Get Essays On History

Home « Join Now! « Member Login « Questions « Support «

Enter Topic

» Get History Papers

Battle Of The Bulge

... Allied invasion. He planned it down to the smallest detail. Hitler assigned the attack to be somewhere between the Aachan area and the Southern Luxembourg-France boundary an eighty-mile front. The plan estimated four and five millions of gallons of fuel along with a fifty train loads of ammunition. Germany seemed to be spread thinly along their border. They would patrol the border during the day and go to the post at night. Some Americans thought it would be smartest to attack the Germans at breakfast and push until met resistance from ...

Number of words: 662 | Number of pages: 3

Colonialism 2

... and Elvia's case land was the most important resource required for producing staples, which was used as a source of revenue and food. Education, in this context refers to the level of awareness people had about the influence of core countries on the peripheral nations and how the people viewed this dependency. Rukmani and her family lived under a feudalistic system and the arrival of the British tannery resulted in segregated industrialization in a rice farming village which led to family disintegration, abuse of power and land and to a mino ...

Number of words: 1387 | Number of pages: 6

Blaxploitation

... it took The Farm Story, performed by a small troop of Canadian actors, to create a Canadian theatre industry. To be more specific, it took the release of Melvin Van Peebles, Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song, in 1971, to change the tradition view of Black people in American film. “Porter’s tom was the first in a long line of socially acceptable Good Negro characters. Always as toms are chased, harassed, hounded, flogged, enslaved, and insulted, they keep the faith, n’er turn against their massas, and remain hearty, submissive, stoic, ...

Number of words: 1456 | Number of pages: 6

General George Patton

... On April 4, 1941, he was promoted to major general, and two weeks later he was made commander of the 2nd Armored Division. Soon after the Japanese surprise air attack on Pearl Harbor, he was made corps commander in charge of both the 1st and 2nd Armored divisions and organized the desert training centre at Indio, California. Patton was commanding general of the western task force during the U.S. operations in North Africa in November 1942. He was promoted to the rank of li ...

Number of words: 461 | Number of pages: 2

Expansion Of Government Power

... federal government in charge of Reconstruction and rebuilding an entire nation gave them an enormous amount of power. Finally, the creation of the 14th and 15th Amendment were two more big achievements on the part of the government. In the month of April of 1862, the government issued the first draft of the Civil War. Throughout the war, they put out drafts because so many men were needed to fight. Citizens were expected to obey these orders, and as the war progressed, it was harder and harder for men to avoid fighting for their country. ...

Number of words: 750 | Number of pages: 3

Area 51 - Short

... in the middle of a mountainous dessert. Paragraph #2:Area 51, also known a Groom Dry Lake, is a secret military facility that the government will not discuss. It is a highly restricted military base, many levels above top secret. The United States Government denies its existence despite evidence to the contrary. The town of Rachel is within twenty miles of Area 51, and is a magnet for UFO enthusiasts worldwide. Area 51 has been in existence since World War one, and many advancements in military science and technology have been made and develop ...

Number of words: 732 | Number of pages: 3

History Of Railroads

... a nation of great distances, sparse population, and limited capital. Americans had to learn to build railroads for their own country by actual experience; they could not copy English methods. The first American railroads started from the Atlantic ports of Boston, Mass.; New York City; Philadelphia, Pa.; Wilmington, Del.; Baltimore, Md.; Charleston, S.C.; and Savannah, Ga. Within 20 years four rail lines had crossed the Alleghenies to reach their goal on the "Western Waters" of the Great Lakes or on the tributaries of the Mississippi. Meanwh ...

Number of words: 278 | Number of pages: 2

Whitewater Vs. Watergate.

... in the cover-ups they both produced. But they still are about two totally different events. Each of these scandals is associated with a central criminal event and both involved a web of political intrigue.1 First, what were Whitewater and Watergate? Whitewater started as a land development of riverfront property in Arkansas in the 1980s. The Clintons received a large share of the development without putting up any money. The development went bad, so additional capital was needed. There is evidence and testimony suggesting that this cash was ...

Number of words: 2067 | Number of pages: 8

Jazz 3

... of a Philadelphia newspaper, who had employed Luks, Glackens, and other members of the Eight. He studied with Robert Henri from 1910 to 1913, made covers and drawings for the social realist periodical The Masses, which was associated with the Ash-can School, and exhibited watercolors in the Armory Show, which made an overwhelming impact on him. After a visit to Paris in 1928 he introduced a new note into U.S. cubism, basing himself on its synthetic rather than its analytical phase. Using natural forms, particularly forms suggesting the charac ...

Number of words: 1093 | Number of pages: 4

Anderw Carnegie, The Bible, An

... worked his whole life to be rich, but he was not a miser. He thought that the role of a millionaire was to gather as much money as possible, than redistribute it throughout the community for the betterment of the people. He thought that a millionaire, by being able to make the money in the first place, had proved himself able to better manage the money than the community as a whole. The biblical aspect, in comparison, is very wary in condoning great wealth. It cautions that it is the reason for gathering the great wealth that matters, ...

Number of words: 1018 | Number of pages: 4

Dead Man Walking - Analysis Of

... because he feared that he was going to die alone. Sister Helen’s feelings changed because she saw a side of Matthew that no one else was able to see. The parents of the victim “Hope” were filled with revenge because of what Matthew did, not why he did it. The father of the victim “Walter” was very sympathetic, he understanding of what Matthew was going through. SISTER HELEN Sister Helen was very unsure about what she was doing in life. She became a nun to give back to the community which gave her good Christian morals and values. ...

Number of words: 946 | Number of pages: 4

Charles Darwin

... at Edinburgh for only two years. Two years later Darwin enrolled in Christ's College, Cambridge to study theology, were he received a degree in 1831. During the time of Darwin's young life when he was deciding what to do with his life he came in contact with John Henslow, a professor at Cambridge. Henslow recommend that Darwin take the position on a British Navy survey ship in 1831. Darwin traveled around the world on the H.M.S. Beagle. His job was to make observation on plants and animals found in the places where the ship docked. Darwin ...

Number of words: 676 | Number of pages: 3

Pages: 1 ... 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 next »

Essay Categories

» Get History Papers