Revolutions of 1848

Throughout the Middle East, there are a large number of countries that range from the wealthiest and educated, to the poorest and illiterate. For many people outside of the Middle East, the common assumption lies in the belief that prosperity and wealth are very progressive and liberal. However, this assumption is unfortunately not the case, because in countries such as Saudi Arabia; a very wealthy and educated state, tends to have very similar conservative and strict approach to woman’s rights…

Economics or Environment, these are the two E’s we have to fight between. For decades now, there has been a war to stop climate change, but to do this we would have to sacrifice our economy. This has become one of the various topics that has caused a polarization of America. The left wants to protect the environment for future generations but the right wants to protect the economy for future generations. This isn’t an easy decision by no means for either side but the decision must be made and it…

The idea of self-preservation has had an immense impact on the contemporary view of marriage in the twenty-first century. In her book “The Making of a divorce culture” Barbra Dafoe Whitehead annotates that the American Revolution and divorce both have some distinct parallels. Although Whitehead herself does not condone the idea of divorce. She further uses this key information as a spring board, in order to explain to the reader why in some instances divorce is necessary. When a marriage becomes…

Unlike his previous novels, E.L. Doctorow’s The Waterworks reads as a mystery or detective novel. The novel takes place in New York during the 1870s, during the last years of Boss Tweed’s shady rule over the city, but the narration is set decades later. The story is told through the reminiscences of an aging newspaper man McIlvaine. As one reads, the narrator is describing the past, which at the time seemed to him like the very edge of the future. MacIlvaine states: “You may think you are living…

While in desperate need of money, Britain tried greatly to control the colonies, trying to get as much money out of them as the could. This did nothing but make the colonies angry. “The day the French and Indian war began was the same day the revolution became inevitable”- B. Paternostro. This…

. Child labor is a atrocious practice that specializes in the employment of children in a business or industry that harms them physical and mentally, or keeps the children from attending school. Underage children work in all sorts of settings, and usually are apart of large families and are extremely poor. Child labor involves threatening children physical, mental, or emotional well-being. Majority of child labor occurs in Asia, Latin America, and Sub-Saharan Africa. In addition to the…

The Industrial Revolution brought an incredible changes to world’s economy and society. The major focus of the Industrial Revolution was to modernize ongoing businesses and the society by bringing more technology advancements to people’s lives. Along with political, economical and social changes during the Industrial Revolution a lot of technological innovations took places, that lead to major changes in lifestyles. In many fields machinery and advanced technologies were taking over things that…

The French Revolution was more than the toppling of an old regime; those who lived through the revolution immediately knew the extreme importance of the event and outsiders looked towards France with great interest. The French Revolution fundamentally changed the way about which social order and the driving force of civilization was thought and resulted in a cascading sequence of reformations of national governments. With such great magnitude inevitably followed a multitude of differing…

protestors so he turned to more violent and repressive measures. His unnecessary and extreme actions sparked other riots and protests within Russia. The Russian Revolution is broken down into two main rebellions. The February Revolution, in which Bloody Sunday occurred, and the Bolshevik Revolution. The results of the February Revolution only lasted a few months before the Bolshevik party rebelled with a coup…

from 1789 to 1799, the French Revolution had a momentous impact beyond its immediate short-term goals. For the French revolutionaries, the war was an effort against the aristocratic privilege and monarchical tyranny that prevailed in the 18th century, but in the years to come, others engaged in warfare would acknowledge that the Revolution’s implications extended these aims. While historians disagree on how to interpret the long-term success of the French Revolution, it is indisputable that this…