Steam power during the Industrial Revolution

Whenever there is a major jump in technology, a strategic revolution often matches it. The industrial revolution and steam power completely swung the strategic advantage from the offensive to the defensive, evidenced through the Civil War. In the context of the Navy, one of the latest technological innovations is aviation; it was being integrated into the Navy before World War I, but wasn’t advanced enough to be of any major strategic use until World War II. For this reason, the strategic and…

furnishes the proletariat with weapons for fighting the bourgeoisie.” Marx in his theory of revolution calls for the “ultimate revolution” which would end all revolutions and establish a new social order. But the “ultimate revolution” hasn’t been translated into reality. Proletariat is the real revolutionary class. Intricate layers of proletarian revolution unfold. Soon war breaks out into an open revolution, where the violent overthrow of the bourgeoisie lays the foundation for the sway of the…

earth millions of years ago, from Africa and eventually spread out to all of the continents on Earth. The journey took millennium through errors and trials of survival and social organizations. Through Homo sapiens’ excellent adaptation, cognitive revolution and complex social organization, we were able to spread out as much and as fast as we did and dominated the entire planet. The harnessing of fire played an extremely important part in helping with the spread of human population throughout…

As such energy availability and demand has always driven society from the earliest days of humanity. Those who had greater energy supplies or who could more efficiently harness energy were those who had power and those whose influence survives. Even to this day, energy still equals political power. However, if humanity is to survive there must be a change in how we use energy, society must choose the path of energy, not the other way…

different areas of the world. Industrialization encouraged European nations to abide other countries for resources, such as Africa. They wanted more resources to fuel their industrial production. Many nations look towards Africa as resource because it had raw materials and was a great marketplace for industrial products. Slowly during the 19th and 20th centuries, many Europeans raced to gain the vast areas of Africa to obtain resources such as, gold and diamonds. As a result this brought…

global warming with climate change, but the two are completely different but they may be interchangeable. Global warming simply means that there is a build up of CO2 and other greenhouse gasses trapped in the atmosphere, because of human doings of industrial and excessive burning of fossil…

Manifest Destiny is a 19th Century belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American Continents was both justified and inevitable. Several people in the 1800s and 1850s believed in Manifest Destiny. During Westward Expansion vast amounts of land was open the further west the Americans traveled no one knew where it ended. Americans had fought hard for America and were not going to give up on their country. Expanding west was no doubt America's fate. The growing population and…

September 1850, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican–American War US congress passed a bill for states that had slaves. Monroe Doctrine A principle of US policy, originated by President James Monroe in 1823, that any intervention by external powers in the politics of the Americas is a potentially hostile act against the…

shelter and were unable to store food. Animals were domesticated in the mountains, where rainfall was not plentiful. Pastoral societies started to domesticate more animals, securing a stable food supply. As a result, the Neolithic, or Agricultural, Revolution occurred. The hunter gatherers learned to cultivate plants and settle where there was water and fertile land. They were able to stay in one spot instead of moving around. Cultural traditions arose since communities developed the sense of…

toward another war degraded by our own choice” (par. 12). It’s obvious from Einstein’s words that he questioned his contributions to this technology because of the potential for destruction it carried. Still, despite all of this, nuclear weapons and power are still…