Essays about War Page 14

Adolf Hitler was an intelligent, impressive and awful dictator with the deaths of millions on his hands including half of Europe’s Jewish population at the time. Nonetheless, even with his blatantly anti-semitic agenda; Hitler was able to cultivate and rule Nazi Germany for eleven years through implementing his knowledge, charisma and sharing his pro-German views;…

During the Revolutionary war, the flag that symbolizes our country was made, but there are still doubts about its origin. Even though people think it’s a myth, but Betsy Ross is said to have made the first American flag. There might be a lack of credible evidence to support this, but she remains to be…

Have you ever been asked what the American Dream was? The definition of American Dream is a noun and the ideal by which equality of opportunity is available to any American, allowing the highest aspirations and goals to be achieved. The dream was to be able to work and take care of things. The American…

When it comes to the American Revolution, there are so many factors that are said to have caused it, that it is hard to determine which are the direct causes, root causes and the fuse. The root points are the interest conflict between the development of north American capitalist economy and the British colonial rule,…

The civil war was not preventable. The tensions between the North and the South were too great to overcome. Civil War although some will argue was avoidable many will also state that it was unavoidable due to many events throughout the time frames of 1850-1861. The issue of slavery caused a sectional divide in the…

The terrible event of the Holocaust consisted of many Jews being seen and treated as less than a person, all because of their beliefs. Dehumanization is a key theme in Eliezer Wiesel’s book, Night, where he recounts his experience with his father in the concentration camps created by the Nazis. Throughout the book, Elie not…

The Cold War was a “state of tension, hostility, competition and conflict” which characterised Soviet-Western and Soviet-American relations for much of the post-war period (Roberts, 1999: 2). For forty five years, the Cold War was the focal point of world politics, and not only affected American and Soviet institutions, but “the foreign policy and domestic…

A good leader is someone who is willing to help others. A leader cannot be someone that does not help other and puts him/herself first. A good leader has to put others needs before their needs. Mother Teresa was a Roman Catholic Nun who commited her entire life in helping the poor. Mother Teresa established…

There were many major events that took place during the 20th century. World War II alone had a tremendous impact of the people involved in the war, but even more the people who were lucky enough to survive the horror that was concentration camps to tell their story. The Great Depression, when many and all…

Women historically have been categorized as submissive, inferior beings that were limited to a very specific position in the private sphere. Before progressive advancements towards equality began, women were confined to a domestic life that limited the ability to make contributions to their community. Widespread gendered expectations reinforced the unequal distributions of power between the…