History Essays

He is also responsible for making it synonymous with water. He also discovered the most imperative element, which was named ‘Oxygen’ in 1778. During 1777, he formulated ‘Sulfur’ as an element, rather than a combination of different elements. Since he contributed significantly to the changes in the nomenclature system of chemical elements.

Martin Waldseemuller, a German map maker coined the name America for the new discovered land for the first time. He defended this by saying: I do not see what right anyone would have to object to calling this part, after Americus who discovered it and who is a man of intelligence, Amerige, that is, the land of Americus, or America: since both Europa and Asia got their names from women.

In general, theory of global policy or international relations theory must be traced to at least three principal theoretical traditions, such as Realism, Liberalism, and Constructivism. The first ones belong to the positivist/rationalist group of theories, and the latter belongs to the post-positivist/reflectivist group; significantly, positivist theories are focused on “state-level analysis,” (Jackson and Sorensen, 2002) whereas reflectionist’ ones are based on “expanding meanings of security, class, or gender.” (Jackson and Sorensen, 2002) But, aiming to be concentrated on this principal three, we must represent briefly also a wide range of other ones, such as: Idealism, Marxism,

One such leading force was the mass of ethnic groups. The main traditional ethnic groups in the country are the Kachin, the Shan, the Karen, the Arakanese, the Mon, and the Burmans; and, those ‘recent’ ethnic groups include the Chinese and the Indians. This ethnic diversity has been an adverse element in the history of Burma.

The author states that Fredrick Douglas was a freed slave turned an abolitionist and served as a major influence for the abolition movement. The oratorical and written skills of Fredrick Douglas are well recognized especially in reference to his “What to slaves is the fourth of July” speech and his address on Lincoln’s funeral.

The paper reveals the intensity of love he maintained for God, the Creator of the universe, and His profound mercies and bounties, which saved him from going astray from the right path God has selected for the chosen people. The Confessions appears to be more an intellectual and spiritual treatise.

This rise outweighs the rise in income and is not in line with the current inflation. On average, an American pays close to $7,000 dollars per year in health insurance cost, while a citizen in the next-highest-developed country pays $ 3,000. One would think that the cost is justified by good Medicare given to US citizens but this is not the case.

The history of earliest civilizations starts in Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus valley, and Greek, Roman, Byzantine and Medieval European civilizations, when large agrarian societies started to show on the face of the world to extend comprehensively (Hunt et al.

Finally, the paper presents the characteristics of these pieces of art by Leonardo Da Vinci. Leonardo Da Vinci’s Life Interestingly, this great artist was illegitimately born to Piero and Caterina da Vinci at three in the morning of 15-4-1452. Leonardo Da Vinci was closely linked with his mother from the time he was born to the time he was five.

Tunisia is located on the North coast of Africa, neighboring Algeria and Libya, and surrounded by the Atlas Mountains, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Sahara Desert. Geographically, forty percent of Tunisia is made up of the Sahara Desert, with the remaining sixty percent being comprised of fertile plains.

No tragedy has ever occurred to surpass the creativity and innovation of human beings. To prove this, it is worthwhile for any individual to seek understanding as to the mechanisms developed to sail the world through tough economic, social, and political moments like the Great Depression, Progressive era and, World War I and II.

The Article of Jeremy Keenan Discussion Jeremy Keenan in the article “Demystifying Africa’s Security” argues on the role of United States in reducing the internal tension caused by ethnic and communal riots in Africa through the use of military power.

SOLDIER'S LETTERS, JOURNAL & CRITICAL ESSAY 1. Soldier’s Journal Thursday, 19th March 2010 Reality Training To be a soldier without training is like to be a monkey without a tail. This is to say that training is part of the daily activities of a soldier that contributes to success (Chaucer, 2007).

However, to understand the nuances of how Columbus went about obtaining the small fortune that it required to make such a trip, requires the researcher to understand the political situation as it existed in Europe at precisely the time Columbus was inquiring to fund his endeavor.

This research paper has tried to project an objective picture of the Presidency of Thomas Jefferson, one of the instrumentalists in shaping the political wisdom of the United States. Surely, there were many actions on his part which were condemned by the people and his critics, and which also lead to the defeat of his party in the subsequent elections after the conclusion of his Presidency.

United we stand apart we fall, and this is evident in our setting as though not everything is in respect to what occurred, but the idea of the monuments is refreshes memories of then and enables one to put him /herself in the veterans shoes the changes they would have implemented and where they would have corrected in their aim to set a better living society.

Main dynamics driving the development of the modern state. In the 21st century world, observations reveal that some of the modern states are subjected to collective dynamics that bring them together within the realms of larger regional groups, while on the other hand there are states that are subjected to strong centrifugal forces that break them apart.

During this time, the government which was being threatened by the British empire was creating disillusioned people wanting change – getting equal rights, right compensation for loss, a voice in the government, achieving a government with no partiality, and most especially freedom to become United States of American, away from the influence of Great Britain’s authority.

Over the ancient period of times, unique gender roles continue to play the centre of contradiction between male and female. Studies point out that women continue to face gender discrimination and poverty in rural especially in rural areas due to social imbalances (Hughes and Hughes 208).

The genres mostly handled songs such as soul, reggae, rap, and hip-hop. In the beginning, Grupo Cultural Afro Reggae, informs the youth on ways of improving their lives and refraining from activities that increase drug use and further growth of gangs. The workshop activities include; football, dance, recycling percussion amongst others.

Espinosa: A Life. Baruch de Spinoza was the child of the prominent businessman from the Portuguese-Jewish community. Baruch was an intelligent. However, Baruch de Spinoza was excommunicated from Jewish religion because he espoused a different concept of God and the Jewish religion as a whole1.

Many would perceive that the way candidates presented themselves in the public can influence the election results (Stanton, Rosenberg, and McCafferty; Todorov et al. qtd. in Hoegg and Lewis 895). The commonalities of the contemporary election campaigns are probably aligned with the emergence of overspending money to influence the election results.

The sheer volume of historiography covering the origins and course of the Cold War offers multiple and often opposing angles through which this dilemma can be viewed. The lucidity and conviction of much of the revisionist and post-revisionist literature demands a rigorous, nuanced analysis of the seminal works reviewing the era.

The End of Cold War. Cold war began immediately after World War II as the U. S, and the Soviet Union battled to install respectively the capitalist economists in post –war Europe and the entire world.1 Many different ideologies have come up in a bid to contemplate why the cold war ended unpredicted.

B. The war had a huge impact on the world culture and music. II. Events that led to the advancement A. American participation in the war started when the leaders of the nation felt threatened by the spread of communism in the Southeast Asia, and in order to curb the proliferation of communism, America became involved albeit in an unofficial manner.

The sanity of the protagonist is evident from the way he commits murder, though it is contradictory how a sane person would think of killing a friend without having a grudge against him. Despite the entire account being about self-justification, the murder perpetrator is both sane and insane, which is evident from his actions.

The war dates back to the beginning of 20th century when the conflict began between the Israel Jews and the Palestine Arabs (Smith, 2006). What is notable is that the two groups that have been engaged in this war come from different religions. The Palestinians are composed of Christians, Muslims, and Druse.

Due to this, religion has been used as a ground for malicious people to fulfill their evil interests. Politicians use religions to separate people as well as gain masses. Terrorist also use religion as a protective guard to their actions. Creating Anglo America is a document that digs into the history of religious persecution established by the last American colony in the seventeenth century.

Several nations, like Angola, moved from a presidential-parliamentary system to presidential constitutions. Quite the opposite, Latin American countries particularly have been massively stunned and inspired by the successful shift from a totalitarian to a democratic system that took place in Spain in the 1970s, a shift to which parliamentarian was tremendously involved (Cheibub, 2007).

The researcher discusses the Industrial Revolution, it's purposes and effects on the society and the chain of events which led to the Battle of Blair Mountain as well as the confrontation itself and the aftermath, that clearly demonstrates that Blair Mountain is a milestone in the American labor movement.

No country has the right to violate or interfere into the internal status of a country. Hence United States of America has neither right nor obligation to arm the rebels in Syria. The locals and citizens of Syria may do the way they feel like, but not any outside force.

Through civil and political activism, people who are so hopeless can be used to drive a highly successful insurgency because they are not wary of the results of their activism. Middle-class people are less involved in insurgency because eventually, they have to go to their work, look after their children and continue with their daily lives.

Multiculturalism, in the most simplest of all terms, can be defined as the doctrine that multiple cultures can coexist in peaceful harmony in one country. The world’s biggest cities of developed countries, London and New York, for example, have become a connecting point for nations and ethnicities across the world.

The confederation article was an agreement between thirteen nations which were the founders of the United States. This confederation article also served as their first constitution before coming with another constitution thereafter. It’s drafting by the continental congress begun in the mid-1776 and in late 1777 the approved version was sent back to the states for confirmation.

The empire was well-founded under strong structures of power, religion and culture. Many dynasties were in place since the formation of the empire. The nineteenth century and early twentieth century saw among other sultan leaders Sultan Abdul amid II. He had a great dynasty with a well laid down structure in the political dimension, economic perspective as well as in military power.

Nations that experience a high level of valuable natural resources ultimately suffer as a result of their existence. This irony has long been the topic of governmental, sociological, economic, and policy-related research projects that have sought to understand and define this unique dynamic as it exists within some of the most resource-rich, but developmentally depressed nations in the world.

The landscapes are very beautiful. Beautiful nature, geographical position, and warm climate make Greece attractive to immigrants. “Greece's geography, which became especially important after the formation of Europe's borderless Schengen Area, has also contributed to the country's transition to an immigrant-receiving nation.

Human rights are inalienable from the man since we are born with them. God provided them to every man and thus, no one can alienate them except the person who provided them, and who is God. Every human being has a right to live and that nobody can take or deny the other such right. Actions, which might threaten or lead to loss of life contradict the right and thus need condemnation.

Education is the key to success for every individual and the nation as a whole hence the reason why governments spend a huge part of their debt funding education. It prepares one to enter into the job market and get employed thus contributing to the growth of the economy.

So the pendulum metaphorically swings from a time to a time. It also swings from north to south representing the ups and downs or the positives to the negatives. It also represents the rich and the poor, the influential and the obscure ones.

Ancient Egyptian society was structured like a pyramid. Gods were placed at the top of the pyramid. In addition, Egyptians had a belief that gods had power over everything in the universe and that they had power to control everything in it.In fact, the gods were believed to cause the Nile River to overflow and could even cause famine.

Horwitz came from a Jewish family in Russia and, therefore, he grew up in the North but it was at an early age that he became fascinated with the myths and history of the South. He states that during his childhood he wrote about many wars and also drew paintings of some of the historically significant wars that took place in the attic of his home.

The author explained that human security should not be solely focused on the military power of a state; it should also focus on the needs of each individual and the interests of all groups (both genders) in the state. The author indicated that human security contains four important concepts: perfect environment, and respect for different groups' identities.

Being located within the falls of the Ohio river, it created a special mark in the history of Kentucky as numerous famous residents such as Thomas Edison (an inventor), Louis Brandeis (the Supreme Court Justice), Muhammad Ali (a boxing star) and many others settled in that place and enhanced the importance of the place among others.

This was the imposition of black codes or laws against blacks that basically made them slaves and could be the precursor of discrimination which is the lasting legacy of slavery. One of the laws in black codes that relate to work was that blacks were not allowed to be unemployed.

Henceforward referred to habitually as the freedman or black community, African Americans were considered second class citizens and separated from the whites by law and practice. They were not allowed to use the same modes of transportation, accommodations, and educational, recreational, or correctional facilities.

The rulers of the Persian Empire used autocracy, which was a practical tool to handle the vast and extremely social-culturally diverse empire.  This is contrasted with the Greeks whose fierce sense of independence is meant that only through democratic systems could their state systems be maintained.

This led to the writing of the book ‘Plunkitt of Tammany hall’ that is a collection of the most spoken about talks of the ex-senator as they were presented in newspapers. Though relatively small in volume, the seven chapter book carries the world weight of very realistic speeches that are probably seen as the most honest talks that any politician has ever given in history.

Looking at Hayden White’s work, conservative critics may consider it only as a provocative argument, which will soon be forgotten. However, Hayden’s argument should make readers and critics alike concede the presence of innovation by scrutinizing. With changes in history, there has also been a change to historical writing.

This action by the Republicans is unpopular because the government might default on its debts, resulting to the collapse of the American economy (Acosta, Tom, and Deirdre, 2). To avoid this situation, President Obama’s government called for a negotiation with the Republicans for purposes of developing a short term spending plan.