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The Battle of Shiloh: the bloodiest battle at the time in US history. More than 13,000 Union and approximately 62,000 Confederate troops were killed, wounded, captured or missing. Of 45,000 Confederates engaged, there were more than 10,000 casualties. In Ray Bradbury’s The Drummer Boy of Shiloh, Bradbury uses symbolism to portray April 5th, 1862, the … Read more
To highlight exactly what police brutality does to the African American psyche by explaining the meaning, long term impact, and implications of racial trauma by drawing parallels between police shootings today and lynchings in the past. I. Introduction A. Attention Device—It is no secret that the Black community does not have a good relationship with … Read more
Megasthenes was a Greek historian who lived from 350 B.C to 290 B.C, he served as an ambassador for Seleucus on his excursion to India and resided in the court of Chandragupta Maurya. During his stay in India, Megasthenes wrote about his accounts and observations of the geography, government, society, religion, and politics of Indian … Read more
The rise of Industrial New York came about in the late nineteenth century. In the video, Filthy Cities: Industrial New York, BBC and show host, Dan Snow, attempt to travel back in time to the Industrial period of American history. This film depicts the rise of New York as an industrial city, including all of … Read more
In this assignment, I will be writing about the history of certain attractions, buildings and statues situated in the city Centre of Leicester. Most of the information I have gathered to write this comes from an activity booklet that I completed by exploring the city of Leicester and writing down details from different monuments I … Read more
In the late 1700’s, colonial America was so different than the America we come to know today. Whose side would you be on if you were around during the time, Alexander Hamilton or Thomas Jefferson? They were both very important men who served former president George Washington in the first presidential cabinet. The constitution was … Read more
In The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander effectively argues that the racial caste system was never abolished, instead, it was reconstructed in disguise of colorblindness to legally discriminate African Americans. Alexander also discusses how the War on Drugs, the election of Barack Obama and various other occasions have been used to implement this caste system, … Read more
The Celtics were a group of people who have mysteriously appeared in Central Europe in Central Europe during 1200 B.C.E. Historically they invaded many countries of Europe such as Northern Italy, Macedonia, Rome and Delphi allowed their population to spread throughout Europe. Despite their rich history many Celtics did not know their origin story and … Read more
The 9/11 attacks will be remembered as one of the most traumatic and terrible times in the history of the USA. The day was September 11th, 2001. On this day 19 men who were part of the terrorist extremist group al-Qaeda embarked on a mission of terror. They hijacked four airplanes and used these airplanes … Read more
At one point in the 1920s, this company produced steel for three-quarters of the United States. Bethlehem Steel was the second biggest company to produce steel in the United States. Bethlehem Steel had many employees working for them and employed almost 1.5 million people. These employees have many stories to tell: two of which I … Read more
The Ku Klux Klan is a secret society simply known as the KKK which was formed in 1915. They are a hat group who are against black people, Muslims, Jews, Catholics, foreign-born individuals, and other groups. The Ku Klux Klan history will never go unnoticed “as a social movement and as a cultural symbol, the … Read more
Global Issues is the study of events that impact communities, or even the environment, that can sometimes end catastrophically (United Nations). Often times global issues require the communication and cooperation of other countries. Global issues fall under a large spectrum known as international relations. International relations are defined as the relationships among the world’s states … Read more
For our final project, we looked for moral paradigms in history of death penalty from the EU and the USA. We will briefly introduce the history of capital punishment in both societies, and then compare them with the Baker’s dozen criteria for moral revolutions. We claim that in EU, the abolition of the death penalty … Read more
On the morning of September 11, 2001, a series of four terrorist attacks were carried out near New York and Pennsylvania in the United States of America involving 19 hijackers gaining control of four planes, the complete destruction of the World Trade Centre complex and the partial damage to The Pentagon and the deaths of … Read more
On September 5, 1774, delegates from each of the 13 colonies, aside from Georgia, met in Philadelphia as the First Continental Congress to set up a colonial resistance Parliament’s Coercive Acts. The First Continental Congress disbanded on October 26, 1774. The Congress passed the Articles of Association, which led the colonists’ decision to boycott British … Read more
