Matt Warner was a victim of circumstance. Had conditions been different when he was about 15 years old, he might not have led the outlaw life. Even though he turned into an outlaw, he was a kind-hearted one. Warner is a little-known, but important facet of Western history because he didn’t fit the regular mold [...]

Judi Bari was born November 7, 1949 in Baltimore, Maryland. She was raised in Baltimore, and attended college at the University of Maryland, where she majored in “anti-Vietnam War rioting,” as she once said.
With no real direction and already in her fifth year at the school, she decided to drop out and took a working-class [...]

Asian countries have been fortunate enough to make such as enormous and constant craze in the culinary world with its many varieties and degrees of spices and sauces. The most common sauce known for its origin is soy sauce; also know as Soya sauce by the Brits. This salty, but flavorful sauce is made from [...]

Introduction
With Berlin still smouldering and the War in the Pacific raging, Franklin Roosevelt’s death in April of 1945 signified an end to four decades of American ‘isolationism’ in world affairs. There would be no return to the period of ‘normalcy’ which Warren Harding pledged after the First World War, nor would America be able to [...]

Human language differs from animal communication in many ways.  While humans use language to produce an infinite number of unique sentences as a form of communication, animals lack this ability.  Animals communicate by signal codes, which means they have a limited number of statements, generally as simple responses to certain situations.  As one researcher says, [...]

By now consumers should not be surprised to hear that another large company has taken advantage of its customers and has used unethical business practices. As of late, it almost seems normal to be unethical in the business world. Presently, the most popular story concerning corporate fraud is Enron. Enron used an accounting style that [...]

Introduction to Pheromones
What are Pheromones?

The definition of a pheromone, according to the Oxford dictionary, is: “a chemical substance secreted and released by an animal for detection by another usually of the same species. ” Basically, pheromones are chemical messengers that activate physiological or behavioral responses in other like organisms. In most mammals pheromones are detected [...]

Does the international community care?
The Human Rights Movement is constantly evolving, and universal respect for human rights has improved dramatically in the past century. Although the international community has progressed in it’s recognition and attempt to protect individual human rights,  it has been widely unsuccessful in it’s ability to prevent the violation of grave human [...]

Latin America has been a region notoriously plagued with instability, foreign invasion, and revolution – especially throughout the Twentieth century. The region’s politics have typically been corrupt, often dictatorial, and seldom democratic. Erratic economic policies, constant social inequalities, international vulnerability, authoritarian political transitions, civil wars and revolutions, and external (predominantly U.S.) influences have kept many [...]

Until the late 1990s, there were thousands of books about American Indians, a considerable body of literature on national parks, but almost nothing linking the two.  Two monumental works on government Indian policy, Federal Indian Law by Felix Cohen and The Great Father by Francis Prucha, contain one passing reference to national parks between them. [...]

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