p Pg .1 My aunt ‘s sister died of Aids last year . She was diagnosed in 1991 . My aunt took care of her sister Betty while still cooking and cleaning the house as her mother worked a nine to five job . Betty was a short woman of maybe 5 ‘5 with long …

African American History I . Introduction African Americans , also known as Black Americans , Afro-Americans , and Negroes , form the largest racial minority in the United States . Almost blacks in the United States are descendants of persons abducted in Africa and sold into slavery from early 17th century to the early 19th …

The Battle of Shiloh The American Civil War began on April 9 , 1861 , with the Battle of Fort Sumter , between the Northern United States of America and the Southern Confederate States of America . It was never too clear until the Battle of Shiloh , won by the Union as to who …

Financial Aid is Not Always the Answer The United States is known for getting involved in affairs that does not concern them all in the name of foreign policy . theless , its stance regarding its foreign policies have undoubtedly helped other nations especially those economically-challenged at the same time serving the US ‘ own …

Early Mesopotamians and Egyptians settled according to geography They needed their cities to be located in places that could easily access water for drinking and farming . For the Sumerians in Mesopotamia it was important to develop a civilization close to water , so they settled between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers . In Egypt …

CULTURES OF THE NEW WORLD When the New World was discovered , Native American peoples had spread throughout North and South America . Often they were hunter /gatherers , but they had established various civilizations . The Europeans considered themselves far superior to these natives , and European arrival invariably led to native peoples being …

Code : History (World Civilization Page 1 Code of Hammurabi , collection of the laws and Edicts of the Babylonian King Hammurabi , and the earliest legal code known in its entirety Composition of the Code : The origin of the written law is emphasized by a Bas-relief in which the King is depicted receiving …

In Celeste Ray ‘s book : Highland Heritage : Scottish Americans in the South . The author takes a close look at what it means to be Scottish in America and more specifically , in the American South . Ray takes a scholarly approach to Scottish immigration to the South in several chapters that deal …

Foucault ‘s quest for truth led him to look for answers pertaining to the origin of mankind . He understood that the answers to these questions could be ascertained only by uncovering the effective history of mankind . If events that mold the course of history were to be interpreted as a slow process of …

Running head : RUNNING HEAD FOR PUBLICATION GOES HERE Title of Your Goes Here Your Name Goes Here Institutional Affiliation Goes Here The causes of the American Civil War have been debated for over a century . Most historians agree that a common theme that remains in those debates is that slavery in the South …