Anne of Great Britain

opinions of what actually happened from 1688 to 1763. IF you were able to ask an early colonist, they would tell you it was a time of great opportunity. A time when England had loosened the reigns, so to speak, so that the colonists could grow and create a new way of life for themselves. Now if you were able to ask the same question to King William, or Queen Anne, or even King George. The answer would be much different. You would get details of long drawn out wars, and be told about the struggle…

During the 18th century, France was involved in an independence war between the British and North American colonies. France was led into an economic crisis, as these wars cost France an abundance of money. The most costly war for France was the French Revolution of 1789, where the people waged war on each other. The French revolution was led by the Third Estate, who were mainly composed of the bourgeoisie class citizens. New taxes and loans were not talked about by the bourgeoisie class, which…

early Settlers arrived to New England. The first Settlers were the Plymouth Colony, led by William Bradford. They were often referred to as Pilgrims or Separatists, and they arrived on The Mayflower Compact. The Separatists maintained ties with Great Britain till eventually they broke away from the English ways. With the arrival of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Puritanism was later on founded. Notable leader of Puritans was John Winthrop. He arrived with the…

The Code was enacted on March 21, 1804, and laid out seven laws which were “a composite of laws from the Old Regime” with other traditional values and from “the Revolution” (Anne Commire). Prior to the French Revolution, the Old Regime was the social system that ruled over France and was controlled by the monarchy. Napoleon sought to blend ideas from the French Revolution with modified laws from the Old Regime, which he thought…

industrial revolution is impacting life expectancy. Thomas writes, “People live longer because they are better fed, better loged, better clothed and better attended in sickness”. Thomas is informing the common person that the industrial revolution is a great place to live in but…

January, 1933 to May, 1945; a calamitous and tragic time period where six million Jews were taken out of existence. No one could foresee that a demanding, judgmental, and controlling leader was going to take over the presidency of Germany and order for the torture, misery, and execution of a manifold of innocent people. Adolf Hitler, born in 1889, grew up in close proximity to the border of Germany and eventually led his way up the political chain and became chancellor in 1932. From being…

Billy Graham, his good friend, Torrey Johnson, and four others went to Great Britain and several other European countries for their first international Youth for Christ tour. They preached in soccer fields, churches, and entertainment halls and they were an enormous hit. Graham described the city as “dark and grimy” because of…

The Second World War homefront is one theme in film whose treatment has differed over time; this is most evidently illustrated in the two films Since You Went Away, directed by John Cromwell in 1944, and Hope and Glory, directed by John Boorman in 1987. Since You Went Away was produced by David O. Selznick in 1944, and in addition wrote the screenplay for the film, originally based on the novel by Margaret Buell Wilder, Since You Went Away: Letters to a Soldier from his Wife (1944). The release…

terrorists because they destroyed property blantly to achieve an objection that was against the current government. To begin with, just because colonists disagreed with a tax instituted by the federal government, they destroyed valuable goods at a great economic cost to England. They used mob mentality, a tactic often formulated with terrorism, to convince other colonists to ruin goods in order to “prove a point”. For example, in 1772, when a customs ship runs aground, colonists take it into…

The word holocaust comes from the Greek language and means to sacrifice by fire, this is the fate that some of the holocaust victims suffered. The Holocaust or Final Solution was the inhumane killing of over 6,000,000 Jews and 5,000,000 minorities between January 30, 1933-May 8, 1945. The Holocaust took place in Germany and Eastern Europe during World War II. The anti-semitism had been going on in Europe way before the Holocaust was even thought of , the hate for Jews comes from the ideas of…