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Throughout history, there have been multiple ways to govern a nation. Starting as early as the Ancient Greek system of democracy to the fearful monarchs who ruled Britain, different forms of government were set based upon the people who founded their nation. Although there have been a vast majority of harsh and unusual forms of government all over the world, one of the most cold-hearted forms of government was communism. Communism is responsible for causing the deaths of millions of Europeans…

Animal Farm was written by George Orwell and published in 1999 by Transaction Publishers. This novel takes place on Manor Farm in England. The animals on the farm revolt against the farmer because of his cruel and unfair treatment. They set out to develop their own society free of human rule where every animal is treated equally, they called it Animal Farm. At first, life on Animal Farm is everything they dreamed about, but eventually the society they create falls apart and life seems as it as…

June 10, 1963 John F Kennedy did a speech to mark the detente with the soviet union during the cold war. It was written to talk call upon the soviet union to work with the United States to achieve a Nuclear test ban treaty and help relieve tension between countries. Early on JFK thought that a WWIII was gonna happen, so he began to write speeches to call out people and try and form peace with nations. The Commencement address at American University is also known as the “the Speech that Sealed…

children; who were willing to take even lower wages to work. Laborers also had to work in dangerous conditions and their jobs were not secure. Disgruntled workers took action against these work conditions by coming together and to form Labor Unions. Some of the labor unions formed were the Knights of Labor formed…

The War of the Worlds The War of the Worlds is a phenomenal story, written by H.G. Wells, about a group of Martians who invade Earth after spending thousands of years investigating its inhabitants. The melodrama was radio broadcasted in 1938 by George Orson Welles, and was developed into two films, which premiered in 1953 and 2005. Although each depiction of the story is wonderfully executed, each one has unique aspects of realism, audience involvement, and storyline. George Orson Welles,…

A revolution took place in the centuries from the time of the Kamakura shogunate, which existed with the Tenno's court, to the Tokugawa, when the bushi became the unchallenged rulers in what historian Edwin O. Reischauer called a "centralized feudal" form of government. Instrumental in the rise of the new bakufu was Tokugawa Ieyasu, the main beneficiary of the achievements of Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Already powerful, Ieyasu profited by his transfer to the rich Kantō area. He…

Around eight hundred years ago, a small group from central Asia conquered much of the world and has been expanding since. They were called the Mongols. The Mongols didn’t have a very good reputation due to the destruction and death they caused, but is there more? I believe that the Mongols were very barbaric. They took countless lives, large amounts of land, and how they treated the people they captured. The amount of lives that the Mongols took were far too many. In Document 4 it states that…

In the First Amendment, it states that we should have “freedom of religion.” About a quarter of the U.S. either believes in god, many gods, science or in no god. Many people believe that “God” should be removed from the pledge because it violates the First Amendment and doesn’t allow them to express themselves and believe in their own religion. This begins controversy because they don’t want to do the Pledge of Allegiance or even listen to the National Anthem. They also believe that if it’s…

The October Crisis marked an important event in Canadian history in which the tension between Quebec separatists and Canada (particularly the federal government) still carries on today. The FLQ was a group of Quebecois who strongly believed in the separation of Quebec from Canada and the enforcement of a “distinct society”. Because of this rebellious group, they committed many violent crimes and thus they were considered a group of terrorism. The extreme happened in December when they…

In the year 1917, multiple revolutions took place including the october revolution and the february revolution. The cause for these revolutions is to end imperial rule from other interfering countries. The reason why the russian revolution started was because people were unhappy with their king, Nicholas 2 who believed in government corruption. Once the Russian Revolution started people started to gain more support and more benefits from the government. One reason why the russian revolution of…