Member of Congress

intimacies and mechanisms of how the balance between powers occur. He looked more specifically at the Congress of Vienna, reported on what it took for Europe to establish a framework for the country relationships. Although his paper explores the factual events that took place, he looked at what happened on a deeper level as well. On this deeper level we find what he believes to be what allowed the Congress of…

war. During May ofo 1776, the Congress passed Adam’s resolution stating that each colony should have their own independent government, leading to the creation of the Declaration of Independence just a few months later. He was a very prominent proponent of American independence during the early stages of the Revolutionary War, but very few took him seriously as they considered him ‘obnoxious,’ and he was generally disliked by other members of the Continental Congress. Eventually, Richard Henry…

No other author like Gail Warshofsky Lapidus has written about Soviet women as she has. In one of her many books, Women, Work, and Family in the Soviet Union Lapidus claims that the irreplaceable role of Soviet women in both production and reproduction made it virtually certain that the questions of women’s work and household duties were central issues on the Soviet political agenda during the late 1960s. Once the male population started to rise again, and return to the labor force the…

hard to reach out across the class divide and influence the workers whose way of life was drastically different to there own. To add to this the SRs, Bolsheviks and Mensheviks were but no means mass membership organisations each had around 40,000 members apiece which reflected a tiny proportion of the whole population. Another reason they posed limited threat to the tsar is only around 21 per cent of Russians were literate so propaganda was of very limited value. This coupled with the fact that…

establishment of the Status Quo at the Congress of Vienna. Tensions and hostilities felt among the Great powers gradually increased over time due to these three events the acknowledgment of the eastern question, the Greeks war for independence, and the lastly the Great Eastern…

Over the past couple of years there have been a lot of controversy over whether or not fantasy sport sites should be considered gambling. Fantasy sports sites make millions of dollars with little to no restrictions such as daily bets and is considered a game of skill. The topic of fantasy sports has a deep history to consider, and there will always be both supporters and critics who continue to debate this topic. There has been an ongoing debate on whether or not fantasy sports should…

and possibilities of reelection dictate the behavior of members of congress. Unlike the President of the United States, members of Congress are not restrained by a term limit, and, consequently, spend their careers focused wooing their constituency in a constant effort towards reelection. As a result, David Mayhew in Congress: The Electoral Connection has labeled congressional members as single-minded: the motivation for a member of congress being the ultimate prize of reelection. Yet, a…

“The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experiences, the hopes and dreams and strivings of all human beings, and it is this passport that opens our eyes and hearts to the world beyond our front doors, that is one of our best hopes against tyranny, xenophobia, hopelessness, despair, anarchy, and ignorance.” Libba Bary, bestselling fiction author, expresses the importance of libraries in the above quotation, stating that access to the public…

George Washington George Washington was born on February 22, 1732 in Westmoreland, Virginia. He received a small education at home and a small work education among the planters and backwoodsman he associated with. From these men he learned farming and surveying. He was a natural leader and was appointed a field marshal in the colonial militia by the time he was 21, taking part in the first battle of the French and Indian War. In the French and Indian War, he made his way up the ranks. During…

As Davide Rodogno writes at the beginning of chapter one, the chapter's focus was on "international context of the Nineteenth-Century humanitarian interventions" (pg.18); specifically that which took place in the Ottoman Empire. As well as focusing on the Ottoman Christians, who were "victims of massacre, atrocities, and extermination" (pg.18). One part of Chapter one that interested me was the section dedicated to "Massacre, Atrocity, and Extermination"(pg.31); Rodogno briefly explains the…