… look at evolution and history. Through out Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond attempts to explain the dominance of certain ethnicities. The backbone to this book and the questions that Diamond asks and answers, stem from a question asked of…

… about a 13-year-old Jewish girl named Anne Frank who keeps a diary. She writes in the diary, because she wants the diary to be her friend. She lived in Amsterdam with her family. At that time in 1942, there was a war going on called World War II. Germany…

… before he became a minor official in the Florentine Government. His youth, however, was passed during some of the most tumultuous years in the history of Florence. He was born the year that Lorenzo the Magnificent came to power, subverting the tr…

… It lasted from 1861- 1865. The war divided so many people living in the United States. The war was between the Northern people which had a more up to date way of living and wanted to end slavery and an agricultural way of life. The South wanted…

… of Persia after his father's death in 486 BC. After securing the throne, Xerxes began to gather forces to invade Greece. By 480 BC, he had an army approximately 100,000 to 180,000 men and a fleet of nearly 600 ships, a large army by Greek standards.…

… that could have been easily prevented with a little attention to detail. For instance, a couple of things were ignored. Ice warnings were one of them as well as the distress rockets fired from the Titanic. The rockets were ignorantly disregarded…

… change was made after 1796) on August 15, 1769, in the Corsican city of Ajaccio. He was the fourth of 11 children of Carlo Buonaparte and Letizia Romolino. His father derived from the lesser Corsican nobility. Following the annexation of Corsica…

… Germany, Disappointed Italy, and Ambitious Japan were anxious to regain or increase their power. All three of these countries eventually adopted forms of dictatorship; National Socialism and Fascism. This made their country supreme and called…

… are very few people in this world that can answer this question correctly. A constitution is a written document, which provides a framework for the structure of a government and other political institutions. The purpose of a constitution is to set…

… the United States emotionally, physically, and economically. This event is the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September eleventh, 2001. Two planes hijacked by terrorists crashed into the Twin Towers; another plane…