Delian League

The Individual Cost of War as Represented in The Bhagavad-Gita and The Florentine Codex The history of war extends nearly as far as the history of humanity and so expressions of war’s impact abound in literature. The Bhagavad-Gita and The Florentine Codex, texts concerning war, exhibit similarities despite having been written centuries and continents apart. Each emphasizes that although war carries global repercussions, it causes conflict on an individual level as well. In The…

The epic of human history can be best described as a story of various worlds colliding. Even in ancient times, civilizations brushed up--or collided head on--against other civilizations, creating larger and larger pictures of the known world. As these peoples interacted, classical scholars wrote down the stories heard and knowledge learned into their own works, though the tales they recorded often showed fanciful versions of the edges of the map. One modern author, Christopher Grafton, argues in…

Nationalism and Imperialism became very important and impacting concepts in the nineteenth century. Not only was Nationalism and Imperialism existent in the nineteenth century, but these two concepts and ideas existed before the nineteenth century and started to rise and increase in impact in the late nineteenth, early twentieth centuries. By definition, Nationalism was the concept or idea that a country was better than all the others, which contributed to governments distinguishing themselves…

Li Bai wrote “Drinking Alone Beneath the Moon” in 774AD when he stayed in Chang’an, which is the capital of the Tang Dynasty. In this time, Li Bai would like to achieve his ambitions. Because of his deceit and jealousy, and because his mistrusted Li Bai, Emperor Tang Ming Huang did not put him in an important position, for the emperor did not trust him. For this reason, Li Bai felt lonely, depressed and discontented. Moreover, one of his best friends, Zhizhang He, returned home several months…

Introduction by Joy: At the onset of the First World War, Edward Bernays, in his publication, Crystallizing Public Opinion, had delved into the concept of formulating methods of influencing the masses. Soon after this discovery, he started correlating mass interests with minority interests of a client. He realized, merely grabbing the attention of masses was not enough. Public relations should focus on meeting the demands of the crowd. Bernays in his book, Propaganda, spoke of…

WAR POETRY “War doesn’t determine who is right, it determines who is left”. These are the words of the Welsh intellectual Bertrand Russel. It is approximated 123 million people fell victim to death during the wars in 20th Century. Firstly, what is war? The Oxford Dictionary has two definitions of war, the first definition refers to war as “A state of armed conflict between different countries or different groups within a country”. The other definition refers to war as “A state of competition or…

INTRODUCTION World War 1 occurred during 1914-1918 and was originally called The Great War before the Second World War in 1939. It had a devastating impact on all of the countries that were involved as the mortality rate was huge. There were several reasons The Great War started which included some long term causes such as Imperialism & Nationalism as well as a few short term triggers that included the assassination of Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie which in turn became known as the…

The Treaty of Versailles was a peace treaty that brought World War 1 to an official end. The treaty had put the blame for the war on Germany. I am writing this essay to gain knowledge on the effects of the Treaty of Versailles for the country of Germany. By writing this essay I believe that I will be able to better comprehend the what the Treaty Of Versailles did to the country of Germany. My essay will explain the Treaty of Versailles, the reparations, the Weimar Republic, The Beer Hall Putsch,…

World War I, the first war that is generally understood to be a total war, affected soldiers from around the world fighting on the Eastern and Western fronts in various ways. The experiences that individuals faced are generally dependant on random factors of military rank, ethnicity, which of the fronts someone was stationed and the time said soldier was stationed. There seems to be two overall perspectives of how soldiers made sense of the war at the time of writing their first-hand accounts,…

Introduction The beginning of the twentieth century saw the start of one of the world most devastating wars, World War 1. The First World War initially began in 1914 after the assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand. After his murder the Austrian government declared war on Serbia as they believed that they were behind the murder of the Archduke. His murder was what started the war however there was tension leading up to the assassination. World War 1 involved most of the European…