So the paper is com­ing along but not fast enough. I have 10 pages but need 12–15. And now I’m get­ting ner­vous. I don’t know why, it’s just that I’m not done yet, and I did pro­cras­ti­nate (who doesn’t?) but I’m try­ing to make up for lost time now. I was sick for days and […]

I have a term paper com­ing up for my Con­tested Images: Race, Reli­gion, and Sci­ence in Amer­i­can class and I thought I’d post the syn­op­sis here. I used to write a lot about his­tor­i­cal top­ics on my site and its been awhile since I last wrote about his­tory. Maybe when I’m done with the paper […]

Con­tin­ued from Part I. Down­fall would have been the largest amphibi­ous land­ing in his­tory, includ­ing 42 air­craft car­ri­ers, 24 bat­tle­ships, 400 destroy­ers and other ships. Four­teen U.S. divi­sions A divi­sion is a large mil­i­tary unit usu­ally con­sist­ing of around ten to twenty thou­sand sol­diers. would take part also as they used Oki­nawa as a staging […]

Well…you should. Here it is. IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776 The unan­i­mous Dec­la­ra­tion of the thir­teen united States of Amer­ica When in the Course of human events it becomes nec­es­sary for one peo­ple to dis­solve the polit­i­cal bands which have con­nected them with another and to assume among the pow­ers of the earth, the sep­a­rate and […]

As 1944 turned into 1945 an Allied vic­tory in the Pacific was creep­ing closer to real­ity. Lit­tle by lit­tle Amer­i­can forces were rolling up the Japan­ese defenses one island at a time as they pushed the invaders back fur­ther and fur­ther towards the Japan­ese main­land. Guam had been taken, the Philip­pines were being con­tained and […]