History Essays

The nature of the mind is not to agree, but to argue. With mind-level arguments, one will not enter the portals of spirituality. You will remain at the threshold of thought-barriers knocking, knocking, and knocking! Only when one transcends the borders of the mind, one will be able to reach the conflictless land of spirituality where bliss alone reigns.

By 1892, the Carnegie Steel Company was the largest in the world. In 1901, when Carnegie sold the Company, he owned one of the enormous personal fortunes in history. Carnegie devoted the rest of his life to using his wealth to better society. His trust fund of over $ 350,000,000 established public libraries, the Carnegie Institute of Pittsburgh, the Carnegie Institute of Technology and the Carnegie Institution of Washington.

On March 20, 2010, the United States of America and its ally, Britain waged a war against Iraq. This war was waged in the face of opposition from the United Nations Security Council. UN Secretary-General clearly mentioned that war without the support from the Security Council would be “non-conformity with the charter”.  

Three important reasons are cited as to why the Confederacy was defeated in the Civil War. Men, guns, and the political and military leaders behind the men and guns! The winner North possessed them all and the South lacked them, throughout the war, in one form or the other.

The Roman Empire lasted for more than a millennium, but its end came when it became too large and too difficult to defend against external elements, because of internal weaknesses. Classical history ends in 476 AD, at which time the medieval and then Renaissance period began.  In 476 A.D. the last Roman emperor, Romulus Augustus, was deposed by the Germanic Odoacer.

Both the first as well as the second world wars are landmark events in modern world history.  Both wars are marked by the involvement of the prevailing world powers of the day.  In the case of the First World War, the principal actors were the European powers of Britain, Germany, Austria, etc with nominal participation from the United States and the Soviet Union. 

Culturally, economically and diplomatically the United States has displaced Great Britain in the sixty-five years since World War II ended. That said the situation has also had implications for Britain both negative and positive. Shared language and cultural heritage have given Britain a privileged place among American allies.

Western culture with its biases and prejudices was influenced by the notion of history and religion as they were understood within the confines of their own knowledge system, whereas the knowledge system of Aboriginal societies, in relation to history and religion, was embedded within the Dreaming and their relationship with the land.

The Indian civilizations of Mesoamerica all shared characteristics based on their land, namely that they had all developed agriculture, usually involving the growth of chilies and other produce natural to the area. Some animals were domesticated, but these were few due to the lack of appropriate mammals in the area. 

Broadly speaking, the 1990s were mainly a period of economic growth for the region of Southeast Asia, which period, however, ended with the Asian financial crisis. The effects of the crisis, besides the adverse ones upon the economies of the region, were felt within the politics as well, inasmuch as political figures, like Indonesian president Suharto, were forced to resign under public pressure.

Lewis Cass introduced the idea of popular sovereignty in the debate over the Wilmot Proviso.  In other words, what states that would form out of the Mexican American War victory should decide if they wanted to be a slave state or not. The Great Triumvirate were Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and John C. Calhoun.

It not only gives details of conversations Hitler had with his aides; but also enlightens the readers about the various historical aspects or events Hitler discusses with his aides. The book throws light on the ways Hitler used to convince people – he was a mixture of an authoritarian and a charismatic leader. Hitler used simple examples before commenting.

Adam Hochschild’s book, ‘King Leopold's Ghost’ features exploration and exploitation of the free state of Congo from the period of 1885 to 1908. One thing about the book by Hochschild is that it aims at increasing public awareness and knowledge about the crimes committed by the colonial rulers, particularly in Africa.

In the novel “Fathers and sons,” shows the difference between these two generations of life. This book was written to counter the budding cultural schism in Russia from the 1830s to the 40s. During this time, there were cultural differences between the liberals and the growing nihilist uprising. However, in “Inspector general,” the author has focused on mistaken identity committed in Russian society.

The notwithstanding clause existing in section thirty-three of the Canadian charter of human rights has been criticized and caused a lot of controversies. It is worth noting that this clause exists only in the Canadian constitution and not in any other in the world. This clause is so uniquely Canadian and it's meaning and application as well as the frequency of its use have been the key points of concern.

Laymen have thought amiss that political change has mainly been brought about through legislation and mass actions such as was witnessed in the civil rights era in the 1950s. However, these thoughts fail to capture the role of literature, in the dispensation of reforms. The place and role of literature are seen in the political, social, and political themes that grace literary works.

The end of the war also had displayed to the world how guerilla warfare was too good for the worldly approved military combats. It was disbelief for Russian to lose in such a low-rated war field outstanding to the striking parallelism between the two states. Despite the Soviet's advanced tactics, the guerillas adapted to their forms of combat and retaliated in full force.

Renaissance which means rebirth is used by historians to describe movements that sought to understand the culture of antiquity. Renaissance reiterated human beings' responsibility to improve the living standards of communities through social welfare with self-devotion to citizenship. This was majorly practiced in Italy as the existed systems encouraged experimentation of cultures.

During the beginning and all through the earlier years of the 2nd Century for example, the Silk Road that had been constructed and whose construction was still going on provided good road for the Buddhists to travel from India and come and spread the religion in parts of Asia like in China. This thus ensured the spread of Islam in that area.

Both sides accused the other of wanting to rule the world. Both opposing sides believed that their economical and political structure is far better than others. Armed forces were strengthening on each side. In this situation, it was very difficult to settle down any dispute peacefully through negotiation, with both sides surrendering something. 

Throughout the essays, it is evident that women actively played the pacification role of ensuring the ills targeted at them by the male-dominated institutions were stopped. Several essays in the book signify a choreographed devaluation of the community, which eventually occasioned the birth of the women's movement.

Occurrences that resulted in these three wars can be used to explain the basis of international world order and the establishment of the international system. O’rourke & Williamson, (2004) gives a broader look at the History of Diplomacy inn their work When did globalization begin? In submissions made in this piece, the authors assert that three great wars a reflection of how the international system considered a state-centric.

Her father was a Muslim scholar besides being the village jeweler while her mother was a midwife. The book describes that as she continued struggling with the experiences life presented her, she would learn that for an African, there was no safe place on earth. An African’s survival depended on perpetual migration and adaptation to the conditions one found in the new destination.

Life for the wealthy Mexican families that lived in California before it became part of the U.S lavish. These families had large chunks of land which they had been left for by their original colonizers of the place. Furthermore, they enjoyed trade and profits gained as they were not expected to pay taxes to the Mexican government.

The evidence in the document that suggests that depression should not happen is in the sentence “it is inconceivable how such a thing of everything surrounding us, only to be withheld from us because the so-called leaders of high.”Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at, after which there shall be no private international understandings of any kind but diplomacy shall proceed always frankly and in public view.

In the review their works will be highlighted and authors discussed. The intellectual history’s relay race is simple enough. A go-ahead culture will pick up the torch and run with it as far as it can it will then hand the torch to a younger contender before it sinks into exhaustion. Ancient Greeks fan the rational inquiry flame and surrender it to the Romans.

Some slave owners even felt that the Act of the Legislature for General Emancipation was “a flagrant Contempt of the constituent Powers of the Commonwealth” as well as “a daring attack on that sacred Constitution”. Such views are inherent in the Remonstrance and Petition of the free Inhabitants of the County of Lunenberg, November 29, 1785.

Working the large plantations in America's cheap labor, that could only come from Africa given the Africans resistance to most of the diseases that Native Americans and peoples from Europe could not. Additionally, slaveholders feared for their own safety should the oppressed slaves be freed; a large number of Africans had been shipped to the Americas as slaves.

The remedy could be looked for by the prisoner or by an alternate individual intending the prisoner's help. This right began in the English legal framework and is currently accessible in numerous countries (Harvard Law School, 2009). It has generally been a critical legal instrument protecting individual rights against self-assertive state laws.

These principles included “right to keep and bear arms”, “right to a speedy trial and witnesses” and “provisions concerning prosecution” among others. Specially mentioning, the liberalistic nature of making the required changes and providing utmost benefits to the citizens of the nation in the form of exercising rights, eventually made the US Constitution and Bill of Rights a document by 1800.

The theory was shunted away as it was merely theoretical and did not have the practicality to be applied in the real world. Justice is a highly practical concept, “which requires that the contemporary societal circumstances are taken into account,” however, Rawls’ theory of justice reveals that his “idealistic conception” of justice as fairness is “inconsistent with the required practical notion”.

This consolidation, the belief in order and power, arguably have their roots in the focus on the material and the worldly in the Renaissance, as well as the strengthening of the distinctions along class lines during the prior two periods. These developments augured well for the monarchies being given the philosophical as well as the social underpinnings for the Absolutism age, with the king securely in command and in control of his jurisdiction.

The main focus of Virginians was to bring permanence to their unstable society with boundless work to ensure profits and prosperity. Since for the fact that slaves were neither motivated via incentives nor motivated through wages, for increased work masters needed to beat them so they can extract more work from them.

In March of the same year, President Lincoln had established an organization of the freedmen that aimed at resolving the imminent challenges that could lead to freeing slavery, providing employment to former slaves, and solving both the health care and education problems.Individuals could not find consensus on who had the right to vote leading to the introduction of laws that barred the freed slaves from participating in election.

Many individuals have attributed this focus to the belief that Stalin suffered from a particularly severe form of paranoia.  However, whatever the reason might have been, Stalin administered the Soviet Union, conducted purges, and even had trusted friends and comrades executed at the slightest notion that they may come to challenge his grip on power.

There are numerous factors that facilitate transnational crimes such as liberalization, technology, the Internet, and globalization. The first major factor is liberalization. By relaxing controls on global operations, economic liberalization has significantly weakened motivations to smuggle legal products, and thus hindered transnational crime. 

Forcibly uprooted from their native rich farming lands, in the Ein Hod village, the newly created state of Israel in 1948 led the Abulhejos to scamper for their safety in refugee camps in the Jenin. By basing the storyline around Amal, the author carefully fuses the misery visited on the displaced Palestinians with the hope and determination of few within the community.

Silverman (1987) defines the Columbian exchange as the exchange of goods between the Europeans and the Americans. These goods include Animals, ideas, technology, and even culture and the main purpose of this trade was to ensure that a variety of products were available for the American and European citizens.

The absolute answer to the state of the plantation owners does not exist. Because some plantation owners suffered devastating losses because of losing their investment. The purpose of bringing slaves from Africa was only to serve in the fields. Other plantation owners went for devious tactics to make sure that the 13th amendment does not affect their financial profits.

After his long and continued absence from his home place in the Pacific Northwest, Washington Post journalist Blaine Harden gets back and gives a narrative of the rise and fall of river Columbia.  Once, it was a revered place to live because of the massive irrigation schemes which existed in the hometown.

The Akkadian empire did not stand for long, but as long as it stayed, it was recognized as the world’s greatest empire. Sargon’s contributions were not only towards the building of the Akkadian empire but towards the steps taken in forming the western civilization. Sargon made the history of one of the greatest empires and is seen as an inspiring ruler. He is thus known as ‘the true king’.

Relationship with Israel is an important element for the United States as it constitutes a strong influence in the overall policy of the US in the Middle East. The relationship is maintained and observed closely and in a supporting manner.

This fact is applicable to capitalism, which is projected as an effective social and financial system. To be specific, implementation of capitalism results in economic growth, limited to the context of elite class. On the other side, the society benefits less from capitalism because it does not prove itself as an effective system that can solve societal problems.

This principle originated from the English judicial system and now applies to almost all countries in the world. This principle historically was used as a sign of individual freedom against arbitrary state actions.

States is ideologically conservative and this makes it hard for the voters to discern the correct position regarding a particular or specific issue that is raised. The different ideological emerges between the Republicans and Democrats with the aim of supporting the American national government so as the Americans interests of important blocs of voters which the two political parties must respond to. 

The transformation of China into a leading power would not be easily accepted by capitalistic countries worldwide. These countries would fear that China threatens their interests and that the change of the country’s image, could result in the limitation of their role in the development of critical economic decisions worldwide.

The social positions came with the difference in influence, power, and financial capability. The social class system in Britain was always considered to be divided into three groupings. These groups are the upper class, the lower class, and the middle class.

The other negotiation approach we employed was a Relational negotiator. The approach targeted the establishment of an important mutual relationship with the other party and use the relationship to the advantage. Such a relationship aims at ensuring the other party never realized the hidden agenda circumnavigating the negotiation.

This form of entertainment was very popular in the 19th century. These whites who masqueraded as blacks entertained people with dances, songs and dialogues that were an inspiration mostly to southern blacks. Minstrel songs were used to portray how the blacks were lazy, superstitious and dimwitted individuals.

He was born in Boston. He was the son of affluent parents Mary Fifield Adams and Deacon Samuel Adams. Samuel led a Puritan life; worked hard, dressed simply and was strong in his faith. He went to Harvard where he studied religion and law but neither of the two satisfied him.