American Civil War

paradoxe: ce qui est, à la maison, peut-être la société la plus dynamique civile sur la terre, à l'étranger, un "trigger-happy" , le super pouvoir de la terrible arrogance. S'il ya un seul espoir que j'ai pour mon pays, c'est que les promesses de chacun d’entre nous peuvent commencer à nous sauver des plus grands dangers de l’autre." Correction De "the World Outside" 1. It is an extract from an essay 2. • Nationality: American (l. 1) “My first real encounter with the world outside the United States…”

From Plessy v. Ferguson 1896 to Brown vs Board of Education 1954 The U.S. Supreme Court : the highest court in the american land. Their job: to decide the constitutionality of cases. But is that what they are really doing? Can we trust that their decisions are just? Two important cases in history can help answer this question. A 1896 U.S. Supreme Court case, Plessy v. Ferguson, made facilities and schools separate based on race. In another case in 1954, Brown v. Board of Education, the

Between 1950 and 1954, in the midst of "cold war", a true witch hunt is rampant in the United States, on the initiative of Senator Joseph McCarthy. This campaign against the Communists is so appalling that McCarthyism remains the symbol of intolerance and blind fear . Because McCarthyism is well born of the fear of the Soviet Union and has never had any rational basis. During four years, entire categories of the population have been denounced and arrested, each considered as a potential State enemy

Martin Luther King, Jr. is an afro-American minister born in Atlanta on January 15th, 1929 and he die murdered on April 4th, 1968 to Memphis. He was an activist of not violent for the civil rights of the Blacks in the United States, for the peace and against the poverty, he organizes and manages actions such the Boycott of Montgomery's buses to defend the right to vote, the desegregation and the employment of minorities. The boycott of Montgomery's buses is a political and social

thing, but the directory board in the lobby of the American Embassy in Pretoria, with its long list of military attachés, told a different story. [...] Learning something of the cooperation between the USA and the white regime in South Africa [...] was my first lesson that America was not always the noble force for freedom I wanted it to be. 10 A few years afterwards, the Vietnam War underlined that lesson, for me and for millions of other Americans of my generation. Later encounters with the rest

the American Revolution, including the Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party. Several early battles of the American Revolution, such as the Battle of Bunker Hill and the Siege of Boston, occurred within the city and surrounding areas. The Civil War was a profitable time for Boston manufacturers, with the production of weapons, shoes, blankets, and other materials for the troops. Boston also played a role as a leading voice of the abolitionist movement. With the outbreak of War II,

Grant was born in 1822, he was the son of an Ohio tanner. He went to West Point against his will and graduated in the middle of his class. In the Mexican War he fought under Gen. Zachary Taylor. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Grant was working in his father's store. He was appointed by the Governor to command an unruly volunteer regiment. Grant whipped it into shape and by September 1861 he had risen to the rank of brigadier general of volunteers. He sought to win control of the Mississippi

Abraham Lincoln (photo) was a president who has left his mark on the United States history not only because he was involved in the U.S. Civil War but mainly because he is one of the first to have made laws to improve the black slaves' condition at the time when the triangular trade was booming. I- Path in life 1) Childhood Abraham Lincoln was born in a log cabin (photo) in Hardin County, Kentucky (photo), in 1809. He is the son of two uneducated farmers. His father Thomas, a descendant

Strange fruit is a song performed most famously by Billes Holiday who released her first recordind in 1939 at Café Society in New York . It condemned American racism , particularly the lyching party of African Americans in the pas black people were slaves in the US. The song is a metaphor to speak about a lyching party .it’s really horrible because the singer were words that are in conflict together. For instance there is a stark contrast between the dead bodies hanging and the word “ breeze”

competition. Ile Public Law Traveling speaking the expression refers to Ile organization such as O.N and more in connection with IMF (international fonds) which will ground subsidies and financial help to countries devastate earthaquate or civil war. The objective is to start doing business as soon as possible to rebuild factories and to provide local people with new age. At the same time WB(world Bank) is publishing the famous “doing Business list” giving all necessary informations an business