Essays on History

In Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s famous I Have a Dream speech he displays an extraordinary use of parallelism, repetition, and a crescendo ending to exhibit a message of hope, peace, and progress to America and the black community. As one of the most famous speeches in American history, this speech ushered an already tired...

The United States was in a war against itself and the nation was divided between the North and Southside. The Northern and Southern states had different thoughts and beliefs during this time, which was one of the main causes of the Civil War. This war was also known as the bloodiest four years of war...

John Adams was born on October 30, 1735, in Massachusetts. The environment that John Adams grew up in was a farm that was not too far from Boston. His father much like John had more than one job he was a shoemaker and farmer for their community and worked helping in their church. Susanna Boylston,...

“A beautiful woman, uses her lips for truth, her voice for kindness, her ears for compassion, her hands for charity, and her heart for love. For those who don’t like her, she uses prayer” (Sharifahnor). The above quotes in its least complexity, and most simplicity, describe the jobs of each distinct, intricate, dissection of a...

H.G Wells is known for his wide variety of political writings, his novels and stories, and his very committed stance as a socialist. John Partington wrote about Wells’s political stance as a socialist and how it helped with the “abolition of class barriers’,” and helped “free competition between individuals in society regardless of their social...

The sculpture Icarus has always been one that I have been drawn to. The appearance of the figure along with its perfect placement has always provoked thought and entertained me. The steel sculpture, carved, hammered, and welded by Russell Whiting is my favorite of the River Gallery Sculpture Gardens’ exhibits. It is presumably based on...

Abstract It is fact that in present society, disagreement and strife on all sides terrorize independence. The concept of violence free peaceful world is destroying by cancerous elements like disruptive behaviour, indiscrimination, intolerance and narrow-mindedness. Only peace, conflict free mind, knowledge, understanding, critical thinking and kindness are potential instruments for tuning the mind sets of...

Back in the late 1700’s and early 1800’s Spain governed and controlled most of Latin America. One of Spain’s largest ruled areas was the Río de la Plata, which was a viceroyalty loyal to the Spanish Crown. The Río de la Plata was the region that is modern day Argentina. In the early 1800’s Spain...

In this essay will be talking about the feminist movement and how it had/has influence the social policy, I’ll be talking about how it was formed and why it was formed and how it still plays a part in our lives now. I’ll also be focusing on how the Treaty of Waitangi has influenced the...

Both films for this discussion entitled Ben Hur and Gladiator portray Rome as a state and empire. I found that this was more so the case with Gladiator rather than with Ben Hur. The portrayal of the Roman characters and Rome itself being in a negative or positive light depends on a few different things....