… their minds or to take a specific action. The Declaration of Independence, written by Thomas Jefferson, presented a fine example of a compelling persuasive essay. Jefferson’s essay is so compelling because of his incredibly brave thesis statement,…

… socially economically and politically. The government was more often in a state of disarray than not, the populace was disillusioned and scared, and the Great Wall Street stock markets crash of 1923 saw the economy crumble before the population's…

… a plan to alter Europe politically and territorially . Creating a balance of power among the nations of Europe, reinstating conservative regimes, containing France and reaching an agreement to cooperate with each other were the goals of the Congress…

… has been shaped by many different people. Our country has used the laws that were invented by people that lived a long time ago. The biggest influence on the documents that shape our country are from eighteenth century philosophes and from earlier…

… of Hernan Cortes sailed to what we now know as modern day Mexico. Diego Velazques, governor of Cuba, instructed Cortes to make contact with the New World. What was supposed to be an innocent journey of exploration and trading, became a horrific genocide…

… that it must follow. It seems that almost all revolutions, in their radical phases, tend to have the characteristics of excessive cruelty, extreme violence, and denials of the rights of freedom. But the question that befuddles many is why they…

… we cannot forget about the sacrifices that those women made back then so that the women today could enjoy those freedoms that they worked so hard at obtaining. There were many women that did their part in gaining women’s freedom all around the world.…

… play based on events of the Salem witchcraft trials, takes place in the small Puritan village in the colony of Massachusetts in 1692. The witchcraft trials, as Miller explains in a prose prologue to the play, grew out of the particular moral…

… of residence, ghettos or transit camps did not in any way know that they were being brought to extermination camps nor did they know what fate awaited for them. Most of them had not even heard of the existence of such camps. Rumors about death camps…

… ran around the Baltic sea, the Russians that were in that area captured the ship and found in it the German Navy Secret code book. The British used it to decode German Navel messages, so that they would know what the German’s were going to do…