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History.com Staff. “Bloody Sunday Massacre in Russia.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 2009, www.history.com/this-day-in-history/bloody-sunday-massacre-in-russia. Russia was under the control of Tsar Nicholas II and they were in a losing war against Japan. That caused violence in St. Petersburg in what became know as the Bloody Sunday. Nicholas fell under the influence of a man called the mad monk, Grigory Rasputin, which caused Nicholas to make many bad choices. The demands for reform…

disease was behind the death of one third of Europe’s population (The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica). The bubonic plague is primarily a disease of rodents and fleas, and humans only accidentally enter the usual cycle of rodent-flea-rodent (The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica). Bubonic plague is a bacterial disease; it has a violent history, and the severe disease can be cured (The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica). The bubonic plague is a zoonotic disease, which…

Morgann Byers Mr. Holzhauer Government 10 May 2018 American Foreign Policy Foreign policies have been somewhat important in our society. They have shown us the flaws in the statements, and the rules that we have created and making sure we do not repeat the mistakes that we have made in the past. Previous policies have gotten us into unexceptional places in our society and even into foreign affairs. Former vice president Hubert H. Humphrey stated “Foreign policy is really domestic policy with…

enact or decisions they make. One such person was the former President of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev who was born on 2nd March 1931 to peasant parents in the Stavropol territory in southwestern Russia (The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica). In spite of his poor background, he steadily rose through the ranks of the then ruling party, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), and managed to implement sweeping reforms to the Union’s political systems. As a result, he…

The Man who Laughs explores social issues that were popular in the 1920s. Big issues that are apparent in the film are the shift in women 's roles, Gwynplaine’s rise to fame reflecting the recent development of the American movie star and how his mutilated face symbolizes the Gilded Age of the Roaring 20’s. Dea and Josiana are the two distinct characters who embody the women of the twenties. They represent the idea that there is an old, traditional sort of woman and a new woman who is shaped…

The Six Great Extinctions Extinction is just another word used for the dying off of one species or of many species. Since the beginning of time there have been five mass extinction and then some smaller extinctions. Either big or small, they play a huge role in the evolution of the species around us. Whether they were a common ancestor, or a close relative to an organism, they still helped the organisms we know today evolve and adapt to the environment that we now share. During the extinction…

The most despicable person who ever lived is often thought to be Adolf Hitler, but he did not establish the concentration camps or the plan to eradicate the people he deemed impure. The real monster was Heinrich Himmler. His life before World War II helped shape his political views. With his political views, he quickly moved up the ranks, and accomplished many things for Nazi Germany. Heinrich Himmler came from a humble background and lived an average life before World War II. Heinrich…

the processes that allow those societies to be altered or preserved (Britannica Encyclopaedia, 2015). It does this by closely examining important structures of the societies for example institutions, communities, gender, populations, age groups or race (The Australian Sociological Association, 2016). Sociology also studies social stratification or social status, social movements, along with social change (Britannica Encyclopaedia, 2015). The study of sociology correlates with the social theories…

In the early sixteenth century, Europeans sailed and searched for land beyond Europe. As a result of these searches, the area now known as Canada along with the rest of North and South America was settled by Europeans, with the British and the French settling in Canada. However, the British and the French were not the first people to settle in Canada. Prior to them, several groups of people, referred to today as Aboriginals, Native Americans, First Nations, or Indigenous people, lived in the…

“Buffalo Bill opens a pawnshop on the reservation”(1). Buffalo Bill, born as William Frederick Cody, was an American buffalo hunter, and an Indian fighter. He had a reputation for accurate marksmanship, knowledge of Indian ways, and endurance(Encyclopaedia Britannica,2017). Buffalo Bill was in high demand as a scout and guide, for the United States Fifth Cavalry, while the government was attempting to wipe out Indian resistance to settlement out in the western part of the United States. This…