History Essays

Samurai are a group of powerful warriors that existed in Japan until the late 1800’s. In the film “The Last Samurai” we have the opportunity to learn more about the positive characteristics of them. Samurai is very compassionate and they humbly express that emotion. Perhaps the most important trait of …

During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the new nation known as the United States of America began to develop plans to improve transportation into the interior and beyond the great physical barrier of the Appalachian Mountains. A major goal was to link Lake Erie and the other Great …

I. Do you believe the Bastille was stormed to set prisoners free, because it was a symbol of oppression, or was it the first step to overthrow the French Monarchy? II. What is the difference between a revolt and revolution? Explain. According to the English dictionary, a revolt is a …

Successor: His grandson, Kublai Khan who expanded the empire till it reached central Europe and the Middle East. Children: He had four children; Ogedei Khan, Jochi, Tolui Borjigin, Chagatai Khan. Siblings: Genghis Khan had three full brothers; Jochi khasar(Jochi senior) Temuge, and Khajun. He also had two step brothers, one …

The problems started on October 24th 1929 when the stock market started to crash, this day is also known as Black Tuesday. On October 29th The Stock Market went down another 12%, this was the final blow that led to the Great Depression. People lost there jobs which led to …

Even much before the arrival of cinema, the people of Kerala were familiar with moving images on the screen through the traditional art form ‘tholpavakkuthu’ (Puppet Dance). Usually exhibited at festivals of village temples, ‘tholpavakkuthu’ uses puppets made of leather with flexible joints. These joints are moved using sticks and …

History is a subject which allows someone to think and analyse things & this topic brought out that ability. The Haitian Revolution was a slave revolt in the French colony of Saint-Domingue, which occurred on August 23, 1791 to 1804. This Revolt was the only slave revolt which led to …

“Young man, what we meant in going for those Redcoats was this: we always had been free, and we meant to be free always. They don’t mean we should” (Levi Preston, 1842, Doc. 10). Levi Preston was a veteran of the American Revolution who, when interviewed by historian Mellen Chamberlain, …

For O. Henry, the short story was not just a literary act of communicating his artistic imagination, but also a vehicle to explore the extreme possibilities of such an endeavor. His stories are characterized by extreme unpredictability, transforming the genre into an active, pulsating living presence.”The Cactus” is no exception. …

When information was first brought to the attention of worlds’ people, it was a machine that many feared would end our planet as we knew it. But the truth is, the Large Hadron Collider is forever changing the way we study physics using its’ six different particle detectors to give …