Essays on History

Review of Public Housing: The Way of the Future?

The article is informative providing the history, present and the future state of the public housing sector. The use of authoritative quotes from different articles and economists gives this article credibility. The use of an abstract provides the reader with a snippet of what is covered by the report, hence making it easy to read and understand even before you read the whole paper. In addition, this paper is long enough and covers most of the issues in the housing sector. The style of writing is friendly and easy to follow, making it an interesting article for any audience – Continue reading...

The Middle Ages, also termed as the Medieval Period is an era that lasted between 5th and 15th century. The downfall of the Western Roman Empire marked its beginning as they merged into the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery. It thus makes it the middle period of three ancient divisions of the Western history namely; the Antiquty, the Medieval period (divided into the Early, the High, and the Late Middle Ages), and the Modern Period. Each and every of these stages was characterized by different developments as well as the impact the development had in history (MEIER & MCGEOCH Continue reading...

Rhetorical propaganda can almost hypnotize listeners; the danger is that the techniques convince people to agree with very shaky theories. The essay Passmore uses many of the tricky devices to hook white listeners to believing she is speaking the truth. This essay discusses these devices by giving examples and showing how to recognize them.
In the very first two sentences the author uses a strategy that has been working very well in the United States for years. She tells her white listeners that they are a group that faces a frightening future because they are afraid. Fear is a Continue reading...

‘The Sixties’ is an acclaimed book by Terry H. Anderson, a history professor of Texas A&M University. The book provides an extensive account of some of the most difficult years that America witnessed. This paper intends to discuss the book and other related aspects of the area under discussion.
The book is written by the history professor and presents an authentic account of America when the nation was passing trough very tumultuous phase. Anderson presents the facts with a historian’s perspective and portrays how Americans successfully faced the cold war era and witnessed the transitional phase (Anderson). The Continue reading...

Neo-classical is a form of art that was dominant in Europe in the 18th Century. This art form was founded on the desire to re-create the spirit and forms of art from ancient Greece and Roman antiquity. The main characteristic of neo-classicism was Herculaneum. Artists in the neo-classical era ensured that their work had moral and aesthetic implications. Romanticism was the form of art that followed after the neo-classical era, this form of art was different as it was more complex than other art forms that came before it. Artistic freedom was the main feature of Romanticism and emphasis Continue reading...

Introduction

Rome is believed to date 2,766 years whereby it originated from a small Latin village. Rome grew to be a superpower, dominating the entire Mediterranean for many centuries (Arnason and Raaflaub 35). It was during the rule of the Julio-Claudians that Rome attained its highest levels of wealth and power. It could be referred to as the Golden time of the Roman Empire in terms of arts and literature. However, this period was also marked by notoriety and extravagance. The self-centeredness of the Julio-Claudians was evident, a phenomenon that was apparent in the persisting conflicts of interest and Continue reading...

Introduction

Indiana University Bloomington is public/government owned university in America that offers an array of faculties includes technical professions, as well as liberal arts. This university that is popularly known as IU Bloomington is located in Bloomington, Indiana. The university was founded in the year 1820 as a state seminary. Today, several years after this institution was established, the university offers a large number of various programs to its relatively large student population. Some of the faculties that can be found in this university include the school of business, public health, Jacob’s school of music, school of law and Continue reading...

Ancient Greek Vessels

The ancient Greek applied bronze, stone, glass, ivory, silver, terracotta, and other materials to design fabrics and vases. To the people of Ancient Greek, bronze was the material of choice due to its inexpensive nature, strength, resilience, and lightweight. The Greek people fashioned weapons, tools, ornaments such as horse decorations and clothing from bronze. Greeks designed vessels and vases to enable meet their daily needs. The Greek manages to make various qualities of materials by use of precious metals they largely apply vanish due to melting and reuse. The vessels of antiquity are cheaper unlike the ones established with Continue reading...

Influence of Etruscan Literature on Ancient Rome Architecture

The architecture of ancient Rome is often described as distinctive in nature due to its hugely unique characteristics. However, a deeper analysis of this architecture reveals that it was significantly influenced by other civilizations. Ancient Rome architecture was inspired by architectural styles that preceded it and the influence of these civilizations is evident in most of the classic roman architecture pieces. The emergence of Roman civilization was contemporary with of the Etruscans, the Egyptian and the Greek dynasties. However, unlike all these cultures, the importance and relevance of the Rome Empire continued going as the first millennium BCE faded. Continue reading...

Learning how to study and understand great art provide one with a remarkable prosperity of great artistic works. Accordingly, an artist’s visual language and the ability to read helps in opening up new ways of seeing enabling one to comprehend the unfolding of history and historical events. Ultimately, art helps to reveal the human experiences in all their lively emotional and dynamic existence. In short, the ability to demystify imagery as well as the motives of art enables one to understand historical events and to challenge the contemporary arrangements.
Of note is that there are technical skills and Continue reading...

Victims of Violence

Photographs portray deeper messages than written stories hence have over time become the major methods journalists use to ensure their stories stick. Pulitzer Prizes are given to journalists who have the most gruesome photographs. Readers ethically get repulsed by such images despite the fact that they really want to know what happened.
The immediate impact of these photos is that they spark emotional response. Photos have a greater impact in the transmission of the message than written words (Godwin 1983). Many people who are not addicted to reading or rather can’t read at all at least peruse the Continue reading...

The Prophet’s Mosque

Two categories describe the distinctive visual elements of Islamic art/architecture as decorated surface and structural shape. Understanding these characteristics of Islamic art/architecture proves a historical journey of the second holy mosque built next to the Prophet Muhammad’s home in Medinah in the 5th century 622 C.E. (Araffin 2005). The evolution of mosques from the humble rendering of the first erected with the Prophet’s own hands to the geometric patterned, repetitive designed, and calligraphy domed places of prayer and worship found in the Islamic world today is a testament to the faith in God of all Muslims globally. Continue reading...

What is the black studies program like at "University of Kansas"?

Introduction
The slave ships that arrived in the American soil decades back have defined and shaped the course of history. The struggle of freedom from slavery has been fought through the 18th century through the 19th century; even the 20th and 21st century has had incidences of slavery. Today, there exists a new form of slavery that is referred to as modern-day slavery. Understanding the past has always been crucial in planning for the future and anticipating for any possible occurrences. The past defines the present and creates an avenue of insightful information for discerning the future. United States Continue reading...

D. D. Guttenplan's decision to make Irving David’s libel suit against Lipstadt Deborah and Penguin Books his subject matter in his book entitled “The Holocaust on Trial” seems to be quite challenging. It is, however, eventually justified. The American writer, Guttenplan who currently resides in London was present in every day of the trial that took place in the year 1999. There were two things of varying importance at stake: the status or the position in the legislation of the Holocaust and its constituents that were definable and the overall outlook of David Irving reputation. On the face Continue reading...

The connection and possible collaboration between oral history and reminiscence is the key issue for Joanna Bornat in Chapter 35. The main difference of the two fields, according to Bornat is its focus: “Where oral history tends to focus on the content of memory, what is perhaps more characteristic of reminiscence and life review is attention given to process and outcomes for participants”. The blending of these two can lead to surprising revelations about the historical and social context of the past that often break national barriers, as the author own experience has shown. Both practices, although different in Continue reading...

Introduction to Asian history

Asian history is unique and interesting to study. These is because it is a collective history of the distinct peripheral regions which include; South Asia, East Asia and middle Asia. Asia is home to world’s earliest civilization with the three regions developing simultaneously through agriculture within the fertile rivers and valleys. The agricultural sector was also instrumental in spurring of the technologies that were shared across the regions. In Mesopotamia and China there were numerous similarities and exchanges in technologies and ideologies such as wheel and mathematics. Advancement in agriculture and technology led to the development of cities Continue reading...

Anthropology

Despite the one child policy implemented into China, due to the turbulent history of China throughout the 20th century, the growth of anthropology made it extremely dissimilar, with major cutoffs in the continent, principally for the period of wars during 1938 thru 1949 and the partisan operations upon the 50’s to the mid 70’s. Paradoxically, the actual first Chinese communication with the effort of Marx along with other nineteenth century advanced philosophers existed through Japanese conversions. China is the second largest, export led economy throughout the globe while the humanity is abundant just over one- billion people Continue reading...

The first question that makes this research extremely useful or meaningful is based on the movement of people and cars in the older eastern areas and newer western areas of the Old City of Jeddah. The question revolves around the main forces behind the disappearance of traditional cities. The two regions have different following the forms of buildings in the area, as well as functions. This is because, excessive movement densities for cars and people can heighten the process of deterioration of the Old City.
The second question that the researcher seeks to address in this research is on Continue reading...

Film Analysis Paper: Hotel Rwanda (2004)
Part 1: Select a film that deals with a topic from contemporary history (roughly the period from 1900-2008). It should be a narrative/feature film. Please do not select a documentary. The film can be recent (made within the last ten years) or something older (i.e. black & white). It can be American-made film or a foreign film. The only guideline is that it must primarily tell a story set in the past.
The Rwandan genocide between the Hutus and Tutsis was a particular event in history that has marked not only the nation it Continue reading...

In this documentary film, Art historian Gus Casely-Hayford travels to Africa to explore the fascinating history of the great kingdom of Zimbabwe. Produced by BBC in 2010, Great Zimbabwe is the third season of the Lost Kingdoms of Africa documentaries, which were being aired by BBC Four. Directed by Sarah Howitt and Ian Lilley, the film has a runtime of 51 minutes, with the narration part solely done by Gus Casely-Hayford. Casely is among the many historians, archaeologists and researchers of the recent past who have devoted their efforts to unravel the history of Africa and its incredible preserved Continue reading...

Introduction

The rise and development of America has a lot of historic landmarks. Being a nation of multiracial origin, discrimination was among the major problems that the minority groups in America faced. People were discriminated based on the skin color and their race. People lived very suspicious lives. Due to the differences, the Americans lived very suspicious of one another. The most devastating aspect of this discrimination was manifested when the incidence of “trail of tears occurred.” It was a historical happening where there was forceful relocation and ethnic cleansing that took place when the Native Americans were evicted from Continue reading...

Introduction

Slavery remains as one of the widely discussed topic in history. This can be accredited to the fact that the slavery period is a remarkable period in history. While much has been hypothesized regarding the slavery, it is of the essence to note that its scope dates back to the close of the year 1619. This is the year when the first crop of African slaves were shipped into Virginia in North America. Many at times, these slaves were “acquired” to serve various roles, particularly assisting in activities aligned with cash crop production. It is imperative to note that Continue reading...

Art from ancient Egypt is a uniform and unequivocal representation of the bona fide life of the day, the visual indication of societal qualities. It didn't allow the specialists the level of chance of representation that is associated with Western skilled workers (Grimal and Grimal). Representational craftsmanship from the First Dynasty up to the end of the New Kingdom is a record of perpetual degree and additionally reliable visual evidence of the social, political, and religious and venture lifestyles of old-fashioned Egyptian power. Different improvements happened in imaginative works all around the many years achieving low down cases that, Continue reading...

The overall research method used in “Teaching Diversity: What Can History Offer?” article is the descriptive qualitative method that involves comparing data from various articles. The descriptive qualitative method provides a tool for the author to develop detailed description importance of history using interviews, observation and document review. The strength of this method is that it provides the individual case information such as Clerk’s case. It also provides a description of the rich detail phenomena such as sexuality in disabled people. However, this method does not provide a way of testing hypothesis and theories.
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Nowadays, almost everyone heard at least something about global warming. But, it is not only the change of the climate, but also, the consequences of it. Usually, the term is used to describe a gradual increase in the average temperature of the Earth's atmosphere and its oceans, a change that is believed to be permanently changing the Earth’s climate. However, not every scientist believes the global warming is real. But, the data and facts say the planet is warming.
Interestingly, the humans knew about global warming even in the late 1800s, but did little to prevent it. So, Continue reading...

Literature

The perception of Joseph contradicts with what other thinks as he says, “Poetry is like bird.” The illiterate lad decides to abstain from petty crimes and study on the blacks’ history. The game of poetry was flexible to accommodate different understanding of the context. He differs with other students who believed that the novel, Heart of Darkness sheds light on the redemption and suffering of Africans. Joseph had a deep believe that the black’s history was underrated and nothing good was observed from it. The understanding of the poetry according to him means that the visionary literary work Continue reading...

The piece of art reflecting Egyptian civilization is as shown below.

Pic 1: Egyprian Cultural Ornaments.( Freeman Page 57)
In the early Egyptian culture, artwork was used for various reasons but more especially for symbolism purposes (Freeman. 25-45. The main art works during the ancient times were paintings, architecture and sculptures that were mostly inscribed in tombs and caves. The art work has transformed over time with most of the current artwork having a resemblance to the previous ones.
The artwork above is symbolic to the Egyptian culture. The elements in the picture symbolize royalty during the ancient Egypt times when Kings ruled (Bell & Sarah. 15-68). This artwork has been Continue reading...

Sociology

Introduction
C Mills’ inscribed the manuscript, the sociological imagination in 1959, during one of the signature themes and declarations within the manuscript - the social way of excellence. Mills suggests that the social sciences consider how individual issues affect the society as a whole. Mills taught a sociology course at Columbia University up until his demise in 1962 . In the year of 1964, the Society of the Study of Social problems organization presented C. Wright Mills with an award. This was an annual award awarded in appreciation of the greatest works within the social sciences . The manuscript and theory Continue reading...

- Introduction
In the introductory part, the research will give a brief overview of what the research is all about and the importance of the research. In order for the research to have meaning the term, art should be defined. In the modern society, many artists are well known to combine different elements of many cultures and traditions in their art. There are many reasons for doing this other than getting profit. The thesis statement will be about how the artist can combine the elements of many cultures and traditions (Hampton, 1999).
- Research objectives
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The preferred vacation spot is California State in the United States of America. This state has a large variety of tourist attraction sites which would be intriguing to watch. California boasts of diverse simulated attractions, spectacular landscapes and natural playgrounds that have a universal reputation. As a result, California continues to create a center of attraction to the majority of visitors drawn from all parts of the world. To begin with, the Redwood National Park of California that provides tourists with a range of open-air activities to undertake while in the state. The park presents vast woodlands with rivers Continue reading...

The essay by Naoki Sakai on post-colonial analysis portrays the west and Europe as entities that are more or less similar in nature, and they can be used interchangeably at times, but effort must be placed in the aim of distinguishing them geopolitically. He perceives the west and Europe as any other civilization that yields knowledge, but the main difference lies in the unique way of operating in the production of knowledge.
Naoki portrays the western people as being relatively superior to other people in the world. He says, “Unlike ‘empirical anthropological types’ such as Chinese, Indian, Eskimos, or Continue reading...

History

Apparently, the 1920s gestured a melodramatic break between the historical and forthcoming America. Sensationally, it is referred as the Roaring Twenties. Why? Before WWI and the American civil, Americans were psychologically and customarily deep-rooted in the 19th century culture. It was a high time for people to transform and usher in a fresh era. Most vivid brands of that time are movie palaces, advanced automobiles, flappers and speakeasies dance halls. These fluctuations are accredited to the new wide-ranging awakening that was sweeping across the whole world predominantly due to growing literacies and the actual lessons learnt from WWI. This Continue reading...

The Terracotta Army, which is also called The Army of the First Emperor or The Terra-cotta Warriors and Horses, was built during the Qin Dynasty (221-201 BCE) in China. The local farmers in Lintong District, Xi'an, Shanxi province, discovered The Terracotta Army in 1974 while digging a well. This immediately caught the attention of historians because it was important historical material for them to study regarding the Qin Dynasty. Today, there are more than 8,000 sculptures discovered in Xi’an. They were in three main pits covering a total area of about 19,120 square meters. The Army Continue reading...

Abstract

The Lake Moeris Quarry Road built while the Old Kingdom of Egypt between 26th and 22nd centuries B.C. is the oldest paved road of the world and is testimony to the excellent sense of planning and execution of the ancient Egyptians of that period. The 8-miles of the main road was built by placing large stone blocks that were kept on the desert sand and to facilitate passage of sledges filled with blocks of Basalt to the quay of Lake Moeris, and then on to River Nile. Those Basalt blocks were shipped downstream of Nile to construction sites in Continue reading...

Classics "Greek Mythology"

Part One
- Simonides
- A subject on Greek Mythology would be interested in Simonides as he is a Greek lyric poet who was involved in the distinction of the different famous personalities of his time. He uses fanciful elements that had real influence on the enlightenment of the Greek literature towards the classical era.
- “Psychopompus”
- This word is identified to refer to the guider of souls. In Greek mythology, Hermes is considered the psychopompos who leads the bodies of the dead to the state of stability as he hands them over to Charon.
- “culture hero”
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Abstract

The strong abilities of Romans to manipulate their physical environment via the development and use of strong military forces has led them to acquire several tracts of land across Europe, with its end as the Roman Empire having become memorable in scholarly works due to its sheer expanse. The magnanimity of the Roman Empire is perhaps best measured by the largeness of its territorial acquisitions. This study finds that the strong military forces of Rome has enabled it to two more consequential forms of physical manipulation – the slaughter of many people supporting Roman rivals and the systemic acquisition of Continue reading...

Essay Outline: Assessing the Success of Ancient Rome through the Manipulation of the Physical Environment by the Romans

Thesis Statement
The success of Ancient Rome in its efforts for territorial expansion and establishing the Roman state lies on the proficiency of Romans in manipulating their physical environment, made through their immensely devastating military power and the effects of their devastation in terms of eliminating population and transfer of land use.

Supporting Point 1:
Immense military power has enabled the Romans to conquer several lands within Europe – first, by conquering the whole of the Italian Peninsula and then by spreading throughout the rest of the continent.
Ancient Rome was divided into three eras – the Kingdom, the Republic and Continue reading...

Indian classical music influencing western music in 21st century

The concept that Indian classical music has influenced western music has gained so much weight in the recent years. Classical music is the considered to be the music of east. While hip hop, jazz, rock and pop music is associated with western culture.
Introduction: the influence of Indian music is very prominent on western music. There are various evidences that show how western music is inspired from the Indian classical music. When we see at the Jazz music, it’s played in clubs, concerts, and even in balls. In the beginning, it was played in few western countries but Continue reading...

Social issues

Racism
This is an image from the Science Museum that is commonly used to show the scientific form of racism. This picture was based on the view that blacks were inferior. This is an historical picture that was used by anti-racists when trying to bring an end to racism. Racism is a form of prejudice where people from a given racial background are oppressed by others. Scientific racism was the form of racism where the archeologist mocked people of black origin. According to the archeologists, the blacks were inferior as they represented the primitive developmental stages of man.
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Background of the Book

Moses is considered in the bible as one of the meekest characters who have ever lived in human history. It could be considered that his capacity to control his temper on the Israelites as they are travelling along the wilderness towards the ‘promised land’, Canaan. While this good picture about a good man is painted in the bible, Zora Neale Hurston thinks differently about the man as he writes about him in the book Moses, Man of the Mountain. Considerably, this book, released in 1990 provides a distinct picture on how an African woman understands the course of life Continue reading...