British poems

British Grand Mistakes The roars coming from the angry colonists, the gunshots fired by the colonists, and the smoke coming from from the gun fire. These horrific scenes took place in an event we call the Boston Massacre. This horrific event was a result of the many grand mistakes caused by the British. The British did not let the colonies have any word on the taxation laws being placed on the colonies. Little did the British know that this would eventually lead to a revolution that would lead…

"The Name Of War" - Jill Lepore In the developments in the book, Lepore clearly states that “King Phillip’s War was the defining moment” in early American history. What she means is that the war was mainly fought on the basis of the need to maintain cultural identity. The Native Americans fought hard to ensure that they kept their Indian ways of lives while the English colonialists also wanted to introduce their new ways of lives and make allies with the Indians. The English colonist majorly…

Plenty of people would see Orwell as a brave person for killing the elephant and saving all those people. In reality, he was just scared and ended up doing what the crowd expected him to do. As a policeman, his duty was to protect the crowd from the wild elephant, but killing the elephant just because people were cheering for him to do it was the issue. Looking at how Orwell handled the situation tells a lot about him at this age. Like how during his younger days, Orwell made poor choices,…

Luke Losoya October 19, 2017 HIST 1301-079 Professor Jonathan A Lee Causes of the Revolution from Two Contradictive Historians The American Revolution was a unique phenomenon. Many people from complete opposite ends of colonial societies united to gain independence from the sovereign Great Britain, who during the time was the military and economic powerhouse of the world. Historians often find themselves disagreeing over the causes that joined colonial forces together. Gary Nash and Bernard…

between the British Parliament and the American colonists. In the book, The Common Cause, David Ammerman, deeply explains how and why the American colonists reacted the way they did when these acts were passed by the British Parliament. The intention of these acts such as the Boston Port Act, Massachusetts Government Act, Justice Act, Quartering Act, and the Quebec Act, was to punish the colonists for their involvement in the Boston Tea Party of 1773. The colonists waited for the British…

preconceptions of Roman glory and imperium. Mattingly believes, contrary to many scholars, that meaningful contrasts and comparisons can be drawn between the Roman Empire and modern empires of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, most notably the British Empire. While Mattingly acknowledges that the concept of imperialism was not as well developed in the ancient world as in the modern era, imperialism is not a solely modern phenomenon and can be applied to Rome because of its uses and…

Samuel Seabury believed the colonies were intentionally causing problems with Great Britain just so they could rebel. He included in his argument against Independence, “When nothing seems to be consulted, but how to perplex, irritate, and affront, the British Ministry, Parliament, Nation and King?” Through this statement, he stated that the colonists were not trying to solve problems, but instead trying to annoy the King. Thomas Paine went on to say “But there is another and greater distinction…

In his book Vermeer’s Hat: the seventeenth century and dawn of the global world, historian Timothy Brook explores the roots of world trade in the seventeenth century by analyzing six paintings by the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer. The book has its primary focus on ties between Europe and the rest of the world and the growing Chinese impact on the world during the age of innovation and improvisation. Brook argues that globalization, which is believed to have begun in the twentieth and…

On July 4, 1776, colonists risked their lives and the lives of their future generations to fight the most powerful nation at the time, Great Britain. The period around 1960’s America was known as the Civil Rights Movement where African Americans risked their lives and self-respect facing ideologies that had no moral or ethical grounds. What these two events have in common is that people gathered together to fight for the right to participate in their system of governance: to participate in a…

Venkatrarma’s painting of the Kurukshetra War serves as an artistic response to war, primarily because it portrays the battle between a group of cousins (Kauravs and Pandavs) for the throne of an Indian Kingdom known as Kuru. The account of the battle is from the epic Indian story, Mahabharata. The painting by the artist depicts the time when chakravyuh was formed as a defensive formation which appears like a blooming lotus by the commander in chief of Kauravs in the battle of Kurukshetra. As…