History Essays

The researcher states that Franklin’s book is an apt description of the hypocritical American culture industry that has distorted the history of the Vietnam War, which was the first televised war in the world, in the sense that images of atrocities were telecast by television journalists as much as print journalists reported.

After the war there was a rising intolerance to difference, waspification was at the forefront of a lot of ideology culturally and politically, restrictive immigration laws and prohibition all marked the era.

Life spans were short due to disease, war, and shortages. This would result in several marriages throughout one's life and a family that would have a mix of siblings, step-siblings, and half-siblings. Most of the population was indentured servants that were impoverished and faced a continual shortage of food and necessities.

The initial years of airline deregulation were distinguished by era of strong rivalry among the main airlines in addition to by competition from new-entrant airlines and from airlines previously restricted to intrastate markets.

It is a magnificent city gifted by surrounding seas and mountains. The city is at the southwest of Honshu Island and is divided by the Rokko Mountain Ranges into the southern and the northern segment. The southern segment is a highly urbanized area in Kobe (Asiarooms.com).

William Henry Harrison delivered the longest one (8,445 words) March 4, 1841—a cold, wet day. When he expired of pneumonia shortly thereafter, many believed it to be caused by exposure to the elements that day. In 1865, Abraham Lincoln spoke these famous words. With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right.

The poetic spirit rebels against the constraints of tradition and customs and seeks to modify the world in a new image. Thus, conservative poets are generally bad poets. The later writings of Wordsworth are proof enough of this assertion. But not all those poets who set out as revolutionaries deserted the cause.

This research tells that despite the absence of raw materials, technological and industrial backwardness as compared with European countries and the USA, and poverty of citizens Japan managed to become one of the leading economic powers in the world. The industrialization of Japan played the main role in such striking progress made by the country on the international economic and political scene.

The author states that the wars of 1948, 1956, 1967 and 1973 have only served to create national historical legacies in which the other side, be it Arab or Israeli, prominently features as the primary enemy and threat to survival. Israel’s actions in Lebanon have only served to exacerbate the situation.

The author states that the document was designed to prevent workforce shortages during the wartime and had absolutely no effect on segregationist policies implemented in education and employment, and discrimination persisted. Such reluctance to provide minorities with equal rights could have cost the United States loss in the Cold War.

Where the French Revolution changed the political map of Europe forever, it brought the people to the forefront of politics and set the precedence for bringing about social and political change through revolution. The old order in France was the absolutist monarchy of the Bourbons led at the time of the evolution by Louise XVI but supported by the nobility and the clergy.

The population of Riverina in the year 2001 was 162,848 (Riverina Regional Development Board n.d.a) while that of Perth was estimated to be 1,325,392 in the same census (Perth 2007). Riverina's inland cities of Albury, Griffith, Wagga Wagga and the adjacent rural towns and hamlets reveal considerable variations in the regional population.

Admittedly, liberal historians argue that Roosevelt restored hope and self-respect to tens of millions of desperate people, built labor unions, upgraded the national infrastructure and saved capitalism in his first term when he could have destroyed it and easily nationalized the banks and rail roads

U.S. History from discovery to 1877 Gary B. Nash's "Race and Revolution" examines the decisions and individuals that influenced the course of American history in regards to slavery and subsequent race relations. The book is a collection of essays that are accompanied by many primary source documents.

Naturally, the reactions that will occur within a discussion of the 1960s will vary from place to place and among different age groups. A significant amount of literature referencing the effects of the 1960s on society in the Western World exists in libraries and on the Internet today, but in comparison, there is relatively little addressing the effects on countries such as Britain.

Globalization has brought economic, environmental, cultural, political and social dimensions into the forefront. Mainly it refers to an extended village, urban, national economies and across the border movements. Still, it can create a threat to the already diminishing sovereignty of nation states, who had always thrived on their territoriality.

In the field of medicine, epidemiology is as old as Anton van Leeuwenhoek, 1632-1723, a merchant. Anton van Leeuwenhoek's discovery of 'animalcules' from the white material he got from his teeth encouraged successive studies and findings on the existence of organisms that cause diseases as well as the spread of the same organisms in nature.

No generation in the People's Republic suffered more misfortunes than the Red Guards generation.They experienced the great famine of 1959-1961; in adolescence, they endured the Cultural Revolution which closed schools and sent them to the countryside; in their twenties, they were told to defer marrying and to have one child only when they did marry.

The following analysis giving a clear understanding of how James VI was a successful king of Scots before 1603 but that he squandered that success after he became king of England. James was born to Mary Queen of Scots on June 19 in 1566 in Theobalds, Hertfordshire.

Critic of nuclear proliferation argued that nuclear weapons endanger the existence of international peace and the welfare of the world. On the other hand, supporters of nuclear proliferation argue that nuclear weapons provide a deterrent against aggression from enemy countries.

The reviews covered include some of Yimou's popular films, such as, Red Sorghum, To Live, and Raise the Red Lantern. The paper also discusses how Yimou's cinematic vision has changed in his recent films, including Not One Less, Hero, and House of the Flying Daggers.

By the time the last American troops were being withdrawn from Southeast Asia in March 1973, America was suffering from a war on two fronts – one abroad in Southeast Asia and one with itself. An entire generation of anti-war protestors had emerged in response to the years of bloody fighting that had.

And the facts are that South of Rome the "Italian System of Corruption" still runs rampant. In Sicily you have the Mafia, in Naples you have the Camorra, meanwhile in the Puglia region you have the Sacra Corona Unita, and finally in Calabria you have La N'dragheta.

The roots of the Spanish-American War of 1898 were planted decades earlier in a popular notion known as Manifest Destiny. Though there was not an official policy of expansionism, Americans were acculturated to the idea that it was their right to spread westward and outward. The flames of American Imperialism were stoked by many diverse interests.

The Americanized name of the organization, Hesbulla, comes from the Arabic words Hizb'allah, or "Party of God". It is also referred to as Hizballah, Hizbollah, Hizbullah, or Hezbollah, but for simplicity, Hesbulla would be used throughout this paper. Several sources were used as references to analyze facts and events with the highest level of objectivity, and not without difficulty, in order to increase the writer's understanding of international terrorism in general and as it is carried out by Hesbulla in particular.

On the side, Panama in continental America was established.2 With the epochal voyages of Christopher Columbus to the Americas and Vasco da Gama to the Indian Ocean in the 1490s, the voyages were made at a faster rate. Other European states echoed these explorations and in less than three centuries the European age of exploration changed the shape of the world.3

For example, music is a main part of the western culture but as for the cultures with Islamic believes tend to go against the western cultures because music is a topic of dispute in Islam. As Islamic followers believe that music is a useless activity which in fact, is a state of passiveness and the benefit and also the pleasure taken from music involves a meaning of deep slavery in passion, since Islam is the only enemy of passiveness and slavery in passion.

This study will outline the spiritual, ideological and psychological way for tracing the course of Islamic expansion within the United States and how has the matter of race in the United States influenced the practices and the community experiences of black Sunni Muslims who conventionally see Islam as a color and race-blind religion

The author states that Crossing the Border is generally acknowledged by scholars as a fundamental book that chronicles the history of Buxton, one of the most successful all-black settlements in nineteenth-century Canada. In her work, Sharon A. Roger Hepburn traces the evolution of educational institutions, businesses, and political structures.

Cleopatra's early family experiences help to shape the way she would treat her family through out her life time. She used her wits and her body to help rule her kingdom. In the spring of 51 B.C. Ptolemy the Flute-Player died. He was succeeded by Cleopatra, who was then eighteen, and her brother Ptolemy XIII, who was ten.

Egypt and Greece both benefited from trade and commerce with the Hittites, and the Hebrews, who migrated to Canaan under Moses, were influenced by the philosophical explorations of Hittite culture as well. The Hittites' most memorable - and most underappreciated - achievements included the discovery and development of iron, setting the stage for the Iron Age; and, the implementation of a law code, establishing new ethical norms and codes of conduct throughout the ancient world.

The author says that during the Second World War, the American government forcefully evacuated the Japanese Americans even though this was a strict violation of citizenship rights. This period in American history is one of the blackest blots on American history. Many Japanese Americans were enlisted as soldiers in the US Armed Forces.

Its historical allusion is towards the beginning of how religion has emerged and developed in which areas of the world as well as its impact on society and culture of the countries where religion is practiced, which therefore contributed to the present way of life of its citizens.

In truth, the American Civil War was an economic war that created economic decisions that would allow America to usher itself into the industrializing world. Although in most cases slavery saves money for capitalists however, the maintenance of slavery was another matter.

The author states that there have been serious debates and analyses on the origins and causes of the Arab-Israeli conflict and an exploration of the colonial influence, the British Mandate period, and the period of pre-partition can significantly offer some pertinent hint. According to some scholars, religion has been at the heart of the conflict.

The middle class was inching closer to luxury with the money it had made in investment markets. All signs were pointing up. It was precisely this shared spirit of unbridled optimism, however, that led to the crash and the subsequent depression; the Thirties were particularly horrific specifically because few, in their boom-era delirium, had foreseen that the wave, so long cresting, must eventually break.

At the same time, the extension of railway links made migration easier by providing a fast and safe means of transport for migrant workers from western Mexico to the US South-West (Driscoll 56-59). Starting in the mid-1980s, there has been a programme of structural adjustment and economic realignment in Mexico, founded on a set of neoliberal policies which have made the working and contractual conditions of the Mexican workforce more precarious.

Lincoln received his first endorsement to run for presidency in this convention. Defeating candidates such as William H. Seward and Salmon P. Chase, he became the Republican candidate on the third ballot at the 1860Republican National Convention on 18th of May in Chicago

Yet it is undeniable that many of the modern economies which decry the practice of the slave trade and slavery in general have their own political and economic basis in a pre-modern slave economy. Moreover, much of the richness in culture and society is due to the intermingling of races that resulted from slavery.

Historians and authors mentions Louis XVI in the following words: "If he had had strength of will, or a modicum of necessary ruthlessness, he would have escaped his fate and might have spared France years of agony and decades of bloodshed. But Louis nursed a prejudice against violence.

The author states that England, France, Germany, and Italy were all similar in demographics and industrialization when the Depression began. Yet, each reacted differently. England and France were able to maintain their parliamentary form of government, while Germany and Italy turned to totalitarian fascism.

The underlying essence of the account given by Jean Amery forces the reader to look closely at the reasons behind the torture program that went on in all concentration camps. Further insight into the life of Jean Amery reveals that he did not want to dwell on his victimhood for long. He believed that his time in Auschwitz was a part of life, albeit one that he needed to put behind him.

The author states that a new generation of teenagers were coming of age in 1960 and had brought with them the ideals and values of a youth that was predisposed to material goods and the norms as expressed on mainstream television. A generation had been formed by this new prosperity and old values were cast aside.

To characterize postmodernism, we must look briefly at what existed before it: modernism. "Modern" was once used liberally as an adjective to describe many things -from the latest kitchen gadget to a style of art.

Vladimir Lenin was the driving force behind the revolution even before it started. Throughout Russia had only one leader, Lenin, who planned, plotted, propagated and executed the task of bringing down the monarchy to replace it with the communist rule.

The Confederacy consists of seven Deep South cotton states seceded by February 1861, and includes South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. In the year 1861 four more states seceded and joined the Confederacy, and these states were: Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina and Virginia.

What the Europeans imparted to the Native American population collectively were four basic things: disease, guns, alcohol and horses. Of these four, the introduction of the horse was the most beneficial to Native Americans. It was also, perhaps, one of the most culturally altering events for the American Indians.

The author states that many colonists had no desire to break away from Britain. They wanted to use the war to establish a better negotiating position for the eventual settlement with Britain of their future role in the Empire. It was only by June 1776 the Independence won a majority and a committee was set up under Jefferson to draft the Declaration.

The statement that it was greed that compelled the British to improve upon their homeland is in reality, false. The research will show though at times ensuring the financial stability for the mother-land did play a part; the main construction efforts were developed and established for the safety and well-being of the citizens of the country, rather than the idea of greed.

The 1960s-1970s were growth-oriented periods but with high inflation, and interest rate that again attracted the US government to act strategically and find a solution and save common men on the road. When the economy is undergoing fundamental changes the role of a strong government is a must that can provide a definite shape by enacting laws and framing favorable and right policies.