If God were an all knowing, all powerful, all good being, he would be able to prevent natural disasters. One such example is the Irish Potato Famine of 1847. The famine was the result of the failure of a crop upon which the majority of Irish were dependant, the potato. The potato blight, was a brand new disease. The blight, Phytphthora infestans in scientific terms, is a fungal infestation that thrives ... -knowing, he would have detected the disease in the crop and been able to prevent the spread of this disease. Poverty and disease ran rampant during this time. The majority of the Irish were...

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Many people today do not give much thought to what their country represents and why they should be proud to live in it. I am very proud to be an American and live in America. An American is someone who loves their country and the people in it, and also believes in bettering their own lives as well as the lives of those around them. I fill that since I live in America I represent the leading country in the world, and I am able to achieve almost anything I set my mind too. Here people have a chance to make something of themselves and are free to decide how they wish to do it. In America when tro...

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Throughout the 1840's as well as the 1850's millions flocked to the United States hoping for a better life and for a chance to succeed in the land of opportunity. Many came to America, the Land of the Plenty, in what was known as the "Black Forties." Millions of people from both Ireland and Germany came to America in a desperate attempt to start a new life. Both came here ... hated as much by natives because the Germans mostly kept to themselves and did not get involved in the northeastern cities. Both the Irish and Germans also had an enormous religious and political effect on America. Many ...

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... dealing with many situations. These problems have forced Irish to leave their homelands and inspired them to leave for new hopes and dreams. The earliest Irish emigrants were religious missionaries whose exile was voluntary and ... be as many as 60 million people of Irish descent living outside the country at present. In North America alone, over 40 million people claim Irish "roots". Many of these are the emigrants who left to advance ... between 1820 and 1910, almost 5 million people left Ireland for such destinations as the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. M...

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... lives the Jewish prisoners had suffered. Being at the Holocaust Memorial Museum was the first time I had experienced the true effects of the Holocaust because it took a victimized stance of the Holocaust, as opposed to a more neutral stance from history class. If history class taught me what happened, then the ... what says. America. Throughout the many destinations such as New York City and Washington DC many new things about the rich history and culture of the United States began to develop as memories in my head. In NYC, I learnt about all the different cultural neighborhoods within t...

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... the potato blight, it was, in fact, the actions of the British and English, which caused the mass starvation and devastation among Ireland. The Irish potato was first found in the Andes Mountains of South America. The proper name for it is Solanum Tubersum. It is not only important to the Irish, it is also an important food crop world wide (IHW). The potato was introduced ... around 1590 AD and could grow in the poorest of conditions with very little maintenance (TGF). The ... efficiency and ease of growth is what made the potato ... ...

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... War began in 1861, just a few short years after the majority of Irish had settled in the New World. But despite the short time that they had lived in America, some 150,000 Irish men joined volunteer regiments for the Union Army alone (Glazier, 153). After the first Battle at Bull Run, an "Irish Brigade" was raised. The brigade fought in such battles as the Battle ... of Antietam and the Battle of Gettysburg and managed to survive until the end of the war at the surrender at Appomatox Courthouse in 1865 ... . All of the soldiers who fought in the war were brave ... ...

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... ditch, but it will change New York forever. It takes 50,000 men, 11 million cubic yards of rock to make this ditch. The Crews to help with the ditch were filled with Irish immigrants. These men were making five times more then what they can make at home. But, it was ... a hazardous job. They were literally moving mountains. As a result, eight years of digging, over 1,000 lives lost, the cost over one ... own other humans. Nevertheless, the North was profiting from cotton but turned a blind eye to slavery. So many of them were slave owner themselves. In 1841, New Orleans was known as gr...

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Evils of Christianity It has been my experience, through my upbringing as a Christian, that Christians are often blind to the evils of the religion. They are taught from a young age that God is almighty, and should never be questioned, so the less-finer points in the religion are often skipped over. Many problems in society have arisen from this religion, which include discrimination, anti-Semitism, sexism, violence and war. Christianity has fought over hundreds of years to become the only religion, scaring people away from other religions in the process. Christians continuously fight among th...

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Arguments for why Reconstruction was not a failure The Reconstruction implemented by Congress reorganized the Southern states after the Civil War, readmitted them into the Union, and defined the means by which whites and blacks could live together in a non-slave society. Reconstruction was successful because it accomplished what it achieved, reintegration of African-Americans into the American political and social society. African Americans enjoyed ... in the South like Senators Hiram Revels and Blanche K. Bruce. They were elected as delegates to state constitutional conventions. Most importa...

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... buying human lives and exploiting them was the norm. Putting a price on a human being is one of the most outrageous things I have ever heard of! Americans were trading guns, gunpowder, cloth, breads, pots and liquor in exchange for human lives. The term slave trade only emphasizes one viewpoint of the whole phenomenon and gives only a brief and biased description. The next term, forced migration, gives ... . The term genocide seems to be a harsh word to use when describing the African Slave Trade, but does it account for the four hundred years or so of African slavery in the Americas? I ...

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... ; roles in their households such as being the primary "bread-winners". That being said, it was obvious that the paramount reasons Irish women came to America were for the economic opportunities, as well as bettering the lives of their families; whether it be the ones they could afford to bring along with them, or the ones battling the damning famine back ... middle class" (Diner, pg. 43). This made their homes easily distinguishable from others in the surrounding parish community. Although this was a triumph for the Irish, majority of families did not make it up the social ladder to midd...

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... America was enormous. He was looked up to by many Irish Americans for honesty but was also looked down upon by the British for his slanderous remarks on his radio show and his connection with the Ku Klux Klan. Coughlin was, arguably, one of the most influential men in America. To be noticed as an Irishman is one thing but to find fame is a whole ... he died at the same time the Alamo fell. Henry Ford is most well known for Ford Motor Company but very few people know that he was the son of an Irish immigrant who married during the American Civil War. When Henry grew up he was discriminat...

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... Dying: Typhoon Coming on, better known as The Slave Ship, or John Ruskin, an art critic who explores the nature of the sea and its meaning. THE SLAVE SHIP The Slave Ship is one of the most strong acknowledgments of the violent white supremacy over the black people. It is also one of the most desolate. For Africans the slave ship is a hell over the water. The phase ... treatment which we met with in this dreadful captive situation" Coguano also prefers to keep silent about the treatment of slaves aboard the ships and upon arrival in America. Brathwaite, however, takes a different line, an...

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... ? Although the date and occasion couldn't have been at a more surprising time, Douglass, July 5th at an Independence Day celebration in Rochester, New York, was asked to give a speech and what he gave was more than unexpected. He spoke of how a slave perceives the 4th of July and how hypocritical the day actually was. Douglass said, in document G, "What, to the ... who had began to forget the brutality and wrongness of slavery, eventually led to the election of a President who also didn't like slavery, Republican and 16th President, Abraham Lincoln. In the election of 1860, as seen in do...

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... 19th century, however the Irish made an incredible leap and by early 1900's, only 15% of the Irish in America were living in poverty. The American Irish were to play a large role in the future of the Irish nation, setting up the secret societies that had been in Ireland but did not have to be secret in America. The Fenians, for example was an Irish nationalist group that had planned ... to go back to Ireland and lead a armed revolution in 1865. These plans fell through however, but the importance of the Fenians should not be overlooked. They disappeared off the forefront but never compl...

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... to command their assent . . ." (Tindall & Shi pg. 235). There are twenty-seven direct statements of propaganda in the Declaration of Independence, all meant to portray King George III as a sinful wicked ruler who intended to establish an absolute tyranny over each colony. Each grievance was a harsh indictment of George III. Thomas Jefferson used negative phrases like, "He has forbidden . . . he has plundered ... . . . he has refused . . . he has constrained . . ." in the Declaration of Independence. In contrast, the colonists were pictured as patient, submissive, ... like, "We have pet...

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... by William Lloyd Garrison. Garrison started up his own paper called the Liberator, and he thought that all men were created equal. He demanded the reformation of American society, by protesting slavery, and demanding that they have a right to be free and vote. Another reason why abolitionism spread throughout the country in ... the antebellum years was because of former slave speakers. Speakers like Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth, who traveled the North giving first hand information about slavery. Social reform movements like temperance, and utopianism ... Groups were formed wh...

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... to retain a unique ethnic identity that would impact American culture as a whole. During the period of 1680-1770, tens of thousands of Scots, Scots-Irish and Welsh came to the colonies. Though they emigrated for different reasons (pursuit of wealth or religious freedom) and were of different specific faiths, these three groups shared enough in common with the English colonists (Protestantism, ... culture that still exists today. Beginning around 1680, the practice of slavery became increasingly widespread in the American colonies. Largely, this was due to a shortage of European indentur...

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... other anti-smoking ads before the "truth" ads. It turns out that there have been anti-smoking ads since 1998. Those ads did not have much of an effect on the youth. They did not state any of the stats that the "truth" ads do, and they do not have a hard-hitting theme. The ads that did not have a hard impact were "think ... seven-teen smoke in the Philippines. They say that there needs to be better control of the tobacco. Everywhere except a few countries in Asia have some of the world's weakest tobacco control laws. Many different things affect the rate of smoking in teens. Certain anti...

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... got home from school. You turn on the radio only to hear some media generated stuff banded together by some lame drum beats. This is unfortunetly, the music of today. Along with pop music and boy bands, alternative and rock music has , essentially gone to the pits. There's truly no other way to put it. ... The media has been spoonfeeding us talentless garbage and sell out's for years but it is only now manifesting it's intensity on MTV and the radio. Sure, pop music and boy bands "make" great music to dance to, but ... no talent there. Indoctrinating girls as young as eight years old,...

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... a huge defeat and were reduced to mere sectionalists. Now the Jeffersonian Democrats were clearly becoming America's dominant party in the early 1800's. Because of the Louisiana Purchase, Federalist extremists took drastic action. Aaron Burr, an extreme Federalist, devised schemes to secede New England and New York from America, but he failed. He then attempted to secede the trans-Mississippi ... between the North and South, because the North attempted to use legislation to obstruct the South's intentions. Next, the annexation of Texas in 1845 was a huge source of national disunity. Backe...

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... , and is proud of his master's wealth. In addition, masters kept slaves under better control than laws or a police force ever would. Others say that slaves are much happier working under their conditions than free workers are working in factories. In any case, Dew pulls from all angles to prove that slavery is an institution to be kept in America for its betterment ... . Keeping with this sentiment, John C. Calhoun, senator from South Carolina, also believed strongly in retaining slave labor. In 1844 his duty was to convince British ministers Lord Aberdeen and Richard Pakenham of the adva...

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... five miles to school each day although a public school was located only four blocks from her house. The school wasn't full and the little girl met all of the requirements to attend the school except one. She was black. And blacks weren't allowed to go to white children's schools. Can you imagine ... to the case and the out come. Plessy v. Ferguson said that, "separate but equal" concerning segregation of public places did not violate the constitution. It was at this time that separate schools for whites and black became the norm in southern society. This decision that legalized segregati...

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The poem on the bottom of the statue of liberty means exactly what it says. It means that we, America, will take in everyone from all the other counties and accept them as ours. This was at a time in which the country was not full and was still looking for people to fill up the land. So, at the time the statue was given ... statue says what it says. However, today we have already formed our government, cultures, and everything else that goes along with a country so therefore we have no need or room for other countries poor; we have enough trouble with our own. At the time the poem was written...

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