Velvet Revolution

The American society in the 1920’s went through a great number of changes. The rising prosperity led to a lot of the younger generations in America living different lifestyles, loosing their traditionalist backgrounds. The boom and post war situation had also caused a significant rise in the immigrant population. All of these changes were received differently by most Americans, which lead to conflict, or in some cases extreme intolerance. One of the most influential promoters of racism was the…

What is the worst job you have ever had? Many people have to work jobs that you would never even consider doing. Doing these kinds of jobs can change people for better or for worse. The video “Learning from Dirty Jobs" explains how harder work conditions affect the workers in the environment in different ways. Filmed in Dec 2008, Ted Talk video "Mike Rowe: Learning from Dirty Jobs" Mike Rowe, host of Dirty Jobs tells his story of hard jobs and how they affect the workers. Dirty Jobs is a TV…

In history, the colonial era of racism and ethnic discrimination has been a major concern and a controversial issue in the United States. During the time on industrial growth in the U.S. corporations and manufacturers relied heavily on cheap labor, so many people from Asia began to immigrate to the country in hopes of finding jobs. But as the number of Asian American immigrants started to increase, so did the discrimination and racism towards them. Actually, they were divided into three…

In 1966, Chairman Mao Zedong, China’s Communist party leader at the time, launched a social-political movement that became formally known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Its official goal was to change and correct the direction in which the current Communist leaders were leading China, and to preserve “true” Communist ideology. To rid all possible aspects of capitalism in the country, he shut down the entire nation’s schools and called for a mass assemblage of the country’s youth.…

It was to a large extent that revolutionary and counter-revolutionary forces destabilised the Weimar Government in the period 1919-1923. Both right and left winged groups sought control or downfall of the Weimar republic leading to multiple revolutions such as the Kapp Putch and the Spartacist uprising, severely effecting the Weimar Government’s overall stability.The Weimar’s flawed constitution further allowed tensions to rise on both left and right winged sides. The Weimar Government, which…

1959. Batista fled in the early hours of January 1, 1959, fulfilling Castro's promise that they would take the country by 1959. From there, Castro went to set up his revolutionary government, incorporating the mountain guerrilla forces from the revolution as top of the government, and eventually naming himself head. He took power legally, promised free elections within 18 months but never held these elections and began eliminating opposition thru fear and terror. Critics of Castro always point…

heard about the fourth of July - Independence Day, the day that the United States of America was freed from the British colonies and started to have its own rights, but few people actually know what happened. This essay will talk about the American Revolution, the events that took place and the causes and negative effects of this event. After this it offers some recommendations on how they could have dealt with these negative effects. When looking more closely at the causes, firstly, there are…

Karl Marx developed his theory in the latter part of the nineteenth century, during one of Europe’s most volatile periods of social change. In some respects, his is yet another version of mass society theory but with several very important alternations and additions. Marx was familiar with the grand social theories of his era. He was a student of the most prominent German Idealist philosopher, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Early in his career, Marx drew on Hegel’s ideas, but later he…

Violating human right; Kfc Company has also been caught on violations concerning unsafe working condition, sub-subsistence wage, they forced to work overtime and failure to pay legal benefits. Their factories are not open to independent monitoring by the local non-government. For example, women are force to work 10 hours in seven days a week by paying them small amount of money its seems that the human and labor rights of these workers are being violated by the Kfc company. Moreover, Kfc…

European nations found themselves in a scramble for political power and economic wealth nearing the beginning of the 1880s. The industrial revolution’ boom spurred European nations to search for new markets and raw materials to satisfy and grow their economies. The number of European colonies a nation owned symbolized their political power over other nations, therefore creating a political desire for power and possession of colonies within Europe. Many Europeans were also driven to civilize the…