History Essays

Despite there being the Fourteenth Amendment that aimed at bringing an end to discrimination, elected and appointed government officials in most of the states allowed fragments that would encourage discrimination. The African Americans felt that they deserved being treated equally leading to a series of events and reform movements that were referred to as the American Civil Rights Movement.

Union commander George B. McClellan has always been a potent subject for controversy because he was one of the most complex generals in History. Even though he was much gifted with organizational and administrative skills, yet he was both unwilling and unable to fight with the strong army that he has created.

The ironic fact is that in the contemporary world, printing is more of a business than a human and historical vocation. Thereby, the power of the printed word is confined in the hands of those who are elites and who have control over the printing business. Considering this fact it is indeed true to hold that the printing press greatly tempered with the compilation of history.

It's pointed out that West European governments have sought to establish a system wherein there will be a careful balance of their sovereignty while at the same time pursuing prosperity and security among themselves. In fact, Europe today is more peaceful and prosperous than any other time in its history.

The social of most of the people of Greeks were similar except the Spartans. The Spartans were well-known for their military skills and they had strong policies in place in order to train young boys their own fighting skills. Since ancient Greek society had limited scientific tools, they were very superstitious in nature.

 For the sake of the generations to come, the economy of the United States should be saved from its trend towards devastation. In spite of their different backgrounds and origins, leaders can all agree to the fact that the financial condition of the United States is critical and if it is not attended to due concern, the condition may lead to the collapse of the economy in the near future. 

If one was a good cricketer one was considered to be a good citizen. Yes, Cricket has become the mainstay of sports and undoubtedly has a strong and direct link with Indian National consciousness. In the words of Guttmann, “It is recognized that there are close links between sports and politics; and in particular between sport and national conscious”. (Guttmann A., 2003)  

World War II (1939 -1945) involved several countries, the offensive being launched by the Axis Forces made up of Germany, Italy, and Japan, led by Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Tojo Hideki respectively. The opposing side was made up of the Allies composed of China, Russia, the U.K, France, and the U.S, whose leaders were: Chiang Kai-shek, Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle, and Franklin Roosevelt respectively.

The history of human civilization has witnessed numerous such incidents that exhibit the brutality of human beings against their counterparts. However, during the Second World War, a policy of the Nazi force regarding planned annihilation of Jewish mass across the world, of which Poland became the worst victim truly emerge as the worst incident reflecting the magnitude of crime against humanity.

It is ironic, however, that the Allies got their act together after suffering great damage to their resources. The December withdrawal of troops, which ended the campaign, remains the only efficient and well-planned phase of the whole operation. This further highlights the importance of sound planning. In this instance, the Allied leadership applied the principle and it fetched agreeable results.

Globalization made the mastery of English language skills a requirement for success in many fields of endeavour. It is expected of people to have at least a minimum knowledge of the English language for them to get along with most other people in the world as English is the virtual lingua franca today. 

The French Republic had sworn hatred of the tyrants that continually besieged its neighbors and instituted the principles of the newly formed constitution within the psyche of the army as well.  Their animating principle was the respect for property, humanity and religion of cultures they conquered.  

Ancient Athenian democracy, at a first glance, does indeed portray a picture of a perfect democracy where all citizens are free to take part in the state governance. However, an in-depth study will reveal that behind the depicted delineation there is much discrimination that goes against the basic tenets of democracy.

Huey P. Long, the U.S. Senator from Louisiana, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt shared many commonalities. Both were powerful Democratic politicians at the national level during the 1930s. Each possessed a somewhat liberal ideology and often advocated government entitlement programs along with other measures to alleviate poverty.

In 1984, some people died immediately while others sustained injuries and died later due to complications related to the tragedy. The leakage is said to have been caused by nonfunctional valves and substandard safety systems, which led to the leakage from the Methyl isocyanate gas tank (Asia-Europe Foundation 12-18).

Since the end of the Cold War in 1991, the balance of power swayed in favor of the United States.  While the ruling elite of the United States seems to have benefited from this change in fortune, the rest of the world has had mixed consequences since the end of the Cold War.  Political commentators agree that the demise of the Soviet Union heralded a new world order.

Sailors will also be in co-operated into the study so that the data which will be captured using the research tool will be valid and reliable. Data will be entered into a computer after which it will be subjected. The interpretations from the same will tell more. The main aim of this study will be to show how ships and boats have evolved.

New pop groups emerged and life became ‘swinging’ for many young people. The older generation still did not approve but was powerless to do anything. The early 1960s can be described best as ‘a grey period’ and not as the ‘swinging sixties’ which came later. The popular culture of the 1960s was both damaging and constructive to different groups of people.

Russia has been an influential country since earlier times; hence studying its development also becomes essential.  What we know of Russia today has been primarily separated as pre-Cold war and post-cold war era.  While discussing the cold war, it is not just Russia that gathers our attention but in fact, the war brings our attention to the change in state sovereignty as well. 

The reign of Rwabugiri and his successor presents an overwhelming impression of the unrelenting rise of a tide of terror that starts at the courts and engulfs the whole country. It finally erupts into a social crisis that has persisted for well over a century.  The personal role of Rwabugiri was more limited and passive than we know it.

Others believe that it is not the main reason that led to the underdevelopment of Africa. Lovejoy believes that the Europeans overexploited the slave trade and severely reduced the population of the Africans. According to Lovejoy, if the Europeans had not reduced the population of the Africans, they could be able to develop their continent.

They symbolize humanity's primordial desire for control and dominance, and in war; despite our claim to humanity and civilization, the rules and morality go out of the window and the only thing that matters is killing and wrecking destructions on real and perceived foes. Ultimately, wars are costly business and whichever side wins.

The most admirable part of Macdonald’s legacy was his ability to reach across the aisle to his political opponents in the search for compromise. This pragmatism did not come at the cost of principle, but only out of the dislike for expending effort in pursuit of utopian ideals like those shared by some of his Conservative contemporaries.

In Plato’s The Republic, Plato used the Socratic method by creating mimicking a running dialogue between Socrates, who is the narrator, and a group composed of Cephalus, Glaucon, Thrasymachus, Adeimantus, Cleitophon, Polemarchus, and several others were mere “auditors”. The Socratic Method may or may not be the actual method used by Socrates.

In general, although international political figures gave legitimacy to the Yugoslav state, the individual ethnic groups and nationalities never gave their full allegiance to the state. This means that the collapse of Yugoslavia was inevitable right from the time it was established after the First World War.

One of the most popular theories includes the idea that the fall of the monarchy was simply a result of the fall of the social class with which it was most closely associated, that of the feudal nobles.  According to this view, the nobility, led by the parliaments, challenged the monarchy as it had done several times in the past. 

The present paper deals with the short story “Araby” by James Joyce published in 1914 in his collection of short stories called “Dubliner”. The story is set at the backdrop of nineteenth-century Ireland after the occurrence of the great famine of Ireland. The work clearly demonstrated the socio-political conditions of the people of Ireland, especially the impoverished ones. 

He became the King of a triumphant kingdom and well-known throughout Western Europe as a dominant and well-mannered monarch, the reflection of a true Christian King. He celebrated his return with prolonged feasts and competitions, in which his regal and dignified prisoners, King David of Scotland and Raoul d’Eu, occasionally Constable of France, in addition to several other imprisoned lords and knights, partook in the celebration with eagerness.

The four extant sources available to us, though not sufficient to demonstrate or illustrate the complexity of Alexander’s life and his achievements, allow us to have a glimpse of specific aspects so we could reconstruct, if not the whole person of Alexander, his work and the events that have transpired in his time.

As Croce said, “each true history is a contemporaneous one.” If that is the case, it is necessary then to enhance and broaden our contemporary understanding of the past. This means giving Africans their due mention and credit in the historical account of the Spanish conquest and colonization of Mesoamerica.

There is sufficient documentation that proves that the African slave trade was the largest slave-trading consisting of transportation of more than 1 million slaves from Western and Central Africa to the new world. The main purpose of the colonists was to exploit the African slaves for mining and agricultural works because of a lack of cheap labor in Western society.

By the end of the war, which occurred in 1914, there were numerous casualties and the destruction was immense. Carnage and destruction defined the end of the war, and it saw more than nine million soldiers who were fighting in the war get killed (Solomon, 116, 2006). It was a war that both sides intended to win no matter the costs.

Secondary data in addition to reports of the central banks of the relevant nations will be studied to explore their development in Basel II execution in African emerging nations. For confirmation of state-related data, the liable authorities in the banking rule and administration departments will be asked. 

"We are coming to Father Abraham three hundred thousand more" The cry answered President Abraham Lincoln's call for 300,000 more men to enlist for three years or the war issued July 2, 1862.  The Second Cayuga and Wayne Regiment was the tentative title of the new regiment. The recruiting area of the regiment encompassed the 25th Senatorial District.    

The brinksmanship ended with the Soviets withdrawing the nuclear missiles from Cuba in the end to a standoff that had captivated the world as the first and possibly most serious escalation of conflict between superpowers in the Cold War. This cartoon is useful to understand the public opinion of the times but could be further verified through relations to other news media such as editorials and journalism of the events.

The foreign and local parties to the Korean War were mainly motivated by highly contended values in international politics, particularly prestige, to serve their respective interests. More importantly, however, these values prompted Stalin, Mao, and Truman, as well as the respective leaders of North and South Korea, to get involved in the Korean War.

In general, the implication of law and order in the context of Haussmann’s new urban metropolises was one of preconceived planning under Napoleon III. In hindsight, however, we can observe that the mitigation of revolt by way of urban systems is tautological in result and with long term ramification(s).

“While architecture, painting, and sculpture ordinarily appeared in the service of the cult of a god or to glorify the wealth and power of a ruler, in Egypt we find emphasis laid upon providing a lasting dwelling-place to serve him and lastly the provision of a substitute in stone for his perishable body”

This paper tells that in the backdrop of World War 1, the northern cities of the USA faced a severe shortage of labor force. African Americans, better known as blacks who suffered more racism in the southern parts of the USA, migrated to the northern and western cities and found employment in industries and elsewhere.

Consequently, Pakistan and India became two sovereign states at midnight on the 14th and 15th of August, 1947. Yet experts and citizens of India and Pakistan alike view the partition of India as a tragedy "a multifaceted phenomenon in which a lot of factors played their role" and "various formulations are popularized to suit the political interests of vested interests.”

The concept of slavery was discussed in the constitution but only vaguely and with ambiguity, whereas there was nothing in the constitution that regulated the status of blacks in general. The slave-trade clause in the Constitution, inserted to enable states to be able to “import” slaves by paying a duty was one clause.

In fact, the conflicts that have been developed between the above countries are just part of their external policy, with no particular effect on the relationships of states worldwide. On the other hand, it has been extensively supported that the Cold War has its origins in Asia and more specifically to China where the fall of Communism.

The lands reforms agenda sponsored by Mugabe has not gone without much effect on the other tribes. Although the whites were to relinquish their huge tracts of land to the Africans, the militias which were generally from the ruling party did unleash terror to everybody; whites, workers and other innocent men.

As one looks at the time period before the war, one can see the Alliance System, Militarism, Economic Rivalry, and Nationalism also as reasons for disruption among the European powers. One could argue as many historians due that the cause of the war was sparked by one single event the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

Prolonged participation in globalization is useful to the whole world. Amongst other things, it will make it less probable for future world terrorists to materialize. It has been said that to assuage the poverty of hundreds of millions of people in the developing world, globalization must be looked at as a remedy (Anthony, Robert 2000).

The exhibits appropriately use and mix artifacts, images, narrative, and other source materials to convey the message that our forefathers conquered the difficulties in life to bring about the change that we the current generation are enjoying. There is nothing left out from the exhibit. For it is all-encompassing and penetrates the minds.

With America’s rich history and with the many developments brought about by commerce and technology, America has evolved and survived numerous challenges, especially the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center. There are a lot of things that could symbolize America. There is the Liberty Bell, the Washington monument.

Countries of the Middle East have common properties and unifying characteristics including low levels of democratization versus high levels of authoritarianism, in addition to low economic liberalization, and are predominantly Arab/Islamic states; these factors make them easily distinguishable as a unit.

     On the 17th of October, 1216 King John died unexpectedly. How long the Civil War continued after the death of King John is not a pertinent issue; what is important is barons are equally responsible to escalate the Civil War and they always mused about their self-interest, when the peace process was an attainable reality.

The Bolsheviks were only a fraction of Russia Social Democratic Labour Party but Vladimir Lenin, Bolsheviks leader managed to triumph over Russia with minimal violence and bloodshed.  Most importantly, the implications and importance of the take over were widespread and drastic thus resulting in at the end of the absolute autocratic rule in Russia.