History Essays

The United States is noted for its vast landscape and various diversities. Unlike other countries like China or Japan, where the rate of indigenous people still remains the greater, America stands a step further in having a lot of immigrants from other countries and from other parts of the world. The rate of immigration still sustains in America.

The bombing of Dresden on February 13-15, 1945 (ironically including the night of Valentine’s Day) killed from 30,000 to 100,000 people (Irving, 1966), depending upon which estimate is being used. It also, in the long run at least, exposed the fact that the Allied forces culminated in WWII using the very tactics that they had once condemned.

The author states that the planes were popular in the first half of the 20th century when they assisted in managing maritime war encounters during the periods of global interwar.  Petrescu, 2013, explains that flying boats used water as their landing points, thereby minimizing the then expensive and relatively insecure landing on the soil.

Du Gay (2002) simply accepts the workings of New Labour as a means by which the government keeps the people in awe using words and euphemisms. For example, competition between service providers is entrepreneurial government while the powers of government are given to the bureaucracy which is called the community.

For the antebellum South, cotton was king and land ownership provided the social capital necessary to acquire and maintain economic status. The South's heavy reliance on agriculture, as opposed to industry, as a means to flourish economically during this period depended on the plantation system of landowners and slavery. 

The author states that the main reason for the birth of Pakistan is the mentality of those who practiced the religion of Islam. They thought that the nationalistic fervor of the Hindus will work to their disadvantage. Democratic governance by the British during the last leg of their rule in India led to the politicization of all communities.

The Korean Town in Los Angeles is a notable demonstration of the power of urban ethnic places; it presents an intriguing case study of the renewal and removal of an ethnic enclave by changing US capitalism’s historical stages. The town has over the decades served as one of the leading tourist destinations, as well as a town for political and economic motives.

In contemporary history, the Industrial Revolution in the course of transformation from an agricultural economy to industrial production. The Industrial Revolution emerged in the 18th century in England and eventually expanded to other countries (Allen, 2009). There are four major causes of the Industrial Revolution: technology, capital, geography, and agrarian revolution.

The author states that the American state court system has evolved over centuries into its current structure. Prior to the Revolutionary War— actually, prior to the Constitution of the United States being ratified in 1789—state law administration and enforcement were as diverse as the character of the people who settled the colonies.

It is this lack of check into the background of a subject that can make mimesis a very dangerous thing for an individual, who does not even try to leave his couch to go and discover the reality that is sitting outside his door. He is being surrounded by such a wide range of shades of realities that seem to be everywhere, from our desktops to our magazines.

The geographical discoveries due to industrialization in Europe resulted in the colonization of the Australian continent. Earlier, the Australian natives were the real owners of the land. Berndt (1974), states that the life of Australian Aborigines is based upon harmony with nature and they consider themselves as part of nature.

Many books have been written about the rise of China.  However, Martin Jacques book provides us with a new insight into a now clichéd subject. Jacques’ book differs from most other books on this subject in that he does not write only about the economic growth of China and the economic implications. 

Given that the European Union becomes civic republicans, there will always be a ground for social injustice. Even if the government is able to create a set of criminal and civil law, civic republicans could still face socio-economic injustice because of their socio-economic position within the society (Viroli; Pettit a).

With more than 150 members, the WTO has affected many countries. Some have been for the better such as the smaller economies who have gained access to more open trade with larger economies. Some are not so keen on it such as the USA which makes a compelling argument that foreign exports are slowly crippling the local markets. 

Multicultural scholars and advocates have since given many different alternatives to the melting pot model of cultural assimilation. Things might be more like a salad: Everything's in the same place but remains pretty unmixed. Or it could be like a stirfry: Everything's still solid, but flavors have run together so they still coordinate.  

The policies created and implemented while ruling the colony heavily favored the interests of Germany. However, the colonizers also saw to it that the interests of the Tutsis were also accommodated up to a certain extent if only to guarantee fealty and to prevent the possibility of an anti-colonial united front of the two ethnic groups.

Through creating dual natures to the characters and providing for a deeper understanding of the larger political problems in the region in examples provided through characterization, Lederer and Burdick not only make a statement about foreign policy in Asia, they provide predictions of how events in Asia play out long after the novel is published.

It is important for people, who learn about leadership qualities to analyze the fundamental character traits that made Lincoln so remarkably influential with people. The most vital aspect of his leadership was that he led the nation not simply with his intellect but with his heart imbued with great compassionate instincts.

The techniques used by Boal in creating social change, through Theatre in Brazil and other places offer encouragement to most social activists. The innovation of transforming the audience to assume the role of the actors are intriguing ideas that make him a legendary artist for many who use to adopting the techniques in Theatre.

Increased population growth led to increased competition for available jobs, land, housing, social amenities and other resources such as food. As people continued to scramble for resources the costs of obtaining them went up, and with scarce and poorly paying jobs, poverty and utter desolation became inevitable.

Marxism explains this development and is best understood in light of the socio-economic stratification of the society and the class consciousness which came out of the stratification. The long-term argument that Karl Marx and Friederich Engel’s theory of class consciousness and antagonism was a result of the two political theorists and philosophers.

The author states that in the old kingdom of Egypt, the ruling class was made up of queens, nobles, and officials. Also, Egyptian society was divided into three groups, the nobility, the people, and the priesthood, until the second century AD. The population of Egypt was already comprised of foreign prisoners of war by the time of the old kingdom.

Egyptologists now know that pyramids built in the third and fourth dynasties were made totally from various qualities of limestone; whereas during the Middle Kingdom they were constructed from mud bricks and sheathed with limestone; naturally such constructions have not weathered as well as those built earlier (“Great Pyramid of Giza”).

The author states that during her reign Elizabeth displayed her strong characteristic traits including proficient political dexterity and a resolute and strong-willed personal character which helped in putting a tattered country on a road to unprecedented economic and political success, rejuvenating her country’s dejected sense of pride.

The author states that it was considered to be the beginning of a new era of American unilateralism. It provides the various pretexts and reasons which were considered as justified by the Bush administration for the invasion. It provides an account of the plausible reasons which were more likely to be the real motives.

The simplest enlightenment of the theory Reagan endorsed was the “pie slice theory,” In which each person in America was entitled to obtain a slice of the country’s monetary pie. It was a theory that energized the country. (Cannon, 2000) Reaganomics was successful in cutting back the prices increases in goods and services.

The movie ends with a concert by a famous singer Maurice Chevalier who performed in Nazi Germany and he asserts that his concert was not for the German Army but it was for the French prisoners of World War II. This type of end shows how the nation of France feels and their emotions regarding the Occupation of the German troops in France. 

The establishment of the Soviet leadership did slowly begin to understand the limitations of current political philosophies and began to change the system themselves by constructing alternative concepts. The younger group no longer had the obstacle of those who insisted on clinging to the old regime.

This research will present studies from the decade that defined not only a truly pivotal moment in American and World History, but details that the effects from that era still have a direct impact on both modern politics and present-day cultural movementsFindings that support the argument of influence will be compared to those that describe the decade as something other than the proving ground for American cultural mettle. 

The author states that Louis Napoleon grew up in a life of privilege, and developed very liberal idealism. After an extremely unsuccessful coup in the 1830s, he was exiled from France by the then King Louis Philippe (he went in the U.S.A.). From then, until his return to France, he became a well-published, and well-respected liberal.

Latin American nations have been known to have rulers with a controversial background. Peru is no different from its peers in terms of having precarious political regimes that have hindered the country's economic, social and national progress. During the 20th century, Peru had undergone tremendous changes.  

The rapid growth of communism rattled the liberal capitalist West. The concerns of the Western capitalists were not confined to the realm of abstract and applied political philosophy. For them, it was the ‘revolutionary’ element of the rise of communism in Russia and Eastern Europe that caused concern.

The potential damage from the incident also occurred with various politicians who had their reputations discredited or had their good names reduced for telling the conflicting stories. People want crisis leadership, or any leadership for that matter, which is honest and trustworthy and willing to communicate openly when their needs are at stake.  

Ever since man has become man, the spontaneity of the feeling of worship has become associated with the very existence of human beings. In fact, the sense of the feeling for worship had been there even before the feeling or the urge came to have the articulation of ‘worship’. It is not necessary that the word worship has to be associated with religion, as it may seem too many.

Images of England is a groundbreaking initiative which creates a digitised photographic record of England's 500,000 listed buildings. This information is made freely accessible to the public by the Images of England section of PastScape. The viewfinder is a browsable picture library of historic images from the NMR archive.

At the beginning of 1930, there were actually three communist parties in French Indochina, all competing for the same members. The formation of Indochinese Communist Party urged the rest of the Thanh Nien members to transform the Communist Youth League into a full-fledged party - the Annam Communist Party.

Zimmermann himself dispelled initial suspicions regarding the telegram's authenticity by giving a speech in which he confirmed its existence” (Duffy 2003).  This message, dated January 19, 1917, from Berlin stated, in part: “On the first of February we intend to begin submarine warfare unrestricted.

The two events although are similar in their inhumanity but they have certain structural peculiarities that differentiate one from the other. It can also be argued that the scale, extent, brutality, legitimization, acceptance, organization, routinization and systematic dehumanization of the Holocaust can be categorized separately from other events of the genocide.

The imaginative, factual book The War against the Jews authored by Lucy Dawidowicz in 1975 is a striking work that vividly and methodically describes the details of the terrifying attack of annihilation forged against the European Jews by Hitler’s regime. The book, in essence, examines the Holocaust of the European Jews during World War II.  

Netherlands seafarers and explorers had attempted to colonize America much before the British and the French increased their activity. Many of the Dutch explorers have left their marks in the history of America and their influence in colonization is still apparent even today, especially in New York and other cities and areas.

African American women and men were much more prone to be victimized by rape or murder than lynching, and they endured all kinds of violence every day, especially during the latter part of the 20th century. In spite of its uncommonness, lynching carried a particular psychological power, raising a degree of terror. 

The author states that Wells, a preeminent spokesperson for civil rights long before the Civil Rights Movement, contested segregation laws more than half a century prior to Rosa Parks’ famous bus incident in the 1950s. Because she was a black female, much of her works were either left undocumented or were suppressed by the white media establishment.

The author states that although there were sectors that welcomed the Truman Doctrine, there was also some sectors that were critical of this approach to foreign policies that they began to question as to whether or not the Truman doctrine is an exaggerated response to an imaginary threat.

As the evidence has shown, almost every measure of the standard of living shows a decline during the Industrial Revolution. The research has proven the hypothesis to be true. Conditions worsened as wages increased. Likewise, the market sought equilibrium and resulted in a modest financial gain for the worker. 

The history science we’ve been taught has been accustomed to charge the classics from the point of contemporary views and beliefs. However, people who lived and created earlier had other perceptions, other universal truths. As Professor André Van de Putte put it: we make history “a mirror and a confirmation of our convictions and questions”.  

The author of the paper states that despite flowing through one of the harshest deserts on earth and traveling its last 1,500 miles without a single tributary, the River Nile never runs dry. Every year it swells to 400 times its dry season size as it rages north towards the Mediterranean Sea.

At every turn we see Custer squandering the opportunity to face reality. He fails to adjust for the Army's inaccurate estimation of the Indian force. He fails to compensate for his men's inexperience and leads them into battle exhausted and over-confident. He rejects Terry's offer of manpower and Gatling guns as "an embarrassment".  

Japan felt it had little choice but to capture the mineral and oil-rich regions of the Pacific Rim, Southeast Asia, and the East Indies so as to sustain itself. War was the inevitable outcome of these actions (13). On the morning of December 7, 1941, Japanese planes attacked America’s Pacific Fleet based at Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii.  

NATO was the reply to the Soviet power in the military sphere in Europe. At the end of the World War, the II the USA made the fastest demobilization of their army from European countries. The Soviet Army had much more military forces in European countries and that is why it was considered that the USSR was able to conquer Europe.

The effect of disease and warfare severely reduced indigenous populations (Armitage, 2000). As well, incoming colonizers displaced many of the indigenous people to take up their lands for building ports, cities, and roads, establishing agricultural grounds, and to search for gold and other precious metals and stones.