History Essays

Shigeo Fukuda was born in Tokyo, Japan in February of 1932 he unfortunately passed at the age of 76 from a stroke, on January 11, 2009 in his hometown of Tokyo. He was mostly known for his antiwar and environmental advocacy posters. He was an expert in conveying a message …

Sparta taught its people for only practical reasons. All their education was directed toward prompt obedience to authority. I believe Sparta is the best place to live in the world. Sparta offers women more freedom. Some people think that the Spartan government is cruel. Sparta is feared by other city-states …

In 2004, Sprint and Nextel agreed to a merger worth $35.17 billion dollars. This move took place in a time where mergers were prevalent in the field of telecommunications. “Team up or get smashed” was advice given in a 2004 Business Week article. Prior to the merge, Cingular acquired AT&T, …

In the late 1800’s the 18th amendment was created. This began the prohibition era. This meant that the production, sell, and consumption of alcoholic products were illegal. This was a big problem for many people in the United States because a large percentage of these people drank alcohol. Following the …

Romanticism is the only literary movement exhibits a wide variety of art, literature and intellect in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This movement has been a topic of ample disagreements over its defining ideologies and aesthetics. It can best be described as a large network of sometimes competing philosophies, agendas, …

Sven Lindqvist’s “Exterminate all the Brutes” explores the idea that genocides have been deeply rooted in European thinking over the last century. It is written in the form of a travel dairy and a historical examination of European racism over the past two centuries. Lindqvist argues that the harrowing racism …

Significance of the Ionian revolt as a result of the Persian wars. The Ionian Revolt which began in 499BC was the beginning of a chain of events that changed the ancient world, and constituted the first major conflict between Greece and the Persian Empire. It was primarily of significance as …

As I finished eating the last delicious morsel on my plate, I looked around and admired the old wooden chuck wagons, and the tables that sat in front of them stacked two feet high with steaming hot pancakes. The people, who stood in lines waiting to be served, were moved …

Could whites and Indians have lived peaceably in the trans-Mississippi West? I do not think that the whites and Indians could have lived peacefully in the trans-Mississippi West. I believe this is because of the ways the Indians were living and hunting. Also with how the whites were not concerned …

Algebra may divided into “classical algebra” (equation solving or “find the unknown number” problems) and “abstract algebra”, also called “modern algebra” (the study of groups, rings, and fields). Classical algebra has been developed over a period of 4000 years. Abstract algebra has only appeared in the last 200 years. The …