominant Superpower • Territories • Contributions to Civilization • Military Presence Section B: Similarities in Government • Laws • Republic • Senate Section C: Cultural and Economical Similarities • Entertainment • Welfare • Unemployment The Falling of an Empire The Roman Empire and its reign lasted for almost a thousand years (ca. 500 B.C.E.- 500 C.E.), with the largest agglomeration of land c.a. 120 C.E. (2.2Million sq. miles). Many have discussed what the reasons may have been for the Roman collapse in 476 C.E. Was the collapse due to barbarians, greed, corruption or the lack of moral values by the people and politicians? Maybe an overextended military in foreign land? Could it have been fiscal irresponsibility by their government that may have lead to the Roman Empires demise? Could it be all the above? Isaac Newton once said, “ what goes up must come down,” even largest superpower, Britain, that has ruled the most territory in history over a century ago, is no more. Both the Roman Empire and the United States governments were started “by the people, for the people” (Abraham Lincoln, 1863) yet became something else, built on power and will. The striking historical similarities between the Western Roman Empire and the United States of America are undeniable, the only...
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...Bigelow Mr. Franks. 5-20-11 THE POWER OF AMERICA There are many reasons that America became the most powerful country in the world. Its because of hard work put through for years that makes our country unique from another. We have fought and earned our power that we have today. Our military, freedom, our education is why we have such a powerful country. Our military is the strongest in the world. Our military’s power began in world war two and from then on out the military has prospered. When we helped defeat the German army, we showed our power to the world because we had defeated the most evil man is the world, saving around several thousand jews. We have been involved in many other battles and wars, like Vietnam. Even though we didn’t succeed in winning, we showed the world how relentless we are to help anyone in need and that we wont stand down, by fighting in a war and loosing over 58 thousand American soldiers. These wars have made our military become the most skilled and technologically advanced in the world. We have an army, navy, and an air force that are patrolling and protecting America twenty-four hours a day. We are always under protection and it makes the people of America comfortable. It allows the people to live without fear unlike other countries that live with the fear of dying everyday. We are very fortunate to have a military that is on the frontlines everyday to keep us out of harms way and to keep America progressing every day to new heights...
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...America Transformed HIS 110 June 13, 2011 Abstract Some individuals have a curious thought of how Americans built their society. In this reading the reader will understand a historic timeline from 1780-1850. Learning the important information during certain years and how they overcome each event. The Agricultural Revolution of Europe started in the 1700’s; it was widely spread throughout Europe and America by the 1800’s. The results of the revolution, was the farming processes became more efficient, and productive due to several inventions, and discoveries. The Agricultural processes became faster, and less manpower is required in the field, as a result the population from the countryside had no means of supporting themselves. They were forced to move into the urban cities in search of factory jobs. The Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain during the 1700s. The term Industrial Revolution refers both to the changes that occurred and to the period itself. During the 1700s and early 1800s, great changes took place in the lives and labor of people in several parts of the world. These changes resulted from the development of industrialization and it started spreading to other parts of Europe and to North America in the early 1800s. By the mid-1800s, industrialization had become widespread in Western Europe and the northeastern United States. America Transformed In 1781 Peace Commission occurred and what it meant was Congress appoints a Peace Commission comprised...
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...Benjamin Franklin was a true citizen of the Atlantic World. Even though born and bred in America, he lived his life on a global scale. From speaking before Parliament to wooing the French court, to opening America’s first library; Franklin went everywhere and did everything. Just as Franklin influenced the world, the world influenced Franklin in return. However, just like the Atlantic world influenced the First American, it too had great impacts of America herself. The connection between Europe and the early Anglo-American colonies influenced how America’s political system formed, from its beginnings in the earliest colonies, to the evolution of America’s unique brand of politics and the completion of America’s political system in the 1800s. Early in the 1600s the establishment of colonies by joint stock...
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...War-----------------------------------------5 World war and its outcome ------------------------------------------------------------------7 Impact of the war on the US –Canadian relations-----------------------------------------8 Modern day relations between US and Canada--------------------------------------------10 American –Canadian economic relations --------------------------------------------------11 Conclusion--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------12 First World War and Canada-US Relations Introduction The First World War or the Great War was a remarkable event in the history of the humanity. It influenced and shaped our modern world to an extent like none else, and the reflections of today’s development traces its route back to the decisions taken during and post-World War I. No one had any idea about the huge armies that would be involved, the amount of ammunition that will be expended, and how many people would die. However, the role of Canada in the war is noteworthy, considering the fact that the nation decided to stand by the Britain’s side during the war with the only aim of opposing aggression. It neither fought for anything for itself, nor did it receive any rewards of the war. In this paper, we will discuss about the role of Canada and US in the Great War, the history of the border regions along the Canada-US boundary during the war and how it impacted their relations. It will examine...
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...Themyscira Island. The Amazons decided that someone should go back to America with Steve to help with the battle in the outside world that was WWII. Wonder Woman won a contest which permitted her to leave Themyscira Island and head off to America with Steve Trevor. In America, Diana adopted the name "Diana Prince" and joined the army to help fight the Nazi's. Steve Trevor never knew that Diana Prince was also Princess Diana of Themyscira (kind of how Lois Lane never knew that Clark Kent was Superman). Soon after, she became secretary of the Justice Society of America reporting to Colonel Darnell of U.S. Military Intelligence. William Mouton Marston (creator of Wonder Woman) died in 1947 and Robert Kanigher became the new writer. He stayed pretty faithful to the original Wonder Woman scripts although there was considerably less attention given to Diana's Amazon background and the Greek Gods less frequently and more focus on her crime-fighting. The end of the Golden Age Wonder Woman came with the Comics Code Authority in 1954. From that point on (and for quite a while following), Wonder Woman’s character was no longer written as a strong, independent feminist. Instead they seemed to focus more on her love interests which included Merman and Birdman in addition to Steve Trevor. The Silver Age (which by some accounts began when Comics Code Authority became effective in 1954) brought us the birth of an alternate world called "Earth 1" where many D.C. characters would live in a sort of...
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...World War II Kizzy Adams American Intercontinental University October 14, 2012 Abstract This paper identifies and analyzes two major consequences that World War II had on the United States society. It also describes how the war affected American sensibilities, and it includes the way Americans viewed the war and themselves. The paper goes on with how World War II change America’s role in the world. Lastly the paper discusses how the outcome of the war was beneficial or detrimental to the U. S. World War II World War II is known as the war (1939-45) in which the Allies. The Allies were known as Britain, the Soviet Union, and the US defeated the Axis powers. The Axis power was known as Germany, Italy, and Japan. Britain and France declared war on Germany on September 3, 1939, as a result of the German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939. Italy entered the war on June 10, 1940 shortly before the collapse of France (armistice signed June 22, 1940). On June 22, 1941 Germany attacked the Soviet Union and on Dec. 7, 1941 the Japanese attacked the US at Pearl Harbor. On Sept. 8, 1943 Italy surrendered, the war in Europe ending on May 7, 1945 with the unconditional surrender of the Germans. The Japanese capitulated on Aug. 14, 1945 as a direct result of the atomic bombs dropped by the Americans on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/World+War+II). Two major consequences that World War II had on the United States...
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...independent country they have been exposed to tremendous development; by the means of economic expansion and influence in other nations they have formally recognized as a world power. Through America's struggle to industrialize they have undergone much progression and reform; although there are many important advantages and disadvantages, the prospects of becoming a world power outweigh the challenging consequences. America began as a small colony of settlers seeking sanctuary from the monarchical government of the united kingdom, however as they grew independent from the rule of their king they formed a new nation. The rise of imperialism gave way to the united states territorial expansion, and a swell in immigration, which ultimately increased the new nations population; this increase helped the US in emerging into a world power because of its economic benefits, such as unskilled workers taking over labor intensive jobs being payed at lower wages. An example of this is when the...
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...that led to the fragmentation of society in the United States. The most striking quality mentioned the change of the level of individuality within America during the twentieth century. Whether America was full of conformists or individualists depended on the contributions that led to the fracture described by Levin. The variation in culture, the economy, and government intervention not only resulted in a fragmented nation, but it also caused the redefinition of the country’s public identity. Today, individualism in America has caused an even greater divide within communities that were once close, and according to Alexis de...
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...from the late 19th century through the first half of the 20th century, as a pretext to analyze social, scientific and environmental relations between the United States and Colombia. Understanding how ornithologists and collectors formed bird collections reveal s a rich story of international scientific relations and power structure throughout the 19th and 20th century. Reconstructing the story of Colombian birds allows the author to build a history that not only analyzes the early and complex scientific relations between the United States and Colombia, but also takes into account the importance of North America's growing influence over Latin America as well as Colombia's changing economic, cultural and social history to understand different perception of the natural world in both countries. For a North American, the study of birds brought forth a natural world where US imperialist intentions over Latin America were entirely legitimized. For Colombian naturalists, the study of birds offered another way to promote relations with the United States and incorporated Colombia into the international arena of science. At the same time, a toucan in 1940 had a different meaning to a North American, who in the midst of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Good Neighbor policy, approached Latin America as an important economic and political ally, than to a Colombian rooted in the context in which nationalism had a very strong current. In other words, a study of the changing meaning of Colombian...
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...AnRachel Breuer An American History of Freedom Throughout history, the word “freedom” has taken on many definitions. After all, freedom is a relative concept in general. There is no one set definition, as the word itself changes over time and is based off the society in which the word is being applied. As Eric Foner points out, “The Story of American freedom is not simply a saga of a fixed set of rights to which one group after another has gained access, but a tale of debates, disagreements and struggles, with lots of bumps and wrong turns along the way.” Throughout our history, America has been through several wars and problems, each causing a change in its definition of freedom; helping form the free country that it is today. Freedom has always been a topic in the American way of life. This does not mean however, that freedom has meant the same thing to all Americans at all points in time. In fact, over time, the focus of freedom has changed dramatically over time. During the American Revolution, soon-to-be Americans fought in the name of liberty and independence. Britain had always had a view of freedom as the submission to authority. When Americans arrived on the land, they realized this was no longer appropriate. Thomas Jefferson maid this clear as liberty was included as one of the “unalienable rights” in the Declaration of Independence. (http://www.dannyscl.net/academic/). The problem, however, is that the Declaration of Independence asserted that “all men are created...
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... Midterm The difference is that, Atlantic slave trade was very important for 18 century World Economy, because it was one of the three elements of so-called Triangular trade, a three-way exchange between America, Europe, and Africa. European traders would ship textiles, muskets, and manufactured merchandize to Africa and exchange it for slaves. Then they would take slaves to the West to Americas and exchange them for cotton and tobacco, and sail home. On each side of the triangular trade ships made huge profits plus they carried different valuable merchandize from both African continent and the New World. Thus, Atlantic slave trade was vitally important for 18th century sailors . The origin of Atlantic slave trade – and slave trade in general – is mainly associated with the shortage of labor in the developing New World. Contemporary European population in the Americas was not sufficient to support the plans of development. Even criminals that were sentenced to labor ran away, and could easily blend into white masses forever. Native Americans were not efficient as slaves either, because they were not that numerous and did not have immunity for diseases brought to the New World by Europeans . In addition, native Americans could easily escape because they knew the land well, their home were close, and they knew how to survive in the adjacent territories . But labor requirements kept growing with the expansion of mining, harvesting, and growing...
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...Beverly, Rose A. His 221 010 August 27, 2011 Morris, Erin The cultural patterns of the Native American groups prior to European colonization. Even though Christopher Columbus claimed to have discovered the Americas in 1492, it was already inhabited some fifteen to twenty thousand years prior. The glaciers were reduced because of global warming and this gave the nomadic hunters access to the core of the North American continent. Amazingly, this contributed to their food supply abundantly and this produced a swift population growth. More changes became evident in the environment which included a new food source such as fish, nuts and berries. These Native Americans, known as Paleo-Indians, adjusted and propelled forward. Because they were exposed to a new food source they discovered how to cultivate certain plants. At this stage, the Agriculture Revolution was born and this significantly altered the Native American culture. With a more stable food source these Indians became docile and established. This also helped in establishing stable villages and eventually led to some type of government which included elders and leaders. The Eastern Woodland Cultures did not practice agriculture first and foremost but supplemented their food chain with hunting and fishing. They had settled in the northern region along the Atlantic coast. The Algonquian-speaking Natives resided from North Carolina to Main and spoke many different...
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...Study Guide For Final Examination 1. Examine the process and the transition from the more traditional "putting-out" system to the rise of the factory system. What would be the economic and social implications of this change? (Class notes and Bentley & Ziegler, chapter 29) World population was growing, so there was a demand for more finished products. Before the factories, products were produced out of people’s homes and the process took a lot of time. The factories opened and centralized the materials (and people making the products) getting made to one place. The rise of factories came about with new technologies and new machines. Entrepreneurs worked with scientists (engineers) to make machines to mass produce the goods. Started with the textile industry (imported from India and then British government banned the imports of textiles from India and then the demand became greater) because the demand for textiles was not being met with the “putting out” system. Spinning machines made thread and then the flying shuttle would weave to make cloth. Social implications included opening of schools – even for women on a positive side and as a negative side, it led to overcrowding in the cities (which led to theft and prostitution), unemployment (people traveled to the cities to work in the factories and there weren’t enough jobs to go around), health concerns (sanitation and pollution) and child labor. Economic implications would include the rise of the two different classes –...
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