Vietnam Vietnam: The War We Should Have Won The Vietnam War is one of the most disgraceful periods in American history. Not only did the greatest superpower in the world get bested by an almost third-world nation, but we lost badly. Perhaps this war could have been won, or even prevented in the first place. The United States could have and should have won this war, with a combination of

Fast Food Hamburgers are a reasonably recent creation, they were only became mainstream in the early twentieth century. In 1916 the first hamburger chain was created by J. Walter Anderson. At his Witchita, Kansas store he sold hamburgers for five cents wich also came with freis and colas. White castle was a thriving business, but it and other fast food chains did not become really popula

Fault Of Prohibition Prohibition On midnight of January 16, 1920, one of the started around the turn of the century, when many people got the idea that most of what was wrong with America was caused by boozepersonal habits and customs of most Americans came to a sudden halt. It . They saw prohibition as the silver hammer that would decimate all of their alky-related woes. Instead, it t

FDR Franklin D. Roosevelt was born at Hyde Park in New York city on January 30 1882. He went on to become one of the greatest strategic and motivational presidents this nation has ever seen. Roosevelt had a great deal of accomplishment throughout his lifetime even through all the hardships he had to overcome. His father died while he was studying at Harvard. This came as a great disa

Fellowship Of The Craft “The Fellowship of the Craft” The “fellowship of the craft” is truly the most important aspect of a crew, and therefore of their ship and her voyage. This fellowship or comradery is the tie that binds the men together, with common goals, views and especially the trust the afore mentioned bring, making the fellowship the life-blood of a vessel. Authors of sea

Feminist Movement The feminist movement was one of the most important social movements of the 19th and 20th centuries. Feminist issues range from access to employment, education, child-care, contraception, and abortion, to equality in the workplace, changing family roles, redress for sexual harassment in the workplace, and the need for equal political representation. This movement was pa

Fidel Castro Fidel Castro Ruz was born on January 13, 1926. He was an illegitimate child of Angel Castro y Argiz, an immigrant worker from spain and Lina Ruz Gonzalez. Fidel grew up in the mountainous region of Oriente province. As a boy, Fidel worked in the family’s sugar cane fields and, at 6 years old he convinced his parents to send him to school. When Fidel turned 7 years old, A

Fidel Castro The Experience of a Lifetime I consider myself extremely fortunate to have been able to participate in such a stimulating experience of traveling the world aboard the S.S. Universe Explorer during my semester abroad. Through Semester at Sea, I was able to visit almost every continent on this planet, from Asia to Africa to South America, while the very last country I visi

Fifteenth And Sixteenth Amendments Compared Amendment Paper The point of this paper is to establish a clear and direct connection between the fifteenth and sixteenth amendments of the constitution. Amendment fifteen states that “The rights of the citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or p

Fire From Heaven In Fire from Heaven, Underdown talks of how many Catholics suffered greatly because of their beliefs during the late 16th and early 17th centuries in England. However, in the first chapter he describes how the devout Catholics believed that the hardships their oppressors encountered were brought on by God in retaliation for them persecuting his people, the Catholics. T

FIRST HOLY WAR The Difference Between the Christians and Muslims Which made the Crusades Inevitable In the year 1095 Pope Urban II addressed the Christian people with this statement “ The Muslims have concurred Jerusalem”. Pope Urban II called for a great Christian expedition to free Jerusalem but the Muslims did not want any Ch

Flappers The Flappers The flapper Era, characterized by women who reacted against their social position in the 1800’s, marked a drastic change for women in America during the 1920’s. Dorothy Parker, a Flapper herself, depicted the ideas and emotions of this new social group of women during the 1920’s through the use of ‘wisecracks’. The values and reactions to the role of women in th

Four River Valley Civilizations I believe that the better of the four civilizations would be that of the Egyptian River Valley Civilization. Unlike the Mesopotamians, the Egyptians relized the benefits of evolving around one area, the Nile. Not only did they notice them, they used them to their advantage and in result discovered and used many more things than the Mesopotamians. Along

France & The Coming Of The First World War The time prior to World War I brought many changes to Europe. The creation of two alliance systems was perhaps the biggest change to affect all of Europe. The Triple Entente of Great Britain, France, and Russia brought a balance to Europe. Great Britain, a country that had previously believed in isolationism, was especially important in the f

Bill of Rights Impressment – the british practice of seizing seamen from American merchant ships and forcing them to serve in the british navy. Impressment was one of the causes of the war of 1812. Bill of Rights – the first ten amendments to the u.s. constitution, which protect the rights of individuals from the powers of the government. Congress and the states adopted the ten amendm

Fukuzawa Yukichi Fukuzawa Yukuzawa has one of the best-known faces in Japan, as his portrait appears on 10,000 yen bank notes. He was a leading intellectual figure and educational reformer of the later nineteenth century. This was the period known in Japanese history as the Meiji Restoration; after centuries of military governments which had followed a policy of enforced isolation from t

Frederick Douglas Slavery was perhaps one of the most appalling tragedies in the history of The United States of America. To tell the people of the terrible facts, runaway slaves wrote their accounts of slavery down on paper and published it for the nation to read. Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs were just two of the many slaves who did this. Each of the slaves had different experi

Frederick Douglas FREDERICK DOUGLASS Also known as: Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey Frederick Johnson “Without struggle there is no progress” Born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, a slave in Talbot County, Maryland somewhere around the time of 1817(') and died in 1895 as a freed man named Frederick Douglass. In my essay I am going to just overview the book,

Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass In the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Douglass explains his life as a slave and how he uses his education and remarkable ability of speaking to influence the freedom of all slaves. Frederick Douglass was born in Tuckahoe, Maryland and was taken away from his mother, Harriet Bailey, at a young age. His father was a

Frederick Douglass The Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass In reading The Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, I, like others, found myself to be deeply moved. The way in which Mr. Douglass walked me through each stage of his “career” as a slave gave me a better understanding of the African American slaves’ struggle. I realized in reading this mans story that he w

Frederick Douglass: A Lifetime Of Achievement Fredrick Douglass: A Lifetime of Achievement “A new world had opened upon me. Anguish and grief, like darkness and rain, may be depicted, but gladness and joy, like the rainbow, defy the skill of pen and pencil.” These are the words that Frederick Douglass spoke when he gained his freedom. Douglass was born a slave, but died a free

Fredrick Douglass Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass In the book, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is an autobiography that was written himself. He wrote to express the many hard trials he experienced. Born as a slave and died as a free man, but he also became a well-known abolitionist leaders. This book was important to him because most of his life

Free Blacks In Antebellum Period In 1860, roughly half a million free people of African descent resided in the United States. Known alternately as free Negroes, free blacks, free people of color, or simply free people (to distinguish them from post-Civil War freedpeople), they composed less than 2 percent of the nation's population and about 9 percent of all blacks. Although the free

Free Women Of Petersburg “The Free Women of Petersburg, Status and Culture in a Southern Town, 1784-1861”, was written by Suzanne Lebsock in 1984 and won the Bancroft Prize in 1985. Lebsock focuses on Petersburg, Virginia between 1784 and 1860 to recount the status of women in society, and how that status changed. She also examines the views of women during that time. The author did e

Freedom Of Sppech And Expression Freedom of Speech, Press and Expression "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press…"(Amendment I of the constitution). In 1791 when this amendment of the constitution was ratified, it changed this country's history forever. When congre

Freedom Of The Mind Freedom of the Mind Fredrick Douglass was born into slavery, but died as a free man. He explains education as “the pathway from slavery to freedom.” Education has not only become means of learning to read and write. In today’s society, ignorance seems to enslave people in terms of perceiving reality. A child is born into the world with no means of differentiating

French And English Colonization “We Spanish suffer from a strange disease of the heart, for which the only known remedy is gold.” (Cortés) While the motivations of the Spanish for colonizing the Americas were different than the English, it is clear to see that Spain and England had the greatest impact and success in their colonization efforts. The bearing of Spanish colonization is cha

French And Indian War French and Indian War 1754-1763 This was a war between the French and the British. They were fighting over land in western Pennsylvania and in Ohio. After the war Britain had a huge war dept that they wanted the colonist to pay for increasing their taxes. King George III George the III became king in 1760. He raised the taxes on tea, sugar, glass, and all

From Antiquity To Enlightenment: From Antiquity to Enlightenment: Changes in the Objectivity of Written History, and the Continuance of Two Major School’s in Written History. All human actions make up history. Indeed everything that has been done in the past has influenced our future in some way. However, while there are some coincidences and likenesses found in history and our p

Fuedalism There are many different views on how feudalism affected the “Middle Ages”. Some people believe it was genius while others think it was a disaster. There is only one thing that is truly certain about feudalism and that is that it had political, social and economic impacts. Feudalism was developed to secure the alliance between a feudal lord and an ordinary peasant. The feudal