Recent content by jhough37

Just a quick reply, the picture is of Chicago, which is in Illinois. Not Michigan

There is a very good article about this eventhere Orson Scott Card is an author who has written a number of well known books such as the Ender's Game series and he always seems to construct very interesting arguments.

The 13 US colonies were the exact same. They might have had similiar backgrounds but they were fiercely independent and really wanted very little to do with each other. Their economies were not tied together and it took quite a bit of political manuvering to get them to agree to a single...

As a history student it is very interesting to see the debates about this and reflect on the same type of debates that took place in establishing the constitution of the United States of America. I wonder if we can look back in a few decades and really compare.

I have seen this subject almost brought up in a couple other threads on the board and so I decided to start a thread specifically about it. Here is the problem: When you are looking at something else, be it a person, or a culture, and they are doing something that seems, to you, to be self...

I am curious as to what happened, the reports say the Koran was "mishandled" but what does that mean? Was it set down incorrectly? Was something spilled on it? The question arise as to what treatment this book recieves and do the guards at Gitmo have the training to know what would be considered...

On an interesting side note. I saw a study somewhere a little while back, done by biologists and sociologists and some other -ists, and the findings were that according to natural law (i.e. taking into account size, social structure, resource division, habitat) there were seven times the amount...