History Reports Samples For Students

In Edward Lucas’ The New Cold War: Putin’s Russia and the Threat to the West, a journalist assesses what threat the rise of Russian power may have to the west as it continues to rise in power and cause noise in its region. The book is timely, written by an Economist journalist who has been engaged with Russian activities on the ground. U.S. and Europe has sought how to answer Russia’s provocative behavior in places like Georgia and the Ukraine. Lucas has been covering Central and Eastern Europe for over a quarter of a century and wrote this book in ...

The war in Japan has escalated to uncontrollable levels killing millions of people. Living in constant war is destructive to the economy and people’s lives as well. It is proper and prudent that a solution be sought to end this predicament. This will bring about peace and prosperity among the nations fostering development and growth of the economy. A difficult decision has to be made in order to save millions of lives despite the challenges. The nuclear bomb is quite an intense device that is destructive in nature. The war that is currently ongoing is taking a toll in ...

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The working conditions in the late 19th and early 20th century were quite different from now. The main difference lay in the rapidly increasing Industrialization and the migration of people from rural areas to the cities in order to work in industries. (The Struggle of Labor, 2012). This led to a lot of unskilled laborers working ten hours, sometimes twelve, in a day at wages that barely made their ends meet. Ironically, industrialists had the view that the success of the industry in the market was justified ...

- Introduction The report describes the process of the analysis of two stocks which has been done using the Single Index Model. It includes collecting and sorting the data, analysis this data using the SIM and regression analysis and the explanation and the evaluation of the results. The findings are useful for decision making in the financial planning. - Stocks Analyzed The table above contains the information about two analyzed stocks: the company name, stock code, relevant sector, the average return and the standard deviation of the return. Last two points have been computed using the ...

Volcanoes - geological formations on the surface of the earth's crust or another planet's crust where magma reaches the surface, forming lava, volcanic gases, rocks, volcanic bombs and pyroclastic flows. Volcanoes are divided according to the degree of volcanic activity on the active, dormant and extinct. An active volcano is considered to be a volcano erupted in historical time period or during the holocene. The concept of "active" is quite inaccurate, since the volcano, which has active fumaroles, some scientists refer to the active, and some refer this volcanoes to be extinct. Sleepers are considered to be inactive volcanoes, ...

On June 28, 1914, World War I started between Serbia and Austria-Hungary with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. As time went on, many other countries joined the war. Three years after the start of the Great War, the United States entered World War I due to the Zimmermann telegram, the sinking of the Lusitania, the sinking of other ships by the German U-boats, and the Russian revolution as well as for financial reasons. On April 16, 1917, the United States declared war and sided with the Allies. In 1918, the war that changed the world forever had ended. ...

Egypt is located to the North East of Africa astride the Nile Valley. At about 3400 B.C. the Red Land kingdom, stretching from the Nile Delta to around Atfih and the White Land Kingdom covering the region between Atfih and Gebel es-Silsila came into being. At the same time a southern Kingdom attempted to conquer the north Kingdoms at about 3200 B.C. However, it is King Menes who subdued the Northern Kingdoms forming the early dynasty between 3100 and 2686 B.C. Menes established the capital –White Walls (Memphis) to the extreme north at the apex of the River Nile delta. ...

Reconstructing the details of the battles, which took place long-long time ago, not even in the new era is not an easy thing for historians, not to mention authors who struggle to describe the course of events both authentically and vividly. However, Steven Pressfield managed to create a novel, seen through the eyes of the only survivor Xeones in the battle of Thermopylae in the year 480 B.C. In other words, the book to be presented here is ‘Gates of Fire’ written in 1998 in the genre of the historical fiction. The name ‘Gates of Fire’ or as some ...

Chivalry is referred to as a medieval system that constituted of principles and customs associated with a knighthood. It is also mentioned to depict and put across the qualities desired and idealized by knighthood like bravery, honor, esteem, fearlessness and respect and gallantry towards women. There were different phases and points of views associated to Chivalry namely, the military, the social, and the religious. During 12th and 13th century and henceforth, Chivalry was understood not only as a moral code of conducts for knights but expanded to their religious and social behavior too. Chivalry in middle ages referred to the highest ...

The Wadi Al Hitan or the whale valley is a natural property that was inscribed in the world heritage list in the year 2005. This valley contains valuable remains of early and extinct fossils of archaeoceti and Whales. The fossils contained in this valley are very valuable in demonstrating the process of evolution and emergence of whales as ocean mammal rather than the land mammals. The fossils found in this this valley display the many forms and the life of the early species of whales in the transition period of their evolution (UNESCO, 2013). This is the only area ...

Obama emerged victorious one again in the presidential election in the United States because his campaign had an obsolete advantage over his opponent, Romney. This advantage was to the fact that his campaign attracted critical groups in the country. These groups include the Latinos, African America and women group. The Latinos group contributed about seventy one percent of Hispanic voters that voted for President Obama relative to only twenty seven percent that casted their votes for Romney. This turnout is considered the biggest Democratic margin since 1996. They were much concerned about the economy as whole and they ...

The book Nimitz by potter is a great book worthy of a great man. It was first published in the year 1976 and entails the definitive biography of one of the commander in chief in the Pacific fleet in the Second World War. This book has high respects from both the civilian and naval communities due to its rich content in naval heritage. The author of this book focuses on the story of one of the most prominent, respected and remembered navy officer in the history of the Second World War. After the capture of the American forces by the Japanese ...

Looking at foreign exchange rate from the period of January 5th to 18th 2012, there is an obvious price increase on US dollars as compared to Australian dollar. Normally the ratio between the two currencies is one-is-to-one and the decimal cents is what determines the gap in between. In the past weeks, the US dollar showed a slow but steady deflation signs especially during the aforementioned time period. By January 5th, the exchange rate goes as AUD 1 = USD 1.0254. Next day rate is at AUD 1 = USD 1.0.229 within 24 hours there is already been a 0.025 improvement on USD ...

Toni Morrison’s Sula tells the story of a small, black community called ‘The Bottom’ which is under threat by white men who want to use the land for a new gold course. The story, as the title suggests, focuses on the life of a girl who is growing up in the community, whose name is Sula. She and her best friend, Nel, have a difficult friendship which is strong when they are teenagers but grows more complicated and unsatisfying as they become women; this is largely due to the accidental death of a local boy at Sula’s hands (Morrison 64). Sula’s character ...