Kingdom of Judah

Some of the earliest known evidence of sailing comes from what is today known as the Middle East. The Mesopotamians were no strangers to the movement of goods across great land distances, but they also developed great port cities. Ur was one of the Mesopotamian cities that not only grew, but thrived, at its strategic location where the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers enter the Persian Gulf. Located in such a prime location, Ur became a massive epicenter for commerce in the ancient times and was…

Decolonization is a goal with a never-ending journey; the world is continuously changing and adapting daily that there is no finality. The process of decolonization and nation building is derived from the civil wars, wars of independence, negotiated independence, and incomplete decolonization (Pollard et al, 2015 pg.734). In the end, decolonization had an impact on all nations socially, economically, and politically. Its factor refers to finance and trade, global migration, new technologies, and…

1. According to Ferry, what recent developments in world trade have made it urgent for France to have colonies? Ferry sees the growing economies of Germany and the United States are becoming more of a nuisance. He also worries about protectionism making it hard to sell to their world markets. Countries often go back and forth between ideas of free trade or protectionism. Ferry is fearful of traditionally French markets like South America falling to become American markets. Most importantly,…

The Help. The Help was more than a book with pages to me. It was an inspiring story about a white community in Jackson Mississippi in 1962. It explained the lives of the African American maids who worked for fairly rich white people. They would raise their children until they were older or until the family told them it was time to go. Most all white families had at least one maid if not more. The maids were most commonly called The Help. The main focus of the book was about a girl named Skeeter…

The Canadian pilots had shown great performance during the battle of Britain. It was marked as Adolf Hitler’s first defeat and was the first major battle of the war. The Canadian pilots showed patriotism and loyalty throughout the battle. When the British army needed support the Canadian Pilots were there supplying them with whatever they needed. The Canadian pilots stayed with Britain through the whole battle. Canadian Pilots saved the day in the Battle of Britain because the Canadian pilots…

For something to qualify as obsolete, it must be out of date or no longer produced. Angela Davis questions in her book Are Prisons Obsolete whether or not the use of prisons is still necessary or if they can be abolished, and become outdated. Davis raises many questions and challenges about the use of prisons in today’s world. A few of the leading concerns when it comes to prisons is the topic of sexual abuse especially towards female inmates, the idea of prison being a racial institution, and…

In the 1930’s the word woman was often treated as a synonym for kind, considerate, modest, and fragile. However, not all women were submissive and gentle. Yet, they acted as if they were in order to fit in with this ideal of what people thought a woman was. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, the author portrays how women were conflicted with the stereotype that comes along with being a woman. Women during the 1930’s had little career options, rules of femininity to follow, and a strict social…

This research question is worthy of study because through the years the media has become a huge part of our society and holds a great influence over us. Media will only continue to flourish with time, appealing to more and more people. Since the media influences many people , you have to think about what exactly is being promoted. Although 36% of the population consists of ethnic minorities only 10% of that is currently shown in media. In other words, the media continues to lack in diversity.…

Wade Hampton High School is a public Greenville County school in Greenville, South Carolina. Serving grades nine through twelve, Wade Hampton has a student body of 1,723 students from a diverse range of ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds (Williams, 2015; Williams & Strickland, 2015). The average graduation rate over the past four years is 89%, the current poverty index is 47.5%, and the dropout rate is 1.8% (Williams & Strickland, 2015). In general, high school students today face numerous…

Zahedieh, Nuala. “Making Mercantilism Work: London Merchants and Atlantic Trade in the Seventeenth Century.” Transactions of the Royal Historical Society vol. 9, no.6 (1999) 143-158. Nuala Zahedieh (Director of the Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies) provides insight into the background of London merchants and their role in Atlantic trade in the seventeenth century in “ Making Mercantilism Work: London Merchants and Atlantic Trade in the Seventeenth Century.” Zahedieh’s argues that the…