History Essays

The Rose Hall Plantation today is not what the original creator, John Palmer, had in mind.  Today the Rose Hall Plantation consists of a lavish resort for tourists.  Americans own what was once Jamaica’s largest plantation.  Lost in the endless travel guides, the new golf course, spooky ghost tales and other changes in the real history of Rose Hall.

Generally, following Pope Urban II’s call for a crusade or armed pilgrimage, an enthusiastic preacher known as Peter the Hermit and a knight called Walter the Penniless led a group that rushed ahead of the official expedition. This group, known as the Peasants’ Crusade, was untrained and undisciplined.

Differences between classes increased. However, Deng ruled with an iron hand and all threats to the dictatorship were crushed with an iron fist.  In the last five years of his regime, all dissidents were either exiled or imprisoned. Later in 1989, Deng allowed guns and tanks to be used to quell the pro-democracy and anti-corruption demonstrations.

Venice is not only the cultural and traditional fascinating city of Europe; but also, it has been the center of art and architecture, paintings and sculpture, poetry and drama, and religion and magic. Its glamorous history and wonderful civilization reveal the beauties the city contained even a thousand years ago.

The term “Crusades” describes military expeditions which were supposed to be religiously inspired and considered pilgrimages. Historians have numbered eight expeditions to the Holy Land, though some group the 7th and 8th together. There was a steady stream of armies from Europe to the Holy Land, so it is nearly impossible to distinguish separate campaigns.

“…I would rather die and float gracefully in space than be buried on Earth”, Perveen Crawford, Hong Kong’s first female pilot declared when interviewed about her decision and hope to join the Virgin Galactic Fleet to be blast off to an altitude of 100.000 meters before floating back down to Earth, thus becoming the first Honk Kong’s astronaut to carry the Bauhinia flag beyond the final frontier in 2008.

To illustrate this, Nathans describes how Pale fathers only traveled to Russia to work, and after the workday finished, must return to Polotzk. This opening narrative is essential to Nathan’s thesis of the nature of the Russian-Jewish encounter; the author has to prove that such a Russian-Jewish encounter practically started from scratch.

The Allied forces accomplished the operation and secured footholds on the landing sites, despite the overwhelming fatalities and injuries, due to the immense number of soldiers and strong support from air and sea. The unsettled weather certainly attributed to the problems of the Allies, but it also partly led to the element of surprise.

The American Revolution is best known for its political reform. During the Revolutionary Era, it provided much more. Famous historian J. Franklin Jameson was correct in his assertion that “The stream of revolution once started could not be confined with narrow banks” (Wood 5). In his famous quote, he predicted that revolution “spreads abroad upon the land” (5).

At a cultural level, there were many changes relating to the role of women in society. For example, the Egyptian magazine Animal-Jails defined women's vision and their role in society not long afterward in 1899. Again, this was based on western concepts of women's role in society and therefore challenged the traditional ideas.

Out of all the wars which took place in this century, the Second World War is considered to be the only occasion where one side of the conflict could be justified as following the criteria required for fighting a ‘Just war’. World war two was a global war of all the major military nations including the superpowers.

 Slavery, the word literally means bonded labor. The practice of enslaving people has been an age-old practice in almost all ancient civilizations like the Inca, Egypt, Rome, Greece, India, and China. Prior to the Atlantic trade of enslaved Africans to the Americas, Muslim traders out of the Middle East and Northern Africa purchased, sold, and captured millions of enslaved Africans and Central Europeans in a slave-trading network.

Through propaganda, the Soviet Communist Party used all means at its disposal to demonize capitalist countries.   It sought to convince the peoples of Russia and Eastern Europe that the plans and policies of the Soviet government were working in their interests.  This propaganda centered on what Stalin called “the class enemy”.

Neutrality Acts 1935-1937 were passed by the US Congress to restrict American involvement in any future war, keeping in view the embitterment in the minds of people after WW I. Comintern, a communist organization, was formed in Moscow in 1919 to remove all international bourgeois class and to destroy all concepts of Statehood.

The outbreak of the Korean War was caused by several overlapping and interrelated factors. These factors made the Korean War reflective of the problems within the peninsula as well as an inescapable reality, especially for the Koreans. Indeed, their fate “was closely tied to the designs of the US, the Soviet Union, and China.

Without the invention of the printing press, much of what Martin Luther and others were saying regarding the corruption within the Catholic Church would have been easily silenced before reaching the uneducated masses. With the printing press already in existence, having contributed to the development of a much greater reading public.

The wars in Gaul comprise a series of ferocious campaigns involving serious battle by Julius Caesar. The battles were fundamentally against several Gallic tribes and sub-tribes. This lasted from 58 BC to about 51 BC. Battles against Helvetti, Belgae, Ariovistus, and Vercingetorix are the most remarkable ones.

Thus, according to the functionalist policy, the states of Europe are required to sacrifice their individual sovereign existence and need to identify themselves as one nation that will be governed under one centralized power. Keeping in mind the continent's vast geographical location, attaining the dream would be a distant possibility.

Many researchers have identified the post-war period as an age of transition, especially the transition to the capitalist system and new social structures. Duiker and Spielvogel, drawing a vivid picture of the post-war Unites States in their book, The Essential World History, observe that “the most significant factor after 1945 was the emergence of the United States as the world’s richest and most powerful nation.

Jocelyn Brakelond, who became chaplain to the abbot four months after the contemporaneous elections, was in the administration described under Samson. The narrative tells us that the narrator was with Samson all the time for six years, in a system of patronage and authority, in which the record is fairly approximate to what the monks actually did in terms of day-to-day operations.

I once asked a fellow Pueblo about his view regarding our revolt. He told me that very few people could have predicted what the main reason was since the Spaniards began by establishing a good relationship with us. I do know that we started with the exchange of food, goods, and services, medicine, and knowledge between the Spaniards. 

Historic preservation is another method of looking back at our past heritage. With time and with the progress of civilization everything changes its shape. To understand past, present generation looks back at their history. To make history come alive, heritage preservation has become very common.

In the earlier days like in the 1950s, the mean mode of transportation was bicycle as it was economical as well as convenient and did not need any energy source. But in the 1950s, the town planners were planning to introduce motor vehicles in the city of Brooklyn and the main thought behind this was to speed up things and to lessen the time of travel.

The killing of Bin Laden could be justified because the worldwide massacres of innocent people were planned by that head of the extremist organization al-Qaeda, and he was being politically and militarily supported and provided shelter by Pakistan. Once again, such assassinations have brought the question of targeted killings into the limelight.

The abolition leader William Lloyd Garrison disagreed with the need for a separate, black-oriented press, and the two men broke over this issue as well as over Douglass's support of political action to supplement moral suasion. Thus, after 1851 Douglass allied himself with the faction of the movement led by James G. Birney.

History struggles between various social classes and their necessary divisions, mainly over-estimated by the inner judgment of every particular form of production. This view of history is not supported by the defiance of human beings’ individuality nor on an ‘underestimation’ of individual independence, personality or standards (DeVos, p. 89, 1995).

On 6 April 1994, the aircraft of President Habyarimana and Burundian President was shot down when they were returning after meeting for a peace accord in Tanzania. Though the killing responsibility has never been established, government official small group (who are suspected to have planned the aircraft shooting) decided to execute pre-planned extermination (Gaparayi 10).

September 11 attacks on America remain to be the main memorable event of the twenty-first century all over the world. The attack’s results of investigation conclude it to have been planned and facilitated by the Al-Qaeda group from Afghanistan. The main reasons for the attack were inclusive of the availability of the U.S military group in Saudi Arabia, which was a devastating factor to Al-Qaeda.

In seeing the violence that is still put upon women, the sexual harassment that still exists, and the disparities in the fulfillment of ambitions by women because of male dominance in certain fields, and additionally recognizing that women still experience wage disparities, my life has been put on a course to help remedy these problems.

Terrorism is a social problem that characterizes human political evolution from simple forms of leadership guided by suppression of opinion to a more complex democratic society arrangement. The evolution of the society under the definition of terrorism demonstrates the willingness of the community to eliminate political baggage with suppression.

The US started to realize that it has gained enormous strength in influencing international affairs by the end of the 19th century. Till then, the US had become the world’s leader in the production of cotton and wheat. Within a few decades, the US had become a big industrial power and had a record of formulating international treaties in support of their desires in the past.

It may be important also to mention that more than 400 rescuers from different government agencies died as they were trying to save lives. As an immediate response, mostly to prevent more crashes, all moving aeroplanes were ordered to land whereas all the operations especially involving international airlines were suspended for three days.

The congress of the United States enforced the voting rights for African Americans on September 9, 1957. President Eisenhower expressed his ideas about this bill of rights in the following way: “I believe that the United States must make certain that every citizen who is entitled to vote under the Constitution is given actually that right.

The author of the paper will consider the economic development of China and India, comparing and contrasting them.  It is suggested that the period of British colonization in China and India hampered the internal development of the countries, and triggered internal turmoil, and social and economic challenges.

World War I and World War II led to massive causalities, bloodshed, and destruction in almost all the theatres in which they were fought. The number of people killed and wounded in these two wars amounted to millions. It also needs to be mentioned that in the two Wars the people who suffered were not merely soldiers but also included civilians, old people, women, and children.

In the lecture notes, specifically Unit Two: The Good News about Jesus’ Proclamation of the Kingdom of God (The Galilean Ministry), it was stipulated that the meaning of the word “parable” is “to place along by the side of." In application, it means to take a "heavenly truth" and lay it alongside an "earthly example" to communicate it to the listener”.

During this time, Harlem was full of upper-middle-class white communities mostly from Europe, who developed several public buildings and constructed great avenues in that area. But at the start of the 20th century, Harlem became a home town for African Americans as during the First World War, many African Americans arrived there.

As America began to enter economic hardships, many other problems were also arising. These problems deal with taking over Native American Land, expanding the American territory, developing the land, immigration, agriculture, slavery, war with Mexico, many failed compromises, and the separation of the United States.

Classical music within the Hindu society is specifically referred to as the earliest forms of music. Other musical scholars argue that China is the cradle of music because musical instruments from the prehistoric era were found in China, and they were approximated to have been used in music cultures as far back in history as 6600 BC (Masataka, 2007).

Lenin observed that very few countries can survive after destroying the bourgeois state. He believed that, as long as the proletarian revolution must do away with the old states, it should not destroy and abolish the state itself (Kelvin 1995, p. 90). The state must remain and it should live for a long period of time without being destroyed.

Historically, women have often played a significant role in fighting for their rights and freedom in Egypt. The role of women in the governance of Egypt dates back to the Pharaonic period when Queen Hatshepsut reigned Egypt from 1479 up to 1457B.C. Ever since, the role of women in the fight for freedom in Egypt cannot be overlooked at all.

The story tells about life, death, sexuality and the link between two worlds: the world of the living and the spiritual kingdom.Each of Sofi’s four fated daughters takes a different route (Gannon).The first child, Esperanza, is the most successful and liberated daughter, and a devotee to the Chicano movement for the betterment of Chicano’s lives.

Several Japanese historians in the 1960s discussed the role of the Russo-Japanese War in Japanese imperialism. The book Japan Examined (1983) broadly discusses the contribution of the War to the growth of Japan as an imperial power. Despite of its limited point of view on the effects of the War, the arguments discussed in this book remain important (Kowner, 2007, p. 30).

Thus, the renaissance period marked the end of the Middle Ages in Europe. It was a period replete with a myriad of innovations and astounding discoveries. In addition, it was characterized by magnificent architecture and immaculate art. This can be attributed to the support commissioned to the great artists by wealthy Italian merchants and political officials. Thus, the renaissance in Italy was sustained by the country’s inherent wealth.

Based on these notions, in an old joke it has been stated that “a recession is when your neighbor loses his or her job; a depression is when you lose your job”1. One of the examples of a depression is often regarded to be the great depression witnessed by Canada. The period of depression was recorded to instigate during the summer of 1929 and extended till the spring of 1933.

It looked as if there would no peace in the near future. There was a difference of twenty years between the First World War and the Second World War. Adolf Hitler who had made Germany unstable by his cruel targets in mind signed deals with Italy and Japan. He was a fanatic who had the aim of world domination in his mind and to him signing this deal would help him to a greater access to other countries of the world.

In contrast with the set and normally followed norm, centrism presents the departure from the past traditions and focuses on the present, while considering the future.In most cases, centrism favors socio-economic liberalism as well as observance of human rights and progressive taxation (Jones 2003, p.7). Between the 1950s and mid 1970s, the British electorate laid their allegiances to either the Labour Party or Conservative Party. 

The paper also looks at the role of community with regards to global social justice in the context of the theories and concepts to arrive at an acceptable conclusion.A modern example of how the world has rallied for social good is used to put the input of the global community in the topic under discussion into perspective. 

But the basic characteristics of Marxism like blind following of materialistic elucidation of the historical facts and aimless attack on capitalism prove that Marxism cannot substitute democracy. Thesis statement: The compare and contrast study on Lenin's and Mao's interpretation of Marxist ideas in theory and application proves that their theoretic interpretation of the same related to the topics.

The paper "The Battle of Bull Run" is a great example of a literature review on history. The civil war period was one of the gravest moments in American history as this was an interstate clash. During this period, many events occurred since the onset of the war in various states until the end of this dark moment in moment in the history of America.