Propaganda throughout history

Propaganda is a strategic tool to spread certain negative information to a selected community, where its objectives are to do damages to the opposing enemy. It is a political manoeuvre, where ideology will be used to create a political agenda, the information can be truth or untruth or even baseless allegations. It’s a method to … Read more

Hammurabi and Moses: Law as a Mirror of Civilization

1) How did ancient law codes, such as Hammurabi’s, come into existence? The collection of law codes, like ideas customs, and material things, occur over a long period of. time. Traditions are passed on through social and political structure eventually formalizing into organized laws. 2) Why do we study ancient law codes? What can they … Read more

Opposition to Nazi Germany

Significance is defined as ‘sufficiently great or important to be worthy of attention’ and opposition is defined as ‘resistance or dissent, expressed in action or argument’ . Opposition was significant to Nazi Germany to a lesser extent. There were multiple groups which opposed the Nazi regime such as; the Jews, the Churches, the army and … Read more

Suicide throughout history

Reports of suicide date back as far as the first century. Psychologists, anthropologists, and sociologists’ study various reason as to why suicide could occur and still have not come to the conclusion of if it can be controlled. It has been deemed nearly impossible to pin down all of the causes of suicide. There are … Read more

The Hiroshima bombing

“Rain of ruin from the air, the like of which has never been seen on this earth.” President Harry S. Truman World War II is filled with many tragedies like The Invasion of Normandy or the Battle of Singapore but the one tragedy that most people seem to forget is the Hiroshima Bombing. On August 6th, … Read more

Early women’s rights campaigns & organizations have created the modern world of feminism

The trends of early women’s rights campaigns and feminist organizations have created the modern world of feminism. The initial wave of feminism found roots in violence, social organizations and conventions to rattle the authority and bring women’s rights issues into the light. Those philosophies are deep-seeded in today’s marches, campaigns, and international holidays. As Coretta … Read more

Federal social policies in the US & Canada during and after the Great Depression

Introduction The Great Depression was the most significant setback that has ever happened to our global economy since the middle of the 18th era. Poverty was widespread, and countries were full of suffering because of the decline of cod princes that made it impossible to achieve. This decline affected everyone from fishers to mining and … Read more

Historical forms of punishment

Medieval punishments During the Medieval times inflicting pain and torture was an accepted form of punishment or interrogation. The cruel and pitiless torturers have been induced to impose the horrors of torture or punishment, together with the Stocks, on the pitiful prisoners. Different types of pain or strategies of punishment have been inflicted, relying on … Read more

Why Alvin York is the greatest war hero

Alvin York is the greatest war hero of all time. Having a strong passion for hunting, he soon became an expert with pistols and rifles at a very young age. He then pursued his dream and joined the army, where he was deemed the runt of the pack. Nevertheless, York worked his way up and … Read more

Louis XVI The Silent King (John Hardman)

Throughout history Kings have come and gone, most are not majorly noted for doing something significant, however Louis XVI is perhaps best-known for doing too little or not saying enough, earning him the name The Silent King by Hardman, which would ultimately lead to his reign’s end and demise. Hardman places Louis XVI’s life under … Read more

Ramesses building program

The conventional capitals, Memphis and Thebes, were insufficient for the victor of Qadesh, and he included his very own in the Delta, humbly named Pi-Ramesse, one rendering of which would be Ramessopolis. Not in any case the blasphemer Akhenaten had set out to name his city after himself. Ramesses, in any case, thinks expansive, and … Read more

Louis Riel

Louis Riel was born on October 22, 1844 in the Red River Settlement, the present day Winnipeg. He had help form two Canadian Provinces as well as found the identity for the Métis people and shake up the status quo of Canada. In my opinion Louis Riel was a patriot who stood up for his … Read more

The only lesson we can learn from history is that we cannot learn from history

To understand our nature, history and psychology, we must look back on our ancestors past through their perspective. For example, the hunter-gatherer diet provides a useful lens for reexamining concepts we believe to be true such as the benefits of the Paleo diet. However, in order to accurately access this oldest branch of humanity’s culture, … Read more