Books Essays

            In the book, (Karwoski, 2004), “Quake: Disaster in San Francisco, 1906” by author Gail Karwoski, we read a story about a young boy by the name of Jacob Kaufman, who is the age of thirteen, living in the year, 1906 in San Francisco.             Jacob lives with his sister …

Everything started when Eastern Europeans grew tired of the restrictive communist government they were in and started wanting to have a democratic government similar to that of western countries. From 1956 until the final downfall of the soviets, there were various strikes and revolutions that served as calls for a …

As a result of his exposure into democracy, Ulysses S. Grant stood for it in the sense that he grow up in the middle of it and knew how it worked. He doesn’t believe in proper ordering of human society but for a chance of every individual to show how …

After becoming the first Republican elected Mayor of the City of New York in 1993, Rudolph Giuliani’s term was put into test when the United Stated suffered the worst terrorist attack on September 11, 2001. Fortunately for the people of New York City, their mayor has been working on his …

This article examines the effects of various motivations and demotivations pertaining to the use of force by American Policy-Makers. The article presents a case study of U.S. reaction to a foreign crisis in Somalia in 1991. The military response to the situation was called “Operation Restore Hope”. The author observes …

Ellen White’s Desire of Ages in 1898 became the continental divide for the Adventist comprehension of the Trinity. In the very first paragraph of the book, she called into question the prevalent opinion of early Adventists concerning the relationship of Christ to the Father. Her third sentence in chapter 1 …

James Madison, in his 10th Federalist Paper, identified factions as an evil that may cause destruction to a government. By faction, he means “a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or …

The short story “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway seems absurd reading it for the first time. It is a story of an American man and a woman who are discussing about some things while waiting for a train bound to Madrid at a train station in the Ebro …

Czech Republic is in Central Europe and South East of Germany. Initially it formed the western part of the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic. Czech and Slovak had remained united for more than 75 years but they split in January 1993 to form two separate states. Since the spilt that …

Economic growth varies from economic development due to the fact that it only entails the positive movement of a country’s GDP while economic development embraces other aspects in addition to economic growth. Economic development tends to focus on the quality of life of individuals while economic growth focuses more on …