August Spies

William Bradford carefully documented the reasons that his religious sect migrated so far from home in his book Bradford’s History of Plymouth Plantation. The “Pilgrims”, as Bradford named his spiritual peers, eventually traversed the Atlantic motivated by two main factors. Their perceived belief in the failure of the English Reformation was the first factor. The second factor was as a result of the issues that arose when they sought religious freedom in places outside of England. These factors…

The Cuban Missile Crisis was a huge part of the Cold War. The Soviets funded the Cuban Military to secretly make and smuggle weapons onto the island and set them up facing the United States. A US spy plane reported the construction of a Soviet nuclear missile base in Cuba. President Kennedy called for a naval blockade and demanded the removal of the missiles. War was avoided when the Russians agreed to remove the missiles and the United States…

During World War 2(WW2), there were many questions asked about the Japanese Occupation(JO). One of the most frequently asked question was the reason why the Japanese thought that they were superior.The invasion all started due to the following reasons. Firstly, they were having high birth rates during that time. Due to that, the food resources was not sufficient to tally the needs of people in the country and they needed to implement food rationing. Thus, in order to get more food resources,…

The Realm of Uncertainty William Shakespeare is known for his abundance of tragic stories, and Hamlet is no exception. In Hamlet, the young prince Hamlet discovers his father has been murdered, so he sets out to seek revenge on the killer and causes havoc on his way. One obvious theme of Hamlet is uncertainty where ghosts, acts of insanity, and treachery all plague the characters. This looming matter drives the characters into complete madness. The reason for their madness is not knowing what…

minds and make them experience unforgettable suspense and fear; this is seen and mimicked in many films, that future directors would make after his iconic and legendary movies. Many of his movies reflect on his childhood. He was born in London on August 13, 1899. He had two older siblings and had very strict catholic parents. He had a very lonely childhood and was always being punished by his parents. His parents’ ways of punishment really took a toll on him. “He also remarked that his mother…

The United States was facing a great controversy with the depression going on in the late 1920’s. It was the most devastating economic downturn that the western industrialized world had ever faced. It caused nearly half of America’s banks to fail, and over 13 million people were unemployed by 1933. In order to combat these tremendous issues, President Franklin Roosevelt would have to create a set of programs impactful enough to face it. When the New Deal was active in the fall of 1932, it would…

Salman Rushdie’s novel Midnight’s Children (1980), which won the Booker Prize and the Booker of Bookers, weaved its narrative based on the children born with magical abilities on midnight of 14 August 1947. Freedom at Midnight (1975) is a non-fiction work by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre that chronicled the events surrounding the first Independence Day celebrations in 1947. There is a paucity of films related to the independence and partition…

Today, the word Watergate carries more meaning than that of the hotel in Washington DC. The word also represents the political scandal that brought down Richard Nixon's presidency and caused him to resign. However, he did not resign on his own, he resigned following impeachment charges brought against him. This left many wondering whether Nixon could actually be impeached by Congress for his crimes. Impeachable offenses are outlined in the United States Constitution article 4 section 2. Under…

as improvised tools, shoe remnants, and aircraft wreckage. A few years later they found remains of a castaway on the island. Another theory is that Earhart and Noonan were working as spies for the U.S. government. Its believed that the Lockheed Electra was wrecked intentionally after departing from their course to spy on Japanese- occupied islands, or that they landed one of their islands and were taken as…

lacked ammunition and the Minister of War favoured hand-to-hand combat with bayonets, which was practically useless against the enemies’ rifles and machine guns. Russia suffered many huge military defeats, an example being the Battle of Tannenberg (18 August) with 300 000 dead or wounded and over 100 000 Russian POWS. Defeats like this caused demoralisation within the Russian army, with it getting so bad that “There had been 195 000 desertions between 1914 and February 1917, but between March…