Gunpowder

The Usage of Symbolism as a Mechanism for Social Control in 1984 and V for Vendetta Symbolic figureheads have, throughout history, been able to shape society by utilising their own image and what they represent. George Orwell’s 1984 and Alan Moore’s V for Vendetta both explore this idea in detail. Orwell paints a picture of a bleak dystopian future in 1984, wherein the government’s ruling party exercises totalitarian control and the populace is either brainwashed by the party, or shows…

The cultural clash between the European White Colonizers and Native Americans developed because of the differences in cosmology, technology, and the cultural bias the European Colonizers held against the Native American people. This clash demonstrates how these differences caused domination, opposition, and superiority among these two cultures. Such things as access to natural resources, the Europeans confidence in their god given right to rule the world, as well as the Europeans views of the…

transporting food to the troops was a problem, the South was more agricultural rather than industrial and could produce more food to eat with less people to feed. The South was not industrial, however, they were very resourceful of what they had. Gunpowder mills were built and they melted down thousands of church and plantations bells for bronze to make cannons with. These advantages helped keep the South up and fighting for the four years the Civil War lasted even though they had…

that was made to protect the French from the English attacking them. The Bastille used to be used as a prison where all the prisoners that were sent there, were sent because the King sent them there. Royal authorities transferred 250 barrels of gunpowder from the Bastille to the Paris Arsenal so it was a lot easier to attack. On July 14, 1789 common people, armed with weapons, surrounded the Bastille. The reason for the common people to attack the Bastille was because it was a symbol of the King…

eleven colonists. The Boston Massacre was proof of how unhappy the colonists were and the dangerous results it could lead to, yet Britain did not take the hint. In April 1775, a British commander in Boston sent troops to Lexington to seize colonial gunpowder and to capture the rebel colonists, Samuel Adams and John Hancock. There, eight Americans were killed and this incident was labeled as the Lexington Massacre. When British troops arrived in Concord, they were met with American resistance…

No other force has been able to continually divide Americans as racism has. Discrimination against people of colour is a problem we face today and its origins date back to the nations very beginning. Early European settlers grossly mistreated, murdered and, attempted to enslave Native Americans. Soon after they began capturing and enslaving African Americans. Slave owners treated their slaves as their property. They would use, buy and sell them as they wished; and this was the norm in Colonial…

The writer named Charles Warner writes it creatively in his text, "How I Killed a Bear" in the ways that portray the stimuli. Most of the writer descriptions are targeted at keeping up appearances and saving face toward the readers as well as the people who stayed close to him, as the narrator desires. However, his descriptive words those occurrences in the situation of the bear attacks, and events that occur before it in flashbacks, are all in masks to hide his insecurities and shortcomings to…

The rocket was invented during the 1200s by the Chinese Mongols. These individuals built small rockets originally for fire works. Over the next 700 years however, the rocket evolved. People began to make bigger and stronger rockets, where they were beginning to be used in warfare, causing the invention to take a turn for the worse. However, in the late 1900s, NASA began an operation trying to land men on the moon before the Soviets did using the rocket. This task at hand had never been achieved…

an Anglican. She met John when they were both apprenticing upholsterers. They later started their own upholstery business together. They were only married for two years and had no children when John went to fight for the revolution and died of a gunpowder…

Osaka Castle is one of the most beautiful and well known historical landmarks in Japan. The castle has a long and interesting history and has had several incarnations. The castle began life as a small temple known as Ishiyama Hongan-ji. During its more than 500 years of history the building has been destroyed and rebuilt several times, because of its strategic and later cultural importance. Hongan-ji was originally built as a place of retirement for the Holy Priest Rennyo, the great revivalist…