History is the study of change over time, and it covers all aspects of human society. Politician,Social, economic, scientific, technological, medical, cultural, intellectual, religious and military. The developments are all part of history. Professional historians usually specialize in a particular aspect of History, a specific time period, a specific approach to a date or a specific geographic area. The word ‘history’ has many meanings. It can mean everything that happened in the past. This isn’t very useful, because until we...
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The events in the aftermath of World War 1 had unquestionably contributed to the development of the Holocaust and the degree of the contribution of the event was extensive. Germany took the worst hit from the aftermath of the war. The Holocaust was a horrific occurrence that happened during 1941 – 1945 and resulted in the death of 6 million Jews. The main events that contributed to the Holocaust were The Weimar Republic, the Treaty of Versailles, Concentration Camps, and...
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The Great Depression began during the year 1929, when the Canadian stock market crashed, wiping out hundreds of millions of dollars in the span of 4 days. The crash was the beginning of what led to a long decade of misery. There are numerous ways in which Canadian lives have been affected. Canada’s poverty and unemployment rate increased due to the Great Depression. The Great Depression caused a negative impact on Canada’s population causing it to decrease. It also affected...
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Discrimination is a form of prejudice against different groups of people. One event in American history that illustrates discrimination and unfair treatment toward a certain group of people was the signing of Executive Order 9066 which affected the Japanese-Americans during World War II. On December 7, 1941, two years after the start of World War Ⅱ, there was an attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese Navy Air Service. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the President of the USA, called the...
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Propaganda is a simple but very effective tool used throughout history. This simple term turned winning sides into wars. What is little known, is how it is used and what made it so effective. Let’s dive deeper into World War 2 where one of the biggest impacts, of propaganda, takes place. This is one of the first major wars in which propaganda was heavily used and affected so many. Propaganda strongly influenced the American people, and the American soldiers’ support...
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The two deadliest wars in human history, World War 1 and World War 2 had a significant impact on the prevailing world powers of the day. Although the wars have many similarities, they were different in many ways due to their direct causes, execution, and global impact. Prior to World War 1, political developments such as the shifting of powers, European competition for material resources in Africa and Asia, increases in mutual alliances, and the arms race contributed to the...
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For centuries, designers have been using visual art to express their feelings, inform others, and communicate with the masses to spread their message. Evidence of visual art can be traced back to the prehistoric Era, where pictographs were painted on cave walls to convey information to one another as seen in the Magura Cave in France depicting animals, humans, and other artifacts (European Regional Development Fund, 2019). Yet, in graphic design, nothing can be more aesthetically and visually appealing than...
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During the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen were both extremely influential authors. In their works, they both shared a reoccurring message of black uplift as both sought to uplift the black community; however, their belief in the most effective approach to achieve and promote this message was very different. Because of this, the two are often compared and contrasted. While Cullen believed the most effective approach was to demonstrate the intellectual capabilities of the black community and prove...
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President Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous address, “The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions”, on January 27, 1838, at a juncture during which our country was amidst immense national strife. America’s Founding Fathers who had established the country had passed, and in their absence, the once idealistic nation of America had transformed and fallen into a place of violence, rioting, and turmoil, effectively leaving the fundamental principles of our country behind. In light of these events, Lincoln delivered his speech, more...
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“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader” As stated by John Quincy Adams, “Leaders are the people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.” Leaders are the ones who do not order their sub-coordinates but work with them together to achieve the predetermined goals of an organization. They work together to bring out the best in the sub-coordinates and motivate them to bring...
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The Harlem Renaissance is following racial injustice and in the play, it shows that. When Mr.Lindner showed up at the Youngers home he tried to convince them not to move into the new home because they would be the first “African American” family to move into that neighborhood. Although he tried to make his statement convincing and non-threatening, he still offended them when they figured out he was there to make them leave. Although they were not going to cause...
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Lincoln was a man that protected the Union and delivered the Emancipation Proclamation. Abe was born in meek surroundings, an insignificant log cabin with dirt floors in Hardin County, Kentucky. Rural farm life was backbreaking and tiring on the American frontiers during the early 1800s. Farm chores, hard work, and reading in the fireplace light extended adolescent Abe’s life until he became a juvenile. Abe was convinced that this life his father made for them wasn’t the world he wanted...
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Ayana Mathis once said, “If there had never been the Great Migration there would never have been jazz, there would never have been Michelle Obama. A lot of amazing black people exist in this country because of the Great Migration. That’s nation-building.” Ayana Mathis is an African American author who has written a few books on the Great Migration, like The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, so she has a good understanding of the topic. In Mathis’s words, the Great Migration...
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Home to Harlem sold eleven thousand copies in the first two weeks of its publication, fifty thousand during its first year, and was the first best-seller written by a black writer in America. Nevertheless, its depiction of lower-class Harlemites did appall some of the American black leaders, most notoriously W.E.B. Du Bois. In his 1928 Crisis review, he wrote of Home to Harlem: ‘After the dirtier parts of its filth I feel distinctly like taking a bath’ (359). For DuBois...
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The Great Gatsby is a commentary on life in the 1920s as it pertains to prohibition and the racial injustice facing African Americans. It provides several instances of the underground use of alcohol and the general feeling of superiority among white people. F. Scott Fitzgerald uses Tom Buchanan to portray the way that many white people believed that African Americans were not equal to them. On many occasions, people drink and serve alcohol openly, showing how prohibition had little to...
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Currently, a persistent and highly structured racial hierarchy exists in the United States. Such a hierarchy has been central in the country’s political development, from the country’s founding, the longevity of African American slavery and Native American genocide, and the existence of Jim Crow laws and immigrant social segregation. The civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s fought against oppressive and legal racial exclusions. Because racial exclusions persisted throughout the 1970s, race-conscious policies (affirmative action procedures) were enacted in...
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In this essay, four main points will be discussed. The first will be ‘Was the dropping of the atomic bombs justified?’ and the second, ‘What were the 3 major causes of WW2? Justify your choices, the third is ‘Why did the Japanese people support the leadership of Hitler or Hirohito?’ and finally, ‘Why did the German people do nothing to stop the Holocaust?’ Was the dropping of the atomic bombs justified? Consider both sides of the argument. In the final...
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The Harlem Renaissance was a time period when African Americans moved to Harlem, New York to be themselves and express their culture through literature, music stage, performance, and art. The Renaissance occurred from 1918 to the mid-1930s. In Mother to Son, the author depicts the struggle an African American mother faced with oppression and prejudice throughout her life. In the poem the mother is talking to her son to prepare him for the difficult future he has ahead of him...
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Lincoln directed by Steven Spielberg, was made not too long ago in 2012. Because this film was produced relatively recently, the production quality was obviously more advanced than other movies about the civil war. Using more developed technology, props, costumes, etc. the portrayal of the time period of the 1860s was very accurate. The sets did very much look like they were shot in the 1860s, especially with the old decor in the white house and all the horse carriages...
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The French Revolution was a war fought between the people of France and their monarchy. It began in 1789 and finished in the late 1790s. The French had decided that they didn’t like the way they were ruled, and aspired to be like America, which had its own revolution years before against England and built its own government system. The execution of Louis XVI created dividing thoughts and reactions across the country. Because of this, and other reasons, some of...
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The Industrial Revolution began in Britain in the 18th century. But how did it start and why did it happen in Britain and not in France, Germany, or the United States? In this essay, I will try to answer these questions. In the 18th century, wood was the main source of energy for Britain and it supplied fuel for homes and small industries, but as the population increased, the demand for wood increased. At the same time, wood is bulky,...
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From a dominating empire to a declining power, many have attempted to declare a single factor behind the Western Roman Empire’s collapse. Rome’s imperialist grand strategy may have thrived in the 1st-3rd centuries, but it lacked sustainability, the Empire’s internal issues weakening its function until its defeat by Germanic forces in 476 AD. Modern scholars now generally agree that a multidisciplinary approach assessing a multitude of factors is necessary to define Rome’s fall. As Middleton notes, all great states at...
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An enduring issue is an issue that exists over time. It is one that many societies have attempted to address with varying degrees of success. An enduring issue that has existed throughout the world is corrupt rulers. It first appears to impact the world during the Classical era and still impacts the world to this day. Corrupt rulers have affected a lot of people negatively and have led to many problems, including the oppression of people and religion, exhibiting total...
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During medieval times in Europe, the only religion to be recognized was that of Christianity particularly the Catholic faith. The lives of both men and women were undeniably dominated and defined by the Christian faith. It matters not what tier or status you have, you still fall under Christian religious dominance. The lives of many, no matter what occupation we’re dedicated to, follow Christianity. Many monasteries and institutions were created for support and worship and thus gaining more wealth and...
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The history of science is vast and varied, and yet there exists a particular, universal theme: the use of the advancement of knowledge (or restriction of it) to increase power. The word ‘power’ can have numerous connotations, but this essay will focus on just three definitions. Firstly, the power of individuals, either over citizens or of citizens, secondly the ‘imperial’ power of countries competing for supremacy in the world, and finally the power of humankind over nature – our ability...
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A brave woman, Rosa Parks played a key role in starting the civil rights movement for African Americans. Rosa Parks lived in Montgomery, Alabama, a city with a reputation as the first pro-slavery capital of the Confederacy during the American Civil War. Rosa Parks, a seamstress at a downtown department store, had a prior history as a civil rights campaigner, having served as a youth organizer for the local branch of America’s oldest and most effective civil rights organization, the...
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Imagine yourself sitting in a fairly dark and crowded room. There are hundreds of seats occupied by people around you. A stage lies in front of you, filled with actors, lights, music, and different sound effects to set the mood of the play. A combination of these accommodations has let viewers grasp the performance actors have been portraying. However, it hasn’t always been easy to enjoy these theatrical performances. Times have changed since ancient Athenian theater, however, that’s not to...
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How did life look like 100 years ago? What changed in only one century? There are many differences between the lifestyles of 1900 and today, but which are the most memorable and the main distinctions? First, it is worth mentioning how the cost of living changed throughout the years. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Consumer Price Index, prices in 1900 were 2.95% less than in 2019. The U.S. dollar experienced an average inflation rate of around 2.91% per...
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Two Americas: one of economic opportunity, prosperity, and equality, and the other of the ugliness of discrimination and poverty. This was the ever-present theme in the atmosphere of the 1950s and 60s. Three weeks before his assassination, Martin Luther King prominently and correctly claimed that America has failed to hear that the plight of the negro poor has worsened, the promises of justice and freedom have not been met, and white society is more concerned about tranquility and the status...
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The aim of the Treaty of Versailles was to blame Germany for starting the gruesome war and impose harsh penalties in terms of loss of territories. Far from the “peace without victory” that U.S. President Woodrow Wilson had outlined in his famous Fourteen Points in early 1918, the Treaty of Versailles humiliate Germany while failing to resolve the underlying issues that had led to war in the first place. The short-term French reaction after 1871 was Revanchism: a sense of...
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