Egypt Egypt is a Middle Eastern country located in the northeast corner of Africa. A small part of Egypt, called the Sinai Peninsula, is located in Asia. Deserts cover most of Egypt, so it gets little rain, but the longest river in the world, the Nile River, flows through the desert and is key to living for many Egyptians. Almost all o...
Exploration - Motives For Until the late 1400\'s, Europeans did not know the existence of the two American continents ( North and South America ). To the European explorers, exploring the other side of the Atlantic was like exploring an entire different world, hence the name- the New World. In 1492, Christopher Columbus unknowingly discovered th...
The Harlem Renaissance brought about many great changes. It was a time for expressing the African-American culture. Many famous people began their writing or gained their recognition during this time. The Harlem Renaissance took place during the 1920's and 1930's. Many things came about during the Harlem Renaissance; things such as jazz and...
??Indians?: Textualism, Morality, and the Problem of History?, an essay written by Jane Tompkins, a professor of English at Duke University, outlines Tompkins dissatisfaction on how American Indians are portrayed throughout history. As children, we are taught that in ?1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue?, and that Peter Minuet bought all of Ma...
The truth behind the tradition is surprising. and the Pilgrims seem to go together, but the truth is, the Pilgrims never held an autumnal feast. However the Pilgrims did have a feast in 1621, after their first harvest, and it is this feast, which people often refer to as \"The First \". This feast was never repeated, though, so it can\'t be c...