The Legacy of the First World War The first world war was a global conflict, in which the central powers (which included Germany) fought against the allied powers (which included Britain, the United States, France, Italy, and Russia). The allied powers won the war. The...
When engineers took on the task of putting a man in space and on the moon, they knew that there would be an uncountable number of challenges ahead of them. They were breaking new ground but were also creating and discovering everything as they went...
Apollo 1, Apollo 7, Apollo8, Apollo 9, Apollo 10. Everything has led up to this, the Apollo 11 launch. The mission to finally send men to the moon and bring them back safely. Everything was prepared. In the USA at Cape Kennedy, exactly on the...
Islam, the popular and influential communal religion was believed to have begun in Mecca and Medina around the beginning of the 7th century, approximately 600 years after Christianity was founded. Islam stands to yield many believers, which meant that there had to be some way...
Imagine going back in 202 BCE and trying to get to a certain destination not knowing how far you have to travel. During this time women didn’t really have a say so in things they had to listen to the person who was head of...
David Christian, a world historian and scholar of Russian history, who’s an article, “Silk Roads or Steppe Roads” hypothesized an ideology on the ecological factors in the Silk Road encouraging trade. Silk Roads or Steppe Roads focuses on a captivating view of how the Silk...
The ’20s were a time of victory, freedom, and the widespread growth of jazz. The first World War had just ended, and it left many Americans feeling free and ready to celebrate. This led to an increase in people attending bars and nightclubs. One of...
By definition, an aeroplane is an aircraft with a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets. While it is widely known as transportation that we know it today, it is important to know that aeroplanes have been developed and improved throughout centuries, and some people...
The quest for justice within Cambodia as a response to the Khmer Rouge’s atrocities from 1975 to 1979 has encountered continuous political debate and manoeuvring. With the opening of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal in 2003, it has clearly illustrated the challenges and complexities involved with...
The genre of the manifesto encompasses not only a textual ability to linguistically instil political motivations, but also provides a medium connecting author and responder in a way largely unprecedented in the early twentieth century. Whilst politics has firmly remained entrenched within society, the recognition...
Wright-brothers had started research on manned aircraft. Several earlier attempts failed due to the inappropriate shape of their airfoils. Besides, the science of aerodynamics was not developed at that time and theoretical understanding of the mechanisms of lift and drag was poor. Researchers and flight...
Introduction The purpose of this essay is to describe, in my opinion, one of the most historical and important milestones in the aerospace industry. I will be talking about the first powered flight undertaken by Orville and Wilbur Wright, better known as the Wright Brothers....
Titanic’s creators wanted to create a ship that could not be defeated by nature and its laws and that’s what they believed when in March 1909, they began work on the ship, it was built in competition against other big luxurious steamships around the 20th...
14 April 1912 was a tragic date for humanity. One of the biggest and deadliest accidents worldwide took place when the RMS Titanic sank. The Titanic was dragged into the deep blue ocean with approximately 1500 people. More than a hundred years later, investigators are...
Everyone must have heard about the Titanic, that large and luxurious ocean liner way back in 1912, which left Belfast harbor for New York City for its maiden voyage. Ironically, the Titanic was talked about a million times more, not because it was a luxury...
The book, Exploring the Titanic, written by Robert D. Ballard, talks to us about what happened on that fateful night when the Titanic sunk and how the ship was discovered. The Titanic was a beautiful ship and one of the biggest ships of her time....
When people think of black slavery before the Civil War, they would say that those in the south were slaves, while those in the North were free. Blacks in the south were treated cruelly, being whipped for learning, traveling, or anything the master did not...
One of the, if not the most important, core values of the United States is freedom. Frederick Douglass believes that all men are born equal. Freedom depends on the current environment and circumstances. Naturally, some are treated better than others based on their abilities. Education...
Frederick Douglass was a slave, who was also a very intellectual African American. His whole youth scarred him as he became more educated. For this research, I will be looking at how education impacted Frederick Douglass’s life. Education was important to Douglass because it helped...