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The present paper will seek to compare the position of female scientists in antiquity to that of contemporary female researchers, particularly with regards to the share of women in the field and the barriers they [...]
One can argue that Mike Davis, writing in the present time decided to use the imagery from the Holocaust and the Nazi's internment camps to help his readers understand the real horror caused by the [...]
This museum provides an opportunity to learn about Walker's life path and to explore her ideas; moreover, it makes people think about social injustice in the past and the present.
The issues of race and a variety of aspects of equality in all spheres of life are the most important issues in the history of the United States.
Their extensive participation in fueling resistance in urban centers contributed to the formation of ANC Women's League. According to her: "ANC Women's League played a significant role in representing the interests of the majority of [...]
The rationale behind it was to point to the reconstruction of London and the incorporation of futuristic buildings in the architecture of the city.
In the chapter "From Empire to Chimerica," Niall Ferguson traces back the history of the Western financial rise and suggests that nowadays it is being challenged by the developing Eastern world. The hegemonic position of [...]
The election of Thomas Jefferson served as a pivotal point in the contemporary history of the world. Jefferson did not completely dismiss the virtues and strengths of a federal government, which was later proven during [...]
The role and image of women in modern society have changed compared to how they were perceived in the 1950s. Marilyn Monroe is a perfect illustration of the position of women in the arts during [...]
John Glenn's trip to space in the Friendship 7 capsule in 1962 was a major accomplishment for the American space program.
Dating back to the Middle Ages, guilds for a long time had been the key representations of local self-government and created the basement of the modern European city self-regulation.
This paper shows that this trial was significant to America's social, political and economic development because it described the relation between the church and the state.
The population bordering the Roman Empire included "the Irish and Picts of the British Isles, the highly civilized Persians on the Syrian Frontier, the Berbers of North Africa, Asiatic nomads like the Sarmatians, and many [...]
It was a very short notice and since I had counted on working on my telephone project in the spring of 1870, I was at first not ready to move with my parents.
The Ottoman Empire experienced some changes in the government and its way of administration which was, in fact one of the major reasons for the decline of the empire.
In spite of this, the Chinese government has been presenting claims that Taiwan is part of China and this government is ready to engage in a war in case any international actor holds recognition that [...]
However, the Christian armies were unable to hold on to the captured land and at the end; the Holy Land remained in the hands of the Muslims.
One of the first ideas that cross one's mind after reading the article is that the development of the state was actually started with the settlement of the Black people and the establishment of the [...]
The struggle between the Americans and Amerindians for instance led to the passing of a constitution and restructuring of the government system so as to avoid anarchy.
The first issue that the paper sought to address was the discrimination against the Indians by the rest of the society.
Though colonial Australia is traditionally represented as the location for the European convicts to serve their sentence, whereas little light is shed on the conflict between the local people and the colonialists, the armed resistance [...]
Muslims used the word 'Islam' to mean the submission of a community to the authority of another community; it did not mean the spread of their beliefs.
Having analyzed the great history of American people, its great cultural heritage and peculiarities of its development it is possible to conclude that there are some main characteristics which give America its identity.
When Benazir returned to Pakistan, her father was serving as the prime minister of the country, and a great turmoil had emerged in Pakistan's politics.
If the territories of the Aztec and the Inca civilizations were invaded by the Spaniards and that situation resulted in the civilizations' decline, the causes for the Mayan civilization's collapse are not determined clearly.
Minke is the name derived by the author to develop the ideas of nationalism. The artwork is intertwined with the author's role in the revolution that sorts to end the era of colonization.
In the Yugoslavia context, primordials hold that deep ethnic, social and religious divisions played a significant role in the processes that led to the breakup of the country, while the constructivists hold that ethnic conflict [...]
However, some people feel that Iran fits the ownership of the inland sea and it should bear the name the Persian Gulf because Iran covers most parts of the sea to the north while Saudi [...]
The whites considered the progress of the African Americans as something that threatened the success and achievements of the whites in the society.
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.
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 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 [...]
In his discrediting of the so esteemed values of the Free State, he was emphatic after reading the works of the many proponents of the system and realized the divergence of their views.
In his paper The Significance of the Frontier in American History, Frederick Jackson Turner argues that the development of the American society was largely shaped by the exploration of the new lands and westward expansion.
The main reason behind the revolution was to overthrow the dictatorial regime of Fulgencio Batista. Batista decided to grab power and remained the country's leader until the end of the revolution in December 1958.
It is important to note that the change in the political set-up of China in the mid of the 20th century is the main landmark in the industrial transformation of China.
According to Hobsbawm, the bourgeoisie can be discussed in relation to such notions as privacy, property, education, and sport as the determining components of the specific lifestyle, and the role of women in the society [...]
3 However, the eruption of the American Civil War resulted to the consecutive banning of slavery in all the States in U.S.
The history of science and technology in China contributed much to the advancement of the global knowledge in science and technology.
The poorly defined Heian marriage system denied the women the ability to react and advocate for their human rights, Seidensticker Edward.
It is the continued sidelining of minority groups over the years that has resulted to the minority groups coming up with various strategies so as to advance their interests and ensure that they also participate [...]
In response to Lord Macaulay's argument, Peel admitted that although the government was not supposed to abandon all forms of social responsibility, it was expected to come in handy especially as the last resort. On [...]
Exploring the wide range of subthemes, including the rejection of the League of Nations, consequences of the World War I for the country and main preconditions of the market crash in 1929, Leuchtenburg emphasizes the [...]
Agriculture was one of the very prominent activities that the Maya people engaged in.the ancient agricultural feature of the community still can be found in many available archaeological records; these records stretch from the old [...]
The period after the Second World War saw the emergence and expansion of the world economies. Countries such as Japan and China started rebuilding their economies so as to compete with the rest of the [...]
The Aztec and the Incas are examples of civilizations present in Southern America and form among the greatest civilization of the world at their time.
The country was then an already operational state was being ruled by monarchy."The political and constitutional changes that came in the wake of the French Revolution led to the transfer of sovereignty from the monarchy [...]
The main aim of Kai-shek was to eliminate the bottlenecks that remained within the part, and undertake a thorough restructuring of the party organization.
American Labor Leader Andrew Furuseth spoke before Congress in 1926 and noted that just after prohibition began, there was a large change in the working population, but he also added: "Two years afterwards I came [...]
The purpose of the Manhattan project was to develop atomic bombs that were the first to ever be created in the world.
Coretta was exposed to the social injustices when she was a very young girl where she was forced to face the wrath of a segregated society, that is, the society where the native and the [...]
He stopped going to school at the age of ten, and at the age of twelve, he was already an apprentice to his brother, James. Franklin was sent to England in 1757 to explain to [...]
The latter were used as instruments for airing the voices of the people. The party was keen in drawing the attention of workers who were facing the hard times of industrial revolution.
To begin with, it is profound to note the contemporary civilization being experienced in America was mainly triggered by the Columbus' discovery of 1492.[1] While some historians may argue that the American civilization was bound [...]
Through the bill of rights, an individual is assured of a number of personal freedoms, including the right to own property, the right to life, right of protection from the law, freedom of movement, freedom [...]
Besides her treatment as an object of racial inferiority and medical research, Bartman's experience manifested the intersection of various forms of discrimination, such as, gender, race, nationality, and class discrimination. Bartman's experience was a manifestation [...]
In the 1920s, the United States was facing worrying rates of crime that called for the intervention of the Congress to avert the situation.
Chosen events after the World War II will be the subject of the study in order to fully understand the development of the American society in the 1960s.
The Korean War of 1950 to 1953, was a war between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, backed up by China and the Soviet Union; and the Republic of Korea, backed by the United States [...]
The group was against foreign invasion and introduction of Christianity in China.[1] The revolution was also against the partitioning of China. This caused a delay that later on led to the defeat of the boxers [...]
There were others who managed to escape this repatriation and contributed to the formation of the African American Society in the United States of America.
The role of the American media in shaping the cultural identity of women has led to what Douglas refers to as a contradiction of cultures as the influences of the media over the generations have [...]
Due to race infiltration in Egypt, majority of the black people were under-educated and denied the facts that spelled out the true history of Ancient Egypt, achievements of the black population, and their original works [...]
In the Mao era, the law did not allow polygamous marriage in the Chinese community and through such, the sale of young females within the society ended.
In The history of ancient Egypt, The Middle Kingdom of Egypt refers to a period that stretches over the eleventh dynasty up to the completion of the fourteenth dynasty.
The Europeans initially considered African land as worthless, however, by the end of the 19th century their perception about Africa had changed due to the changes in Europe making them move to Africa for rescue.
It was after her conversion to orthodoxy that she adopted the name Catherine and was married to the heir to the Russian throne by the name the Grand Duke peter in 1745.
Published in 1991 and written by Art Spiegelman, the MAUS is a book that provides the account of the author's effort of knowing his Jewish parents' experience, following the Holocaust as well as their survival [...]
Genghis Khan is considered to be one of the brightest figures in the world history; his cruelty and the desire to conquer and rule created quite a scare and, at the same time, respectable picture [...]
The Civil Rights Movement is an era that was dedicated for equal treatments and rights to the activism of the African American in the US.
The discovery of tools is recognized to be one of the most important events of human development, as it is a well-known fact that "The development of tools such as flint points, axes, weapons such [...]
The effect of the war in Libya is greatly felt by the immigrants who are said to have migrated from different countries since 1970s after the discovery of oil and hydrocarbons reserves in the country.
The main idea of the paper is to consider different points of view and various attitudes to the history meaning. Greek approach is one of the perspectives of the history.
The presence of the whites created revolts that were perpetrated on grounds of prejudice Most of the natives therefore stuck to their culture including wearing the veil and speaking the native Arabic.
The author emphasizes on feminism and the significance of intellect in the pursuit of women to become strong in physically and psychologically.
Loewen points out that the majority of people in the USA know the history of their country from the school course and the textbooks.
The assumption that the US already has a world-major status and is headed in the right direction is fundamental to the discussion and is shared by both allies and enemies overseas.
Adolf Hitler was born in Austria in 1889; he became the ruler of Germany and one of the most reviled persons in history.
The importance of this event appeared from the fact that the Irish migration was one of the most significant contributors to the American immigrants' inflow.
The company hired the English poor for the labor-intensive task of growing the colony and producing tobacco, and most of the newcomers were young single males. Thus, both Protestant and Anglican denominations played their role [...]
And all of this by the time he died at the age of 32, raising the question of what Alexander could have accomplished if he had lived longer.
Furthermore, the Romans were influenced by the Etruscans, a neighboring tribe to the northwest of Rome, who were allied with and then conquering the newly formed city-state.
In the 1930's most people in America were feeling the impact of the Great Depression due to the crashed economy. During the great depression, most people were facing the challenges of starving and losing their [...]
It helps in understanding the main ideas the Canadian government used in the past to build a national identity, and in comparing these ideas to the current political direction.
It can be defined as the process of transformation of the economy from the agricultural one to the one based on the production and manufacturing of goods.
The Boxer Rebellion at the end of the century was driven by a militia group in North China who were dissatisfied with the internal situation in the country but also the consistent foreign influence such [...]
American Revolution is one of the most prominent and groundbreaking events in the history of the United States of America. One of the most interesting facts from the video was the usage of clothing and [...]
I agree that colonialism had nothing in common with individual relations, but rather it was the oppression of the African population and the territorial invasion by Europeans.
The Great Zimbabwe was the capital of the ancient empire Shona. Political and religious beliefs of the ancient people influenced the way Great Zimbabwe was built.
It was in the 1920s that the consumerism culture began to emerge and grow, catalyzed by "the booming automobile industry and the emergence of advertising and the huge entertainment industries of radio and the movies".
He was elected to the Bolshevik Central Committee and became an appointee to hold the seat of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee.
Apart from political control and helping Irish immigrant society, Tammany hall was a governance hall recognized especially when it took place in the elections that were held in the year 1854, which made Fernando Wood [...]
Thus, the present paper will be devoted to the comparative analysis of various indigenous groups that lived in South Africa during precolonial era and dealt with one another and the second focus of the present [...]
He did not tell the settlers of the difficulties they were going to face in moving from Europe to the land of honey that is America.
The plain Indians are the Indians who lived in the great plains of North America and dominated between the years 1750 to 1890.
With the worsening situation in Mexico, Madero was very sympathetic to the plight of the common people. Zapata continued to fight Carranza, and soon a trap was set by one of Carranza's generals, leading to [...]
Besides the highly valuable narrative of past events and great historic movements, the motives of the AP Program in European History include the development of: The understanding of fundamental themes in the European History.
The 1980s would not be considered a Go-Go economy as there was significant instability in the earlier years of the decade with the adoption of Reaganomics.
The first step in evaluating the justice of the Code of Hammurabi is the examination of the judge's position. As mentioned above, Hammurabi was not the first Mesopotamian king to create a set of laws [...]
The start of the Century was marked by the second voyage of the Portuguese to India in 1500 under the rule of Pedro Cabral.
Besides, he is renowned for his voyages that were of the state of the art, and he played a major role in the economic development of China.
In addition to excellent academic performance, Nixon was also the leader of the student's body in the college. In the Navy, he rose in ranks to a lieutenant commander and served in the pacific especially [...]
At the risk of their own lives, they brought the only little food that they could get to feed others in the camp.
The culture of Macedonia was replicated in Egypt whereby more women were able to embrace the power of business activities. This means that such women were powerful and capable of controlling various political issues in [...]
Kwon Do In lived in Japan and looked for different opportunities to change his life as he was tired of the contemporary situation.
The fact that the construction of the famous Egyptian pyramids began approximately at that time shows the capabilities of the civilization.
The paper will look into the development of the industrial revolution in the United States, the changes that were caused by the revolution, and the reactions that Americans had towards the industrial revolution.
Therefore, in this paper, we dwell on the theories and significant instances of genocide so that to prove that the global eradication of ethnicity is the payoff of psychological disparities both on a personal and [...]
However, the development of New France was quite distinct due to peculiarities of the gender roles in the North America and France.
It is important to note that objects of material culture change over time due to the intermingling of communities, and this influences the way people lead their lives.
Their competing for the control of the Mediterranean, Black Sea Basin and the Red Sea as well as for the finding the routes to trade the Eastern countries transformed to a great rival.
In this essay, William Du Bois shows that at the beginning of the twentieth century, the American society did not fully recover from the legacies of slavery.
Although the church was the dominant force that supported political and religious leaders, there were several efforts to change this system in the 12th century.
The main opponents of the Mongol Empire were the Naiman tribe located in the western part of Mongolia, the Merkits who were found in the northern part of Mongolia, the Tanguts found in the south [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Gandhi says that, he decided to examine further, the nature of British colonialism, and he realized the cause of all the problems was the modern civilization.
Writing is one of the major factors of communication in the present and ancient world. This system was widely used than the alphabetical systems, and up to the 18th century more than half of the [...]
The war and refusal of the Israeli government to grant the Arabs return rights created the Palestine refugee problem. The Palestinian Arabs also initiated riots immediately to protest against the proposal of the United Nations [...]
The figure below is a map of the region during the height of the Teotihuacan civilization in the Mexican area that presents the extent of the empire in context of other cultures that existed at [...]