History Essays

Repossession of land from White settlers crippled the manufacturing industry and cut on foreign currency inflow. More currency was printed for circulation which caused the loss in value of the dollar. The temporary dollarization in February 2009 does not provide a sustainable solution and thus this brief seeks to explore possible solutions.

The United States was offering material assistance to the Allies. In May 1915, a German submarine successfully sank a British ocean liner “Lusitania” and killed approximately 128 U.S citizens out of the total 1,200 individuals who were on the ocean liner. Even after this event, the United States still remained neutral but they kept on assisting the Allies materially.

It is impossible to envision Western civilization without the fruits of Arab science. Al- khwarizmi’s art of Algebra, the well-researched and explained medical teachings and philosophy of Avicenna, the new geography and cartography introduced by al-Idris, or the thorough rationalism of Averroes (Jonathan, 2009). It is evident how uneducated the westerners were.

Additionally, there were also incidences of disease outbreak such as: Typhoid, yellow fever, cholera small pox et cetera. More than ten thousand war veterans were also rendered poor especially due to disabilities. Economic agendas implemented by the North and South during the civil war The northern regime strategized to take control of the Mississippi River as well as other subsidiary rivers that flows into it in order to cut supplies to the south and facilitate the transportation of troops extensively southwards.

Many people today refer to the civil rights era as the period between the 1950s and 1970s. However, this is but a glimpse of the historical context of the civil rights era. By the early-19th Century, the presence of civil rights movements was already felt in America. This was mainly in the form of the struggle for racial equality, which was experienced during this era.

Reconstruction since the late 20th century has been viewed very sympathetically as an experiment in the interracial democracy. New laws at the national level and constitutional amendments permanently changed the federal system and the American citizenship definition (Ruggiero, 40).

Nevertheless, after the deployment of American ground troops to Vietnam the conduct of the war changed: the search and destroy military strategy changed into the clearing and holding the enemy; America massively increased her military fire-power and eventually de-escalated it after taking in many casualties and losses.

By definition, democracy is seen as a government by the people, for the people, and with the people. In this respect, democracy involves equal say bestowed upon every citizen as far as governance is concerned (Chang, 2007). Amongst such nations is the United States of America. The United States of America has been at the forefront in promoting and enhancing democracy.

The city is situated in southern Europe. In the first millennium Before Christ, Athens became the leading city in Ancient Greece. The success of Athens as a leading city in Greece did not happen abruptly. She had to fight for her stand, while she struggled with poor resources such as unproductive land. The big cities of the time, such as Sparta, were rich.

This essay will purely focus on the personality “Maimonides”. His life, work, philosophies and religious perspective about the existence of God will be discussed briefly. This essay aims to provide with a helpful understanding of the personality in a simple and theoretical way.

An Act in Bill C-38, which sought to implement certain provisions in the budget and other measures (Budget 2012), does in a way affect the political activity rules, however, the basic political activity regime by charities remain unchanged. The Bill C-38 if enacted will give a reviewed definition of the political activities to the income tax act, which might create new sanctions.

The Civil War ruined the defeated South. The physical devastation molded by the occupying Union forces was tremendous, and the old economic and social order established on slavery had broken down entirely, with nothing to substitute it. The eleven Confederate states in some way had to be reestablished to their places in the Union and furnished with patriotic governments, and the purpose of the liberated slaves within Southern society had to be determined (Ferrell, 2003).

Many already knew the reason why this war started. Hence, they considered it as a religiously-focused war turned into politically-focused. There are so many wars that marked the history, not just to Europe, but all over the world. The thirty years war is one of the influential wars that started over centuries ago.

Kinzer’s American history of invasion tells us a tale of its bold lies, immorality and illegality.

Prostitution in India can be traced back from its cultural relics that trace back to ancient India.  According to Bhattacharji (32), the earliest mention of prostitution occurs in the most ancient literary work in India, the Rgveda.  Even in the earliest Vedic age, love outside wedlock was a familiar phenomenon, and unions promoted by mere lust are mentioned in quite an uninhibited manner. 

The Berger educational Trust is dedicated to making a change in the history of art by ensuring that the students and other scholars of the art work get to be educated on the issues that pertain to art works. They also intend to ensure that the collection of educational materials and resources is accessible to all people for beneficial factors.

The revolutionary model operas sought motivation from customary Chinese operas and got cues from western play structure and stage design. Just like in the Peking opera works, they modified the conceptual stage design characteristic of the Peking opera tradition into actual material setting distinctive of western works.

One of the most imperative reasons behind exploring the above-described phenomenon includes the unearthing of negative and destructive effects of globalisation on the social, financial and cultural activities of the people living in various parts of the third world, along with estimating the positive and constructive alterations globalisation phenomenon has introduced in the poor and backward states.

The other is fear – I find too much hate in each of the participants of these monumental wars. Imagine if that hate would manifest again in our time, considering today’s nations’ advance weapons of mass destruction, no living creature will stand a chance to live.

This period in Persian history is known in the history books as the Achaemenid Empire, running from about 500 BC to about 330 BC when the Greek hero Alexander launched a counter campaign against it and won large areas of territory. The empire was every bit a match for the sophisticated Greeks, however, with a well-developed culture which had room for many different sub-cultures across its vast territories from the Greek border in the West to the Indus valley in the East, and south as far as Egypt.

This work includes authors perception about the view of Japanese towards Americans, what Americans and Japanese realized about each other, the things that surprises about the mutual view of each other, and an analysis of how legal document provided a platform for interaction between Japan and America.

This can of course is seen during the age of colonialism that has characterized so much of the latter half of the 20th century and beyond. I will attempt to analyze colonialism, what drove it, and some of the colonial effects that such an approach implemented upon the populations with which it integrated, and seek to draw inferences.

The boom that was seen in the production of movies in the genre of science fiction following the world wars points to this very fact. The fear that man felt in the face of widespread death which occurred during these wars manifested itself in these movies. They placed the onus on the prevention of apocalypse on mankind.

The central conflict of the film is the growing conflict going on between Christians, a growing religion in the Roman Empire at the time, and the traditional Pagan religion that had been followed by Romans for centuries before the events of the film took place.

Family is considered as the most important phenomena of social culture among the Chinese people. In the 21st century, three generations living under one roof is commonly visible in the country of China. Parents retain the highest authority power among the family members which are obliged by others.

American slaves served their masters indefinitely, masters who could lawfully buy, sell, beat or kill their human property. Education was prohibited, children separated from their mothers, spouses from one another, and whippings were utilized often and brutally as a means to keep slaves in line.

Byzantine and Islamic systems. The Byzantine and Islamic systems pose a challenge in the attempt to classify them as either unique or adaptations of previous systems, considering that both systems applied a combination of both previous adaptations and unique elements that they had devised for themselves.

As researcher illustrated, the minority races created an unshakeable foundation by inherently shaping the outcome of the War of Independence by enacting a social revolution that was powerful enough to shake the elites to their core and allowed for a consequent abolishment of the caste systems that separated mankind by the color of their skin.

Markets have continuously developed globally due to the trade policies that are liberal leading to a reshape of the process and destination of services and goods as well as how they are produced and where they end up. This process has led to a dynamic and evolving global economy in relation to economic activities which are spatially organized and integrated locally and internationally impacting places, people and environments in many different ways.

Multiculturalism is a term used broadly to describe a society comprised of several different cultures living together. Over the years, several events and activities have occurred that have resulted in the development of multicultural societies as people from diverse cultures get to interact and carry out common activities together.

Anti-Abortion Laws and Maternal Mortality in the US History of abortion goes back in centuries; women were using various abortion techniques in the past (Potts, Diggory, and Peel 1977). Abortion was not banned in ancient societies, it was not considered illegal.

John Locke’s political philosophy spans a wide range of insights and perspectives, perhaps the most central notion is his concept of natural law. Locke’s notion of natural law involves a complex number of elements. While Locke formulated the concept of natural law within a newly imagined perspective, the concept itself has a long precedent in philosophy.

The lessons learned from the Great Depression forced Americans to think in that direction. However, history proved that such anticipations or beliefs were not true. Instead of economic decline, American economy started grow after WW2 mainly because of the energy provided by the automobile industry.

In the movie, Erin Brokovich lost her injury case against a doctor in a car accident. Erin is a single mom, who is unemployed with three (3) kids to support. The lawyer of the defendant committed grave ethical misconduct by criticizing Erin for her current status in life. She was accused by the lawyer of extorting money from his client who is a rich doctor because she was desperate to find a way to earn money to support her kids.

Colonialism is one such bleak aspect of our history, which was justified then on the pretext of “White man burden”, “Civilizing savages”, “Natural right” etc. Although the history of colonialism is old but normally it is considered the period, which witnessed rise of European nations and their occupation of different parts of the world.

As the Second World War released its fury all over Asia and Europe, the heads of powerful nations, particularly the United States and England, believed that building a new world order after the war would require multilateral organizations that could put in force policies supporting the free flow of capital globally (Chittick 2006).

For this paper, I choose two documents that display the human traits mentioned above; these are the American Imperialism in the Philippines (1903) and Mary H. Fulton, On Christian Missionaries. Interestingly, the two documents are not only written years apart but also by the opposite sexes and for different purposes.

Women’s rights. The issue in Australian context. Evolution of women’s rights in Australia as an issue can be attributed to the waves of feminism followed by a whole movement. It was in the second half of 1800s when the first wave emerged in Australia. It was directed at earning the Australian women the right to stand for election and to vote.

While colonies had been established in the New World as early as the 17th century, the 18th century witnessed considerable development and gradual autonomy of this region. During this time period thirteen colonies emerged that were under the auspices of Great Britain.

As Populists made their significant part to American history, students should be able to understand and give value to the positive and negative aspects of the movement that gave insights and foundation to the improved present social reforms. 1. What specific practices by businesses drove farmers to adopt an anti-monopolistic and pre-regulatory political platform?

In a well-crafted narrative, Larson has rebuilt the factual incidents just like a brilliant fiction novel. The official name of the “Devil in the White City” was the World’s Columbian Exposition. Burnham, the competent architect of the Colombian World’s Fair made Chicago the white City with his construction and masterpieces.

This gradual disintegration of the Roman Empire spanned for for over a period of approximately 320 years. What followed after the decline of the Roman empire was the Dark Age or the Middle age. The reasons for Rome’s decline can be categorized in four categories namely, economic reason, political reason, military reason and social reason.

He mentions that all people are in this world naturally and hence all have equal rights on the properties of the world. People have the right to work on the properties provided by nature and own the fruits of their labor. From the nature perspective, no one is higher than the other.

The entire episode had a very earth-shattering impact on the people because of the thousands of people that were killed in the process. The aftermath of the horrendous event had a very long-lasting derogatory impact on the minds of the Americans as they tore down mosques and temples and did not trust anyone practicing Islam.

It was formed by merging Bessarabia and Transnistria regions to form a country. Bessarabia, the land in between the Prut and Nistru River has majorly Romanian and constitutes the eastern half of the region historically known as Moldova or Moldavia as it was called during the Soviet-era Russian name.

In the year 1542, in the North, the Dominican priest Bartolome de las Casas was shocked to see the treatment that the natives received in the New World which was founded by Columbus. People were bought and sold and kept in terrible conditions, and thus, under the Priest’s request, a new law banishing colonial slavery was put to rule however, its implementation was not carried out in a proper manner.

This paper discusses several aspects of the human sexuality in Islam and the permissible sexual behaviors with special emphasis upon Islam’s stance on homosexuality, polygamy and the sexual life. Homosexuality is strictly prohibited in Islam. Allah has destroyed nations in the past because of their indulgence in homosexuality.

As Heiss points out, it is often identified as inferring from the ideals of American political establishments founded during the 1775-1790 period, such as the declaration of independence (1776), revolution (1776-83), and constitution (1787). It is noticeable that American exceptionalism evolved around the “revolution” and its consequential freedom of the US from British control.

In most cases during this era, and until a about a century ago, many leaders adopted the ideology that the representative body should hold monopolistic position of the legislative right, and any other administrative field in the society. Those advocating for coercion and aggression argued that just like the brain controls the whole body, so a state should function in a similar manner.

During this period, many cities and new factories were borne attracting many people of diverse ethnicities including foreign immigrants looking for work in industries (Elisabeth and Karen 47). The progressive era saw a flourishing social activism and political reforms that sought to clean the government of corruption and political mechanization of systems.