History Essays

The biblical book of Psalms is greatly attributed to King David, ruler of Israel from 1003 B.C. to 970 B.C and ruler of Judah between 1010 and 1003 B.C. With his title of kingship, the psalms of David are therefore referred to as the royal psalms since they were written by him, a king. Judah kingdom was an ancient monarchy that included the tribes of Benjamin and Judah.

The current multi-ethnic and cultural composition is not what used to be of Australia in earlier centuries. The known original occupants were the Aboriginals. The island of Australia came to the limelight as a result of expletory work by a Dutch explorer known as Willem Jansz in 1606.  The settlement of immigrants in Australia became prominent when British Government decided to settle some of its convicts in Australia.

American imperialism is an old phenomenon in American history. It dates back to the time of the American Revolution (May 1968). Imperialism is the way in which developed countries seek to enlarge and take control of developing people or countries. It is an extension of the values and principles that a state follows into another state.

The British-India cleft in 1947 resulted in the creation of two self-governed states of Pakistan and India (Kant 47). This was followed by ethnic sweeping and the bloodiest migration in history. Blair and Bloom (2011) posited that the partition of Britain-India was prepared out in the 1947 Indian independence act. 

Traders and immigrants in Australia influenced ancient Australia and its culture to a large extent. Australians hold on to their culture of about 30,000 years ago through the ice age to the time of dry land and in their plans for the future. Writings and stories about Australian culture are in different archaeological sites and museums.

The Industrial Revolution took place over 200 years ago. This phenomenon had a great impact on changing the processes and ways with which many products such as cloth and textile industries operate up to date. The term "revolution" appears in the phrase because of the changes caused by the industrial revolution.

Australia as a continent has been at peace for a long period of time. However, during the 18th and 19th centuries, frontier violence was defined as a form of genocide in the country. Frontier violence has been recognized in Australian history as a war between the Aboriginal Australians and those European settlers who moved and settled in their lands.

It is essential to state that Renaissance is a French term that means rebirth. This is a time of change that occurred in Europe from the 14th century to the 16th century. The renaissance took place in Europe and was accompanied by changes in society in terms of literacy, culture, industry as well as technology.

The current multi-ethnic and cultural composition is not what used to be of Australia in earlier centuries. The known original occupants were the Aboriginals. The history of Australia as it is today with the majority of the being of Caucasian origin and with historical ties to Britain is greatly defined by a British Government decision to settle some of its convicts in Australia making it a penal colony.

The Molesworth committee, named after its instigator and chairperson of the Select Committee on Transportation (1837-38) was formed to address the issues of the British government’s transportation policy into Australia as a British penal colony. As a penal colony, Australia was the destination for British convicts as a form of punishment.

Convict life in New South Wales from 1787 to around 1868 was characterized by shiploads of convicts being sent to Australia from British prisons. Transportation was done as a step to deal with overcrowding in British prisons as well as provide labor to the new British colony. The convicts were assigned to settlers and government officials to provide labor for the growth of the new economy.

Generally, in the essay to be discussed, different designs have been created but to be specific, the discussion will have a major emphasis on two designs: Connoisseurship and culture as design. A conclusion will thereby be given to make a summary of what has been discussed issues have been presented.

Brazil or the Federative Republic of Brazil is a country in South America. It is one of the Latin American countries and the largest in South America. Brazil is the fifth largest country in the world with more than 193 million people. It is also the largest Portuguese-speaking country in the whole world. Brazil is one of the Latin American countries with a history of slavery and the slave trade.

Capitalism is an economic system that promotes the private accumulation of wealth. In order to accomplish this, it encourages mass production of commodities which is in turn met by rigorous campaigns to ensure that the commodities produced are sold at a favorable price (Robins, 2010). This is practically what all capitalist organizations in the world put into practice. 

Though lacking a historical perspective, for members in different states to have a unified relation, discipline has to be in existence. Though different authors criticize this aspect, it has been said that discipline takes charge in historical structures where there has been a relationship between social interaction and different economic theories.

Operation Barbarossa, which lasted from 22nd June 1941 to 5th December 1941, was arguably the largest military operation ever carried out in world history. This is because prior to and during the operation, heavy planning, logistics, and mobilization of both military equipment and personnel was undertaken, first by the Axis armies, and later, by the Soviet armies.

It is essential to state that Montgomery was appointed in August 1942 in charge of the Eighth Army operation in North Africa. Unlike his predecessor, he resisted pressure from Churchill and concentrated to build the army's strength, adding a pursuit formation X Corps to Army’s XXX Corps and XIII Corps.

A public assumption to explain what caused the American civil war was that the North was no longer in a position to tolerate slavery as being part of the structure of United States society and that the political power brokers in the North were making arrangements of abolishing slavery throughout the union. 

Just like in the general ancient world, slave labour was a fundamental component of ancient Greece. Ancient Greece was characterized by the immense slavery of human beings, which greatly contributed to its civilization. Moreover, the more slaves a family owned the more respected and wealthier they were thought to be. Roles of salve were segregated based on gender.

The cold war was a different kind of war than the previous wars that had rocked the world before. This war can be said to have lasted between 1947 till 1991. According to Gaddis, this war was characterized by high and sustained political and military tension (Gaddis 2000). During this time Germany had fallen from the vantage point in international politics and the United States had risen to fill this void.

The modern world has become more complex since it was modernized into a global village. The complexity of the world can be viewed from different angles and different topics. In addition, the ways of living have also changed and the thinking needed at the moment for a person to live in the same world must also bring everyone together.

Racism has no proper scientific basis. It is a purely social construct with its roots in the idea that some races and people are superior, simply because they belong to a particular race, or to a certain ethnic group. Many different things can set off ideas and misconceptions of racism. Such ideas are often founded in a fear of people who are different in some way, whether in customs, values, ways of viewing things and religion.

The country has in recent years adapted its approach to such discord and has done much to lessen secessionist or autonomous tensions. This comparatively judicious perspective has reached to a point where other efforts to control Indonesia’s centrifugal tendencies are ineffective. The major Indonesian security threats are considered to be within.

Chile was forced to increase its production capacity to meet the high demand. Additionally, the growth in the export sector and railway networks, as well as implicit trade protection because of depreciation in the rates of real exchange created a favorable environment for the expansion of the manufacturing sector in Chile by the 1920s.

The traumatic injury caused mental health problems among the aboriginal people. This led to the emergence of activism groups starting with the petition presented to the ruling British Monarch by William Cooper in 1937. The petition was however declined by the federal Cabinet, and thus it was not submitted to the King.  

The passing of the Coercive Acts of 1774 has firmly taken the colonies to a point of no return. This out rightly punitive act, which we Bostonians rightly term the Intolerable Acts, has closed Boston port, prohibited public meetings, mandated free quartering of Redcoats in private homes, and put English officials above colonial justice.

The policy should then have a final/permanent solution phase in which the security council of the UN would offer to give Iran the nuclear fuel it needs continuously under the IAEA supervision in return for its cessation of enrichment at the Fordo and the dismantling of the site in Fordo (Javedanfar, 2011).

The people can speak French in their homes and while doing different transactions. However, for official use, the national and official language is necessary. If the country is separated into different regions each speaking different languages, then there would be a lot of problems that would be caused by this as opposed to the advantages.

Hodge gave a seminar on the paper (as Hodge later wrote, "outstanding to Lefschetz's attribute interruptions the seminar in point of fact lasted for six sessions"); at Princeton. Afterward, Lefschetz publically accredited that Hodge was not incorrect and wrote to his friends admitting as much.  

The people’s republic of China has of late emerged as a world superpower. In realizing this, the states that were previously regarded as the superpowers are feeling the presence of the new entrant in influencing other states.  Their dominance is being threatened in areas regarding trade and political leaning.

Simply put, that justice is blind means that justice is equally enjoyed by all.  In a word, justice is an equalizer among members of society.  But, is the concrete as good as the rhetoric? The point that this paper argues for is negative.  And the justifications are recorded in the following three articles that are reviewed in the succeeding pages.

Sparta was the queen of the Greek city-states as early as 600 BC. It had by then been able to conquer many of the neighboring states and the southern half of the Peloponnese (Herodotus).  The ones that had been defeated were named the Helots and were made to toil on the requisite tasks related to agriculture on land that was owned by the victors of war.

A country that is healthy in terms of its economy, military, culture, and politics cannot boast of having stood alone to achieve all that. The achievement may involve the efforts of its people on a grand scale but also it is wise to recognize the contributions of foreign countries to that success. A relationship with other countries that are far or near is mandatory for a country’s stability as in the case of Australia.

It is worth noting that African-Americans used different approaches to advance their calls for equality and civil rights. Most of the approaches were reactive to the treatment that the blacks received from the whites politically and economically but were also proactive since their leaders championed an equal society for all regardless of race.

The goal of this paper is to carry out an analysis of the information, arguments and sources used in the book, Transformation of Rural England: Framing and the Landscape 1700-1870 by Tom Williamson. The paper presents the facts argued in the book and shows how the author agrees with the facts and information of other researchers.

Australian Aboriginal community health status is still poor according to documented records despite numerous interventions, research, and policy formulations. Binang Goonj works in the book Bridging Cultures in Aboriginal Health analyzed the practices and processes in a way to explain the current status of health among the Aborigines.

The concept of human rights is defined as the fundamental rights which humans have by the fact of being human, and which are neither created nor can be abrogated by any government (business dictionary.com). The most basic of rights can best be exemplified by the Golden Rule, which states, “Do unto others what as you would have them do unto you.”

The conflict between Israeli and Palestine dates many centuries back. It involves matters of religion, land, and anti-Semitic sentiments.  In the 19th century, Zionists strongly believed that it was their obligation to reclaim their ancestral land that was at the heart of Palestine, which they claimed was in the hands of Arabs.

From about 1950 to the end of the cold war late in the 1980s the Arab-Israeli conflict was entangled in the rivalry between the superpowers namely Soviet Union and the United States. The ubiquitous view in the United States precisely was that the Soviet Union was seeking to exploit the Arab-Israeli conflict to drive the West, particularly from the Middle East securing its domination over the entire region.

Oman (1996) argued that regionalism and globalization are words defined by few but used by numerous people (p. 5).  Regionalism is the progression that includes the economic movement of two or more societies to attain firm integration with one another. It can be an effort controlled by political energy that is inspired by economic, security and other issues.

Apartheid can be considered as the system which was characterized by legalized racial segregation which the government of the National Party in South Africa enforced from 1948 to 1994. In this system, the rights of the Non-whites who were also the country’s majority inhabitants were reduced and ignored while the rights of the whites, who were also the minority, were considered firsthand and therefore maintained.

Europeans discovered the potential in some countries in Europe and they, therefore, planned a tour that took place in the early sixteenth century, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. However, this involved the wealthy elites who were also aristocrats. The aim of the travels was to expand their horizons but it also resulted in interest in the resources of the traveled countries.

The invasion of the British in Australia established the white colonial settlement state that was similar to such places as South Africa, Algeria, Israel, and Canada. The settler state of the colonial white built by the invading Europeans that was based on the indigenous population’s dispossession was dominated by racists and has a paranoid history.

This paper examines the history of Australians, particularly those who lived in Parramatta District, an urban center of Sydney, South Wales. The indigenous people of Parramatta district were Darug speaking and included Wallumedagal, Wategora and Wangal. We look at the evolution of the film industry, with particular inters in the Roxy Theatre, and the culture of the film going, on during the inter-war period.

Chinese civilization is one of the most ancient civilizations in the world that is considered to have begun 4000 years ago. China is regarded as one of the early nations of human civilization besides Egypt and Greece which is particularly known for inventing writing. China is also a cradle for the human race since the fossils of the first Homo erectus and fossils of the Lantian man were found in China.

Social Darwinism refers to a popular theory in ancient history that believed in and supported the survival of the fittest. The strongest and fittest in society were allowed to flourish and survive while the poor, weak, or unfit were let to suffer or even die. The theory support survival of the strongest by all means even at the expense of the weak ones in society.

The French revolution was a period of fundamental political and social turmoil in European and French history.  The revolution that transformed all the facets of life commenced in 1789 up to 1795. During the French revolution, economic, political, religious, and social structures were destroyed and redeveloped. It was also in this period that France's new chaotic incarnation came up.

Atimia was a penalty that was used in ancient democracy in Athens. This penalty derived one of his honors and could not carry out any political tasks of a Greece citizen. One was not allowed to participate in the national assembly, go to court, or offer service in Heliaia as a junior. One’s political life was completely ended when one was barred from participating in the assembly.

Livy's History of Rome furnishes a historical account of ancient Roman times which comes from oral tradition, official temple annals with regards to record keeping, and personal records kept by famous Roman families.  What readers get when they encounter Livy's version of the beginnings of Rome and where Rome came from are a brief few paragraphs that make their best attempt at stating the facts.

There are several indigenous tribes in Australia and these tribes also formed part of the country’s military force that fought for the country during the Second World War. These tribes included the Aboriginals and the Torres Straits Islanders. A person was not assumed to be of indigenous heritage because of their bloodline alone but one had to satisfy certain conditions for them to be said to be indigenous.