Great Fire of London

He once said “Injustice everywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Because of his strong beliefs of equality paired with the great importance he placed on peace, he was able to lead his historic march on Washington. His protests were effective in time and resulted in the end of segregation. African Americans still face injustice to this day, Black Lives Matter is a movement started…

old Christopher McCandless among circumstances of timid irresolution and its resulting speculation, individuals across the nation began battling with the obscure and unfathomable details surrounding the atypical circumstances of his death- sparking a fire across the nation, igniting a feud which longed to understand and conclude how he came to his own demise. Indeed, while some wrote off McCandless as a “nutcase” for seeking refuge in the Alaska interior without a sufficient holding of…

apprentice at his uncle’s printing shop as a young boy before quitting and moving to Philadelphia, where he would live for most of his life. Franklin had various jobs in Philadelphia until the American Revolution began. He organized the very first fire department in the United States and served as a representative for several…

manipulation. Lower class young men saw the war as a chance to make something of themselves. They thought that the war would was a chance to rise up from poverty and make something of themselves. They were determined to die heros, not in a factory fire like their mother, or of alcoholism like their father, or of consumption like their younger sister. Becoming a war hero allows for class mobility that they would otherwise never have been able to attain. Unfortunately, they were blinded by the…

For humans, there is always more to desire and something else to achieve. Whether it's for social acceptance, or the concept of personal gain, or mere pride, there is a hunger for more. As humans become less grateful for what they already possess, the process of conceding to their inner hunger commences to dominate their lives and can lead to a life of starvation. The widespread surrender of humans to their inner hunger has contributed to a protracted famine. While the extravagance and extent to…

Lior Bar-El Sinai Scholars Essay 4/10/16 The First Roman Jewish War The First Roman Jewish war was a conflict with great ramifications. It resulted in the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, and started the transformation from a Judaism centered on temple sacrifices to a Judaism dominated by Rabbis and the interpretations of scripture. Militarily, this conflict was important as it saw diverse militaries fighting with contrasting tactics. The Jewish rebels fought with irregular tactics…

The Suez Crisis was caused by Egypt's approach to modernization and response to funding withdrawal further developed by the significance of the canal and views of other countries, resulting in damage to the canal as well as international relations. In order to understand how the Suez Crisis unfolded it is important to examine Hist and Geog context. WORK 2ND SENT Geographical The Suez canal was an approximately 100 mile long waterway connecting the Mediterranean Sea from Port Said and the Red…

Collin’s IRA and Lloyd George’s ex-soldier divisions of the RIC came to a head on the morning of 19 November 1920 when fourteen British officers were shot in their beds by agents of the IRA . In retaliation, the Auxiliary division of the RIC opened fire on a Gaelic football match which killed twelve…

The Civil War was one of the first wars to be documented thoroughly with the aid of photography. Mathew Brady and his team of twenty-three men took great care to document the war thoroughly. Brady began his photography career in photography in 1844, opening a Daguerrean Miniature Gallery in New York City (Mathew Brady 's World - A Biographical Timeline). Brady gained permission from president Lincoln to follow the Union troops to document the war in 1861. Mathew Brady, his team and his…

light-hearted and humorous musing of the appeal to be young again, which summarizes the hedonistic worldview of Lord Henry in The Picture of Dorian Gray that may ring true to others. The Picture of Dorian Gray is a novel that is set in Victorian era London; a society in which appearance and wealth are held at an extremely high value. The youth in beauty and the beauty in youth are treated as commodities and it is of no surprise that the protagonist, Dorian Gray, who was cursed with the blessing…