Discuss the origins of the French Revolution - economically, politically, socially, and ideologically - publié le 12/01/2009
Essay - 3 pages - Modern history
“Great revolutions which succeed make the causes which produced them disappear, and thus become incomprehensible because of their own success” (1), wrote Alexis de Tocqueville one hundred and fifty years ago. Yet, we will try all the same to understand what the origins of the French...
Community food security in North Minneapolis: Barriers and solutions
Essay - 11 pages - Geography
Despite an overwhelming amount of facts, studies, and annual reports proving the contrary, many people today continue to deny the existence of hunger in the United States. Middle-aged Americans will recall hearing their parents demanding them to “finish your dinner because there are people...
Impact of the French Revolution on 19th century France - publié le 12/01/2009
Essay - 9 pages - Modern history
It is quite difficult to discuss the impact of the French revolution on the French society for the country had difficulty accessing stability in the 19th century. Indeed the intervening decades witnessed four major upheavals: in the 1790s, 1830, 1848 and 1870, which brought a whole variety of...
The significance of the Magna Carta - published: 12/01/2009
Essay - 3 pages - Medieval history
The Magna Carta is a charter signed by King John in 1215, during the Middle Ages, a period organized around the system of feudalism. This text embodies an enormous advance politically speaking: it is the basis of the whole English institution. Nevertheless, to discuss the significance of such a...
Transition Macedonia - publié le 12/01/2009
Essay - 20 pages - Modern history
Throughout the centuries, the South-eastern corner of Europe has been the scene of many invasions and transcending civilizations. This left the trace of different cultures, religions and empires. One of the most evident cleavages in the region is religious cleavage between the Catholic Church,...
The government of the Iroquois - publié le 12/01/2009
Thesis - 9 pages - Modern history
The Iroquois confederation, also called the League of Nation was a confederation of five Nations. These Nations of Iroquois were the Mohawks, the Oneidas, the Onondagas, the Cayugas and the Senecas). A sixth Nation (the Tuscaroras) joined the confederation in the early eighteenth century. They...
Church and state controversy in the middles ages - publié le 09/01/2009
Thesis - 4 pages - Medieval history
The disputes between Ambrose and Theodosius, the Carolingian rebellious episcopacy and Louis the Pious, and Gregory VII and Henry IV led to a same conclusion; the three emperors did penance. We can view these disputes as different episodes at different times of a same thing; the struggle between...
What were the major impacts of World War One on British society?
Thesis - 6 pages - Modern history
One could argue that World War One did not have a huge impact on British society compared to the Second World War. However, the conflict was soon called the ‘Great War' in Britain, and it was the first time that the whole society was involved in the war effort. A new type of war had reached...
The civil rights movement - From counters to subs
Essay - 7 pages - Modern history
The Emancipation Proclamation abolished slavery (speech by Lincoln Sept.23nd 1862 ? 13th amendment in 1865); the 14th amendment declared everyone equal and the 15th gave the right to vote provided some very restrictive conditions were met. Between the Civil War and the 50's, however, the South...
From toleration to proscription: Christian Emperors' attitude toward Paganism in the Fourth Century - publié le 09/01/2009
Thesis - 7 pages - Ancient history
Constantine's conversion to Christianity in 312 at the battle of the Milvian Bridge is highly debated among scholars. There is on the other hand no doubt that the Roman population was widely pagan at that time and did not convert to Christianity overnight on October 28, 312. The fourth century AD...
History of mathematics in China - published: 09/01/2009
Thesis - 15 pages - Ancient history
“Chinese mathematics” was defined by Chinese in ancient times as the “art of calculation”. This art was both a practical and a spiritual one. Like in Europe, many traces of calculations and solutions of equations were found by archaeologists. Today, these archaeological...
What factors account for Hitler's rise to power?
Essay - 1 pages - Modern history
Adolf Hitler was born in 1889 in a small Austrian village called Braunau. Hitler always wanted to be an artist but he never was able to enter the Vienna Art Academy. Hitler left Austria for Munich in Germany because he thought that Vienna had too many foreigners. He fought the World War I with...
What was the economic situation of the United States in the early 1930's and how did Franklin Roosevelt attempt to deal with the crisis?
Essay - 2 pages - Modern history
In November 1932, when Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected president of the United States, the country was facing a severe depression that had started in October 1929 as a result of the Wall Street Stock crash. At the time of the election, the United States faced high unemployment and was...
How Japan imitated the Western powers in creating the Empire
Essay - 2 pages - Modern history
At the end of the 19th century, it was commonly believed that all successful modern powers had to expand overseas. It was clearly recognized that the international arena was controlled by the Western powers which were continuously struggling with one another for greater national strength. The...
Critical study: Comparing the reigns of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III
Essay - 6 pages - Medieval history
One of the most interesting periods of Egyptian history comes during the 18th Dynasty of the New Kingdom. In approximately 1479 B.C., the Egyptian Pharaoh Thutmose II died and, after a short dispute, was succeeded by his consort Hatshepsut who ruled as first between equals with her nephew...
The truths we cling to: Un-Americanism and the Dies Committee
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
What does it mean to be ‘un-American?' For most of the twentieth century, a congressional committee took upon itself the mission of defining that vague and often misused term. The committee went through different iterations and attacked different targets. By 1946, one thing was clear: the...
Slavery and politics in early America
Thesis - 6 pages - Modern history
The legal practice of slavery in the United States of America ended on December 6th, 1865 with the passage of the 13th amendment to the Constitution. In the wake of the terrible carnage of the American Civil War, people have tried to make sense over what the hundreds of thousands of lives were...
A critical study of Ramesses II: His contributions to Egypt as the last great pharaoh
Essay - 6 pages - Ancient history
The dictionary definition of “great” is: “of extraordinary powers; having unusual merit;” This definition fits with the interpretation of what it was to be great according to the pharaohs of the New Kingdom, especially those of the eighteenth and nineteenth dynasties. Sethos...
The effect of black soldiers in the Civil War
Essay - 9 pages - Modern history
Throughout the history of the United States, Africans and African-Americans have consistently been treated as second-class citizens. This prejudice is most apparent and appalling in the system of slavery that lasted for more than two hundred years in the United States. In the 1800's tensions over...
Ancient culture study: The pottery of Ancient Mesopotamia
Case study - 5 pages - Ancient history
The production of pottery can be considered one of the most important steps an early civilization can take. In point of fact, early societies are often distinguished by their development of pottery, such as the Pre-pottery Neolithic A and B periods are. After the introduction of pottery into...
The battle of Stalingrad 1942-1943
Essay - 9 pages - Modern history
The year is 1942. Nazi gains in the Soviet Union and North Africa have brought the Allies to the verge of destruction, while Japan continues to conquer island after island in the Pacific. Even Australia is in full panic mode, as occupied New Guinea seems likely to serve as the staging point for...
Ankara: The capital of Turkey
Essay - 8 pages - Geography
Some cities seem to go on forever, able to reappear in very different guises and characteristics from one era to another. Ankara is one such changeling. With its roots more than 4,000 years ago in the Bronze Age, it was a trading city to the Greeks, a regional capital for the Romans, a summer...
Critical analysis of the letter collection of Einhard - publié le 05/12/2008
Essay - 4 pages - Medieval history
During the Carolingian Renaissance, the practice of writing and collecting letters was promoted both by the advance in communications within the Carolingian empire and by the renewed interest in classical literature and learning . Einhard' letters are an example of such a revival, along with the...
Investigating the role of soil type, parcel proximity to village and the usage of manure in Nigerian land-use decisions ( with pictures and graphs )
Tutorials/exercises - 20 pages - Geography
Extensive areas in Sudano-Sahelian West Africa are experiencing increasing population densities and cultivation pressure, insecure land tenure, low annual rainfall amounts (500-800 mm/yr), and soil infertility, all of which affect local cropping decisions. This detrimental trend has resulted from...
The city of Alexandria - Egypt
Essay - 8 pages - Geography
An age-old eastern Mediterranean metropolis of nearly two and a half millennia, Alexandria is Egypt's second-largest city; an important, burgeoning industrial center; and the country's principal port. It also has survived as a romantic myth, as “the universal metropolis,” the city at...
Population aging in Canada
Essay - 7 pages - World geography
Like most of the other industrialized countries, Canada is currently facing the issue of population aging. Aging can be defined as the biological process of growing old. Yet, being a 'senior' is a social definition that will refer in this essay to being 65 years old or more. According to...
The city of Acre, Israel
Essay - 6 pages - Geography
Since ancient times, the gateway to Palestine has been considered the magni?cent harbor at Acre. Now a small Israeli city with a mixed population of Palestinians and Jews, Acre has for more than 4,000 years served the hinterland of southern Syria with access to the long-distance trade routes of...
Discovering Barbarian Europe
Essay - 7 pages - Geography
Almost everyone has seen a picture of Stonehenge, the famous circle of large upright stones in southern England. Yet very few people know that it was built in several stages over a period of more than a thousand years, starting nearly five thousand years ago. Most are unaware that it is...
The historical conditions for the emergence of youth in Italian society
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
To analyze history is to delve into a world of a complex mixture of social, political, economic, and technological interaction. Indeed, it is these elements that define and furthermore provide some form of a substantive characterization of the civilizations and societal structures that have...
The Jewish genocide: comparison of different testimonies soon after the Second World War
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
I chose to speak about death-camps, concentration camps such as Auschwitz, and particularly about Jewish genocide. Extermination camps were organized places. They were used to kill masses of people, especially Jews. 'Extermination camp' or 'concentration camp' are words used to...
