History Essays

She advocated for embracing of liberty. She was a sharp critic of government policies and helped fellow country people to stand up for their rights. As a teacher, she took on the responsibility of teaching children to be rational thinkers. In this manner, she helped to grow a society that could not be brainwashed by government propaganda.

Thomas More used the name utopia to describe a society where all conflict and problems were overcome. He described it as a society that every man has the right to everything. More blamed waste, poverty and greed on personal property.

It has been looked down upon as a less powerful country for years by the Western Countries. China has for years since the start of a civilization grown in leaps and bounds in the wake of the entire world. But the egocentric nature of most developed countries has blinded them from the fact that a less powerful country was developing at a very great speed.

Being obsessed by the communist aggression in Vietnam, the successor of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, undertook resolute steps in 1965 towards preventing what had been considered pending serious damage to the American international influence and prestige, namely the real probability of losing South Vietnam.

Under the leadership of Heinrich Himmler, Einsatzgruppen were responsible for carrying out Hitler’s orders (Hitler, 1923), whereby they killed Jews, poles, gypsies in the most gruesome manner, indiscriminately, and often persecuting and torturing their victims before executing them in cold blood.

The international covenant on civil and political rights (ICCPR) recognizes the freedom of expression as having the right to hold opinions without interference. The right to speech and expression is related to other rights and it is always limited when in conflict with other rights. Freedom of speech is important in media and the press since it heals with the public.

Explain your answer. Two main theories make it possible to understand the statecraft in the current world. They include the realist and the contemporary Marxism theories. I agree most with the latter theory in explaining this social phenomenon and disagree with the former.

The concepts and ideas of human rights have evolved over times. However, according to Donnelly, even with many deliberations on the rights to be accorded by different governments, most of these rights and freedoms have received a great deal from the backing of the international community, which has led to development and enactment of international human rights laws (108).

For instance, geographers may define development as the improvement in education and health standards or the acquisition of immense wealth for society where they have their unique systems of measuring development levels. The most relevant way of explaining development is through the development theory which represents the desires of society on matters relating to societal change.

Lenin’s theory shows that the two developments are intrinsically linked since the concentration of capital created inequality where the general population could not absorb the commodities achieve by the high level of productive capacity. From this premise, capitalist class controls the nation politically.

Politics and Administration. Question 1 Deficiencies and Remedies in the Social Contract Theory The Articles of Federation is a combination and collaboration of thirteen states, namely; North Carolina, Georgia, South Carolina, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, New York, New Jersey, Providence Plantations, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Massachusetts-bay Rhode Island, and New Hampshire.

The social protest movement transcended the level of national particularity and addressed the subject of nuclear disarmament from a global perspective. Thus, it changed the very definition of citizenship and introduced the unprecedented concept of global citizenry wherein people from diverse backgrounds could come together to voice their dissent against a common cause.

The paper discusses how a leader in a professional context can challenge the status quo and make a positive difference. The objective of the paper is to identify the challenges which can be faced by a leader while making a difference. Furthermore, the paper also intends to develop a plan for changing the present professional context.

There was increased competition among European states for colonialism across the world. The period between 1815 and 1848 is seen as being a “restoration” or “pre-march” (Vormarz) period. This was a transitional period that saw cultural, social, political, and economic progress.

Goebbels could be termed as a determined individual, who could use all means possible to achieve his dreams. He knew very well on how to approach powerful people and in their behind, rally up his political party against them. He gave out speeches that incited people against his rivals. Propaganda was the best tool for him and his party.

For quite some time, the connection to and attitude of U.S. citizens towards public education has been rather contradictory. For an illustration, while many support and fight for publicly supported education, this support does not go further than this with regards to the public functions attached to education.

The most important thing about policy analysis is that the analytic instrument used should relate to the nature of the underlying problem addressed. It is suggested by many that the easy recovery of US economy from severe financial crises and a series of corporate failures is possible through uninterrupted supply of potential human capital.

However, there have been instances when the state itself deprived its citizens of these rights. Example of Imam Jamil Al-Amin is one such example of infringement of basic civil rights. Jamil Al-Amin is a dominant name in the history of African Americans and their struggle for civil rights.

These norms have since been reversed, and save for the historical recordings; modern women born in the current era would never have come to appreciate the gender norm diversity that they have been able to gain, mainly revolutionized through the 20th century.

Prior to 9/11, US foreign policy can be categorized as passive by making alliances and cajoling and pleading its leaders to make peace. After 9/11 terror attack in the US, foreign policy in the Middle East transformed dramatically by using military might to assert itself and shift the balance of power to its favor.

Since the island is very small, it will need to have a very strong foreign policy defined to ensure the future prosperity of the nation. The government system will be federal and the rights of the federal government will be passed down to a combination of mayors and judiciary of each town.

These minorities often have a number of grievances but the most preeminent ones include social, political and economic disenfranchisement, which they perceive to be occasioned on them owing to the vulnerability their numerical inferiority brings about.1 The Basque revolutionists can be classified among these, the separatist were united by their common ethnicity and marginalization from the French and Spanish government.

The author states that the most significant effect of the Taiping Revolt was loss of life. The rebellion is considered to be one of the most destructive civil wars experienced not only in China, but also around the world. Even though it is virtually impossible to establish the exact number of casualties that succumbed to the Taiping violence.

Whereas contemporary day philosophers are still forming unique notions, several of the principles that people concentrate on emerging from the perspectives of philosophers who existed about twenty three hundred decades in the past. Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle are precisely understood in history for their notions and the influence that their writings had on Western Civilization.

With the present situation occurring in the Middle East, the U.S. is also changing its foreign policy while adjusting its tactics and strategies in the region. While the U.S. government may adopt different approaches in its policy stance toward the Middle East, this paper seeks to focus on the policy of realpolitik as its general stance vis-a-vis with its political affairs and involvement in the region.

Native American history constitutes a large portion of the American history as studied by different students across the United States and beyond the American continent. Several Native Americans tribes had lived in continental America for centuries; was before the first Europeans first arrived there.

The author discusses the impact of the Great Depression on the polices of Germany and Britain between the years 1929 and 1932. It is believed that the present economic and financial situation has greatly been influenced or shaped by the Great Depression. The Great Depression is argued to have started in the United States.

The wildebeest migration is one of the wonders of the world. Livings among the wild animals are the Maasai Tribe. Although the current trend in the world with all the globalization and industrialization a lot of these is rapidly changing as the rich Maasai culture is eroded way.

In fact, certain not not-worthy religious leaders have taken advantage of the presence of numerous religious organizations to criticize Christianity and the work of Jesus as a liberator of mankind as having failed to realize its purpose unlike the case of liberation that is seen in civil rights movements in “Martin and Malcolm and America”

The terrorist attacks on the US on September 11, 2001 and the US role in the invasion of Iraq in 2003 gave rise to a number of official inquiries that subsequently revealed significant intelligence failure. As a result, significant changes were introduced impacting the structure and operation of the US intelligence community.

Because of Alexander’s invasion of the territories from Greece to India, a huge number of Greek administrators, merchants, and warriors migrated to eastern territories. Their interactions with the diverse Near Eastern cultures and peoples broadened the knowledge and opportunities of the Greeks and reduced their love for their homeland (Burn 2005, 13).

One of the main concerns was the heavy dependence on fuel and the blueprint released by the President calls for the reduction of dependence on fuel in the US (Obama, 2011). As of July 2012, the US is reportedly spending in excess of US$1 billion daily on oil imports (US Department of Energy, 2012).

The notion of type was first introduced by A. C. Quatremère de Quincy in the field of architecture at the 18th century. Quatremère de Quincy described the type in his Encyclopédie, published in 1825, as the ‘characteristic form’ or ‘particular physiognomy’ that allows a building to be read as to its fundamental aim.

Emotions are like the recurring storms and every storm leaves behind it, devastation in different degrees. Is it possible to find an authentic solution, viewed from all angles, to the problem of racism in America? The pages of American history daubed in bloodshed in the name of ethnicity and color asks the crying question.

Deng Xiaoping’s era was marked as the “decade of reform” as it effected a total revamp of the legal system, brought in more democracy at government and party levels, gave more freedom for the people for self-government, and became a new era of hope for the Chinese republic. A transformation from communism to socialist democracy was visible in all spheres.

Paul Johnson’s biography Sam Patch, the Famous Jumper is an account of the life of a man named Sam Patch who lived in the wake of the Revolutionary War. Patch gained notoriety for his skills as a waterfall jumper, yet the biography considers his life in terms of the cultural and artistic impacts it made in his interactions with his social milieu.

In these ancient times city states governed themselves in small senates and they debated and clarified basic principles of fair and proper rules and regulations for society. In medieval times many of these initial concepts and ideals were lost in a system of feudalism which gave power to kings and nobles with very little control on how that power was exercised.

The author states that ancient sources portray Spartacus as a criminal or outcast, who has led a mutiny against Rome. This image of Spartacus has remained unchanged throughout the Middle Ages. However, during the latter half of the eighteenth century, his actions come to be recognized in a different perspective.

Other cities followed example, having Athens as their ideal but were not as successful. Of course, they would not have predicted that their way of governing the city would lead to its eventual decline. In the beginning, the laws and rules of the democratic state helped keep the city in order.

Through the middle class, the ideas of justice are linked to the idea of constitutions and the development of the polity becomes founded upon ideas that are focused on the justice that serves the greatest numbers of people. It is through the social construction of justice that a constitution is then created to reflect those traditions, beliefs etc.

Similarly, due to the nature of royal families, they occupy all significant ministries in the government. For instance, the ministries of armed forces, security, finance, provincial administration and the civil service are all reserved for the royal family.

Americans consider time in terms of its contribution to the origin and development of ideas, education, and politics. The United States of America has achieved a lot of success through time, for instance, the Declaration of Independence, the ratification of the Constitution, and the inclusion of the Bill of Rights enjoyable by all American citizens. 

The author was able to provide a valuable account on a period in Central American history that has been characterized by a nation-building that typifies most of the Latin American experiences in addition to the American neo-colonialism. Fundamentally, it is a story of the underdog, rising to defeat stronger foes.

The essay argues that the prime objective of Syed Alatas’s book is to oppose the widespread denigration of native history, society, and the native people themselves, as presented within the Western (European) point of view. Broadly based on the premise that the ideology of colonial capitalism – as Alatas defines it – is solely responsible for the poor image of Malays, Filipinos, and Javanese.

The deficiency of workers in all different types of labour was the main reason behind the initiation of slavery. This overview article will discuss various aspects of the Caribbean history – the Atlantic Slave trade and Triangular trade, the Middle passage, life of slaves on the plantations and punishments served to them by their owners, about the Maroons of Jamaica, St.

Generally speaking, the French protectorate, known as Indochina, composed of Laos and Vietnam, together with the Japanese soldiers had taken Cambodia. In 1941, a Vietnamese pro-self-rule movement, known as Viet Minh, was established by a communist Ho Chi Minh to oppose the occupiers of his homeland.

Impact of the Black Death. Plague is referred to as the Black Death as it was held responsible for causing numerous deaths in the early 14th century. It spread such chaos and terror among people that they abandoned their kith and kin, for the fear of catching it and dying ultimately.

Kennedy gives a detailed account and recollection of the unfolding events that took place during that crisis. He provides an in-depth account of how conversations were taking place at the white house and how the president felt the load on his neck given the magnitude of the crisis to the world and how he had to make a decision under difficult situation to tackle the Soviet Union offensive.

It was a time of domestic tranquility and social stability where most Americans were focused on raising families in a period of relative prosperity. Within this calm, the seeds for the cultural and social revolution of the 1960s were sown, in the form of the Beat generation. The Beat generation was post-World War II youth who were prominent in the 1950s.

The abolitionist North’s decided victory in the Civil War further boosted up the country’s clear constitutional and legal stance against slavery. But the defeated South was not ready for an overnight end to slavery, though both constitutionally and legally it was abolished in country.