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For instance, in the Charleston prison, records indicated certain patterns of behavior among prisoners and guards that are unique to the correctional institutions.

Manchukuo features in the history of the war because of its significance, or otherwise, in the war. The creation of Manchukuo preceded the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1941.

The book distinctively outlines the colonial history of the USA in line with the development of the Great Awakening. From this perspective, one of the book's strong points is that Lambert proposed the innovative approach [...]

Some of the most important of these transformations include the 'Long March' that took place before his leadership, development of the Five-Year Plan, the Great Leap Forward, and the Cultural Revolution that is the subject [...]

The invasion failed since the US made a major assumption concerning the reaction of the Fidel administration and the general republic to the US backed invasion.

This article explores the property rights of the Europeans in the aftermath of the Black Death. In this article, Zapotoczny focuses on the effects of the Black Death.

According to Blitz, those fears were confirmed after the integration because, to date, the Western part of Germany that was previously the more prosperous of the two has always had to transfer funds for the [...]

The major similarity between collective invention and heroic individual invention is that both provided important source of innovations during the early stages of industrialization.

Unfortunately, the fact that the proletariat was going to be at the helm of the state destroyed any possibility of establishing the principles of democracy and equality in China at the moment.

Bismarck considered Austria as a potential ally and there were no need to waste combat power when the object was to neutralize the force of Austria, which followed the principles of Clausewitz's paradoxical trinity exactly, [...]

The nature of the American Revolution is considered to be better understandable relying on the ideas offered by Wood because one of the main purposes which should be achieved are connected with an idea of [...]

The American's mission was to refurbish Iranian army, to reorganize gendarmerie in Iran; they also had financial mission and smaller missions to the police department and Ministry of Food and Supply in Iran.

There is a great value in the Nazi movies as during this era Hitler and his supporters needed to manipulate others applying to the propaganda via mass media and choosing the movies Hitler was sure [...]

The impracticalities of the turnpikes in transportation of bulky goods and their poor maintenance led many businessmen to turn to water transport for a solution to their problem.

From the developments in the world during the 1930s to the early years of 1940s, it can be asserted that the United States was concerned with domestic affairs and the political developments in Europe and [...]

The social historians have managed to cogently present the politics that surrounded the civil rights movement. The movement also managed to gain the support of the aims of government, the executive, legislature, and even the [...]

The need to address Mao's interests in the rivalry with his opponents was disguised in the fight for the preservation of socialism in China through the Cultural Revolution.

The same thing cannot be said if the only structure of authority in the city is a garrison filled with battle-scarred soldiers and a general who may not be sympathetic to the plight of the [...]

This essay will explore the history of the Qing Dynasty by comparing and contrasting the state and the Chinese society during this dynasty to the earlier periods in the history of the country.

From this point, the capitalistic ideals with references to the remnants of the slavery system affected the life at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century.

In the research paper, the researcher examines the soldier's life from the time before her master shifted to Jefferson City, to her death in Trinidad. At the time the war was breaking out, the nation [...]

The controversy surrounding the inclusion of women in combat came to the fore when a group of female soldiers demanded to be included in the exercise.

The emergence of trade routes marked a major development in the history of humankind. Evidently, the major trade routes of the post-classical world helped in the emergence and establishment of an empire.

Nevertheless, one of the most vital changes that laced the Harem Renaissance was the culture of music as explored in the remaining section of the paper.

Economists and historians share different theories on the major causes of the great depression and the fall of the stock market.

After the war, the nations faced humongous economic slump, the pecuniary implications of the war took toll on the European Nations.

Britain and France led reconstruction after the War had been over as they were seriously weakened by the consequences of the war.

To begin with, the Americans had been under the rule of the British for a very long time. On the same note, the British concentrated on taxing various establishments and forgot to read the mood [...]

Historians seeking to determine the actual cause of the decline and eventual dissolution of the Roman Empire have formulated several theories.

One and the major factor that led to nationalism is the economic policy imposed by the colonial rulers that led to the adoption of the Western culture by the native East Asians.

Since its inception in 1993, the museum has served as the nation's reminder when it comes to issues of the holocaust.

During the 1980s and 1990s, the history of the Middle East was shaped by three main events namely the Gulf War, the Palestinian rebellion, and the meltdown of the U.S.S R.

The primary goal of this paper is to provide the sufficient analysis of the turning points in the history of the Middle East and explain their effect on the development of the region.

Sun was not happy when the pillar was pulled out by the monkeys and was accused that he was a thief, which made him to be insulted.

It was revealed that the blacks were behind the American's liberation from the British colonial rule, and this was witnessed with Ned Hector's brevity to salvage his army at the battle of Brandywine.

Desirability of Decisive Victory: Setting Clear Objectives Another essential component of the warfare philosophy promoted by Gustavus Adolphus, the reinforcement of the idea of a triumph can be viewed as a breakthrough in the overall [...]

The authors make accents on the formal aspects of women's socio-political organizations in Australia and connect their development with the progress of social movements associated with the problem of human rights in Australia from the [...]

The paper evaluates significance of historical and social context during the Cold War between America and the Soviet Union. The Cold War was caused economic, political and ideological disagreement between the Soviet Union and America [...]

The ideas are brought out clearly and help the reader to view the kind of business that was taking place in Canada, as well as the efforts that the characters put in to change the [...]

The founding of the USA changed the education landscape in America in the 1800s. Churches emerged in support of higher education particularly among Blacks of the South.

One of the things that contributed to the development of South Africa is the dominance of the whites in the country.

In the initial sections of the book, Ngai spends her time discussing the Johnson-Reed Immigration Act of 1994 that concurrently heralded the death of one epoch and the birth of another.

He criticized the government for tyranny and as a result, he is considered the father of democracy in Greek Sacred disease refers to epilepsy.

Between 1775 and 1815, a revolution was witnessed in warfare that corresponded with the advent of American and French revolutions. Military personnel were made to take a new oath of commitment to France and unwilling [...]

He observes, "history of the universe is not made up of atoms but of stories of atoms" implying that he explored all aspects of the North Carolina since the much popular story of the big [...]

The main thesis of Gates is the fall down of the Soviet Union and the steps that the United States took so as to speed up its termination.

The struggle with racism was heavily as a result of the different groups of individuals that settled on the island in its colonial days.the Dutch, the British and the French all wanted to claim a [...]

As a result of the contributions made by the members of the party most notably of whom is Hitler and the socio-economic realities of the time, the party was able to grow in size and [...]

The primary difference in the cold war order of the Asia-Pacific and that of Europe was instigated by the reason for security arrangements between the two regions.

According to Stubbs, economic growth in Asia arose out of the experiences in the War in the region and not the American and IMF policies of free market systems.

The officials of the National party tried to justify the existence of the apartheid policy, arguing that South Africa did not have a single homogenous race.

The impunity displayed by these drug lords goes beyond just controlling the government spending; the government is always at their beck and call and any disgruntled voices are either intimidated into silence or killed, in [...]

Booth was against the abolition of slavery and the right of the former slaves to vote that he wrote a letter criticizing the Union Government for wanting to abolish slavery.

Although the 9/11 attacks presented lawmakers and enforcers with the problem of ensuring the security of Americans, the practice of racial profiling and racially motivated attacks within the United States quickly emerged and provided a [...]

The military fascism was a way of expressing the Japanese economic, power and policy dissatisfaction by the west, and it hence contributed in some ways to the rise of World War II.

The book, 'Retail Nation: Department Stores and the Making of Modern Canada' retrospectively views the transformation of Canada from the era during which time monopolized department stores such as Eaton's committed themselves to strengthening the [...]

The Falklands War of 1982 was alleged to be the worst reported warfare after the Crimean War, as the war reporting went back to the pre mass communication era.

Presently, the definition of the Balkan-peninsula encloses the entirety of the region of Southern-Europe as it is enclosed by water bodies from the Adriatic, the Mediterranean, as well as the Black seas.

She also makes her decision to move to South Vietnam because of her spirited heart of humanity and love and long for an end of the war and the sufferings and pains subjected to the [...]

Lack of enough knowledge of land terrains among Germans and high population of their enemies may also have contributed to German loss in the war.

The studies in these learning institutions became influential to the people since they addressed pertinent issues in the then society; one of the issues was the place of females in the society.

In this essay, I will discuss five walls, namely: The Hadrian wall The Great wall of China The Berlin wall which separated East Germany from west Germany Moroccan wall The Maginot line between the border [...]

Labor unions were formed to take care of the needs and rights of corporate workers and this led to attachment of wage to productivity.

This book highlights the issues that were present in the world towards the end of the 20th century as people in the world braced themselves for the 21st century and the new millennium that was [...]

It was considered to give a connotation to the international structure throughout the cold war and could work as a dynamic aspect in generating the dynamics of the east-west conflict.

As slavery is a social issue that depicts discrimination in terms of color, the treatment of slaves by the whites gives an impression to African Americans that they are the minority group and less human.

On the one hand, it is necessary to admit that there was certain balance of power equilibrium in the late 1940s in the region.

The information in the book is thoroughly researched and the author gives the reader an insight into one of the most misinterpreted period of the Roman Empire.E.A.

The Qing Empire opposed the move by proscribing the use of opium in the state. The counselors to the monarch requested the emperor to stop using force and institute a legal system that would respond [...]

The key factors that left the Black women unrecognized or led to recognition of just a few of them as leaders are class, race and gender biases.

In the bid to maintain the resources for their vast empire, the British government issued a declaration to limit the control of the territories by the colonial authorities.

This paper seeks to critically discuss the contribution of empiricism and rationalism to the emergence of the scientific perspective in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

The religion described the universe as the struggle between a good spiritual world of light and a material world of darkness governed by the evil.

In the period of 1933-1939, which encompasses Hitler's rise to power that saw a sustained persecution of Jews in Germany and the pogroms, which culminated in the Night of The Broken Glass, the reception of [...]

The exercise of absolute monarchy in the French territory began in the16th century, and it was preceded by the era of renaissance monarchy that was exercised on the basis of political consensus among the social [...]

The movement's main aim was to end the racial segregation and fight for the voting power of the black people in America.

Reconstruction can as well refer to a period in which the southern states were to be transformed with the aim of reintroducing them back to the union.

Starting with the Confederates and the factors that defined their war strategy and tactics, one must keep in mind the specifics of the South and the lifestyle which the residents of the South led.

Now that a description of the Argentinean historical and political discourse has been given, it is crucial to link this to the divergent occurrence of nationalism in the country.

The practical use of rubber was not well developed until 1800s when the first rubber factory was built in the United Kingdom, France and the United States increasing the demand of the product in the [...]

In most parts of America, the legislation to abolition slave trade was greatly opposed by big plantation owners who needed the services of slaves and knew that the legislation to end slavery was a major [...]

As a result of the diversity of the communities of the Aborigines, there are historical differences in the cultural practices of the people.

The involvement of women in the war was quite significant to the women as they were able to have a strong arguing point after the war and this made it possible for the women to [...]

In sum to the determination of Americans in eradicating the presence of the British in North America, their need and quest for expansion also contributed significantly to the rise of the 1812 war. The participation [...]

Existing literature purports that, part of America's agenda in Vietnam was to stop the spread of communism and in other literature excerpts, it is reported that, America was persuading North Vietnam to stop supporting the [...]

In addition, it is necessary to investigate how the president Roosevelt delivered his speech with the help of the first radio address with the suggestions of the New Deal as the program that was aimed [...]

Thus, to understand the future of these countries, it is important to consider political systems within the countries and define factors which resulted in the development of such regimes.

The griffin novels tell us more about the lives of the soldiers and their roles in the various wars, than the events of the actual wars.

Thus, considering the situation which took place in late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, it is possible to state that proclaiming democratic ideas in the education, the main goals of Hampton/Tuskegee idea were directed at [...]

A detailed review of the factors that facilitated the rise of the fascist movement in Italy and the nature of the movement will be made.

To understand the peculiarities of genocide against the native people at the territories of East Timor, it is necessary to focus on examining such aspects as the causes for the genocide, the techniques used by [...]

Examining legitimacy, inheritance, and divorce, the author shows the way in which Mexican womens and mens positions were weakened by the Spanish conquest on the one hand, and the social relationships between the men and [...]

The Middle East seems to be the centre of the world or to put it lightly, the centre of attraction due to its many conflicts, controversies, and issues.

According to Brad, It is important for the state to have these rights as stipulated by the international law for the well being of its citizens and to promote peaceful interactions.

The strategic theme that gave rise to this reform was represented by the expansion of the presence of the United States navy in many international oceans in addition to the increment of the United State's [...]

Suffice to say most of the countries exceeded the developments targets by the end of the plan in 1952. To make this possible the US made it known to the Europeans that the efforts to [...]

The Rwandan civil war led to the signing of the Arusha Accord that compelled the Rwandan government, which Hutu dominated, to form a government of national unity by incorporating marginalized Tutsi and the Hutu who [...]

This essay will examine the impact of Suharto's fall from power and the subsequent fall of authoritarianism, corruption, and political persecution in Indonesia, and examine the subsequent protection of women's rights on Indonesian women.

Both feminist theories and the liberal democracy have a greater role to play in reference to autonomy, diversity, the enlightenment of women, and the necessity to accommodate differences in the political setup. This is itself [...]

Since historically men's position used to be superior to the one of women, feminist ideas have been brewing in the society for quite long.

The reconstruction took place in three phases namely the Presidential reconstruction of 1863-1866, Radical reconstruction of 1866-1873 and the redemption of 1873-1877.

The date that traditionally marks the beginning of modernist era is 1453, when the City of Constantinople was conquered by the Turkish Ottoman Empire, as far as this date symbolized the end of the Byzantine [...]

The status of First Nations Women is demeaning and inhumane; injustices continue to be met to these women with the main contributors of the status being: historical injustices; violence by white men, and internal discrimination [...]

After the WW II, the America rose to become the most powerful nation in the world, however, the USSR perceived this negatively, which resulted into fierce rivalry between the two nations and the war hang [...]

The US administration of the time believed that Moscow's activities in Cuba were a threat to International security, hence; the ballistic missiles deployed in Cuba enhanced a major security blow to the leadership of United [...]

The historical influence that the marines or the navy has had on international trade and the complications in comparing measures of sea power has been issues of discussion in the past.

Schelling proposed that the power of deterrence in the nuclear age is pegged not only on the equality or balance of the nuclear-possessing countries, but on the "stability of the balance".

The writer notes that the construction of transcontinental railroad from Omaha, Nebraska to Sacramento, California was the greatest achievement of the American people.

It is only by studying the history of the specific society that they can be able to systematically understand the evolution the society has undergone.

Another course of the war of 1812 was the War Hawks and expansion in the west. This was opposed by leaders of the Native Americans6 and this led to the institution of confederacy to oppose [...]

Once these women and the other sailors set out for the migration, they used to face very many hazards along the way, for instance the Spanish marauders, the storms and the sea sickness that used [...]

The emergence of the state of Communist China in 1949 was one of the most significant events of the 20th century and the Communist Revolution which led to its emergence is hailed as one of [...]

The first consequence of the Second World War was the disintegration of the alliance between the Soviet Union and the western allies.

Boost to the Economy The entry of the United States into WWII was a major boost to the economy that was still reeling from the effects of the Great Depression of 1930.

During these elections, the Africa National Congress won with a landslide and, as the leader of the party, Nelson Mandela was installed as South Africa's first Black President on 10 May 1994.

Evidently the perception of South Africa as an overseas investment saw the exclusion of the locals in the participation of the mining business.

These essays made me think of the peculiarities of our family's development and the progress of the American society according to numerous changes in the urban life and technological sphere.

There were a great number of inventors during this time that greatly influenced the succession of the cultural trend that was evident in the latter parts of the 19th century, with most of the changes [...]

Some writers have tried to explore the contents of the book and why the "black other" is central in explaining the experiences of the African diaspora.

The capture of Constantinople by Ottoman in 1453 led to a stop of the movement of slaves from the Balkans and the Black Sea region.