Blaxploitation: Empowering or Destructive?
It’s 1971. You drive up to the movie theater in your ’69 Ford Mustang. You look up at the Marquee and you make sure Shaft is on the sign. You grab your ticket and make your way to your seat. You hear funky music play as the title sequence begins. You can dig it.
What comes to mind when someone mentions the word “witch” to you? Do you think wild naked women dancing around a bonfire in the middle of the woods? Devil worshippers perhaps? Those that sacrifice animals to a pantheon of Gods and…
How Domestic Concerns Affected German Foreign Policy
Foreign policy is not thought to be as important as concerns closer to ones self which is…
Exploring the cause of the Draft Riots of 1863 in New York.
The First Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huangdi, ruled for two decades, from the year 230 A.D. to 210 A.D. during the Qin Dynasty. Throughout his reign, many assassinations were attempted against him. Because of this and other factors, Emperor Qin became obsessed with the…
On November 24, 1917 a bomb blast ripped through the police station in Milwaukee Wisconsin killing ten policemen and one bystander. This was the first strike in a bombing campaign that would last for three years and culminated in the Wall…
Rebuilding the World Trade Center: Why does it matter?
On September 11, 2001, it was just another day for the working American people, and another school day for the children and students of this country. About an hour into the workday, a few more for other parts of the country, something strange happened. At 8:53 a.m. in…
When you think about Civil Rights or race relations, your mind probably drifts to the psychedelic…
On November 6, 1860 Senator Abraham Lincoln of Illinos was elected the 16th president of the United States. Most people do not know that Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election without a single vote from nine southern states. Less than a year after Lincoln’s…
The Shocking Truth of Electroshock
In the 1900s, asylums were defined as a hospital for people with mental or emotional problems. Mental institutions, asylums, and madhouses are examples of different terminology used to label these types of places. These were places for people with…
Adoption Worldwide
There are many different reasons couples choose to adopt. Adoptions can come from foreign countries, but there are also many children from the United States awaiting their adoption. Some couples are unable to have children of their own and some just want to be of help to those they know are in need. There…
Climbing the ladder through the Nazi reign
When one thinks of the Nazi reign Historians tend to focus on the rise of the Nazi party thought the male Nazi. Nazi had very strong beliefs especially the hatred of Jews and the placement of women.²
