History Essays

According to the paper, Americans felt they deserved all the rights of Englishmen. The British, on the other hand, believe that the colonies were created for use in the manner that best suits the crown and parliament. This conflict is enrolled in one of the rallying cries of the American Revolution: no taxation without representation.

May it be the Harappan or the Mesopotamian civilization, or even the Chinese or Greek ones, every civilization formed itself on the banks of some of the other river valleys. This helps to understand the importance of how water is the basic source of living for all human beings and no man can survive without it. One may have knowledge and power.

The differences primarily relate to their concept of the newly discovered lands, the identification of the continents, and the people. Vespucci, with his faculties of high skills in mathematics and astronomy, enjoyed the upper hand. However, Columbus, on the contrary, despite the differences in their opinions, supported Vespucci in his explorations

Migration is a common phenomenon; people of various countries and from different backgrounds migrate in order to seek better opportunities in life. History clearly reveals that the history of Chinese Americans consisted of ethnic Chinese who were living in the US. Chinese migrating and going towards the US is basically divided into three different parts.  

Death affects all creatures, but human beings perceive it as unique when they are its victims. To overcome this fearful feeling, humans consider the possibility of reawakening after death. Ideas of the afterlife have been raised by diverse cultures and religions. For ancient people, the afterlife was characterized by shades and ghosts.

Although due to a result of prolonged interracial mixing, Filipinos were considered to be Spanish to some extent; I personally do not consider us Spanish even though our culture, language, and politics might be heavily influenced by Spain still. The Philippines is one of the only Asian states that are predominant Roman Catholic.

Gilded Age marked the rapid growth in the urbanization as well as improving the lifestyle of the American population. People during this era were able to relish better life and were provided with ample opportunities to acquire prosperity and success. Next, industrialization in the American context can be identified as the most crucial stage.

In 1783, there was a treaty of Paris. This was a treaty that was signed in Paris between America and Great Britain as a way of recognizing the American independence. Hence, the treaty ended the American Revolution as Britain had ceded all its North American territories which were located in Canada and others around the Mississippi River

The paper "Nature and Sanctuary: Human Presence in the Landscape" is a wonderful example of a history assignment. People in the stone age worshipped animal and the Palaeolithic religion represented animals as gods. Art of the time, including sculptures and cave paintings representing the sincerity of animals, various paintings depicted the beauty, strength, motions, and depth of animals.

As the paper highlights, The first attempt to save the American economy during 1929 was made by President Herbert Hoover. The measures taken by the president include tax cuts during 1929, ordering of increase in the rate of construction by federal departments and signing of the Smoot Hawley Tariff. 

Apart from offering education to aboriginal students, the schools’ main intention was to isolate aboriginal children in a move to eradicate their culture. Life in the schools was unbearable; this is because apart from strict rules, the students also went through various types of torture and abuses. In the residential schools, “…it was an offence for one to speak a native language (UBC, 2009).” 

  The recent Kashmir conflict is sure, not an easy issue for the Pakistani government to handle which is undergoing its own political turmoil and has to face strict Modi government policies. The New Delhi guests, however, do not deny that India does have internal problems rising up but shuns out the point that Mahdi is using Pakistan as a distraction tactic. 

There has been a lot of criticism over the nature of historical evidence. Since the early 1970s, there has been a noticeable expansion in the scope of the national past as shown in the heritage of the Australian museums. Several museums have been started and thousands of heritage sites. Some of the historical sites are of dubious value in terms of their capacity to aid in the formation of a critical historical culture.

The exploitation of labor in a systematic way without the consent of the people involved in the core nature of slavery. A person who is a slave is considered the property of another person who has all the right to do anything with him as he pleases. It happened in various cultures throughout the history of mankind.

On November 4, 2008, a momentous event was recorded in the history of the United States of America: the election of the first African American into the highest political position in the nation. A 47-year-old senator from Illinois, Barack Obama, has been elected as the 44th President of the United States of America.

Historical records also show that Americans, particularly students, took strong exception to McNamara’s haughty public stance, his snobbishness, and evident emotional unconcern about the brutalities of war. This resulted in McNamara being tagged with captions like ‘Mac the knife’ and ‘Ice runs through his veins’ (Dunn).   

The consumption levels considered as the drivers of the economy are usually low as compared to those in developed countries and thus hindering economic growth and development. Since third-world countries are poor trading ties with other nations are minimal as they lack sufficient resources to trade with their counterparts.

In front of the audience, he publicly criticized the communist regime and even pointed out some of its faults which included the construction of the Berlin War. About the wall, he said that it prevented the people to leave the country to go to the administration that they deemed to be favorable for them.

Cold War was the conflict that existed between Communist nations that were championed by the Soviet Union and democratic nations championed by the United States. It was fought through propaganda, diplomatic haggling, economic war and on certain occasions military clashes. It was fought in each and every place which also included neutral states and other independent nations that were in outer space, Africa and Asia.

Women activists were captured as well, and the Jacobins started to behave in the same chauvinistic way to deal with the women, keeping them in the private domain of their lives and banning their assemblies, and clubs. In this phase women became associated with hostility and belligerence - images of women depicted a fuming mood.

Cote d’Ivoire was a French colony until 7 August 1960, when she was granted independence. The country has an area of 322,462 sq km with an estimated population of 20,617,068 in 2009. ("Côte d'Ivoire", The World Factbook, CIA Directorate of Intelligence). Ivory Coast is a member of the African Union (AU), La Francophonie, the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC), and the Economic Community of West African States.

Koestler’s Darkness at noon deals with Communists in the USSR which happened in the 1930s when the leaders of the revolution were accused of crimes against the revolution. Rubashov who was a well-recognized Soviet official and a revolutionist to reckon with found him imprisoned at the hands of the man he this as Number one, Josef Stalin.

Whereas the world is awash with stories of wars and battles predating the infamous world wars, none of these has attracted contested debates as the events that characterize the Second World War. Prior to its end, the United States of America was reluctant to join citing neutrality and the inherent costs that the war presented.

It was on 12th June 1929 when Anne Frank was born in Germany. Her father was called Otto Frank who lived between 1889 and 1980 and her mother was known as Edith Frank-Hollander who lived from the middle of 1900 - 1945. Anne was the second born in her family. Her elder daughter was known as Margot Frank (1926-45).

The world economies have been continuously faced with difficult situations which have resulted in different wars being fought over different regions. The manner in which different concepts have been used to undergo war and look at territorial expansion has been a subject of continuous discussion. Different proponents are seen to present different views with some supporting the cause and some being against it.

The immigration museum started in Melbourne’s old customs house in the year 1998. It may seem easy to take for granted the presence of migration histories in most Australian museums. After all, a great number of Australians are immigrants. In regard to this, the cultural diversity of Australians is usually celebrated as being a national strength.

The Hornsby Shire Council is located in the Northern part of Sydney Australia and has an estimated population of 164, 000 people. Notably, Hornsby has been at the forefront of championing the conservation of heritage sites by arguing that they are necessary not only for current generations but for future generations too.

The Founding Fathers of the nation considered an alliance with France largely because they too disliked Great Britain, and with good reason. Wars were not unusual between the two countries, the most recent at that time being the French and Indian War, also known as the Seven Year's War (Brinkley 96).

The process of resource allocation in the health sector just like other sectors of the economy is highly politicized. Politics is the order of the day in the budgetary process because the whole process revolves around the scarce resources at our disposal. The political power-house is very keen on this process.

During the Summit, Cambodia refused to accede to any mention of the stand-off between China and the Philippines in the Panatag Shoal giving the excuse that ASEAN should be neutral on the issue. When Cambodia was further asked to compromise, it stormed out of the meeting ending the Summit in acrimony. 

Even though America is believed to be the most civilized country in the world at present, it should not be forgotten that it was not so in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Slavery and race discrimination are still prevalent in America in many forms even though these things were abolished by law. 

A super power is stronger that a great power. China has shown some signs that can be compared to the definition of a super power. On March 4, 2007, China announced that it was going to increase its military to a total of 45 billion dollars (Tkacik, 2007). This was

The highest military award of the nation, the Medal of Honor, was awarded to an Afro-American soldier for the first time in the attack on Fort Wagner in recognition of the courage and valor displayed on the battlefield. In the battle of Olustee courage and valor of the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Infantry prevented defeat from turning into a rout. 

The key points learned in history are the total abolition of protectionist legislation since protectionism hampers domestic industries' competitiveness. More importantly, the decline in money supply is the major cause of economic failures and therefore the Federal Reserve should be more responsible to uphold money stock growth. 

It is quite essential to state that the collapse of the Soviet Union and the absence of a cold war forced one to reconsider the structural conditions associated with a major war. After 1989, the emergence of the United States as the single dominant nation did not materialize into the anticipated holocaust.

The following discussion will compare and contrast the role of violence in the German and Italian cases specifically the regimes of Hitler and Mussolini.  In many respects, there was a great deal of ideological common ground between these two extreme right-wing regimes despite Nazi Germany having far more military capability than Fascist Italy. 

The battle of Iwo Jima was one of the most tragic and expensive during WW11. It was fought between the Japanese empire and the United States of America on a small but strategically important island ruled by Japan. This research paper suggests that the war was just. War seemed to be inevitable from both sides, but consequences decide and reveal the truth.

The Ottoman Empire is also called the Turkish Empire or turkey. The Ottoman Empire was there from 1299 to 1923. The Republic of Turkey became its successor[1] on the 29th of October, 1923. It was during the 16th and 17th centuries that the Ottoman Empire was at its best. During that time it consisted of three continents.

The "War on Drugs" in the United States, is a waste of time and a waste of taxpayer's money. Since the war on drugs began, arrests went up by 50% however; the number of users and the supply of drugs stayed the same. President Bush even wanted to spend more money on the war on drugs. Even though, most cities and states can translate back to spending three-quarters of their budget on the war on drugs alone.

The Ottoman Empire was one of the world’s greatest powers, lasting from 1281-1922 under the hereditary rule of 39 sultans beginning with Osman I, who gave his legendary name to the entire empire. (Metz, 1996, Table 2) Just like the Romans and Byzantines before them, the Ottomans gradually declined and disappeared. 

French government embarked on the attempt of constructing the Panama Canal in 1982 after gaining motivation from the successful completion of the Suez Canal. The French head of the project was not an engineer by profession and he employed the design that was used to build Suez Canal although Panama's terrain was different. 

After the roman Civil War, Mark Anthony sent for the queen of Egypt to summon her for allegations of giving financial aid to Cassius. In reality, though, Mark Anthony wanted her to pledge her support to him in his planned war against the Parthian. On her arrival in the palace, she charmed Mark Anthony with her beauty and they became lovers.  

Before the Italian renaissance which brought about great cultural change in literature and the arts in Italy and Europe, there were many great poets and writers that influenced literature and their impact is still felt today (Gouwens 1). At this point in history, literature was only expressed and done in Latin and French and English was not predominantly spoken, as is the case now (Halleck 91).

The Republic of Germany is a country found in central and Western Europe. It is a federal state which has 16 states. It has an area of 351, 021 square kilometers. It has a population of 81.8 million people which makes it the European Union member with the highest population as well as the biggest economy. It is among Europe’s major technological and political powers.

It is often perceived as the fall of one of the most dominant doctrines in history; socialism. On the other hand, just as the WW1 and the Bolshevik revolution played an integral role in defining the instigation of the twentieth century, the ultimate culmination of the cold war and the collapse of the USSR marked its ending (Pravda, 356).

The Crusades refer to conflicts that were religious in nature and were authorized by the Catholic Church. The religious conflicts took place from the High Middle Ages until the end of the Late Middle Ages. These series of military campaigns or Crusades were aimed against Muslims who were found in the Middle East (Asbridge, 2005).

Arthur Koestler wrote a number of books in relation to the issues of Stalinist Russia. In ‘Darkness at Noon’, Koestler used certain characters to depict these issues, especially regarding the concepts of antivivisection and vivisection morality. This paper intends to describe antivivisection morality; justify its incompatibility with Stalinist Russian; and rationalize the fact that vivisection morality ideology is vital for political systems.

The thirteenth amendment was passed after a long struggle as the Southerners couldn’t let go of the African slaves (Abramson & Pinkerton, 2003). However, through the persistence of those who were anti-slavery, it finally passed. This brought tremendous change in the United States as all people enjoyed equal rights and freedoms.

Cubism is remarkable because its style emphasizes the flat, 2-dimensional picture plane’s surface. Cubism projects designate some sense of realism. The conceptual method of realism in cubism art aims at displaying the world the way it is, not the way it seems. The aesthetic value of cubism is that the use of multiple techniques in a fresh way brings out the contemporary form of art.

The ideology can be expressed through the fighting that occurred between the Axis and the allies powers (“Causes of World War II” par.4). Initially when the Germans defeated the French, and finally the French people decided to retreat, the Germans joined hands with countries like Japan and Italy who were fighting alongside Germany.