Wars of the Roses

kingdom of Benin and the kingdom of Mali. I will be demonstrating the rise of each kingdom and the decline of kingdoms and the collapse on both kingdoms. The kingdom of Benin rose to power by trading goods. Benin Declined when a civil war erupted. It finally collapses when its territorial extent shrank rapidly. The kingdom of Mali rose to power because it was rich in gold. It began to decline when its political and military strength was outgrown and part of its land was seized by the Tuareg…

Dresden through the narration of the main character Billy Pilgrim, in order to highlight his perspective regarding the horrors of the war. When Dresden gets bombed, Vonnegut— who injects himself in his own novel as Billy— experiences sadness and sympathy rather than anger and resentfulness. Billy’s misery— due to being ambushed and witnessing the gruesomeness of the war— leads him to becoming “stuck in time”, reliving random moments of his life, as a young prisoner in Dresden, as a middle-aged…

Castro rose to power to form totalitarian dictatorships in the countries they ruled. They have used various methods to rise to power in their countries and they have worked hard to maintain that power. They both had huge impacts on the world and on Cuba and Russia. Joseph Stalin rose to power after the death of Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky was the natural successor of Lenin but after a complex power struggle Stalin rose out triumphant. Unlike Stalin who inherited his rule from Lenin, Castro rose…

Life during the civil war was an era for original poems to be written in the United States. The war separated the United States into two parts. So many things were going on such as gun warfare, spread of disease, and blacks were held under slavery in the southern states. In the poem “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” the poem talks about what was happening in the war in a quote written to describe in a scary way “He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of Wrath are stored. In a way the…

World War Two for Canada can be observed as how the nation began to shape itself as an independent country, making its decisions autonomously. Prior to World War Two, Canada held a low, quiet position in the world, as it was overshadowed by its mother-country, Britain. Canada’s contributions to the Second World War was remarkable considering there were only 11 million people in Canada during the war period. As a result of the Second World War, the nation established itself as a middle power,…

Tricia Rose’s “The Hip Hop Wars” commences and entitles the first chapter as “Hip Hop Causes Violence.” Before furthering on with the chapter, one may intuitively develop a bias supposition that what is titled is based on an actual fact without having any valid evidence to prove why it is the way it is. Tricia Rose, whom is an author, a scholar, and a public speaker presented an argument stating “a key aspect of much of the criticism that has been leveled at hip hop is the claim that it…

possibly surpassed in the future. Gillian Rose discusses memory originating in individual reflection. In Mourning Becomes the Law (1996) Rose weaves two strands of thought: the Holocaust piety which highlights the ineffable trauma of war, and a melancholic, abberated mourning which highlights the impossibility of ‘working through’. Public forms of remembrance and mourning, Rose suggests, divert our attention from the difficult work of the middle. Instead, Rose encourages inaugurated mourning…

1920s, the United States was in a time of prosperity. In this time period, much growth and modernization occurred. Although it was directly following World War I, it did little to hinder the prosperity. While the war resulted in devastating numbers of casualties and destruction for Europe, America resurfaced as a world leader and power. Because the war had been fought in Europe, the U.S. had not been impacted severely. Instead, America became prosperous, and experienced many changes in the…

the mistreatment of Jews from Nazi soldiers, Hans Scholl made the decision to resist. This medical student of the University of Munich, along with his sister and fellow college students who recognized the evil of Hitler’s regime, created the White Rose society (U.S. Holocaust Museum). Beginning in the year of 1942, members of the group began producing and distributing leaflets filled with Hans’ words of defiance against what he called the “irresponsible clique” (Hans Scholl, Leaflet 1) that had…

Reasons one. When Odysseus sets off on his journey to go to war he was a king of all and he helped when he was needed Reason two. soon the war broke out and went to help support the troops, but after the war was done, we were separated from the rest of his men and taken somewhere else and at the time of need his men needed a leader to get away from the Cyclops so he rose to the challenge Reason three. He had been still loyal to one person yet he did things he regretted just to get home like…