Essays on Short History

Thesis: The role of U.S. military has become the primary force which opposes terrorism by capturing and/or eliminating terrorists as is exemplified by two raids that were conducted in Tripoli and Somali (Starr, Perez, & Botelho, 2013). These two instances also illustrate how the United States views itself as the one who should decide what to do with terrorists once they are captured as they took the terrorists without discussing it with the Libyan government giving the rest of the world the impression that the US believes they are superior.

Two International Incidents

The capture of Abu Anas al Libi in Tripoli (2013) ...

The History of Opera

Hardly anyone was not interested in where opera starts its history. We witness lots of new genres appear year by year, but such a long-standing type of musical art remains a mystery for many people. I always wondered who was the first to discover that high voice singing is a talent and made it worth attention. Moreover, with the development of this genre, the opera houses were built to make the sound more elaborate and unique. It brought lots of changes to secular life of rich aristocrats who were aware of theatre mostly. Opera became another alternative to spending ...

In the 1930’s, and then again in the 1960’s a program was enacted called food stamps. The original 1930’s program allowed people to purchase $1 in orange stamps and receive $.50 in blue stamps ("A Short History Of SNAP | Food And Nutrition Service", n.p.). Food stamps were ended after the depression ended because there no longer was a profound need for it. President Kennedy began the program again in the 1960’s; eventually laws were changed and those below poverty level could receive food stamps for free ("A Short History Of SNAP | Food And Nutrition Service", ...

Colonialism is one of the most actual issues of the modern historical science. The formation of colonial regimes entailed profound changes in the economic situation of the African population and reflected in the nature and way of their management. The British and French colonial models were quite different, but I am not sure whether it will be correct to say that colonies were only raw appendages of the empires and got nothing in exchange. The process of colonization of Africa has become widespread in the second half of the XIX century, especially after 1885 and the beginning of the ...

The Crystal Palace is a massive and very impressive building in London that was constructed from iron and glass in 1851 in Hyde Park in London specially for the Great Exhibition of that year. The Palace received its name from the magazine Punch, in which the playwright Douglas Jerrold called it in 1850 as “a palace of very crystal” . Though the building was very beautiful and seemed to have a promising future, after the end of exhibition the Crystal Palace was taken down and moved to Sydenham Hill, the place not far from London. The building there was kept ...

What has been the evolution of development theories since the “linear stages” period? Have these theories added value to the understanding/explaining the causes of underdevelopment? Give reasons for/against your position.

Among the many fundamental questions that continue to confound economists today, is the issue, what are the causes of economic growth and decline? Economic theories have emerged to locate, understand, and thus, develop the reasons behind the successes and failures of economies. While the original answers for this question were in the form of simple theories, nowadays, the complexity of this question has been better understood as these theories ...