Or, how I navigated the transition to college Leaving the service to attend university full-time was one of the oddest experiences of my life. A blessing when I stop and think about it, though, because of the post 9/11 G.I. Bill allowing me to focus on school, mostly. But I find this period of transition…
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Globalization Comes to Mebane, NC
This is an adaptation of one of the first papers I ever wrote as an undergraduate student The only constant in modern economics is change. Closing: The Life and Death of an American Factory is a story about the closure of White Furniture Company in Mebane, NC but also serves as a microcosm for the greater U.S.…
Operation PBSUCCESS
Early CIA regime change operations During the Cold War, the United States maintained nominal control over the Western Hemisphere — Latin American in particular. U.S. foreign policy attitudes toward its southern neighbors are characterized as paternalistic at best and interventionist at worst in the centuries leading up to World War II. The early nineteenth century…
Three Native American Creation Myths
The Iroquois, Yakama, and Cherokee Each Native American tribe has its own story of its origin. While scientists believe Native Americans originated in Asia and came to the Americas via a land bridge between modern day Russia and Alaska, a second theory positsthat ancient Asians came to the Americas by boat, traversing the Pacific coast. Regardless, these two theories are rooted in scientific discovery,…