Confederate States Navy

1776 by David McCullough gives the reader a well rounded perspective about what was happening in both Washington’s Army and Howe’s army, showing that there are always two sides to a story. The book changes the point of view every few chapters. It is more focused on the military aspects and tactics. We learn about King George and what he thought about the colonies. The King anounces to parliament that England was going war to fight the rebellion in the colonies. There was some debate in…

From the 18th century to part of the 19th century, the nation of China had a great sense of pride as well as dislike for outsiders. The dislike of foreigners stemmed from the belief that China was the most superior culture in existence. Chinese culture was based off of Confucian theory at the time. This directly influenced the events leading up to the First Opium War. Once western traders arrived in China for the first time, foreign ideas infiltrated China and began to change the ways of life.…

The first opium war, which commenced on the 18th of March, 1839 and ended on the 29th of August, 1842. The First Opium War was fought between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and the Qing Imperium. This war came about due to their conflicting opinions on trade, additionally occurred due to the factor of the extinction of opium. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the request for Chinese goods (particularly silk, porcelain, and tea) in the European market engendered a trade inequity because the…

the war. Almost 400,000 women served the armed forces—a number that exceeded total male troop strength in 1939. During WWII, the role of women in the service and on the home front has expanded immensely. Women worked in nursing services, Air Force, Navy, Army, the Salvation Army and the Red Cross. During this period some trade unions serving traditionally male occupations like engineering began to admit women members. Australian nursing services…

were cut and laid to the side. In a strange and eerie silence, the sailors pressed on as their faces hung void. Clean from all expression and lacking of emotion. Only the occasional gasping wince of exhaustion would reflect their true physical state. A state that had been masked by a “Charm” incantation used by Vlad IV. Their minds - all nine hundred of them - had fallen prelude to his bewitching ways. They had been locked out of certain truths and mentally chained to Vlad’s desires. And…

The sound of drunken laughter and the lively tune of the cabin boy’s fiddle mixed with the whistle of the wind and the harsh wail of seagulls filled the decks of the Blue Anne. It was the finest night the crew had seen in three moon cycles, so a bit of drinking seemed inevitable. Boots pounding against the salt weathered wood while bottles of ale clinked in celebration. A few of the completely intoxicated men had taken to dancing a merry jig around the perimeter of the ship, while others…

When Captain Amasa Delano visits the San Dominick he notices the tension between Babo and Don Benito Cereno while Babo is shaving Benito Cereno’s beard, “not unaffected by the close right of the gleaming steel, Don Benito nervously shuddered” (Melville 74). The tension between Babo and Cereno is ironic because Captain Delano does not understand what is actually going on between the two characters, creating tension between Captain Delano and the ship as a whole. Babo appears as the servant…

Kevin Seawright is a financial and administrative operations leader mainly known for his talent in the strategic vision of businesses and ability to command new opportunities. With over thirteen years of experience, Seawright has the aptitude of knowledge about managerial and financial operations that many in the field simply do not have. Kevin Seawright's ability to encompass others to a primary goal is probably one of his most important attributes. There aren't many individuals in the…

countries and destroy themselves by committing the same follies as humanity then the humans will then inherit what remains of the earth. The novel was Capek way of saying that a huge catastrophe won’t be society’s downfall; it will be because of the state, economics and prestige. If we view the newts as representative of what humans have the potential to become, then we can see that our “war with the newts” is really a war with ourselves not to fall into the mediocrity of viewing the world…

The New General Zaroff Rainsford wakes up the next morning and, surprisingly, does not feel regretful of killing General Zaroff. Now that he has hunted the most dangerous game as well, he understands how General Zaroff felt. As he is walking downstairs, he finds a large group of General Zaroff’s workers crowded around the entrance. There, waiting, is another sailor who was stranded by his crew. Rainsford, afraid the man was a brigand, curiously hurried towards everyone. “Who are you?”…