… history, there have been many things to indicate why contemporary events occur. Not Nostradamus like predictions, merely the fact that current events have occurred many years ago in one form or another. These are issues such as warfare, oppression…

… where the old rules no longer apply.” Such was the case during the early modern period in Europe. Prior to this sudden change in the “rules” Europe went through an extensive period of illiteracy and lack of enlightenment. The centuries following…

… all of the different concepts and literary terms in this story. Some of the concepts and terms he uses are: Sequence, the order events happened in the story to make the ending good; Conflict, amongst John with outside forces; Rites of Passage,…

… the latest in a series of measures undertaken ‘towards defraying the expenses of defending, protecting, and securing, the British colonies and plantations in America’. It provided that revenue stamps be affixed to all newspapers, broadsides, pamphlets,…

… Huff Daland Dusters founded the world’s first aerial crop dusting organization. In 1928 the company became Delta Air Service and on June 17, 1929, Delta began its airline service with the first passenger flights over a route stretching from Dallas,…

… feelings have been brought about with the terrorist attack on 9/11. There are many similar reasons why. In the cold war, America and Russia had a verbal war between each other as well as an arms race. This included many new weapons of mass destruction,…

… experiment"--was undertaken to reduce crime and corruption, solve social problems, reduce the tax burden created by prisons and poorhouses, and improve health and hygiene in America. The results of that experiment clearly indicate that it was a miserable…

… to the meaning of socialism is common ownership. This means the resources of the world being owned in common by the entire global population. But does it really make sense for everybody to own everything in common? Of course, some goods tend to be…

… identity. I this essay, I will try to outline the reasons why has this always been the case, and its direct link to French-Canadian nationalism. The path that leads to separatism is a long and winding one. The French saw Confederation as the only…

… in the great Roman army. What was once a predominantly Roman institution became increasingly “barbarized”, a term used by historians for the Germanization of Roman culture, with more and more northern peoples being used in the army, which, some modern…