The Tet Offensive of 1968
Essay - 7 pages - Modern history
In the early hours of January 31 1968, nineteen specially trained Vietcong soldiers leapt from a taxi cab and a truck to attack the American Embassy in Saigon. At the same time all across South Vietnam, urban centers, providence capitals, and military installations were all coming under surprise...
Work and Property in the Founding Fathers' time and mind: The Republican vision of government seen through John Adams's Thoughts on Government and the Federalist Papers #10 and #51
Essay - 11 pages - Modern history
In opposition to the democratic vision stands another school of thought which is at the origin of the belief that America was never intended to be a democracy. It advocates mainly representation by the elites and a separation of powers, and we shall see what becomes of it in the context of the...
I Will Survive: How a Disco Hit Defined the Year 1979
Essay - 3 pages - Modern history
The oil crisis continued, unemployment remained high, Jimmy Carter's presidency suffered blow after demoralizing blow, disco was the popular music, movies were breaking new ground and television continued remained the number one form of entertainment and relaxation. America was faced with...
Timelines: Milestones since 1969 to 1940
Time lines - 5 pages - Modern history
This document summarizes the timeline of England's history. Some of the crucial years that witnessed path-breaking changes in the course of its development are: 1215 : Magna Carta by King John 1603: James I, a Scotsman, ascended the throne as Queen Elizabeth had no heir and England was...
The Role of ETA in the Basque Nationalist Movement and its Consequences
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
Following the recent ceasefire declared by ETA on 22nd March of this year (2006), never has it been more appropriate to look further into what the American Government has classified as one of the best-organised terrorist organisations in the world. In this essay I will explore the origins of ETA...
What were the causes of the Iconoclastic Movement in the Dutch Revolt (1559-1648)?
Tutorials/exercises - 5 pages - Medieval history
In this essay I will be treating the iconoclastic movement in the Netherlands (1566 - 1567) as the beginning of the Dutch Revolt. I will begin by examining the historical context of the Dutch Revolt, that is to say, the political, economic and social aspects of the Netherlands in the sixteenth...
Women: What Were They Doing?
Essay - 3 pages - Modern history
In the period precluding the 1700's, many different societies existed together and the future shape of the world was taking form. Christopher Columbus had discovered North America for Spain, Cortez had conquered the Aztecs, and Europeans began settling in American Colonies. Disease was killing...
Rosie the Riveter: Teaching High School Students about Women in World War II
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
As men enlisted in the armed services, and the need for more ships, and guns, and war supplies grew, the government focused on the recruitment of women to fill those jobs left open by men. The War Production Coordinating Committee commissioned artist, J. Howard Miller to create one of many...
The impact of oil in Alaska
Essay - 3 pages - Ancient history
The period in which the New Testament books have been written was marked by a very particular "cultural milieu? which was called Hellenism in reference to the form of Greek lifestyle and culture imposed by Alexander the Great upon the territories he conquered, in the 4rth century BCE. This...
Tension Through Melodies: Music of the Cold War
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
Music serves as a reflection of a society. When a society is prospering, the music is noticeably happier, such as the Big Band phenomenon in the roaring 20's. The same principle applies to a society going through rough times, such as jazz during the years of the Great Depression. The Cold War...
Communist Childhood: The Path to Disillusionment
Essay - 2 pages - Modern history
China in the mid-20th century was a country full of change. The country was transitioning from the rule of the nationalist KMT party to the communist CCP party. This change did not come easily and millions of lives were affected by it. Spider Eaters by Rae Yang is a memoir written about...
The Colonization and Independence of South Africa and Kenya
Essay - 3 pages - Modern history
Independence has been a struggle in the African continent since the first days of colonization. Africa has been territorialized since the days of Jesus, but was not heavily colonized until the Scramble for Africa. The Scramble, which took place during the late 1800s, involved several European...
The relationship the Finnish have with nature
Essay - 15 pages - World geography
Talking about Finland without mentioning the nature is like forgetting more than 188.000 sparkling lakes, putting away the dense forest and woodland areas fully covering 76 percent of the nation (27 in France), the lung and the pride of any Finnish. That's impossible! Whereas Finland was a rural...
Foreign Direct Investment in Estonia: Fostering the transition process?
Essay - 22 pages - World geography
Estonia, as a new member of the World Trade Organization and the European Union, has transitioned effectively to a modern market economy with strong ties to the West, including the pegging of its currency to the euro. The economy benefits from strong electronics and telecommunications sectors and...
Ecuadorian Immigration to the NY-Metro Area in the 1970s-80s
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
America has (nearly) always been the destination of choice for the world's migrants. Spanning an entire continent, the country has historically offered land, jobs, and tolerance to those who seek them. For South Americans especially, the United States had been attractive for its accessibility...
Ireland since 1800: In what way did the Lemass government represent a new phase of political and economic thought?
Essay - 7 pages - Modern history
Lemass was, like de Valera, a 1916 veteran, but he was seventeen years younger, and in many ways seemed to belong to a different generation. An Irish patriot as early as the age of 16, Lemass became a freedom fighter in the streets of Dublin, engaging the Easter Rising and other hostilities and...
Culture and Politics in Europe: Was there any place for women in the Republic of Letters ?
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
The Network of private correspondence between "Men of Letters", was, at the beginning, the Republic of Letters. The heiress of Erasmus and her colleagues developed it into a more complex and institutionalized organization. As a universal community of scientists and knowledge, the Republic of...
We still tend to see the nineteenth century as the century of urbanisation, modernisation, secularisation. It was probably more the century of the Virgin Mary
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
It is true that the nineteenth century is usually perceived as the century of urbanization, modernization and secularization. These phenomena, in truth, represent major features of this period. As the European population doubled, the Industrial Revolution laid down the economic pattern of the...
What, in your view, were the significant factors which brought about conflict in Northern Ireland?
Essay - 3 pages - Modern history
There seems to be a common feeling among the political and opinion leaders that some conflicts have last forever and will, somehow, always remain. This goes along with the assertion that some people can't overcome their ancient hatreds or differences, such as that between Israeli and...
The Easter rising
Essay - 6 pages - Modern history
Methodology: I have partly based my researches on an on-line exhibition of the National library of Ireland and on the BBC web site, which provides very interesting material. I thus hope that the perspective of the document, will not be biased (the National library material comes mainly from...
African American Children's Literature and the Quilting Trope
Case study - 6 pages - Modern history
African American children's literature is rich with significant themes and tropes that educators can effectively use to teach about important events, figures, and historical facts in a culturally sensitive way to a diverse classroom of students. It is extremely important that teachers have a...
Defining Republicanism
Essay - 9 pages - Modern history
When the Treaty of Paris officially ended the American Revolution in 1783, the new American citizens were faced with the challenge of forming a system of government that was functional, well structured, and non-oppressive. Over the course of six years, the former colonies searched for a...
The Colosseum
Essay - 5 pages - Medieval history
The Colosseum is one of the most famous buildings that are visited by millions every year. It was used for many events, and the most famous was the popular gladiator fights. It is a very complex building with high architectural methods used to build it. The exterior and the interior of the...
Neocolonialism and dependency in Latin America
Tutorials/exercises - 6 pages - Modern history
Latin American history is the story of on-and-off again exploitation; from being a colonial possession to a neo-colonial inferior. There have been very few periods in time that the continent has been able to develop without interference. By examining the origins and events that have occurred...
Spain in Latin America- Black & White legends
Essay - 5 pages - Medieval history
The Spanish empire was one of the largest empires in history and its own personal rise to power would coincide with the transition of power from the Asian continent to the European world. As colonial possessions lead to unprecedented wealth and conflicts between Spain and other European nations...
Andrews County Texas: History and Geography
Case study - 4 pages - Geography
On August 1875, the state legislature passed an act creating 54 new counties. One of them was Andrews County. This act caused the break-up of Bexar County, one of the larger counties, which encompassed most of the Southern Plains and the Panhandle. Upon completion of this act, most of the...
The October Crisis of 1970: Terror in Quebec
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
In October 1970, events took place in Canada that would draw the attention of the entire world. For the first time in its history as a country, terrorism would be brought right to the doorstep of the Canadian government by a radical left-wing organization called the Front de Libération du Québec...
The Australian ANZAC Legend
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
“The search for national character is one of the obsessive dead ends of Australian history (Alistair, 1997)”. Australians spent time searching for their national identity in the years following the 1901 Federation. The Great War posed exactly the opportunity Australia had been looking...
Ivan the Fourth: Leader, Conqueror, Murderer, Psychopath
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
In medieval Russia, specifically Moscow in the early sixteenth century, times were beginning to change. This period of Russian history saw the end of Appanage Rus and the beginning of the Muscovite state. This alteration in political organization was centred upon the rule of one of history's...
Was The Egyptian site of El-Amarna a City?
Essay - 3 pages - Medieval history
Since the dawn of the human race, humans have recognized the need to work together in order to ensure their survival. This mindset allowed for the development of hunter gatherer societies which eventually evolved into fixed communities. Eventually these small irrigation based communities grew...
