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At their Web site, students from Lincoln Bassett Community School answer the question Who is Rosa Parks? “I think Rosa Parks was a woman who stood up for what she believed in.” —Brittney Hammett. “She was a woman who had the guts to stand up for what she believed.” —Jessie Alexander. “Several other students also … Read more
Greece has a rich culture that has evolved throughout the years. The evolution began with the Mycenaean Greece, and continued into the Classical Greece, mainly influenced by the Roman Empire and Byzantine Empire, it successor. Greece has diverse culture and interests, primarily because of its location, and its division into the East and the West … Read more
Spring 2017 “They (black women) did many things to help in the Civil Rights Movement, but you’ll never see it put down anywhere in any of the reports.” stated Septima Poinsette Clark, “I don’t know why it is, but they don’t give the women any of the glory at all.” Oversight of women stemmed from … Read more
Alice Paul did many things in her life in support of suffrage, the right to vote in political elections. She continued to push for equal rights for women as well. She organized many protests with the help of many other women and supporters of suffrage. She dedicated her life to the single cause of bringing … Read more
Claudia Jones believes that African American women are the most persecuted group in the United States. Being an African American is hard, but being an African American woman presents an additional set of challenges. Throughout Jones’ excerpt she describes the oppression and neglect that African American women face. During this time period after World … Read more
Royal imagery at the Cathedral of Notre-Dame is expressed through the depiction of French kings on the Virgin Portal and the Porte-Rouge, representations of biblical kings, and items given by kings. Furthermore, the actual kings’ visits at Notre-Dame for holidays, and weddings along with coronations of kings at Notre-Dame, celebrations in honor of kings and … Read more
30 June, 2017 Dubes is the ultimate civilization, lasting from 3100 BCE to 30 BC along the fertile bank of the Nile River in Egypt. It follows the phonetic system of Greek writing, religious doctrines of Buddhism, and art techniques of ancient China. Dubes’ government borrows the administrative structure of the Roman republic, and its … Read more
See Evil; Hear Evil; Do Evil: The Downfall of Corrupt Leaders Throughout History Imagine watching a favorite movie from childhood. The villain is most likely consumed by greed and ambition. At some point in the movie, it is probably revealed that this antagonist had some type of tragic backstory or horrific event in their past … Read more
Where was the public sphere most prone to radicalism? Answer with reference to either the eighteenth or the nineteenth century The public sphere, as coined by Habermas, is where ‘private people come together as a public… to engage in a debate over the general rules governing relations’ (Jürgen Habermas, 1989). Habermas argued that the eighteenth … Read more
Unlike natural disasters that are caused by extreme environmental conditions, human impact disasters are the product carelessness or mishandling of dangerous equipment. Some examples of these disasters are airplane crashes, chemical disasters and mine collapses. On 26 April 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear power station, located in Ukraine suffered a major accident, which was followed by … Read more
The United States’ entry into the War of 1898 and World War I in 1917 resulted from strikingly similar factors and each played crucial roles in establishing US hegemony. Both President William McKinley and Woodrow Wilson faced parallel events prior to each war such as US economic interests abroad, mounting pressure from public opinion, and … Read more
About halfway through World War II, on February 19, 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 (History Matters). This order granted the United States military the authority to exclude citizens of Japanese ancestry from areas deemed important to national defense and potentially susceptible to espionage. The military issued an order that banned “All Japanese … Read more
Queen Esther, a beautiful young woman who took the world by storm, saving her people, the Jews, from death and destruction around roughly 465 B.C., has died. Her story will live on for centuries to come as an example of the enduring nature of the Jewish people and her own strength of mind and spirit. … Read more
Ethiopia is something of an outlier in modern African history in that it was largely spared from European colonization in the 19th and 20th centuries. Some have ascribed this anomaly to the strength of the Ethiopian state compared to other African polities, the difficulty of the geography, and the ineptitude of the Italians as a … Read more
John Winston Lennon was born on October 9, 1940 in Liverpool, England. This was still a rocky point in time for England because the country was still under attack by German bombers during World War II. Lennon’s infancy was inevitably rough. His father, a marine, abandoned Lennon at birth. Then at barely 4 years of … Read more
