Battle of Hampton Roads

The American civil war was known to be the bloodiest battle in American history and the last war fought on American soil. The competitors of the American Civil War were the Union and the Confederacy, or North and South and both of the sides thought that the war would be quick but the war carried on for four years and killed two percent of the American population. The American Civil War turned America into a much stronger nation because of the many developments that it generated during the very…

According to the Human Security Report in 2013 by the Human Security Report Project, global battle deaths since the conception of the atomic bomb have been generally declining.1 War simply isn’t advantageous for nuclear nations after the advent of the atomic bomb. Any war with nuclear weapons would be the end of modern society as we know it. No…

This resulted in attempts to capture Southern ports. Two of the most important naval battles were battles for harbors at New Orleans and Mobile, both operations were conducted by the Union navy because trade was still leaking into theses crucial ports and the North needed to control the Mississippi River. This resulted ambitious attacks to claim the ports (Axelrod), In the battle of New Orleans, the Union commander ran his ships single file through a hole in Confederate defences.…

army officers were incompetent.” One of the more notable accomplishments of these attempts is the fall of Isaac Hull. While the battles on land were a disaster, the U.S navy provided a tremendous boost to American morale. The British navy on the other hand, was stunned. While battling over seas with France, the British only lost a total of five battles midst, out of the 200 they took part in. The first victory by U.S naval commander Isaac Hull against…

force these shells could make in wooden ships, Ironclad ships had born. Ironclad ships made ammunition casings bounce off and because of their tremendous weight; steam powered engines were used to move them across oceans. In March 1862 at the Battle of Hampton Roads Union Vessel Monitor and the Confederate vessel Merrimac was the first demonstration of the superiority of ironclads over wooden ships and thus would revolutionize naval warfare forever. (Foner, Give Me Liberty, pg.504). When iron…

produce children, making the proposition to consume the children of the poor seem less immoral. In Rape of the Lock Pope also insults a character in a similar way, but uses a phrase instead of a single word. When Belinda gets on the boat to go to Hampton Court, the author describes her beauty while criticising her at the same time, “If to her share some Female Errors fall, Look on her Face, and you 'll forget 'em all.” (Canto II, Lines 17-18) In this quote Pope is saying that even if Belinda…

People who are involved in espionage usually must remain unknown during their lifetimes. Achieving anonymity even in history is especially true of African American spies and particularly of women spies. When people think of a civil war spy, they imagine a male. Nevertheless, women played a huge role and were perfect because they were easily trusted and viewed as a non-threat. African Americans were also great spies because they had direct access to conversation as they were serving and cooking…

I’ve chosen to analyze a film for my research project by director Hugh Hudson called Revolution. Revolution was released on December 25, 1985, through Warner Bros. Entertainment and was produced by Irwin Winkler and written by Robert Dillon. The main starring casts are Al Pacino, Donald Sutherland, and Nastassja Kinski (IMDb. “Pacino Revolution,”2016). Al Pacino is one of the many actors I admire in the industry because of all the glorious movies he’s been in, such as Righteous Kill, The…

When it appeared off Tripoli on 24 July “the Pasha was a good deal disturbed and anxious to treat for peace.” One week later, the American schooner Enterprise, won a decisive victory in a three-hour battle with a larger Tripolitian cruiser without a single American casualty. This began the War that would set a precedent for the rest of the world, years later, the conclusion of the war in 1805 set off a wave of national pride among Americans, inspiring…

we know it deals with white law enforcement and young black females and males. Police brutality has been going on for year just hasn’t been so main stream as it is today. According to (Anon,2018) Hubert Locke writes, “When used in print or as the battle cry in a black power rally, police brutality can by implication cover a number of practices, from calling a citizen by his or her first name to a death by a policeman's bullet. What the average citizen thinks of when he hears the term, however,…