History Essays

When we look at the meaning of dreams in today’s society we find a variation of things. Some believe dreams are based on the subconscious desires; an example of such would be getting a kiss from a female you think is beautiful on television. Dreams are a reflection of people’s …

The Great Fear, or Le Grand Peur, of 1789 conducted the French Revolution from Bastille and Paris to the provinces, thereby creating a national insurrection against the powers that be. The French peasants mistrusted Parisians and were by no means willing allies of Parisians in 1789. Moreover, as soon as …

The n-Queens Problem History and Theories Behind the n-Queens Problem It has been said that Carl Gauss first introduced the n-queens problem in the year 1850.  The objective of this problem is to find a placement of n queens on an n×n chessboard, so that no one queen can be …

            The Last Battle, the seventh and final book of The Chronicles of Narnia series written by C.S. Lewis is about the last battle of Narnia against evil and the conclusion to the marvelous story of the land of Narnia. The Last Battle deals with loyalty and treachery but in …

            Founded in 1924, Huff Daland Dusters began as a crop dusting service in Macon Georgia. Once moving to Monroe Louisiana in 1925, the modest crop dusting company was taken over by the former vice president C.E. Woolman and two partners. That was the beginning of what would become the …

Introduction The Great Depression was a by-product of the roaring twenties. During the 1920’s the United States economy flourished and the American people spent money freely. In October of 1929 the free spending ended. The stock market suddenly crashed and people throughout the United States were affected. There were four …

The story of Gilgamesh is a Babylonian epic poem, which is collection of Sumerian legends and poems about the mythological hero-king Gilgamesh, ruler in third Millennium B.C. It is known as the earliest surviving epic poem along with Homer’s “Iliad” and Odyssey,” Virgils “Aeneid” as well as “Beowulf” and has …

From a historical perspective villainy is as old as mankind itself. The nature of villainy is also to a great extent influenced by zeitgeist or spirit of the age. In Greek mythology the distinction between the hero and villain is not very clear-cut. Hercules, for example, had strength and courage, …

Introduction             The term “Jazz” has become a common part of the American vernacular, both as a noun to describe a type of music and as a verb to describe something that is fancy or enhanced beyond the norm, such as a “jazzed up” car or even another piece of …

The Black Plague of the Middle Ages is thought to have originated in India about 1332,[1]  but this is not certain.  There were reports of bubonic Plague outbreaks in China prior to that date.[2]  In the 1330’s, unusually dry, windy weather caused Chinese nomads to migrate in search of food …