History Essays

Every time I have gone to a Wal-Mart, and stood next to break room or chatting around the water cooler, I have observed the conversation for a few minutes of Wal-Mart employees. Many of workers mention they are tired, stressed out, need a vacation, and other complaints of how they …

“That history should have imitated history was already sufficiently astonishing; that history should imitate literature is inconceivable. . . .” Plot Summary & Historical Background: Settings – The Narrative is set in Ireland in 1824. However Borges is only using this as an example. He says ” The action takes …

The “pioneer generation” of the Renaissance artists was generally considered to be the painter Masaccio, the sculptor Donatello, and the architect Brunelleschi. They applied Humanist thinking to art by using the styles of the classical world, instead of their immediate past, to depict the world around them in a naturalistic …

Power is a theme that has dominated mankind since history was recorded. The assassination of Julius Caesar, ruler of the greatest empire the world has ever known, was a result of such a struggle for power. The foundations of Shakespeare’s ‘Julius Caesar’ are power relationships which dominate the liaisons between …

Imperialism of Africa and Asia had both good and bad effects. The people of Africa and Asia may not have directly benefited from imperialism, but overall what happened was necessary for the continents to compete with the rest of the world. The African people benefited when the slave trade was …

To borrow means ‘to take and use something that belongs to somebody else, and return it to them at a later time.’But is this as clear as it’s presented in the dictionary? Does this action lead to unpleasurable consequences? Borrowing is a doomed cause. It ends with its beginning, like …

When an area is settled for the first time, there are certain things that shape the development of the land and the people who settle it. From the 1840’s to the 1890’s, the natural environment, among other things, shaped the development of the West beyond the Mississippi River and the …

The First Triumvirate between Gaius Julius Caesar, Gnaius Pompeius Magnus (Pompey) and Marcus Licinius Crassus contributed to the fall of the Roman Republic by undermining the Senate, which was unable to effectively deal with an expanding and diverse empire. This was affected by the triumvirate appealing directly to popular assemblies, …

September 27, 2001 English The Crucible Pride, a simple five letter word that has played an important role throughout the history of man kind. The word pride caused ancient Egyptians to make amazing monuments like pyramids and golden tombs, it caused the French to build a world known monument, the …

The civilization of classical Greece and China has a lot to compare and contrast. Though formulated in different region and climate with different ancestors, they have some points in common; yet, there are also marked differences. Both civilizations had developed empires. The Greek’s political approach shares some similarities with the …