Italian unification

is cunning, cruel, and cold. In fact, the Miriam-Webster dictionary definition of the term is, “using clever lies and tricks in order to get or achieve something : clever and dishonest.” The term is of course named after Niccoló Machiavelli, the Italian author of The Prince. While the term has gained a wider usage in modern times to describe cruelty or ruthlessness for the benefit of an individual, Machiavelli argued the use of such underhanded tactics only for rulers in order to strengthen…

All kinds of people contributed ideas and teachings to shape the Frenchmen. “They carried over the versatility of the Italy of the Renaissance” (Palmer 170). Nicholas Poussin and Claude Lorrain were what Italians would call Renaissance men, they produced a school of painters, architecture, and engineering that sparked ideas in human life. Socially the talk of the town consisted of the latest stories being written by people like Molière and La Fontaine. The…

South. When African Americans migrated to the north, they found growing discrimination and unequal access to opportunities. In the time between World Wars I and II, businesses used ethnic differences to damage labor unity. Some unions embraced unification; others did not.…

the ancient civilizations of Rome and Egypt have different characteristic that make their countries the most powerful of their time. Egypt although in a desert used the Nile River to grow bigger and Rome used the warm Mediterranean weather and the Italian peninsula to grow bigger too. These characteristics can be in how they lived their life or how they flourished in their different landscape. I learned that both Egypt and Rome worked with each other even after the Romans took control of Egypt.…

dangers.” Certain policies of the ultranationalistic country can intentively discriminate and degrade other nations deemed inferior. With instances like the American Civil War creating a wake for future discriminatory feelings within America and Italian fascist leader Mussolini’s policy of irredentism, it is evident that nationalistic feelings can cause strife between other nations because of the extreme patriotic feelings of a group of people who share the same perspectives. However,…

based on the inclusion of foreign culture. As time passed the differences became less divisive, with different ethnic groups learning more about their counter parts, and using knowledge gained from them to improve their own quality of life. This unification has become global in the twenty first century, where information about new cultures is available in seconds, but the initial division remains prominent on both large and small scales. Today, an immigrant to the United States faces a choice…

because of his devotion to the Christian religion, as well as for his role as a community leader, and his success as an Emperor. Charlemagne loved the Christian religion because “He believed the church and state should be allied as forces in the unification of society” (Christian History). Charles received his education from his mother and the monks of Saint Denis. He could speak and read Latin and his native Germanic tongue, but he never learned to write, though he tried to his entire life…

The First World War was an incredibly complicated conflict involving numerous state actors each with their motivations and war aims. In this respect, it presents one of the greatest challenges for those who seek to prove theories of war in the international system. The first theory of the conflict we will examine is one of the most popular, the rise of European nationalism necessitating a grand struggle of nations. Instead of the traditionally dominant realist theories revolving around the…

The United States of America is the epitome of the unification of diverse races and cultures. Although Americans do not coexist as well as others may believe, there is much racial strife today, despite the countless civil rights movements throughout the years. In Richard Rodriguez’s article “Does America Still Exist?” he makes the argument that this type of strife and this type diversity is the very definition of America. Rodriguez, raised during the fifties in Sacramento California, wished to…

He wanted to take care of the problem right away. In 1565, less than twelve months after the wedding, the jealous Darnley and a group of thugs murdered pregnant Mary’s Italian secretary, Riccio before her eyes. In 1567, the Queen sent him to a house in Kirk O’Field to recover from illness. As he lay there sick, he was strangled. Eight weeks later Mary married, to James Hepbur, Earl of Bothwell. Mary Queen of Scots had been…