Webster Thayer

“Known anarchists during the Red Scare that followed the Russian Revolution and Italian immigrants during an era of rampant xenophobia, Sacco and Vanzetti were convenient scapegoats”(Finkel 1). This quote is from the article written by Finkel it discusses how the case has been looked over again. Sacco and Vanzetti were italian immigrants and known anarchists that were convicted for the crime of a paymaster and his guard. Rampant xenophobia is defined as an irrational fear against foreigners. Since

Christians who have lived in place where persecution takes place their whole life. The second classification would be missionaries. According to Merriam-Webster, a missionary is “a person who is sent to a foreign country to do religious work (such as to convince people to join a religion or to help people who are sick, poor, etc.)” (Merriam-Webster, 2014). Missionaries typically come from countries such as the United States, Australia and European nations. All Christians outside that live in countries

The Nuclear Terrorism Threat and the Aum Shinrikyo Cult Until the mid seventies, the term nuclear terror was used predominately to describe the threat of a nuclear attack by the Soviet Union. Since then, however, it has taken on a whole new meaning which many security experts feel poses a more serious threat to national security. In the past few decades, formal terrorist organizations have exploded planes out of the sky, bombed US military and diplomatic facilities abroad, and with the World

Hewlett-Packard was founded (like every other good invention) in a garage in 1938 by David Packard and Bill Hewlett. They introduced their first product (and the world’s first computer), the HP 200A Audio Oscillator (pictured right), which quickly became a popular piece of test equipment for engineers (Computer History Museum, 2006). But it was the invention of the World Wide Web that led the way for computers to revolutionize our society. Tim Berners – Lee (pictured right) invented the World Wide

On April 12, 1861, Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter, starting the American Civil War. The Civil War would last for four years and result in massive American casualties. It would eventually end with slavery abolished and the South under the military occupation of the North. The conflict between the Southern and Northern states did not start suddenly, and did not only appear in the 1860s. Slavery was prevalent in the South and eventually made illegal in the North, which caused Northerners

commercial interests in the Caribbean and the Pacific in places like Cuba, Hawaii, Midway, Samoa, the Virgin Islands and the Dominican Republic. A great part of the impetus for expansion came from a rather unlikely source, naval officer Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan. Founder of the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, Captain Mahan began to write widely read and applauded books and articles that called for America to develop its strength on the basis of sea power, which he found to have been a decisive