Discuss the view of education as sophisticated opium for the masses
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
We will discuss the education under the early Third Republic, and we cannot move away from the context. In 1881 and 1882, when the Ferry's Law was promulgated, the Republic was not comfortably established in France. Monarchists and Bonarpatists were very much present in the country and the...
The treaty of Versailles
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
World War I (1914-1918) left the European continent completely devastated (especially France and Belgium). Human and material losses were massive. Indeed, about 10 million lives had been lost during the war. In order to prevent this nightmare from happens again, the victorious powers (the...
Was terror an integral part of the mentality of the revolutionaries in France?
Essay - 3 pages - Medieval history
No part of the Revolution calls as much pictures to mind as the “Terror”. The endless lines of people waiting to be guillotined, the Committee of Public Safety with the heartless figure of Maximilien Robespierre, Marat's corpse lying in his bath... more and more bloody pictures...
Aboriginal and non Aboriginal perspectives on land ownership and the colonisation of Australia
Essay - 4 pages - World geography
The question of land ownership has created quite a few issues. The main issues induced by this controversial concept is based on colonial hypocrisy, fundamental difference between two cultures, grief and trauma concerning the identities and lives of the Aborigines. It is imperative to reconsider...
Was the assumption of German musical supremacy merely a constituent part of an emergent German nationalism between 1870 and 1918?
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
What the German nation is and what its boundaries are have always puzzled historians of the early construction of the German nation-state. Indeed the further back into history one searches, the more elusive the very notion of a German national identity becomes. According to Herder, nationalism...
The war of the Spanish succession: Causes and consequences - publié le 07/05/2007
Essay - 4 pages - Medieval history
The War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714) was a major conflict leading to the end of French supremacy on the European continent. For the first time, the armies of the Sun King, Louis XIV, lost their reputation of invincibility. The purpose of this essay is to provide an extensive analysis of...
The revolt of the Netherlands: Spain's failure to regain control of the Netherlands
Essay - 3 pages - Medieval history
The rebellion of the Netherlands against ruling Spain was, in the end, a success leading to complete independence in 1648, with the Treaties of Den Haag and of Westphalia. All the Northern provinces of the “Spanish Netherlands” became fully independent, forming the United Provinces. A...
Rushdie: A Bend in Indian History
Essay - 3 pages - Modern history
Salman Rushdie has been in hiding for over a decade due to assassins who are out searching for him because of his “anti-Islamic blasphemy, belief and disbelief, anti-Thatcher politics, and pro-Western propaganda” (Kuortti 1999: 15). Even though Iranian leader, Khomeini, who initially...
Transitional "Electoralism"
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
In October 1998, Yeltsin defeated his opponents by military force and thus communicated a clear message about both his power and his resolve to achieve his objectives. After this, he presented a new institutional design for organizing politics in Russia. His enemies as well as the population as...
Cultural Transformations
Thesis - 3 pages - Modern history
World War Two left Europe war torn and destitute. Over 30 million people had been “uprooted, transplanted, expelled, deported and dispersed…in the years 1939-43” (Judt, Postwar, p. 23). Many cities were completely destroyed including Minsk, Royan, Le Havre, Hamburg, Cologne,...
The Collapse of a Superpower
Thesis - 4 pages - Modern history
After World War I, Communism reigned in Russia, which became known as the Soviet Union (USSR). As Karl Marx said, Communism would only be successful if it occurred as a worldwide revolution; thus by its nature, Communism needed to spread. Therefore, after World War II, the Western Allies,...
Museum of the Native Americans
Essay - 4 pages - Medieval history
As opposed to most other exhibitions on Native Americans, the one held within the Native Americans National Museum puts the emphasis on the present life of Indian Americans. They are not classified as a memory of the past anymore but as part of the current American society. However, their past is...
The Japanese immigration to Brazil
Essay - 3 pages - World geography
Japanese immigration to Brazil has a long history starting early in the twentieth century when astonishing amounts of Japanese immigrated to Brazil to take advantage of Japanese government funds encouraging emigration as well as the Brazilian market. However, a deep economic crisis in Brazil...
The Latino community in New York City - publié le 02/05/2007
Essay - 4 pages - Geography
Traditionally, the media tend to focus their attention on the Latino migration in States such as Texas, California, New Mexico, in other words on southern states close to the Mexican border. The East Coast seems to be completely forgotten as it remained as the gateway for the Europeans in...
What are the general stages of the demographic transition according to Knox within the core-periphery framework? How does this impact the geography of economics?
Essay - 2 pages - Geography
The demographic transition is defined as the transition from a high mortality rate along with a high birth rate situation to a low death and birth rate situation. The accuracy of this transition is the topic of discussion as some argued that only Northern countries were concerned and most of the...
Comparison and contrast of export diversification and import substitution strategies - publié le 02/05/2007
Essay - 3 pages - Geography
Export diversification and import substitution are both theories of growth used to stimulate economies in various countries. The first of these theories uses an increased base of exports to trigger economic growth, whereas import substitution tries to achieve the same aim by reigning in...
In the context of core-peripheral framework, discuss that country's experience from the colonial period to present by examining two influences of the Washington Consensus
Essay - 2 pages - World geography
The core-peripheral framework states that countries located in the periphery are dominated by North America, Western Europe and Japan. However, during the period of colonization, Europe was the core region whereas most other parts of world were the periphery regions. The case of Vietnam is...
Compare and contrast Americanization and globalization
Essay - 2 pages - World geography
Globalization is considered as Westernization or sometimes even as Americanization in some radical arguments. Will Hutton, author and chief executive of The Work Foundation, says that "globalization has increasingly become a cloak for the export of the American business model as the benchmark...
Three advantages and three disadvantages of export diversification
Essay - 2 pages - Geography
Chile is a recent example of a country whose economic policy is based on the industrialization of exports as Chile's economy took off in the midst of 1980s. This tremendous had huge consequences on its economy bringing positive changes is all its economic sectors. Before going into details,...
When the Japanese moved into Southeast Asia in 1941, local reactions to the occupying forces differed greatly. Evaluate the motivations that fueled these varying responses, taking into consideration particular local situations and periods of the war
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
Raising the question of the reactions to the Japanese takeover in Southeast Asia is very delicate and original for many reasons. Firstly, Southeast Asia is a broad region and it is most likely that the reactions of locals will differ greatly from one place to another. Secondly, there is not one...
What was the significance of the Thatcher years?
Essay - 3 pages - Modern history
Although the Thatcher years marked a significant break from the post-war political settlement, ‘Thatcherism did not cause a single, abrupt caesura appearing out of the blues'. Truly, Thatcher's success during her years has mostly depended on a range of circumstances and political commitments...
The Vietnamese in Poland - publié le 02/05/2007
Essay - 5 pages - World geography
"We have been living here for thirty years. It was a nice and quiet place. Now, we have all those people coming from somewhere we do not know..." . Those people „coming from somewhere we do not know ...” are in fact the Vietnamese immigrants who came with the new wave of immigration of...
The errors of the Puritans
Book review - 5 pages - Modern history
The document we're going to talk about today is a set of extracts from Richard Hooker's work Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity written in 1593 (the 3 dots suggest that they were cuts in the text). Actually, this is his main work and it consists of eight books that were published during the...
The Latino community in New York City
Essay - 4 pages - Geography
Traditionally, the media tend to focus their attention on the Latino migration in States such as Texas, California, New Mexico, in other words on southern states close to the Mexican border. The East Coast seems to be completely forgotten as if it remained the gateway of the Europeans into...
Does modern Britain owe much to the Normans?
Essay - 3 pages - Medieval history
“Apparently as the result of one day's fighting (14 October 1066), England received a new royal dynasty, a new aristocracy, a virtually new Church, a new art, a new architecture and a new language.”(DAVIES, 1976; 103). This sentence shows clearly the crucial influence of the Normans on...
Radicalization of the French Revolution, from 1789 to the end of 1794
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
The French Revolution is often depicted as a process of growing violence, underpinned by more and more radical theories. Indeed, a Manichean view often leads people to believe that France was peaceful in the beginning of 1789, and turned violent and radical in 1793. In other word, it is often...
The diplomacy of Vichy: June 1940 to November 1942
Essay - 9 pages - Modern history
The history of Vichy has been subjected to heated controversies since 1945. In the years that followed the liberation, most historians and politicians alleged that France had resisted to the German, and developed a myth, the “Resistantialisme”. This term implies that the majority of the...
The structure of the Terror locally and nationally
Essay - 3 pages - Modern history
The terror is often depicted as the most violent period of the French Revolution, and maybe of the French history. The terror is a regime set up by Robespierre and the Committee of public safety in the aftermath of the fall of the Girondins on the 2nd of June 1793. The committee of public safety...
To what extent is Brazil and its development typical of a country of South America?
Worksheets - 8 pages - World geography
In 1952 when the demographer Alfred Sauvy first used the expression “Third World” in an article titled “Three worlds, one planet” to designate the poor, recently decolonized countries or those due to soon break free of their colonized past, this new world struggled to define...
Industrial relations in the United States: A way from confrontation to cooperation - publié le 11/04/2007
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
The industrial relations characterize the employee-employers relation in a company. In the United States, the term “industrial relation” really appeared with the creation of the Commission on Industrial relations in 1912 after two leaders of the Structural Ironworkers Union killed...
