Confiscation

The Opium War starts with the conflict between British and China, and ends with an unfair treaty and began the ‘century of Humiliation’. Before the 1800s, China, after its development through many centuries, revealed almost no difference with British and other European countries in many aspects such as agriculture, revenue & consumption, handicraft manufacturing and so on. It becomes diverse after British’s great technical improvements whereas China continued to stay in same situation over time.…

Throughout the course of history, the individual has always been the driving force of progress and innovation in any society. As a result, the importance individual became the primary focus of the prominent 20th century author Ayn Rand. Best known for her novel Atlas Shrugged, Rand rose into relevance in the middle of the 20th century as an outspoken critic of communism and the founder of the philosophy of objectivism. Being born during a tumultuous time in Russian history, Rand’s early life…

Reconstruction in America (1865-1871) What were the limits of Reconstruction in the United States from 1865 – 1871? Reconstruction was the period in American history following the Civil War until 1877. The country was in the process of repairing the damages and bringing in the former slave population into the constituency. A series of laws and amendments were passed in attempt to accomplish this lofty goal. The three pieces in particular are the Reconstruction amendments, the Reconstruction…

Guns have been a way of life in this country for hundreds of years. They have been used from hunting, to self-protection, and to protection of the citizen rights of this country. With the recent mass shootings that has been seen in the United States, there has been an increased push for gun control laws. The thought is, if the country places a ban guns, there will be less shootings, resulting in needless deaths of our citizens. Is there a correlation between guns and the number of homicides?…

President Abraham Lincoln feared that allowing the blacks to fight for the union would cause border states like Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri to secede as well. This changed with the passage of the Second Confiscation and Militia Act in 1862. However, the African Americans played an important role in the civil war. They provided valuable information and suitable action to military leaders on the Union side. In a correspondence to General Parke of the Union…

The first of Stanton’s stages, that of classification, is certainly applicable to the genocide against the Jews during the Holocaust. Stanton depicts classification as a process of ‘othering’, the aim of which is to distinguish the differences between desirable and undesirable demographic groups. In this case you have the polarities of the ideal Aryan race and the Jews. The Nazi regime sought to ensure as little confusion as possible as to which category an individual belonged. In September of…

College is a place where students who have successfully completed high school go to extend their knowledge and eventually earn a degree. College is only available to deserving, well-rounded, and deserving students. Once a student proves he or she is worthy of a college education, he or she spends thousands of dollars each year to earn a degree. So is someone who is in prison because and committed illegal acts a deserving, well-rounded, and dedicated student? That person is in jail as a…

Through existence of the Greek polis, political views and popular ideologies were ever changing due to the unique politics within each city state. Such changes include a continuous decrease in popularity towards the implementation of democracy in contrast towards oligarchy and the idea of the benevolent dictator. However, certain aspects of Greek life were significant enough to have persisted throughout Greek political life, the use of religion to derive legitimacy for example. Democracy and…

The history of the relationship between the United States and Cuba is a very interesting one. The two countries shared a very healthy and benevolent relationship during the nineteenth century. From around 1868 to 1898, thousands of Cubans of all ages and classes migrated to United States (Perez Jr., 167). This was also the time when presence of the American people and their culture proliferated increasingly in Cuba. The Cuban society was slowly emulating the American culture within itself (Perez…

Thomas More’s satirical novella, Utopia, portrays the idea of a “perfect society” in response to the flaws of the society around him. More presents a Utopian society which acts as a mirror through which key ideas are reflected. More reflects on the ideas of leaderships and the systems of governance, religion and society by envisaging Utopian alternatives that encourage the reader to consider the flaws of the European monarchies, changes to the agrarian system of economy and privileging of wealth…