… thoroughly prepare his Canadian troops. Currie understood the necessity of victory in this battle; therefore, he treated it with an unparalleled degree of seriousness. Previously, few Allied Generals recognized the need for thorough preparation when…

… exam paper for my global cultures class. Introduction What is Renaissance? Renaissance is the French word for rebirth, it perfectly describes the intellectual and economic changes that occurred in Europe from the fourteenth through the sixteenth…

… London, England in the year of 1888. From August 31 to November 9, Jack the Ripper killed five women. In ten weeks he murdered five people, all prostitutes, all in East London, and all ranged in age from their late teens to their seventies. He raped…

… unremarkable circumstances. Her peasant family lived in the small French village of Domremy between Champagne and Lorraine. Judging from the age she claimed to be at various parts of her life, she must have been born sometime around 1412, although…

… question has sometimes been asked, is there a macho-man stereotype plaguing today's man?, an invisible boundary keeping men back, forcing them to conform with society's expectations. A stereotype ridiculing those who dare disobey the imaginary commandmen…

… Many people know that Alcatraz served as a federal prison, but most are reluctant to know that this island served as a fort built before the Civil War, it served two main purposes. First, that it was to guard the San Francisco bay area from enemy…

… happened on April 19, 1995. The building was hit at 9:03 a.m. The bomb was inside a rental truck and blew out half of the nine-story building. The police and fireman pulled out men, woman, and children for 2 weeks. 168 people died in the bombing and…

… Poland in 1939 and ended with the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945. During these six years many battles were fought in both the European and Pacific theatre that led to the success of the Allies and to the collapse of the Axis Powers. On September 1…

… and Portuguese would begin a wave of European overseas expansion that would shape the modern world. This expansion was aimed toward the Western Mediterranean and the Atlantic Ocean instead of towards the East as most European expansion had been in…

… with Martin Luther (1483-1546) and his concept of Christianity. Consequently, Luther was initially loyal to the papacy and after many theological conflicts, he tried to reconcile with the church. But this was a paradox not to endure because…