Essays on History

It is no lie, that most white people, and some people, believe sincerely, that the black man is far more inferior in intelligence to the white man, I personally was even a staunch proponent of such myths and ludicrous tales. There was even a time I believed that the white man is God, and Devil...

I would like to think, the Civil War was one of the most persuasive wars that America has fought in history. There were massive changes that happened not only during the war but long afterwards. This war would change history and lives of millions of people and many generations. It was an important war to...

Since the beginning of time, humans have been all but submissive to authority. If we see something that we disagree with, we have a tendency to work to change it to our benefit. Humans tend to display forms of retaliation in one of three ways: economically, violently, or intellectually. According to Hobbesian ideals, humans should...

‘Nationalism’ has once again become a rising movement in the world politics with politicians that are considered to be ‘nationalists’ assuming power in many countries; Donald Trump in the United States of America, Narendra Modi in India, Boris Johnson in the Great Britain could be named as examples. Nationalism is an ideology that emphasizes loyalty...

Turning the calendar over to a new year—and to 2020, a number that seems like it should only exist in a science fiction novel—feels rather significant. I feel like I’m hovering between my past and all the possibilities that the future offers. The present moment is for reflection and contemplation. The saying goes that hindsight...

Identification and Evaluation of Sources In my essay I will be discussing: “What were the short-term effects of the Cuban Missile Crisis on the Cold War”. I will be looking at the outcome from the main leaders Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro’s point of view and will bring up two of the main agreements between the...

The word renaissance means ‘rebirth’ in French, and indeed Europe was reborn during the Renaissance. In this dynamic time the creative mind of man, which for centuries had been dark and stagnant with blind religion and ignorant superstition, awakened from its deep coma and, in the bright dawn of a new age, began to create...

This article briefly looks into the highly reported resolution of the United States Congress, the Green New Deal. While it has started the much needed conversation about the adverse effects of climate change, it has also been politically divisive for the most part. The politics of climate activism has altered significantly over the past year...

Comparison Of Andrew Carnegie’s Views about Wealth and Inequality to the Life of the Average Coal Miner Andrew Carnie is of the opinion that there should be a clear distinction between the poor and the rich. He argues that this distinction motivates the poor to work hard to gain wealth. However, to reduce the wealth...

Russia’s Soviet and Imperial legacy, and its notorious figures such as Stalin and the Romanovs have, in my opinion, greatly hindered the development of genuine democracy in Post-Soviet Russia. Democratisation is when a country introduces democratic principles such as: free elections, freedom of the press and freedom of speech. From what we can see in...