History Essays

The British system was deeply embedded in the Australian culture and it was widely believed that the British way underpinned the success of the colonies and that the British spirit and character were lofty and ideal. Third, Great Britain cultivated the continued loyalty of Australians by openly showing the importance of the latter to the Empire.

American soldiers whose tall and well-built physiques, overall looks, and superior weapons gave the impression that they were better off than their Japanese counterparts. The Americans also handled themselves well during the surrender phase of the war and elected to free the Japanese emperor from any liability for the war.

The significant effects of such-like systems are highlighted in the manner in which they easily culminate into bad political decision-making. Likewise, it is also unquestionable that there is a very big gap in the production industries between the large industries and the small industries mainly as a consequence of the Cultural Revolution.

Paradies, Harris, & Anderson, (2008) with racism the issue of inequality raises. The gap between different people in different programs and services offered in a country continues to increase. The indigenous people seem forgotten and somehow suffer from neglect leading to a big gap between them and others. 

Generally speaking, the meeting was graced by African Leaders such as the then president of Tanganyika, Julius Nyerere, Tennyson Makiwane who was in the South African Congress, Kanyama Chiune, and Vella Pillay who was from South Africa’s Indian Congress and Trevor Huddlestone and finally Michael Scott.

China has risen over the years to become one of the most influential countries in the world. The rise in the position of China as a very powerful nation has been attributed mainly to the growth in its economy and the strengthening of its military power. Today, China is a very influential country in terms of international matters.

This is basically the post second world war period, during which the successive non-labor and labor governments initiated a number of transformative policies to mark the origin of Australian Welfare. In terms of history, Australia has uniquely evolved its welfare system from the said origin through to the late years of the 20th century (Gray, 2011).

Maoism is a modified concept of Marxism-Leninism that came from the teachings of Mao Zedong who was a Chinese communist (Weir, 2007). Mao Zedong was known to focus on the peasantry that he referred to as a revolutionary force that was possible to mobilize through the leadership of the Communist party (Clements, 2006).

The Aborigines in Australia represent an indigenous race of the country, especially discovered after the British invasion and colonization in the year 1788. The name refers to the present members who were in the country at the time as well as the descendants later on. Historical attributes and injustices have been documented about the Aborigines with their criterion inclusion taking on legal and administrative intervention.

Tracing the evolution of music from its modest beginnings during the Paleolithic flutes that dominated the prehistoric era, past the opera halls that mushroomed in Europe, and into the avant-garde compositions during the post-modernist era, it becomes apparent that artists have made significant efforts to use music in its most pure forms to convey human emotions (Jamie 2015).

Hobsbawn argues that human beings get to know the nature of their experience through flashbacks or reminiscence (Van der Linden, 1993). The world transformed slowly that no one could realize and the only way that humans came to know about the changes in the world was through flashbacks and the memories of the past.

The main effect before the Cuban Missile Crisis was the Cuban Revolution as well as the Bay of Pigs. The chief reason for the crisis was the hidden agendas that the Soviet Union had, the Cuban insecurity, missile bases established in Cuba by the US, the Cuban revolution, and the United States’ attempt of overthrowing Castro to name a few. 

The two sources considered in this paper concern both primary and secondary sources which also offer relevant information regarding the chosen Coconut War. Further, the study looked at some of the motives behind the use and the production of secondary sources as a vital tool for historical perseveration.

Part of the architectural design of ancient Greek Cities is Gymnasium and academy. The Gymnasium was an ancient Greek architectural building that was used for athletics activities and in time it was used as a place of study and philosophical discussion.  A gymnasium in the ancient Greek city was formed as a public organization where young men received training and exercises.

The First World War was an international war that originated in Europe and spread to different parts of the world. It started in 1914 and ended in 1918. Despite the fact that the event is long gone, its effects are still felt and talked about today. In 2014, the First World War centenary was held in memory of the war’s outbreak and its consequences.

The book, ‘Climate Wars’ by Harald Welzer entails various issues on social, political, economic, cultural, and ethnic changes taking place and their impact on the life of human beings. Using the issue of climate change, Welzer explains how the problem of global warming can result in social-economic and political violence.

Motivated biases are likely to manifest in decisions that involve high stakes and actions considered consequential that could affect the critical values or the tradeoffs among the important values. The stress that results from threats to the basic values makes the decision-makers deny such threats or the need of making tradeoffs between the values.

Vargas's rule was also marred by populist politics as was seen when he declared war on corruption. Reports indicate that Brazil was one of the most corrupt countries in the world in the early to mid-20th century. According to Loveman, corruption was widespread in Brazil to the extent that it becomes part of the Brazilian culture.

In the early 17th century Old World settlers introduced cash crops growing in Latin America making large plantations for wealthy economists. However, the introduction of cash crops brought numerous impacts on the economy. The entry of Europeans into Latin America had disastrous effects such as the emergence of diseases and genocidal policies, population decreases, and slavery.

South Africa is located in the south of Africa. The country borders the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean. Continentward, the country borders Mozambique, Namibia, Zimbabwe, and Botswana. The country occupies 1,219,080 square kilometers (Mhlauli, Salani & Mokotedi, 2015). Its economy and infrastructure are some of the most developed in Africa.

Slavery was practiced in many parts of the Western world at the time it was in ancient Roman society. Just like in many other parts of society, slavery was quite important and integral to society in ancient Rome. The slaves in ancient Roman society made up a very significant size of the total population.

Before 1800, there was a fluctuation in the society’s per-capita income. The industrial revolution came to England in the 1780s and sustained growth was experienced by a group of countries. The last 200 years have seen the per capita incomes of most countries grow. This is what has given rise to the modern globalized world.

Society obtained the liberty of exploring new ideas that led to the introduction of new technologies. Additionally, the tendency of the government to redistribute the national wealth through different institutions empowered the working social class to pursue intellectual development in the learning institutions. 

Human rights campaigns in the past were focused on fighting against oppression by governments as well as the discrimination that some groups of people were being subjected to, such as racial segregation. Examples of such campaigns include the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the Birmingham campaign, the March on Washington, and the Black Consciousness Movement.

The inscriptions on vessels and seals in King Aha’s tomb show that his queen Neithhotep died during his reign. Neithhotep is believed to have been a princess from the Upper Egypt region who was the mother of King Aha. This proves the use of marriage to solidify the unification and union of the two regions during the reign of king Narmer.

A great influence on the life of Gorbachev was his family’s struggle for survival during World War II under the brutal occupation of the Germans (Mcnair 2005: p. 2). The toll the war took upon the whole country was so great that everything before it became to waste and the people all had to start from scratch.  

The territories of these member states range from large to small with varied gross domestic products. The other feature of the global community is the relationship between the power held by the core organization, and that of more influential members far varies from what exists in the global community.

In the present world, there is a major plot of misconceptions that the world has drawn on the subject of jihad. Misconceptions are in frequent order, where the true information is continuously away from the people, especially those who want to know and who seek to get the truth and reality as Islam has taught about.

Western governments are uncaring, incompetent, corrupt, panicky (particularly the British Government), and often brutal. This allows any future revisionist power to recruit individuals of ability and integrity who will have no thought of personal gain of any kind, and who may also form a cadre for successor regimes.  

China is a country that best portrays transformations over a series of stages shaped by political, social, and sometimes economical factors. An important factor that has contributed to the transformation in China is international pressure and influence from the external world, especially from the western countries.

The principal objective is doing the right thing for its sake and acting rightly is the practical turn of phrase of ethics which Aristotle considers to be the most imperative of the sciences, including political science, to the extent that he does not factor in the alternative of being a viable proposition (Yack 1991, p.76). 

The threat of terrorism is unending, and will most likely increase as time goes by. However, the response to terrorism should not be focused on the military way, instead, the government should try to uncover the root causes of terrorism and work with other countries using intelligence to avert terrorist acts before they occur.

America has a history of facing countries seeking hegemonic power. It achieved independence from England which was a hegemonic state. Then it faced the challenge of having hostile states in its neighbourhood. It had to fight and work hard to become regional hegemonic power. It did so successfully. It helped in defeating Germany in World War I. 

Although some free blacks acquire money to move from sharecropping to owning land by the 1860s, many more were indebted or were forced by poverty to sign unfair and exploitative sharecropping rendered them hoping for an improvement in the situation. “Workers are attached to a landowner due to unpaid debt to the landowner by the employee”.

Lee served in the Mexican War and was promoted to the rank of Colonel. He then went on to fight as part of the Texas cavalry. During the Civil War, Lee resigned from his commission with the Union Army and became a military advisor to President Jefferson Davis. As commanding General of the Confederate troops, Lee led the Confederacy to many victories.

The interpretation of Egyptian myths is a very common mystery unsolved. There are lots of inspections and practices done in order to interpret the authentic valuation of all kinds of myths related to Egyptian Civilisation. In this paper, my attempt is to justify the existence of these myths in terms of various cultural and social factors that supported these myths.

Generally, very few people would disagree that the events that took place during Hitler’s Nazi regime were undoubtedly the worst that has ever taken place in Germany and subsequent governments have been at pains to lay the ghosts of that haunting past to rest by publicly apologizing to victims of the regime.

The revolution age includes: the revolt of slaves and the independence movement of nations, both occurred in Latin America; American Revolution; Haitian Revolution, and the French revolution. The revolutionary period weakened the imperialist states in Europe. In the whole of the new world, the imperialists lost their main assets.

While the Bidwins live in the desert and travel from place to place in search of water, the Hadar are those who reside on islands or coastal areas and build sedentary villages. Every Hadar tribe has its notable territory which is either an island or an area close to the sea. Although they comprise of people with a shared origin, the two groups are quite distinct in their characteristics.

Historically, New York began with the documentation of the area by a European known as Giovanni de Verrazzano in command of a French ship when he visited the area in the year 1524 (Gutman, 2007). The area later became the field for multiple battles of the so-called American revolutionary war; including the battle of Brooklyn, which has been regarded as the historical largest battle of the war.  

The song or poem is therefore composed orally by bards who are considered to be illiterate and recited in a chant to the audience. Some of the common examples of such poems include the Odyssey and the Iliad. However, considering the fact that such songs of poems were orally composed, they often exhibit certain unique characteristics.

The claim that people can be liable for a crime committed by an individual is based on the principle of oneness with perpetrators. , Schlink argues thus: “the collective incurs liability for the perpetrator’s misconduct in as far as solidarity and economic community with the perpetrator are maintained in reaping the profits from their neighbors, aiding them after the fact, and obstructing their just punishment”.

In 1603, France’s King Henry IV allocated a man named Pierre Dugua de Mons a big piece of land on which he could set up a French colony within Jamaica. The first group of settlers set foot there in 1604 and they chose their landing site at St. Croix Island where they immediately began the building of houses.

The film begins on the 20th anniversary of the end of the conflict between Vietnam and the United States.  The setting is on the roof of the U.S. embassy where the very last troops had left by helicopter. A war veteran, Robert Muller is presented as an individual who talks about his own views and calls the war a lie.

The journal on the concept of the Sound Dynasty presents a totally different life that is present in the organization of the family life in the Chinese world. Earlier on Chinese life was simple and organized in the kinship system. There were basics that were common in family life. The form of ancestry, patrilineality and ancestor worship, was common in the family life of the Chinese, (Sullivan 2009).

Big history seeks to explain the history of man and the universe on a large-scale showing common themes and patterns. This theory explains the very beginning of the universe and mankind unbounded by time and space. Through a large-scale approach, Big History creates complex inter-relationships between energy and matter in different stages to simultaneously create complexity and create simplicity up to the present time.

The Blue Mountains is a world heritage region that is based within a wilderness that can be easily reached.  It covers more than one million hectares of canyons, rainforest, heathlands and eucalypt forest in NSW Australia. The landscape further extends Northwards to the Hunter Valley and includes the areas of Wollemi, Gardens of Stone, Yengo, Thirlmere lakes National Parks, Nattai and the Jenolan Karst Conservation Reserve.

The origin of Early Israel has been one of the most elusive historical searches. The helplessness of historians, archeologists, and scholars that accompanies this quest in recent years is best summarized by Bloch-Smith: “Earliest Israel remains terra incognita” (2003, p. 401). In all these years, historians have sought to find this answer through biblical history and archeology.

It was at the end of the First World War when the treaty of Versailles was signed that is in the year 1919, June 28th. It is viewed as a happening with great controversies in the period between 1917 and 1921 (Chambers 2000, p.43). The main objective of the treaty was to bring an end to the situation of war between the allied powers nation of Germany.

Generally, it is essential to state that in 1889 at Tenterfield in New South Wales, Henry Parkes the then Premier of New South Wales, delivered a speech that called for the unity of the six Australian colonies. He wanted the colonies to form a single national government to govern the affairs of Australia.