… religious unrest and many changes were made during this period. Peoples’ eyes were opened to a lot of the practices and teachings of the Roman Catholic Church, which before no one seemed to have thought about in a negative manner. The readings of…

… born rights could wind us up in jail. Martin Luther King Jr. experienced this very thing when he nonviolently protested against segregation in Birmingham, Alabama. “Letter from Birmingham Jail” was written while he was in jail and is a superbly…

… thirteen American states assembled in Philadelphia. Their goal was to revise the current government created by the Articles of Confederation, which had been in effect since 1781. The Articles had created a weak alliance among the states. The national…

… RomeWord Count: 4378 The Romans have had almost every type of government there is. They've had a kingdom, a republic, a dictatorship, and an empire. Their democracy would be the basis for most modern democracies. The people have always been…

… 6 Mr.Gelb- Room 217 President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, and only one man was arrested in the hours following the assassination. Was Lee Harvey Oswald the lone assassin, or a just a decoy as he claimed? Oswald was set up from the day…

… of people. What could have made Hitler so hostile towards the Jews? Could it have been his unhappy childhood, frustrated adolescence, his artistic disappointment, rejection from the Jewish society or merely the wound he received on the front during…

… chugged along the streets of Detroit, with crowds gathering whenever it appeared. Terrified horses ran at its approach. The police tried to curb this nuisance by forcing its driver, Henry Ford, to get a license. That car was the first of many millions…

… is a nation hit by many agricultural problems. As a majority, Africa is a desert type climate. Rainfall is heavy and quick, leaving soil deeply engraved by the pounding of the rain. It falls for such a short period of time, not…

… in the eighteenth century and helped mold our current thoughts and values into what are accepted by our society today. Besides criticizing religion and broadening the range of science, enlightenment thinkers provided new points of view on…

… dramatists have bequeathed immensely to the current mode of modern Western literature. Shakespeare and his contemporaries revered them for their distinct and explicit language, their dramatic scenes, and their extravagant processions. The language…