Disgrace, Desire, and Degradation: The Experience of Intrapersonal Reconciliation and Power Relations in Post Apartheid South Africa
Essay - 6 pages - Modern history
J.M. Coetzee uses the third person omniscient point of view to tell the story of the unraveling of David Lurie's career and the proceeding time he spends with his daughter, Lucy, in the rural areas of the Eastern Cape of South Africa. Through this point of view, Coetzee creates a voice that is...
Appeals to Ethos and Pathos in Eugene V. Debs' "Statement to the Court"
Essay - 3 pages - Modern history
In June of 1918, Eugene Victor Debs was arrested for a speech he gave in Canton, Ohio in which he criticized the United States government for its involvement in World War I. He publicly discouraged young men from enlisting in the armed forces and was arrested for violating the Sedition Act of...
Amsterdam presentation
Essay - 4 pages - World geography
Nowadays, Amsterdam, the Dutch capital, is a city well-known in all Europe, thanks to its great charm, due to the global architecture of the city and the inhabitants' conception of life. The town, which has been a famous trade center for four centuries, was built around a lot of canals, which...
Transnistria: An Unrecognized State, A Frozen Conflict
Essay - 4 pages - Geography
Transnistria, also known as the Pridnestrovskaya Moldavskaya Respublika (PMR), is a republic unrecognized by any government in the world. Lying on a narrow swath of land along the left bank of the Dniester River, the territory's leaders call it a republic. Transnistria has been declaring itself...
Mao Zedong and the People's Republic of China
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
Long considered one of the most fascinating leaders of the 20th century, Mao Zedong has been noted as both a visionary as well as a cruel killer. Before his communist reign as the leader of the People's Republic of China in 1949, China was in a state of political and economical turmoil....
Preparing the Great War: The Schlieffen Plan
Essay - 3 pages - Modern history
Between 1905 and 1914, due to the instability of Europe dominated by alliances, every country in Europe was preparing for the war and developing war plans and strategies, which had to suit their conceptions of the war. Germany, which was allied with Austria-Hungary (which had a poor army), feared...
Biography and history of Cleopatra
Essay - 8 pages - Ancient history
The story of Cleopatra is one of epic proportions. Fully of mystery, intrigue and intelligence, Cleopatra is considered one of the most prominent and powerful figures in history. Due to the "Hollywood-ification" of her life as well as legendary stories that have pervaded history, it is hard to...
Study of tourism phenomenon in Paris, France
Essay - 7 pages - Geography
What makes Paris the number one tourist destination in the world lies in the myriad cultural and historical landmarks that have not only shaped modern society, but continue to challenge and inspire those who will only be considered visitors. The most famous attributes of Paris are iconic and...
Morality in the Resistance: overview through "Your Name is Renee: Ruth Kapp Hartz's Story as a Hidden Child in Nazi-Occupied France", by Stacy Cretzmeyer
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
The 1940's will forever remain a significant period in French history. It was during this time that World War II occurred and Germany managed to take over three-fifths of mainland France. The remaining land became known as Vichy France. With such a strong a German presence and influence, even in...
Lenin: savior of the masses
Essay - 6 pages - Modern history
A radical attempts to change parts of a society. A leader revolutionizes an entire country. Few people can be called “saviors” (Gluzman), but Vladimir Lenin earned this title as well as others. Lenin not only addressed the problems of Russia, but also brought about a new era in...
The history of the Jagiellonian university: The history of Krakow
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
Since its foundation in 1364, the University of Krakow has known a destiny unique of its kind. It was the second university created in Central Europe after the one in Prague - created in 1348 - and before many others afterward like in Vienna (1365), Pécs (1367), and Erfurt (1379). All along the...
Romania - publié le 08/02/2008
Essay - 3 pages - World geography
Romania is the old roman province of Dacie created in the II nd century. Since the IIIrd century, it was invaded but the farmers went to the mountains and kept their latin language and traditions. Between the Xth and the XIIIth, Orthodox principalities were created. Until the XVIIth century,...
Book review: Down and Out in Paris and London, by G. Orwell
Book review - 2 pages - Modern history
In the late 1920s, a young and well-educated Englishman was confronted with the hardships that a penniless existence in two European capital cities, namely Paris and London, involved. Through the account of the Englishman's life, the reader can get a quite faithful image of what it was like...
Is "To Kill a Mockingbird" (by Harper Lee) a novel about racism?
Book review - 4 pages - Modern history
Writing To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee has chosen to make a description of the Deep South during the Great Depression of the 30's through the eyes of a young girl, leaving us uncertain about the qualification of this novel. Indeed, reading the biography of the author, the reader realizes that...
What historical factors played the greatest role in defining the Arab society and culture since the eighteenth century?
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
From the seventh to the eighteenth century, the Arab World has formed a large area regrouping a Muslim population, sharing a common religion and culture. In different parts of the Islamic World, Islam was the bound between the Umma. Since the fourteenth century, the main part of the Arab world...
What does historical research tell us about the social character and ideas of the Parisian sans-culotte?
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
With his ?Phrygians cap' also called ?bonnet rouge' or the ?cap of liberty'; his blue-white-red striped long-trousers, his carmagnole (short-skirted coat) and his sabots (wooden shoes) characterized the Parisian sans-culotte who was one of the most famous, symbolic active figures of...
Describe the foreign policy principles that John Quincy Adams embedded in what became known as the Monroe Doctrine. What pre-existing U.S. traditions and specific events of the 1820's persuaded Adams and Monroe that those principles were both idealistic
Essay - 3 pages - Modern history
"We, the United States of America, should consider any attempt by the European powers to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as a threat to our peace and safety". Those were the words of President Monroe when he delivered his annual speech to Congress, on December 2, 1823. The...
What U.S. traditions, apparent lessons of history, contemporary crises, or other factors account for Woodrow Wilson's failure to win Senate ratification of the Treaty of Versailles?
Essay - 3 pages - Modern history
"I have loved but one flag and I cannot share that devotion and give affection to the mongrel banner invented for a league. The United States is the world's best hope, but if you fetter her in the interests and quarrels of other nations, if you tangle her in the intrigues of Europe, you will...
What is the connection between sugar and the emergence of a black slave labor force in the Americas?
Essay - 3 pages - Modern history
Sugar production is definitely essential to understand Black slave trade between Africa and America. While referring to American slavery, one often thinks about the old American cotton plantations in the south. Nevertheless, sugar played a significant role than other productions like cotton or...
How have enslaved peoples been able to resist slavery and what forces have shaped the forms of that resistance?
Essay - 2 pages - Modern history
The institution of slavery was particularly humiliating and dehumanizing for those who had to endure it, therefore slaves have constantly resisted throughout history. Resistance can be defined as "an organized collective action, which aims at affecting the distribution of power in a community.?...
What has been the relationship between slavery and economic development in the past four centuries?
Essay - 2 pages - Modern history
Most of the developed countries in the present era were once slave owners and slave traders, whereas many current developing countries represented potential sources of coerced labor force. Slave trade and the triangular trade might help to understand some evolutions that have occurred during the...
Was slavery ever able to survive without a slave trade? Why were slave families possible and what form did they take?
Essay - 2 pages - Modern history
Slave trade seems to have existed in every slave system or slave society. Indeed, the transatlantic trade might be an exceptional phenomenon with its ten million victims in a few centuries but it is not the single one to have occurred in the History: "Long before the development of the...
China and the Chairman
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
On September 9th 1976 came the death of perhaps the most influential and feared leader in the history of the modern world. As visionary and well regarded as any Pope, and as reviled and hated as much as Hitler, there is no questioning the enormous influence that Chairman Mao has had on China....
The foreign policy of Théophile Delcassé and the construction of a French alliance network
Essay - 6 pages - Modern history
In the beginning of the 20th century, France appeared to be a great and a powerful nation in Europe. She had two main preoccupations concerning her foreign policy: on one hand France wanted to reinforce and expand her colonial Empire; on the other hand she had the will to maintain and strengthen...
Russian Jews of the Nineteenth Century
Essay - 3 pages - Modern history
Throughout present day American history there have been many differing views on the Eastern European and Russian Jews as a people and the ways in which they have affected American society. Although often looked down upon, Russian Jews have actually contributed a great deal to the economic growth...
The Federalists vs. the Anti-Federalists
Essay - 2 pages - Modern history
When the United States Constitution was first being written there was a critical division between two groups called the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists. The Federalists opposed the Constitution and believed in a loose construction of government. The Anti- Federalists, on the other hand,...
The emancipation proclamation
Essay - 3 pages - Modern history
President Abraham Lincoln entered the war in order to preserve the union of the United States rather than to abolish slavery. Indeed, he repeatedly emphasized that his paramount objective in the war was to save the union, not to free the slaves. However, Lincoln has been such pressured by...
The Americanization of Puerto Rico and Its Effect on Law, Religion, and the Spanish Language
Essay - 6 pages - Modern history
According to material provided by the Hispanic division of the library of congress, by the end of the 1800's, Puerto Rico held strategic value for the United States, for both economic and military reasons. Puerto Rico would provide a new market for exported American goods, as well as a strategic...
Fidel Castro
Essay - 2 pages - Modern history
Fidel Castro came into power in Cuba on January 1, 1959. He obtained power through a 25-month revolution. Despite the use of guerilla warfare, the revolution was fairly bloodless. By this time Castro was a beloved figure in Cuba, regarded as a national hero. According to Sebastian Balfour's work...
How useful is Friedrich and Brzezinski's 'totalitarian model' for understanding the Soviet system both during and after the Stalin period?
Book review - 6 pages - Modern history
In 1918, Lenin affirmed that the « Soviet power is a new type of state, in which there is no bureaucracy, no police, no standing army, and in which bourgeois democracy is replaced by a new democracy - a democracy which brings to the forefront the vanguard of the toiling masses, turning them into...
