Working People in Alberta - Alvin Finkel (2012) - Labour Movements in Alberta
Text commentary - 3 pages - Modern history
Working People in Alberta by Alvin Finkel traces the history of labour in the country during the first nation's residence to the current occupants. The book describes the movement from interviews with ordinary citizens, activists, and labour leaders. It also draws inspiration from...
Barack Obama's Speech on Race
Text commentary - 4 pages - Modern history
Analyse sur un extrait du discours d'Obama " Barack Obama's Speech on Race" donné le 18 mars 2018 publié dans The New York Times. La problématique étant : How Barack Obama calls on American history to explain the inequalities that remain in the 21st century in the United States, but also...
Conservation and the futur
Text commentary - 3 pages - Modern history
Introduction et plan détaillé d'un commentaire de texte sur Stewart L. Udall, The Quiet Crisis (1963).
Second Annual Message - Andrew Jackson (1830)
Text commentary - 3 pages - Modern history
This document is an excerpt from Andrew's Jackson's Second Annual Message, delivered on December 6, 1830 to Congress. Jackson was the seventh president of the United States and dominated American politics between the 1820s and 1830s. The Jackson government sought to remove the Five...
"The School for Scandal, Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1777) - the eighteenth century and money
Text commentary - 3 pages - Modern history
Sheridan introduces the theme of money as a major theme of the play; he portrays his characters as coming from a wealthy and refined background, and therefore for whom money is important, as it allows them to differentiate themselves from the rest of the population and to maintain a certain...
The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America - publié le 12/05/2010
Text commentary - 1 pages - Modern history
In the 18th century, the ideas of modernity were spreading all around Europe, while at the same time a revolt is organized against the despotic control exercised by Georges III, the King of England in the British colonies of the New World. This rebellion resulted in the Declaration of...
Christopher J. Dodd, "Letters from Nuremberg", New-York: Three Rivers Press, 2007. Pp. 374 ; Karl Fuchs, "Your Loyal and Loving Son", Washington D.C.: Brassey's Inc, 1987. Pp. 163
Text commentary - 3 pages - Modern history
Letters from Nuremberg' by Christopher Dodd, US senator from Connecticut, with the collaboration of Lary Bloom, is an epistolary book. It is a collection of Christopher's father's letters, Thomas J. Dodd, written between July 1945 and September 1946 to his wife. During this period...
Jim Powell, Roosevelt's folly, Essay on the New Deal
Text commentary - 9 pages - Modern history
Critical analysis of Jim Powell's Roosevelt's folly. Refute Powell thesis and defend the New Deal. This paper aimed at demonstrating that, instead, the New Deal did not only help tens of millions of Americans to overcome the Depression but also made tremendous structural reforms that had...
