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Throughout time the United States has faced many problems and a majority of them were solved with the use of protests. There are an abundance of protests that have changed America throughout time. It is somewhat difficult to choose one that is the most important and that has had the biggest impact. This is due…

Katherine Johnson once said, ‘I see a picture right now that’s not parallel, so I’m going to straighten it. Things must be in order.’ I can apply this quote when it comes to diversity in the STEM field today. The ratio of women to men is not equal as well as the ratio of minorities…

The Black Death, additionally acknowledged as the Pestilence, Great Bubonic Plague, the Great Plague or the Plague, or much less commonly the Great Mortality or the Black Plague, was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, ensuing in the deaths of an estimated 75 to 200 million people in Europe and Asia, reaching its top in Europe from 1347 to 1351. The bacterium Yersinia pestis, which consequences in…

Introduction According to WHO traditional medicine can be defined to be the sum of the knowledge, skills, and practices based on the theories, beliefs, and experiences indigenous to different cultures, whether used in health maintenance as well as in the prevention, diagnosis, improvement or treatment of physical and mental illness[1]. The ancient Egyptian civilization expanded…

It is vital to fully understand the events that led to this time in history for the reader to gasp the seriousness and sheer brutality of the War of 1812. These events had a major influence on the undeveloped country and its society which caused complications for the nation down the line. In the spring…

Every day young children are awakened as soon as dawn cracks. They work long into the night, with no pay, little to no food and barely anything to drink. They are managed like cattle on a busy farm. These are child slaves. Picture this, hundreds upon hundreds of young, terrified kids doing manual work in…

Leading up to the late 18th century, Colonial America had been running and watched over by Great Britain. Even though they were two separate continents, America was deemed as Britain’s property, and everyone living in Colonial America was expected, and some could say forced, to follow the law of Britain. Some laws seemed so ridiculous…

Different topics we available for choice in the assignment. The main focus was to identify critical occurrences during the Medieval Period. I came across different topics including innovation during the Medieval Period, the rise of Islam and Christianity, and the Black Plague. I settled for the Black Plague because it was a catastrophic incident that…

When we read history books of the United States, it all starts with heroic adventure – there is no bloodshed and Columbus Day is a celebration. History is the investigation of the event that surfaced in the past periods (Zinn, 1995, p.19) as Edmund Morgan writes in his account of early Virginia, American Slavery, and…

In ancient Egypt, the afterlife was something that people spent a lifetime preparing for. To the Egyptians, death began the process of judgement on the souls of the fallen. If a positive judgement was passed on your soul, you would receive eternal life. Egyptians had a deep rooted belief in immortality. Therefore, their bodies needed…