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“Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more”. This quote is the definition of me because I find happiness from serving others and not thinking about myself first. Thats what makes me happy and what makes other people feel happy is when you just give to them and love…

By: Andrew Wright The study of cultures in the African Diaspora is relatively young. Slavery and the trans-Atlantic slave trade brought numerous Africans, under forced and brutal conditions, to the New World. Of particular interest to many recent historians and Africanists is the extent to which Africans were able to transfer, retain, modify or transform…

VersaillesThe Treaty of Versailles was intendedto be a peace agreement between the Allies and the Germans. Versaillescreated political discontent and economic chaos in Germany. The Peace Treaty of Versailles represented the results of hostility andrevenge and opened the door for a dictator and World War II. November 11, 1918 marked the end of thefirst World…

The Nine Guardians?Nine Guardians? takes places in the State of Chiapas, in Mexico, where from theremains of the Mexican revolution came the presidency of Lazaro Cardenas. His presidencytakes places between 1934 and 1940, during the time this novel takes place. Cardenasexpropriated foreign-held properties, distributed land to peasants, and instituted reforms tobenefit indigenous people and Mexican…

The United Sates has had a short yet complex history in its two hundred and twenty-four years. She has produced millions and millions of great individuals. These great minds have shaped what America is today. Others, however, have personally molded this magnificent nation with their own acts. John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, Henry Clay…

THOMAS JEFFERSON, author of the Declaration of Independence, was born on April 13, 1743 and grew up on the family plantation at Shadwell in Albermarle County, Virginia. His father was Peter Jefferson, who, with the aid of thirty slaves, tilled a tobacco and wheat farm of 1,900 acres and like his fathers before him, was…

Nuclear testing was a global issue during the 1960s. With threats of nuclear war from the communist countries of the Russia, Cuba and China, the United States was anxious to protect itself with a nuclear arsenal of its own. After the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end World War II, the United States…

Ted Hughes famously quoted “What excites my imagination is the war between vitality and death”. This is a key factor in the effectiveness of nearly all of Hughes’ early work – the stark contrast between life and death, vitality and lethargy. In poems such as “The Jaguar”, “Roarers in a Ring” and “Six Young Men”,…

led not a life of his own, but an existance forced upon him by peers and anunfeeling and cold society. Dying far before his time, Lampman led a lifeof misery. He was supported only by a few close friends and his immortal poetry. This essay is founded around one particular of his works but I…

he Negro, has been said many things. Things ranging from the subtle to the perverse, but most often than not, the balance of criticism leaned towards the latter. We are left to believe of him as a backtracker whose ideas have slacked down those of previous leaders who aimed at equality of social rights for…