Essays on Historical Figures
The Confessions of Nat Turner provide insight into Nat Turner’s ideology for the rebellion. He stood up for what he believed in and fought for the rights of everyone even while he was in custody. No one knows for sure why Nat answered Thomas R. Gray’s questions while in his cell. However, many suspect it...
Sir Winston Churchill (1874 – 1965) mobilised the English language to stiffen the sinews of a nation facing terrible defeat and the prospect of a long war. Churchill is accredited with, and subsequently known for, pulling the United Kingdom through World War Two. Yet, it is this indispensable achievement that obscures so much else about...
‘Nationalism’ has once again become a rising movement in the world politics with politicians that are considered to be ‘nationalists’ assuming power in many countries; Donald Trump in the United States of America, Narendra Modi in India, Boris Johnson in the Great Britain could be named as examples. Nationalism is an ideology that emphasizes loyalty...
Russia’s Soviet and Imperial legacy, and its notorious figures such as Stalin and the Romanovs have, in my opinion, greatly hindered the development of genuine democracy in Post-Soviet Russia. Democratisation is when a country introduces democratic principles such as: free elections, freedom of the press and freedom of speech. From what we can see in...
Winston Churchill was born into a well-recognised military and political family in 1874. After serving as a military officer in three campaigns and also as a war correspondent he developed skills that set him on the road to greatness. Many of the qualities that would help save Britain from the Nazi invasion 40 years later...
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is known to the world as Mahatma Gandhi and Father of the Nation through the outstanding contribution to the humanity. Like all great men in the annuls of history, he was a man of paradoxes, contradictions, prejudices, peculiarities but against these human frailties, he was standing as a colossus in the political...
