Essay Database

… China varies to republic and nationalism and communism. First of all, there is Republican China which evolved very slowly. In August of 1912, a new Political party was founded by a man named Song Jiaoren. The party, Guomindang Kuomintang or KMT- the…

… the future, which although failed as a third-party movement, it made thousands aware of the needs for reform. The abuses of monopolistic capitalism were spreading across the US leaving behind a trail of poverty. The call for an unlimited coinage of…

… belief in what an automobile should be. Porsche believed that cars should be the products of engineering innovation, careful development and diligent craftsmanship. Dr. Ferdinand Porsche was born in 1875 in Bohemia, and early on he devoted his time…

… United States agreed to enter the Vietnamese Civil War. The result of the war would leave Americans with a bitter taste of war for several years. A pilot is making his final approach on the target, he drops his payload and then the plane is hit by…

… us who live in modern times the ‘melancholic look’ that we find in the sculpture of cemeteries throughout the world is something we take for granted. Although its authenticity has been lost to us, this so-called look can be traced back to 5th century…

… was still wavering westward. A long fringe of settlement ran roughly north through central Texas and on to the Canadian border. Between this serrated line and the settled areas on the Pacific slope, there were virtually no white people. The few…

… of Dictators in Post-War Europe After World War I, a majority of Europe was left in utter shambles. The physical and economic structures of a once industrial area had been reduced rubble. The people of the nations cried out for help, but to little…

… the Weimar Republic and reigned from 1919 to 1933. It attempted to establish a peaceful, liberal democratic regime. This government was eventually doomed by economic problems and the weaknesses due to the inflation of the early 1920s, the world depressi…

… in Paris for Barnum's All World Show in the second half of the nineteenth century. The show itself was a huge display built to mimic old-fashioned Egypt architecture, designed down to minuscule detail such as dirt purposeful rubbed into paint…

… man held the paper like a sacred thing. His hands shook, and we mistrusted him... For how many moons will the stranger be among us? (Vera 43) The stranger still lives among the people of Zimbabwe, though the colonial political authority has left. Yet…